And the LandzDown Team is pleased to announce that ESET Smart Security, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and WinPatrol PLUS licenses have been donated to be awarded to lucky prize winners in games and contests as part of their fifth birthday celebration!

“Join us in the celebration, beginning June 10, 2009, at LandzDown Forum.”

The LanzDown Forum

It is an awesome feeling to know we have reached this age and not moved an inch. We’re still contributing to the community, offering free support for users with computers and highlighting who the scumbags are!

The difference about this year is we won’t be giving away licences to software or having the chance to win some great prizes. But as ever, we offer the chance for you to celebrate with us. Please visit the celebration forum;

• 3rd Year Anniversary Celebrations

It’s been a long journey and it’s a journey we couldn’t do without the fantastic support from our staff who help in our forum and post articles on our blog. They have made a great contribution to this site as a whole.

Our staff consist of Microsoft MVP’s and ASAP Members. The standard is set for us and the support given to our members is of a high degree.

What vision do I have for the next year? Well more of the same. The more we highlight things to the public, the more aware you can all be. Education is a key factor. However not everyone wants that. That’s one barrier we need to try and break down and work at. Not just us, but the whole community.

You can help and expose us to more users who need help. So please take note of some of the useful links below. Please consider a link to us.

So to all associated with Securitycadets.com:

Happy Birthday!!

Selective Links:

• Site Announcement

• A.S.A.P Member
• Contact Us
• Donate
• Link To Us
• Support Forums

http://www.socialsecurityawards.com/

Voting categories:

• Best Security Podcast
• Best Technical Security Blog
• Best Corporate Security Blog
• Best Non-Technical Security Blog
• Most Entertaining Security Blog

Let’s see where this gets us. Get your votes in!

Vitalsecurity.org is now back online after some problems over recents months.

Paperghost, a friend of Securitycadets.com, has brought his succesfull blog back to life. So if there is any recommendation we can give for christmas then that is to bookmark the site.

From all at Securitycadets;

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

This has been long over due as I have been putting it off for sometime. In fact some years. I’ve always been satisfied to take public transport as a young adult. However with other real life commitments it was about time I needed to do this.

So for everyone in the UK you better watch out! Discuss it here in our forum if you have comments on the UK or even other countries driving tests.

I had the honor to take part in a parade today when I policed an event locally with colleagues. Although not directly at the service, closing roads and such really makes you be a part of the event which is remembered all over the UK.

Usefull Info Links:

• BBC – Remembrance
• Remembrance Day – Wikipidia

Don’t forget the two minutes silence on the 11th of November at 11:00am!

“Lest We Forget”

Have you got your own story of this remembrance? We welcome all stories by commenting to this article or chatting about it in our forum here.

As it’s towards the end of the period, which has gone over it’s planned slot, we still have some licences to give away! They are copies of Sunbelts’ Counterspy and Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.

To enter on your choice of raffle, click on the links below:

• Enter the raffle that is giving away full licences of Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
• Enter the raffle that is giving away full copies of Sunbelts’ CounterSpy

And all you have to do is register and post you want to win! Then a number is allocated to your post and in a weeks time (depending on the amount of entries) we will put all numbers in a hat and draw the numbers!

Simple ‘eh? Go and get your copy!

It’s weird that such a costly terminal, run by British Airways Plc, has such poor research. Oh well….

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Is this a sign for the fight? Probably not, yet it brought a smile to my face. I wish Ricky Hatton all the best tomorrow and I hope he brinks back the belt. I’ll certainly be watching.

There truely is only one Ricky Hatton

Chat about the boxing in our forum if you wish. It should be a great fight!

… seriously, I don’t want to be done for neck strain either … Let’s get on with it.

Some of you may have taken part or even read the thread at CastleCops which involved the authors from a classified rogue. The one thread that had us slamdunking the guys behind IE Defender. Well a week later and I think they are trying to be comedians.

On a different domain to the one IE Defender is on (iedefender(dot)com), they also set-up another domain;

www(dot)xiedefender(dot)com

And up until yesterday, this domain had a 403. Not anymore:

(Click to view a larger copy) – This was the look on the 11th of Nov.

This was the look of the domain on the 11th of November. And this clearly shows the lack of braincells one can have at any time. Not to mention these also create the rogues that cause alot of headache to computer users.

And to think we have lost is like thinking a horse and cart will always win a lap round Silverstone over a F1 car. Not even possible.

It appears the domain in question is changing its content, thanks to a tip from ShadowPuterDude. Would you trust the owners of your anti-malware/virus/spyware to have an attitude like this?

(Click to view a larger copy) This was the look on the 12th of Nov

The text the image above shows is now already outdated. It’s changed from:

IEDefender is coming... Yeah it will be today :)

To:

IEDefender is coming...

Now after the attempt to be comedians, these kids have probably stuck to their word and the domain, xiedefender(dot)com has fully changed:

(Click to view a larger copy) – This was the look on the 12th of Nov.

All the free removal tools we recommend will be updated as we have already got all new varients to nuke it. Just get yourself into our forum and chat about this. I’m sure we will.

Other Coverage:- MalwareTeks – Nellie2

Last Updated – 12th of Novemver 2007 21:57 pm

We discussed the recent spat between IE Defender and the community and the well documented discussion between ESG and the community. And other areas’. It was nice to chat with someone whom I don’t chat too often, yet we had a lot in common.

After awhile I was introduced to an Internet radio station this expert broadcasts from every week, CNI Radio. It was nice to see such an approach as I have hardly ever listened to Internet radio that covers the area we work in.

To cut a long story short, we got asked permission for them to mention us in their weekly show. What do you think my answer was?

… Correct, it wasn’t going to be No.

I’ll try and get a recording as soon as I can. This is a nice mark for me personally and for us as a support site. We now ride the air waves! Thanks goes out to Bambi for making it possibly. It’s a worthy show if you like to be educated.

“Free Security Assistance, News and Information”

…. and in the forum it stands at:

“Free Malware Removal & Help Site Since 2006″

The first one is the slogan in our logo. That will change to the new one which gets decided by you and our members.

We’ve set up a dedicated topic in our forum for this so all you need to do is register and put your slogan forward.

At present the winner will get a link on our links page and also a possibility of a separate prize. It will close this coming Saturday and after the closing date we will put polls forward for you to vote on!

So visit the topic in the Comments & Suggestion Box and get involved with Security Cadets!

1. First we had some issues which meant for site downtime.
2. Secondly I have been rather busy with other more important commitments. One of those being, helping our local community after last months floods.

As I am part of a committe and coding the web site for this committe, my time blogging has been hit. There are important issues I certainly would like to raise and just general security news I would wish to blog about. However this may continue to be one of my areas being hit when more bad weather is due this weekend.

On the bright side, you may see some blog articles by other bloggers we have here to keep this active.  So from me, stay safe.

Here you go – Burstwick United

It will take me a few days at least to get on top of things. I’ll also plan to have some exciting articles these coming few weeks. However just make sure you tune in to Tonight with Trevir McDonald!

… Why? Because I’m in it! Not spyware related mind you, but covering our recent floods! More on that in another article! So stay tuned and keep fighting!