Well it’s that time yet again where we celebrate our annual existence. Today I am proud to announce our 3rd birthday! Yes, three years old!

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

… Well are we? Regardless if we are or not, if you know of a security based blog which you would vote for just log onto:

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!

A bit of self promotion here for ourselves.

As articles have dried up a bit of late on our blog, we want to remind you that we still post all the latest security and technology news from around the globe in our forum via our customized NewsBot. This is to make sure whatever we do on our blog, we still try to make sure we keep you in touch with the latest news out there!

Our NewsBot Centre has proved to be a hit with visitors ever since we started it back in March of this year. And we hope this will continue for months and years to come!

That’s not all, you can also include a feed from your blog/site into the system. Just send us an e-mail to the following address:

newsbot AT securitycadets DOT com

So, there is no reason to miss out on all our news with NewsBot from across the internet.

Links:

1. NewsBot Centre
2. NewsBot Centre Archives

Securitycadets.com will be down on the 30th of November 2008 due to server maintenance. For more information about when and what time, see our announcement topic in the forum.

Securitycadets.com can announce a server move which will take place over this weekend of the 4th, 5th of October.

For more information about this see our announcement topic in the forum.

Edit – The server move has nor been completed and it is business as usual. With this server move we will be able to offer some new services. Stick around to see what they will be.

An important announcement here regarding P2P (Peer-2-Peer) use when receiving assistance at this forum. Please make good use of the new policy we have in place. Click HERE for a full run-down.

Comments and questions are welcomed.

It has been almost a month since we turned two years old. And during that time various games and challenges were set-up in order to celebrate and enjoy the fact we turned two. What we also added was a chance to win full licences of programs.

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!

Yes, it really is that long!. Securitycadets.com is now two years old! Amazing isn’t it? I am pleased we have reached this milestone for many reasons. I won’t go into them as they are obvious to many of you. But to those who have supported us, helped assiting users on our forum and just been there for advice, thank you!

If you are a regular of this forum, you may remember last years fun! Where we gave away licences to security and protection goods for your computer! Even from then, we have gained more than a 1000 members and assisted in over 800 hjt log/malware removal based topics. Not to mention the self-help guides we produced! But for us mostly it’s not about figures, it’s about being there to provide support and spread the word!

History

I remember well on how we got to this stage in our short but sweat history. I started a blog on Blogger, bought a domain a few months later and moved all those posts to a Wordpress install. Shortly after that a forum was purchased and the fun began.

Am I happy I begun this two years ago? Too right I am! When I began in this community I always wanted to choose this route. Of course there would be skeptics and those with doubt. But then in life when doesn’t that occur?

New features

Anyway, that’s a brief history. But I want to concentrate on the future and what we have in the pipework. Well, for a start, we already rolled out our new feature, dubbed “NewsBot”. NewsBot imports blog feeds from all around the globe to computer related ones. We created this so we could add more coverage of other news we may not cover, or we failed to cover. We researched and found that this was a good move to do. Go check it out here. Any regular member can reply, just not post a new topic.

The next feature is a big one. One that will still remain private. A sneak peak would suggest we are spreading our wings in a joint venture. You’ll just have to wait as to what they could be.

We’re also looking at adding the chat room back and also possible audio streaming features and more. Basically brand new stuff to blow your head away. Just so that more news can get to you in every way we possibly can cater for.

Celebrations

Celebrations during the next few weeks and month will of course be going on. Just head to our main celebration forum and read the pinned.

Sponsors

During this period the following companies are sponsoring our celebrations and birthday. They have also kindly donated some goodies.

• Sunbelt Software
• Malwarebytes.org

For details about this and what has been donated, visit the pinned here.

So, how do we see the next year go? Well the same really, but with new features and a fresh approach. We plan to be here for a long time and those bad guys will know about it.

From everyone who works on this site, Happy Birthday and see you on our forum!

Links:

http://forum.securitycadets.com/index.php?showforum=86

… should be as fun as it has ever been at SC. Why? How?

Well, all we will reveal is to make sure you log in over the next week or so for new additions being announced, games and competitions going on. And a special day on the 8th of April 2008 as the next month happens.

See you this week, next week and beyond as we move forward to exciting times!!

New year and new additions. We, here at SecurityCadets, have opened another forum. After lengthy discussions between our own staff you can now report potential rogue anti-spyware in our forum.

The world of malware is changing day by day and the hunger for money by rogue organisations is increasing. Rogue software is part of the internet now whether we approve or not. But we can do something about this. Make sure new ones are added quicker to right removal tools. Try and make sure we squeeze the money trail and report rogues before they hit the wild.

Don’t get me wrong, you can report things like this already at many places. This is nothing new we are doing here, but we are making the possibilities for reporting bigger and easier.

Our report forum is located here. You’ll have to register to post for security matters. Please also read the pinned topics for general info. All samples or reports will then be dealt with and passed on to the relevant personnel.

Tell you neighbour and their neighbour. E-mail this to your friends. Let’s make this happen

Report Rogue Anti-Spyware