Are Antivirus Companies good or bad?

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Are antivirus companies good or bad?  This is one of those catch 22 questions.  Here is one interesting perspective that most people don’t look at.  If I were the antivirus company and I wanted to make sure that I was always in business, wouldn’t I write viruses and spread them so that people get infected, then write and antidote for them.  This way I could charge people for this Antivirus / Antidote and make money off this EVERY YEAR. 

Or here is another situation.  If I don’t want to get my hands dirty, wouldn’t it make sense to hire rogue companies or agents to write these viruses so that they can spread them on the internet, then I can sell my antivirus removal database or tools and ALWAYS BE IN BUSINESS.

Even in our real world, I believe that some pharmaceutical companies actually develop viruses so that they can INVENT vaccines.  This way they will never be out of business.  In any business, in order to make it big, there must be a NEED and a SUPPLY.  What if you wanted to speed things up, then you speed up the process of creating that need and just happen to have the supply on hand.  It’s like knowing a natural disaster is going to hit, and having all the resoures to fulfill that demand when it happens.

Back to the issue at hand.  Can we really trust these Antivirus Companies?  In all our years of being in the Information Technology field, we’ve NEVER seen so far any major antivirus company go out of business.  EVEN BANKS go out of business.  Isn’t that something strange?

When a major virus spread who are the ones who ALWAYS BENEFIT?  Surely not the innocent victims, but only the money hungry companies.

To keep your computer safe from virus, you simply keep it off the internet and be careful of the removable devices like floppies, cd’s, zip drives, thumb drives etc. 

I’m not saying all of these companies are bad, I’m just saying it’s a very GREY AREA and many people don’t talk about it.

Join us for part 2 soon.

Card Holder Services SCAM ALERT

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There is a company called “Card Holder Services” that is calling people by random. This is believed to be another credit card scam companies out there who register names close to the real companies to scam people. BEWARE. They’re all fraud. The last call came from a person by the name of Rachael from 402-982-0664. It’s a scam people.

If the credit card company want to lower your interest rate, do you think they would actually call you?

Don’t you think they make more money to have you pay them more fees (illegal interest rates – also known as usery) rather than trying to save you money? They are in the business of making money, so why would they call you to tell you that you can save money. Most likely, the WILL NOT. You are the one who really have to call them and talk with them.

Stay away from all these fraud companies. They just want to get your personal information and clean you out. Clean you out means, rob you blind.

Credit Card SCAMS – Beware of Card Services

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Credit Card SCAMS are getting more crafty. There is one company out there called “Card Services” which are NOT the real “Card Services.” Here is what they are doing and BEWARE.

They formed a name just like the real Card Services, but they are the fake scammers. They get a VOIP server and buy a phone number from a provider, maybe someone who can allow call masking and they bounce their calls off different servers and make scam calls. I’ve called the real company to report this. But to be frank, they really don’t care. At least that’s the feedback I got. I even went as far as giving the phone number the scammers called from and playing the welcome message that says, “thank you for calling card service.”

How they get your information? Well ask the banks. Since they CLAIM that your information is secure and they CLAIM that they employ the best security measures. Well if that’s the case, why when the fake card services called and you asked them how they got your information.. and their reply is “from your bank.”

Lately they’ve been security breaches from the bank side and even from some of the stores. You could go and buy food from your favourite restaurant who employ crappy security measures on their PC’s. Basically you find a lot of companies slack off by having their employees browse sites that can cause a security threat on the machines themselves, then they process your credit card on the machine that is infected. This then leaks out your information to God knows who. In this case it can be companies like “Card Services”, the fake ones that is.

It can also be leaked in other ways like people like the fake Card Services buy your information from Hackers who create crafty softwares that they give you for free, then they lurke on PC’s and spread the infection by the MASS. This can really go deep.

The safe way these days is to “USE CASH.”

You can also use a pre-paid credit card. Basically cards that you just load some money in. These are normally disposable cards.

Stay TUNED for more info on this topic. Basically since no one is doing nothing about this. Well we’re gonna blow the whistle on this and MANY other things.

We are PISSED off that no one gives a whottie and the blowfish about stuff like this. All we hear are LIES.

It’s time for the liers to cut the crap and proove it. Give us security.

If even the banks are not secured then what’s the sense of putting your money there? Might as well put it under your bed and make sure the ants and roaches don’t get to it first.

Anyways, back to the issue… check back again because we will go deeper.

Here are some videos found on youtube that shows the scams in action:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRW9KaGNow]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILa5PtSvsVo]

Bookmarking Softwares

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What are some good bookmarking softwares to us for your online marketing campaign?  This question has been asked many times. One software that tops the list is bookmarking daemon.

bookmarking demon

bookmarking demon

Bitdefender VS Malwarebytes

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In a recent lab test, we decided to see what software is better at finding Malware.  On a machine running Bitdefender we decided to install and run Malwarebytes to see if it would pick up anything.  And it did.  Bitdefender has been sitting on:

Trojan.Downloader

Trojan.FakeAlert

Disable.SecurityCenter

Malwarebytes picked up this malware and removed them.  What is so amazing is that, this sofware is FREE compared to the Internet Security Suite of Bitdefender that we purchased.  These days, it’s coming to our attention that these free software are really not that bad.  Even AVG Free edition is now very competitve compared to Bitdefender.

It is sad to say that Bitdefender’s standards have drastically dropped since the last six months.  There WERE ranked high in our book as a highly recommend antivirus software, but now we take it back.

Read our next article and we will tell you why.

