SYMANTEC REPORTED RECENTLY ON A Tojan horse that mimics the Microsoft I Windows activation interface. Called trojan.Kardphisher, it doesn’t do most of the technical things that Trojans usually do: It’s purely a social-engineering attack, aimed at stealing credit card information. In a sense, it’s a standalone phishing program. Once you reboot, Kardphisher asks you to reactivate [...]

STOP ADOBE UPDATES. TALK ABOUT BLOODY ANNOYING! Don’t worry guys. I have a solution for you. I’m not sure if some of you have had problems with the Adobe Updates being installed without your consent or not? Or if you were asked to install and download adobes updates for Adobe Acrobat 8.1 professional? I do, well, did. [...]

Awareness in Installing Some Types of Software Generally considered as some kind of potentially unwanted programs (PUP) by the Internet Security Company (McAFee,) adware and spyware could pause as a menace to original computer owners, web developers, and IT of certain corporations.  Advertisements (adware) already included and mainstay of the program could present a threat or [...]

The Need for Adware and Spyware Blocker There is this one law school student whose thesis is about money laundering so oftentimes she would google the term to come up with a ready list of online references. This proved to be useful to her and the entire process of writing her paper. After several months of [...]

The Difference of Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus 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 [...]

Make a Bluetooth-to-PC Connection: Coded Messages, unseen radio signals, hush-hush techno jargon. These are the hallmarks of Bluetooth, the famously misunderstood short-range wireless technology, incidentally named after a tenth-century Danish king that lets you connect your cell phone to a PC. But what should be a snap right out of the box requires several steps [...]

Sony wants to outdo Microsoft in just about every aspect. The company has taken more time to perfect its technologies, but it’s debatable whether some are really ready for prime time. In an address at the Tokyo Game Show in mid-September, Sony international game chief Ken Kutaragi criticized PC’s for having “bigger and bigger operating [...]

Nintendo’s Wii comes as close as possible to a pure gaming experience on a console. Even though the console stores games on DVD’s, players can’t watch DVD movies on the machine, it’s been said from the vice president of marketing and corporate communications at Nintendo of America that they had to cut costs and decided [...]

Want to lower your cell-phone bills? You can with the next step in VoIP: Wireless VoIP. To make the move, you need a Wi-Fi phone that can tap into any available hot spot and thus emnable you to make a free or chape calls from any Wi-Fi access point on the planet. Currently, only a few [...]

Chances are, if you ran a big company you’d have an expensive PBX (private branch exchange) system to juggle extensions, conference calls, and voice mail. For small businesses, a better solution is virtual PBX, which doesn’t require new hardware and is managed via the Web. You get a main number from the hosting company and [...]

VOIP (Voice Over IP Phone Service) You know the cost savings of voice over IP phone service, but only about 16% of small to midsize businesses have made the switch to VoIP, according to a survey by technology consultancy Savatar. Why? Because most Internet Phone services don’t offer communication packages designed for small businesses. Now that’s [...]

Question: I have a Microsoft Word 2003 document that is formated like a dictionary. The entries are various in words and abbreviations. The format of the entries in the document is like those words found in the Random House Webster’s Unabridge Dictionary. The entries are not sorted. I would like to sort the entries in [...]

Question: recently I was sent an email from a contact of mine describing a trick to protect your address book from misuse by viruses. it says to add a new contact with the email address: aaaaa@aaa.aaa; it claims that a virus trying to send itself to everyone in your address book would start with this [...]

Question: is there a way in Microsoft Word 2003 to search for only curly quotes, or straight quotes? Answer: the solution is plain and weird. In the find dialog, click the More button and then check the box titled, Use Wildcards. Enter a regular double-quote in the Find what box. When Use Wildcards is checked, it [...]

What do you do when your computer will not boot, your most recent backup is three months old, you don’t have an emergency CD? What if you’re using a Laptop that doesn’t even have a CD drive? Say goodbye to your data!!! OR just whip out the bootable USB Key (or Thumb Drive) you prepared [...]

Transferring Mirrored RAID 1 Data Question: My motherboard supports two SATA drives through the Intel connection. I have a Maxtor 140GB and a WD (Western Digital) that’s 160GB large in RAID 1, which is in two partitions. I need to replace both with 300GB drives and mirror what’s on the 140GB drive to the new drives, [...]

What can you do to ensure that your hard drive you want to copy keeps the security permissions? The follow article contains a few tools that can help save a Windows Operating System Administrator time of a very large scale permission security dilema. Lets use an exampe for the Extended Change Access Control List (XCACLS) tool [...]

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Question: Is there a way to minimize the programs taskbar into the tray. I find it really frustrating that Mircosoft hasn’t allowed us to move programs over to the tray. Please help me. Answer: You’ll be pleased to hear, there is. It’s called “TrayIt“. If that site becomes unavailable then you can download “TrayIT” here. Unzip it [...]

Mircosoft’s Vista, are you going to upgrade? Just recently I put together a PC costing around $5,000.00. It’s a DreamMachine. Considering there’s going to be a technological shift appearing with the way how we’re going to be using our PC’s, I decided why not and get ready for the Windows Vista Candidate Release 1 and the [...]

Question: Recently Yahoo updated Yahoo Messenger to verison 8.0.0.716. MyYahoo Module 8.0.0.1. I’m using Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0. For weeks now I’ve not been able to Login to Yahoo Messenger. Please help this is driving me crazy. Answer. Firstly the bare basic system requirements are… Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows XP Microsoft Internet Explorer [...]

Question I often need to move files and have found that the best way to do it is open two instances of Windows Explorer and then resize them so they fit side-by-side on the monitor screen. I find it’s very cumbersome to go through the motions of opening one instance of Explorer, resizing it, then opening [...]

Question With all the current emphasis on new worms, Trojan horses, viruses, and other malware, I have a quesion about Microsoft Outlook Express. I’ve shut off the preview pane to prevent someone from owning my PC, but evey time I’m purposely viewing my e-mail and elect to delete it, the next message in my queue opens [...]

Question When I installed Microsoft Outlook XP, I misspelled my name as the owner. Now it shows up as the owner name in the Task Window, and it’s spelled wrong for every new task  create. Is there a Registry place that I could change to correct this? Answer The task owner shows up in a variety of places, [...]

Question In my Microsoft Word, the default automatic font colour was changed from Black to Blue. How do I change it back to Black? Answer Generall text gets its colour from your system’s colour scheme or desktop theme. Most likely, you may of happen come across a nice looking theme to use and chose to install it on [...]

I bet many of us have reformatted our hard drives, reinstalled Mircosoft Windows, reinstalled all of our software applications, and reset all of the Windows settings, etc, you know what a time-consuming and generally a heinous task it can be. But sometimes, after a nasty spyware attack or when Windows has accumulated too much sludge, [...]

Whether they call them canaries, monkeys, or guinea pigs, more security companies are using virtual PCs to protect users. Miners learned to love the humble canary. After a mine fire or explosion, miners would descend with the birds to possibly dangerous areas. The canaries’ high metabolism made them the first succumb if significant amounts of carbon [...]