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It’s been quite some time since I took a look at how popular antivirus softwares are doing. Earlier this week Av-comparatives.org released the results of their on-demand comparatives. More than a dozen antivirus softwares were tested using about more than 1.2 million malware samples. Most of the traditional performers maintained their good showing, but there [...]

Antivirus softwares aren’t always able to undo all the changes made by a malware. After an infection you often end up with a messed up system, even after successfully eliminating the malware(virus) from your system. Some common headaches associated with an malware infection are : Task Manager, Process Manager, Registry Editor, Group Policy Editor and [...]

Rafael Rivera has done it again. Few months ago he found a way to unlock hidden features in Windows 7 pre-beta builds. Now he has uncovered an extremely simple technique to change Windows 7 Logon Screen background. Previous versions of Windows provided no easy way to modify the LongonUI. Users had to resort to 3rd [...]

Earlier this week Opera unveiled a preview build called Opera Turbo (based on v10 – Peregrine) with server-side compression. Opera Turbo features a built in proxy that redirects all http traffic through Opera’s servers. The website data is compressed by the server and sent to the user. Opera claims that its servers can compress data [...]

Sometime back I had reviewed an instant search tool from Koshi Jon called neoSearch. This time I will take a look at another one of his application – DiskMax. DiskMax is basically a junk file cleaner that gets rid of unneccesary files and folders lying around on your disk. It sports a very simplistic and [...]

Kido worm also known as Downadup, Downup and Conficker is continuing to spread more rapidly than ever, even though its already several months since it was first spotted. More than 9 million PC’s have been infected and Panda Security reporting infection rates of 6% in two million computers scanned via their website. China (the probable [...]

I have reviewed multiple template repositories in the past. It seems template repositories really like me, as I got another offer. To be honest I hadn’t heard of Buytemplates.net before. But a quick glance at their products and I was impressed. BuyTemplates clearly intends to be the one stop shop for all your template needs. [...]