Astalavista.com - The Underground, is one of the world's most popular and comprehensive computer security web sites.

Astalavista is a search engine specializes in information about computer security that began operations in 1997. In essence, it serves as a portal for computer/network security entusiasts and also contains a search engine for cracks and serials.

History

Astalavista.com was originally founded in 1997, by a hacker computer enthusiast. The name of the site came from the unforgettable line in the Terminator 2 movie - "Hasta La Vista Baby". Since then, the site became the underground's most respected and well maintained community for anything security related.

The enormous database, the constant updates, the unique nature of the content published, the new services and features, all offered for free, turned Astalavista.com into what it is today - a cult!

User diversity

Astalavista is visited by home, enterprise users, universities, government and military institutions on a daily basis. The site is currently attracting more than 100,000 unique visitors per day. Due to the visitor it makes the site an extremely popular security portal.

Personal Opinions from Visitors

As an administrator of a network of one thousand computers, my job consists of guaranteeing that our applications are build in with security in mind, that our desktop computers are malware and spyware free, and, to a certain extent, that our users are aware of various computer security hazards. I visit Astalavista.com whenever I look for something in particular, or just to follow the trends. Astalavista.com has obviously evolved during the years, it has turned into a daily updated security portal, emphasizing on the most severe security issues, not just listing tools and documents. When I visit the site, I know I am up-to-date.


When was the last time when you found something worth reading or using at the site, and how did it help you improve your organization's security?

Most of our desktop computers are using IE, something that is hopefully going to change after I show the statistics of spyware infections to the management. Anyway, I came across some unique patches to IE at your site, which I applied on all the desktops. I also blocked all known CoolWebSearch ip ranges again by finding an article at your site. The best about Astalavista.com is that I never know what I'm going to find at the site on the next day. As your submissions cover so many IT/network/security/privacy/social/espyonage topics, sometimes I cannot catch up with you, people. You're resourceful!

External links

Astalavista

Astalavista.NET

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