I went into Sitepoint forum today and browse through the “Established Sites For Sales” section. Well I couldn’t believe that there are so many people selling sites to cash in. Then I sorted the list based on Price and wow, there’s a site selling at USD 30,000. But of course, no bid so far. Then I take my sweet time going through every single post and some were very interesting that they claimed to be cashing in a monthly revenue of several thousands USD. Does it worth to buy a ready-made site that may take 1 - 2 years to get back what you have invested?

Then I went into Digitalpoint Forum and check their “Site For Sales” section and I found a site (PR5) claiming to be earning USD 7,000 to 8,000 a month through adsense for sales. The site is run by an Indian. I have visited the site and found the contents to be good. He even posted a screenshot of the site statistic & earning in adsense. Wow, in June, he is cashing in USD 7,XXX and July - 8,XXX. Now, I wonder why is he selling a site which can generate more than USD 7,000 a month. in fact, many members asked a similar question and his answer was that “He is selling website for a living”.

Seem interesting, right! Now, I think you are waiting for the most important info, “How much did he sell the site?”. Well, all offers are through PM (Private Message) and the seller claimed the current bid is USD 80,000 and he is asking for USD 100,000. That huge sum of money but it only takes 12.5 months to get back USD 100,000 if the monthly revenue is USD 8,000. It is considered a very good investment.

Even more interesting that many people there worried that this is a scam or something but the seller is willing to sign a contract specifying that the monthly revenue and statistics are all genuine. For more info, visit DigitalForum.

I have switched from Norton to Kaspersky Antivirus for several reasons. Kaspersky is better in terms of (1) Frequent updates (2) Better detection rate (3) Using lesser CPU resources (latest version : 7.0.125)

However, I can no longer use Agnitum Outpost Firewall due to its frequent BSOD. I read about this at many forums and there are just too many answers to this problem and none works for me. Later, I uninstalled Outpost Firewall and voila, no more BSOD. Oh god, how can I leave my computer like that without a firewall? So, I upgraded to Kaspersky Internet Security and everything works out well. The only setback in KIS is the missing “Allow once” & “Block Once” which I use very frequent when Outpost is installed. KIS does have these 2 options but you need extra click to get them which I feel not so user-friendly.

To my surprise, KIS 7.0.125 uses very less resources (less than 10MB) with both firewall and antivirus features. Well, actually there are more features in KIS but I don’t use them. It includes Spyware Protection, Spam Filter (I’m using Mailwasher & Gmail), Web Antivirus (I have Noscript) & Popup Filter (Firefox does this better). One powerful feature that I like the most is the iSwift & iChecker Technology.

As documented in Kaspersky website:

iChecker operating principles
During the first scan the check sum of an object is saved. Check sum is a unique digital signature of an object (file) that allows identifying this object (file). Check sum changes every time the object is modified. This information is saved in a special table. During the next scan of an object the previous and current check sums are compared. If the check sum is different it means the object was changed and it should be scanned for a malicious code once again, if the check sum is the same, the object was not changed and therefore it is not scanned.

iSwift operating principles
The technology has been developed for NTFS file system. In this system NTFS-identifier is given to each object. This NTFS-identifier is compared with the values in the special iSwift database. If the values do not coincide with the NTFS-identifier then the object is scanned or rescanned, if it has been changed.

This can definitely helps speeding up your subsequent scanning. Because of this technology, I set a schedule scan to weekly where previously in Norton, I set it to quarterly.