How can your business survive in this tough economy? Part 1

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Many people want to know the answer to this question.  They want to know how can they survive in this tough economy.  The answer is not quiet this simple.  However there are different things a business can do to cut back and try to stay afloat in this current economy.  And it does not all have to do with laying off people.  It’s more like being creative with your employees and your finances.

Part 1:  Office Rent.

Many business try to expand too fast and take on a big overhead with high office expenses and rent.  Sometimes having a big glamorous office can run you out of business.  To be frank, if a customer cannot respect you for who you are as a business, then they can go somewhere else.  In our experience, those customers who are stuck on this type of stuff are normally the ones who gives the most trouble.  Also they are normally the ones who don’t even want to pay for your services.

Reality is, more expenses means that you have to raise your price or end up taking from Peter to pay Paul.  Sometimes this also forces us to lay off good workers just to try and “keep up with the Jones.”

Not all customers are like this.  In business you will have a few categories of clients.  The in and out, the stick with you till your doors close, and your average pain in the but clients who are there to make your business atmosphere miserable.  Try to keep away from the last set of people.  Why?  It’s simple.  They are too demanding and time consuming.  And business really breaks down to time.  Time = Money.  And if you are stuck spending your valuable time on clients who will not appreciate it, they degrade you, they devalue your service, then simply ask them in a nice way to go.  You will make a lot more money focusing on your other type of clients rather than wasting time with the bad bunch.

Virtual Assistant

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Virtual Assistant service is a broad service that covers a lot of areas.  Basically what a virtual assistant does is, it’s just like hiring a secretary to come to your office and work everyday but instead they stay at a remote office and work for you at a cheaper rate.  What you get in return is low overhead.

This is something that is good and bad.  Good meaning that you do keep your overhead low, BUT bad meaning that if you do outsource, who are you really hiring to deal with your business?

When you hire a virtual assistant try to hire someone withing american borders so that if anything does go wrong you have some type of leverage.  These days there are many companies outsource to the asian market thinking that they are actually saving money, but in reality they are actually loosing money in many different way.

They loose money with time difference, communication, higher start up cost due to the first two issue listed, plus many more other ways.  They also loose when they take money out of the country to send to another country.  This creates an imbalance in the financial system.  No matter what country you are in, this will create a BIG financial mess.

For more information on this view our article written about Virtual Accountants.

Virtual Accountants

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VIRTUAL ACCOUNTANTS

Virtual Accountants are hard to find these days. There are a lot of companies outsourcing their virtual accounting service to india. The question is how safe is this?  We don’t recommend it due to a difference with the international law. India is in another jurisdiction vs. the U.S.

Next there is a matter of security as far as your personal and company information that is put over into the hands of someone you really don’t know. So as far as privacy, you can kiss that good bye.

Next there is an issue as communication.  How do you communicate with this individual? The fact is they do have your banking information along with other personal information.  Can you pick up the phone and call them and they pick up.  Keep in mind the time difference.

The final issue is economics.  Is it really worth outsourcing to india for virtual accountants? The average person in india who does this type of job ask for about $8 – $9 per hour.  In the U.S. you can find a person in this economy and pay them $10 – $12 per hour.  Yes you may be paying a little more for the U.S. person or company, but you have much more advantages with communication, time difference and the law on your side.

So to summarize, when you plan to hire someone or a company as a virtual accountant, hire someone you can trust and who is not out of the law jurisdiction.

Virtual Assistant Jobs

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Virtual Assistant jobs are very sought out these days, but the issue is where are the jobs really going?  In this economic crisis, there are many Americans who are loosing their jobs to people in Asia while there are companies here in America who think that by putting more jobs overseas will better the economy.

They are as DUMB as they come.  Yes we said it, and if you have an issue with this, contact Nexgen Business Solutions, Inc. head office and we would be kind enough to EDUCATE you on this.

Taking jobs away from the U.S. economy will not make it better, it will make it worst.  Have you ever asked yourself this question, if you take $1 out of the U.S. economy, how much did the U.S. economy actually loose?

Here is a scenerio, and please pay close attention:

There are 4 people in this equation…

John, Amanda, Rachael, Miliano

John is a baker who sold Amanda a slice of cake for $1.  John then went out to the store next door and bought a soda for $1 from Rachael the store owner.  Rachael then walks down the street and paid $1 to get her dress dry cleaned from Miliano.  Milano just got hungry and goes to John for a nice piece of cake for $1.

See in this situation, $1 circulated in so many different ways.  So is $1 really a dollar?  In the hand yes.  In economics, not really.

That $1 needs to circulate.

Now back to the issue, where are the virtual assistant jobs?

Should companies just outsource all their virtual assistant jobs to asia or other countries while there are people loosing their jobs by the thousands?

Our answer is very simple.  “NO.”

It’s time for these companies to spend money back into the U.S. economy.  The funny part to this whole mess is, the very same countries that the jobs get outsourced to, those are the same countries that still look to America for financial support in some way or the other.

In closing, since that’s the case.. how can you pick up someone if you are also on the ground?

I’m looking for an answer from the savvy businesses men who are educated in GREED with degrees so high they go beyond a Pd.D.

Affiliate Marketing?

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I’m just signed up for an affiliating marketing program. I was wondering if anyone out there has had any experience with this type of business. Is this a good business? I would like to hear the good as well as the bad. Maybe some good advice on some niches to foucus on. Any tips would be great. I’ve tried some home business opportunities before but they all were scams. I really want to succeed with this. Thanks to all.