Posted by: subeeshvn on: October 29, 2008
It is a powerful hard drive defragmentation. Used for Optimum start-up, Internet, and Windows acceleration.
Also helpful for Quick and extensive clean-up for hard drives.
Other chief features include:
Posted by: subeeshvn on: October 24, 2008
The EICAR test file (official name: EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File) is a file, developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs. The rationale behind it is to allow people, companies, and AV programmers to test their software without having to use a real computer virus that could cause actual damage should the AV not respond correctly. EICAR likens the use of a live virus to test AV software to setting a fire in a trashcan to test a fire alarm, and promotes the EICAR test file as a safe alternative.
A compliant virus scanner, when detecting the file, will respond in exactly the same manner as if it found genuinely harmful code. Its use can be more versatile than straightforward detection – for example, a file containing the EICAR test string can be compressed or archived, and then the antivirus software can be run to see whether it can detect the test string in the compressed file.The Eicar test string reads:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
It can be created by using notepad and save as .com extension. Or download via Website of EICAR.
Notes:
* The third character in the string is the capital letter O, not a zero.
* Although the string itself is 68 bytes in length, some text editors add an extra blank line (CR+LF) to the end of the file, increasing the size to 70 bytes. This does not affect its functionality.
Posted by: subeeshvn on: October 6, 2008
Wine, a free Windows compatibility tool for Linux, has come out with its latest release of Wine 1.5, the first stable release after 15 years of development and beta testing. Wine 1.5, aims to make applications easy to run on the Linux desktop without too many hassles. Wine 1.0 is available for download in source code from the main Wine site http://www.winehq.org.
Posted by: subeeshvn on: September 10, 2008
Getting more performance out of existing hardware is a dream of every desktop user. In more ways than one, Linux makes this possible. The desktops and notebooks have now started preferring “LINUX” over Microsoft Windows. Nowadays there has been a continuous shift towards Linux. Also being open source software, it is gaining popularity. In fact, after the flop of Windows Vista, if tech-savvy people and newbies could only recognize the merits of Mandriva Linux (2008 spring), and install it on their machines, I think the demise of Windows (with all its versions) is sure and certain. You get all of what you need and can download many more packages-all absolutely free, and while abiding to the terms and conditions of the GPL license.