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Entries for June, 2008

The Difference of Adware, Spyware and Viruses

Adware, spyware and computer virus share some similarities, one of which is that all three are major nuisances for computer users. Let’s differentiate the three.
Spyware is software that does not intentionally harm your computer. What they do is that they create pathways wherein someone else aside from the computer owner can communicate with the computer. [...]

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Firefox 3: 8.3 Million Downloads

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Rogue Software and Security

While working with your pc, ever had advertisements pop up suddenly and keep wanting you to buy their software? or a pop-up says that your pc have been infected by spyware, viruses and forced you to download its software.
Most of the time, they will display a message such as:
“WARNING! Your computer is infected with spyware! [...]

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USB drive as a portable pc

USB flash drive; despite being use as a storage to save and transferring files, could be changed as a portable computer or a portable office that will always accompany you. How’s that? Simple, get a flash drive with a good specification and a collection of portable applications.

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Crashed Office

The Office program crashed just before you save a document and sometime it’s just hanged and couldn’t be closed except through the Task Manager.
When it restarted, the last saved status of the backup copy is restored and it’s likely that you would lost the last ten minutes of your work.

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Enable Task Manager

When you try to open Task Manager, the following error may occur:
“Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator”
-It’s highly likely that your system have been infected with a virus that enable the DisableTaskMgr policy via the registry.

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-myFree- Personal Software II (updated)

A suitable freeware might even surpass or on par in performance compared to the available commercial software. Simple, Easy and Free. -myFree- listing as below:
-myFreeAV- Avira AntiVir Personal
-myFreeAntiSpy- Ad-Aware 2008 Free
-myFreeFirewall- Comodo Firewall PRO 3.0
-myFreeCleaner and Privacy Tool- CCleaner
-myFreeDefrag- IOBit SmartDefrag
-myFreeUtilities- Advanced WindowsCare Personal Edition

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Shared Folders in a Single Interface

To manage all your shared folders, use one of the Microsoft sap-ins.

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