First I would like to apologize for not explaining or informing why was I out of action for nearly a month (again). Long story short, in the month of March, both Google and Chitika disabled ad serving to my blog site because they accused that my site is a hack/crack site. I was unsuccessful in getting my account reinstated and was pretty upset and disappointed about it. I started this blog site 5 years ago to help people, to share what I’ve learned and I still have the same motive even after 5 years has passed. When my site was being labeled as a hacking website, I really had no motivation to continue in updating this site nor continue with the X-Ray release.
When I could not use Adsense, I can only go with TribalFusion which explains the annoying popups that some of you are getting. I hope you would understand that I had no choice and TribalFusion is the only better paying advertising company compared to others (Bidvertiser, Adbrite) that could cover the cost of the expensive monthly dedicated server rental and administration fees.
I have done so many tests and written reviews on security applications and antivirus, how to manually remove viruses, fixing/restoring the damages that virus has done, even the upcoming X-Ray project is also a security software, I honestly find it hard to believe that these big companies labels my website a hack site.
Thankfully one of very helpful Google employee named Melissa has helped me to contact the Google Policy team and have them to review my site again. After 2 weeks, the ban on Adsense was lifted but Chitika still remains the same.
If you haven’t noticed, the article posted yesterday was written by Paul, a talented 20 year old guy from Canada that goes by the nickname of HellNoire in forum. Don’t let the nickname scare you because he is very helpful, dedicating a lot of his time in helping people with computer problems in forum and also moderating it whenever I am away. In fact his number of post in forum is even catching up on mine. Seeing him that he has so much passion for computers especially Linux, I have invited him to share with you all on his experience with computers.
Other than that, I’ve also finally upgraded the forum to the latest vBulletin 4. Some tweaks has been done on the blog theme to reduce the amount of database calls and updated the ad codes for Google Analytics and BuySellAds to use asynchronous code so that the website loads faster.
During my time away from updating this blog, I have received numerous emails and comments asking if everything is all right. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your continuous support and care. I WILL be back in full swing starting next week.