Knowledge Partner in Security section.?

First, lets clear up the Issue of Who Grinler is.

"Lawrence Abrams is the creator and owner of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes malware removal and computer forensics. He is active in the various online anti-malware communities where he researches new malware as they are released and helps to disseminate this information to the public in the form of removal guides. He was awarded as a Microsoft MVP in Windows Consumer Security for this activity.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/authors/lawrence-a...

Twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/BleepinComputer/

Valued Member of Mbam Forum

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showuser=...

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So far as iYogi, Spamming got them to where they are today. Multiple accounts @week. Somebody in Yahoo Advertising messed up BIG TIME. Corp. BS, one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing

I agree that Bleeping Computers is a great place for free computer support (along with a few other sites) but I suppose it all comes down to the criteria for being a YA Knowledge Partner which is "Any company or organization that can offer professional-quality knowledge in a specialized field can become a Knowledge Partner. "

Bleeping Computers bills itself as "a community devoted to providing free original content, consisting of computer help and tutorials, in such a way that the beginning computer user can understand."

I guess from YA's point of view, an open forum/self-help community does not meet the criteria of being a company or organization.

Heck, even Kotex is listed as a KP at the present moment!! Now That's providing "professional-quality knowledge"!! ;)

The "Knowledge Partner" tag has nothing whatsoever to do with how helpful someone is. It is not a badge one earns because of their BA percentage or how helpful the YA Team has deemed them.

Knowledge Partner status is purchased. Now, I am sure that you have to prove you actually work for the company you are promoting, but have no doubt... you are advertising for that company on Yahoo... you are paying for the privilege.

Now, I am not doubting who Grinler is. I'll have to take your word for it that he is affiliated with the creators of BleepingComputers.com (unless with your implication, you only meant he spends time there). However, let's be honest. Anyone can write whatever they want in that paragraph about themselves. He could claim to work at Microsoft, and he could claim to be part of the programming team that has created every version of Windows since 2000... but that wouldn't make it true. Again, I am not doubting who he says he is. I am merely pointing out that there is no fact checking in the general populace of members.

The Knowledge Partner badge at LEAST is verification that the guy using the iYogi account actually works for iYogi.

Are the people at Yahoo aware that iYogi sites come up as Unsatisfactory on free WOT? I don't think they care. iYogi are paying for what they get. That's all Yahoo really cares about. Look around the site more closely, at the SPAM and the fact that anyone can get an unlimited number of accounts with NO accountability (like having to attach a unique telephone number to each account, etc.).

So, people will never come up as Knowledge Partners if they don't work for a company that pays for them to have that badge.

I smell a rat in there also.

My guess: somebody has paid money somewhere for that title; which is why "Knowledge Partner" doesn't mean a G.Dam thing.

This misrepresentation has happened before and Yahoo just keeps loosing trust with it's patrons...another victim of greed.

Similar to the "Speed up my PC" commercials on TV: those ads are strikly to generate income, and have nothin to do with honestly helping people deal with the mountains of malware and other problems.

It's a bit of a mystery to me because you and I know that iyogi behaves in an unorthodox way in YA. I remember when they set up questions. And yet WOT platinum members deem them as satisfactory.

The quotes from WOT forum members, remember that the cabal here are at the top of the pyramid in WOT forum, they are not iyogi shills. They rated the sites as "Good" with a green dot

g7w

"Business which offers technical support concerning computer hardware and software.

please refer to my WOT Forum topic reply for further analysis:

http://www.mywot.com/forum/6389-iyogi-net?comment=...

Dante 3v11

"Reference:

http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/6389-iyogi-net

klaus b

"Site seems clean and safe now. See reference:

http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/6389-iyogi-net?comme...

I totally agree with you that bleepingcomputer.com has helped a lot more and in a free manner, how can you charge people for helping people for Spybot, Malwarebytes and etc? They obviously never mention the forums, oh no, they charge bucks for Avast, Avira, and other free programmes, plus they don't mention the official support sites for free/paying software. They are just middle men, needless middle men. By the way, this prompted me to ditch WOT because of that.

EDIT - Learnt something new today. I didn't know this but Avast use iyogi as third party support. Looks like some Avast users aren't particularly happy with their services, more threads are littered with more iyogi complaints.

https://blog.avast.com/tag/iyogi/

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=78786.0

iyogi sites look like typical well funded scam sites to me.

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