Archive for August, 2010
Emsisoft’s Free Emergency Kit to remove Viruses, malware etc
Emsisoft, the maker of Anti-Malware has released a new free tool called Emergency Kit. Emergency Kit contains a collection of programs that can be used without a software installation to scan and clean infected computers for malware.
Emergency Kit is a portable application you can run it from USB flash drive or from harddisk without installation. It is able to detect, quarantine and remove more than 4 million known dangers. On running Emergency Kit you’ll see four option:-
Scan websites URLs, downloads, links with VTzilla
You have definitely heard the name of VirusTotal. VirusTotal has been one of the most well-known free service offering scanning of suspicious files and URLs with 42 anti-virus engines helping users reveal viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content.
Again thanks to VirusTotal for simplifying the process of scanning internet resources with VirusTotal by introducing VTzilla. VTzilla is a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin It allows you to download files directly with VirusTotal’s web application prior to storing them in your PC. Moreover, it will not only scan files, but also URLs.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Scan websites URLs, downloads, links with VTzilla )Adobe Patches Reader and Acrobat
Adobe has released version 9.3.4 and 8.2.4 of Adobe Reader and Acrobat for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix operating systems. According to Adobe’s security advisory, this release fixes critical vulnerabilities which allow for remote code execution: “These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” This can happen by just browsing through the Internet or with malicious email attachments, for example. They were made public on the Black Hat conference three weeks ago.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Adobe Patches Reader and Acrobat )Minimize System Boot up time with Soluto
Does your windows machine take long to boot up? You’ve tried so many softwares, registry hacks, every bit of help available all over the net regarding system boot but still not happy. So here is another application called Soluto, an anti-frustration software.
The way the application works is simple. It installs, then it asks you to reboot and then it watches your boot time and tells you what’s consuming majority of time. It allows you to pause the item (does not start-up again until un-paused) or you can delay its startup. It will wait until the initial set of applications is loaded before attempting to start your delayed applications.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Measure the energy Consumption of VM, server, Desktop and laptop with Joulemeter
Have you ever wanted to know how much power/electricity does your computer and laptop consume? Microsoft released the tiny application called Joulemeter (780 KB) which measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer.
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Login into Multiple Gmail Account at once in same browser
Do you have several Gmail accounts? Then definitely once in a while you tried to login into both the account at the same time in same browser but you found it bit inconvenient. You’ve either had to sign out and sign back in, use a second browser for my second account, or use a Chrome incognito window.
Now Google lets you sign into two accounts from the same browser. All you need to do is enable multiple sign in to use Multiple Google accounts.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Share your notes with Wrttn.me
Are you looking for simple and sharable notepad on Web? Then here it is Wrttn.me. It is a simple and powerful notepad with many features. All you need to do is just make your note, save it and share it with friends. Very easy and fast, isn’t it?
With Wrttn you can design your page completely to your own taste. Press options, create your CSS styles and select the desired marking type: Textile, Markdown, HTML5 or plain text.
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