Even though there  are a bundle of both free and paid blogging platforms, the most ordinarily used ones are Blogger and Wordpress. In the beginning of my blogging career i was not at all familiar with Wordpress, i thought that it was a completely paid blogging platform, later only i came to know that Wordpress too offers free blogging under their top level domain.. But within that time i became much addicted to Blogger, since i feel its more simple and user friendly, just because i use it. Many of my friends suggested me to use Wordpress and later i created a Free account in Wordpress and started blogging but couldn't continue at all because i have fallen in love with blogger already. What ever it is, it my case now lets do a comparison. Which is better ? Blogger or Wordpress.

Easiness

For a beginner the most essential factor that a blogging platform should offer is the easiness of use, means a simple interface is required. Blogger has a simple and easy interface as it mainly aims at novice bloggers but in the case of wordpress it is somewhat difficult to use when compared to a blogger interface.

Editing or Customization

One of the most important facility that every blogger check for is the ability to edit the source code of the template. Blogger allows you to edit the source code of your template, so that you can change the fonts, colors, size, etc.... but Wordpress doesn't allows it. but wordpress has got a large collection of various themes while blogger lacks in it.

Another great advantage that bloggers offers is this it allows us to choose a custom domain at a rate of $10 per year rather from the free domain that blogger gives us , name.blogspot.com. Through this facility we can avoid the cost of hosting.

Adding of gadgets and their customization is more simple in blogger. There are a lot of free and useful gadgets available for blogger so adding of these gadgets are some times done from the site that offers this gadgets.

Monetizing with Adsense is so easy since both the Adsense and Blogger are owned by the same company Google but in Wordepress it is a little bit complicated to get better results from Adsense.

Thats all from my part. I know its not a complete article since am not well with wordpress, so do your commenting to help me to complete this article.

A happy end was got for the internet doomsday on July 9, 2012. You may be thinking why i am reporting it late, this happy end was known to me earlier but i had to face many questions regarding this DNS changer still today.

Why this much misunderstandings regarding this DNS changer among my friends ? What made them ask such foolishness or doubts ? Some of the talks i heard were these,

One of my classmate were telling to his friend that all the computers will loss their internet connection from 9th July on wards. He also told that BSNL will go down from monday and we need to find other sources to access internet. Another talk was that, a friend of mine asked me today that whether the computers are ok now and will he be able to access his Facebook ? and another instance was someone advised an individual that don't go to Google if you go your system will get attacked by DNS changer virus............

Its not their problem, the problem lays in what they have read, may be in the newspaper or in some other media's. Weren't those articles complete ? what ever it is, it's a pleasure for me to explain what is DNS changer and how it got a happy end .

lets see what is DNS changer.

DNSChanger was a DNS hijacking Trojan, which was active from 1994 till 2011. The work of an Estonian company known as Rove Digital, the malware infected computers by modifying a computer's DNS entries to point toward its own rogue name servers, which then injected its own advertising into Web pages. At its peak, DNSChanger was estimated to have infected over 4 million computers, bringing in at least US$14 million in profits to its operator from fraudulent advertising revenue.

Both Windows and Mac OS X variants of DNSChanger were circulated, the latter taking the form of a related Trojan known as Rs Plug.

DNSChanger was distributed as a drive-by download claiming to be a video codec needed to view content on a Web site, particularly appearing on rogue pornography sites. Once installed, the malware then modified the system's Domain Name System (DNS) configuration, pointing them to rogue name servers operated through affiliates of Rove Digital. These rogue name servers primarily substituted advertising on Web pages with advertising sold by Rove. Additionally, the rogue DNS server redirected links to certain Web sites to those of advertisers, such as for example, redirecting the IRS Web site to that of a tax preparation company. The effects of DNSChanger could also spread itself to other computers within a LAN by mimicking a DHCP server, pointing other computers toward the rogue DNS servers. In its indictment against Rove, the United States Department of Justice also reported that the rogue servers had blocked access to update servers for antivirus software.

On November 9, 2011, as part of "Operation Ghost Click" (a collaboration between authorities in several countries and others that was investigating it), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national connected to the DNSChanger Trojan, for wire fraud, computer intrusion, and conspiracy. Arrests were made by Estonian authorities, and its control and DNS servers in the U.S. were seized by the FBI.

Due to concerns by the FBI that users still infected by DNSChanger could lose internet access if the rogue DNS servers were shut down entirely, a temporary court order was obtained to allow the Internet Systems Consortium to operate replacement servers to serve DNS requests from those who had not yet removed the infection, and to collect information on those still infected in order to promptly notify them about the malware. While the court order was set to expire on March 8, 2012, an extension was granted until July 9, 2012 (referred to as "Malware Monday"), due to concerns that there were still many infected computers. F-Secure estimated on July 4, 2012 that at least 300,000 computers were still infected with the DNSChanger malware. These computers will lose most access to the internet on July 9, 2012 due to the shutdown of the interim DNS servers. However few problems were encountered around the world as most Internet users and providers have had time to work around or fix the problem.

Online tools were made available in order to test a computer for the presence of DNSChanger, and both Google and Facebook announced plans to display warnings on its respective services to warn users still infected by DNSChanger of the impending shutdown.

How the Happy End ?

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