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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! Buy [software name] to remove it!”

Your computer start behave weirdly, reduced in performance and sometimes your anti virus application get disabled automatically. Have all the symptoms? Your system is probably infected with a spyware or multiple of it.

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USB drive as a portable pc

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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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

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

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Windows Vista SP1 - what’s new…

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Performance:

  1. Vista is considerably faster with Service Pack 1
  2. Copying file much faster
  3. No more interference and interruption in audio-video playback
  4. Notebook’s battery could hold much longer

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Digsby

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Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

 

More than just a universal messenger, an IM with email integration and alerts from your social networks sites including MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Can even be widgetized! Means that, you could post it on your blog or website where visitors can chat with you directly.

One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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