Related New Post: How to Fix Downadup? How to escape from it? How it spreads?
Finland based firm, F-Secure Corp has estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the "Downadup" worm, an increase of more than 1.1 million since Tuesday. This worm, which exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours alone.
The worm, which several security companies have described as surging dramatically during the past few days, exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by all supported versions of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system, including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
The soaring number of infections by Downadup, also called "Conficker" by some security companies, prompted Microsoft to add detection for the worm to its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the anti-malware utility that the company updates and redistributes each month to Windows machines. The MSRT scans for known malware, then scrubs the system of any it finds.
It appears that the highest number of infection reports had come from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Korea and several European countries, including the U.K., France and Germany. The worm generates hundreds...
There has been a flurry of sites offering FREE SMS to mobile phones all over the world in the past few months. Previously I had written how to send free sms to India, UK and other countries. Now, I plan to collect and put together all such websites which offer FREE SMS.
1. Text4Free - You can send free text messages from this website to almost anywhere in the world.
No registration is needed for the following sites -
2. Freesms.net
3. Dynadel
4. GizmoSMS
5. 160by2 - Send Free sms from India - registration necessary
6. Tamilar - Free SMS to India - no registration required
7. CbfSms - Only for UK
8. OOSms - Worldwide Free SmS - registration needed.
Updates:
9. Wadja - Worldwide coverage, need registration.
10. Way2Sms - India specific
11. Youmint - India specific again, advertising firm, so you know what to expect!
12. Peekamo - Worldwide Free SMS
13. Hai91 - Another India specific site, needs registration.
3. After you fill the form click lizenz anfordern
That’s it, Now wait for an email to arrive from Avira which will contain Avira AntiVir Premium license for 6 months...
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
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