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How To Detect and Remove Conficker Worm

ryan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:52:56 +0000

If you’ve heard of the Conficker, it is finally doing something. Spreading and updating through P2P, dropping a mystery payload into infected computers. It is said to shutdown and not replicated itself on May 3rd, according to TrendLabs Malware Blog. However, infected computers could still be remotely controlled to do something else. If you are infected, you would have,

Slow computer performance
New desktop shortcuts or switched homepage
Popups

To check if your computer is infected, you can use Conficker Eye Chart or this site at the University of Bonn. To remove the Conficker worm, visit this Conficker Removal Guide.

How to view Multi-Page Content on One Page

ryan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:17:23 +0000

When viewing a site which has many pages, it can be tedious to keep clicking to go to the next page. An example would be, Lolcats. As you can see, at the bottom, there would be many pages. It can be troublesome to keep clicking. The solution is PageZipper. It makes the multiple pages load on the page you are on. All you have to do is to keep scrolling down.

To do this, you just have to drag this link, PageZipper, to your bookmark toolbar in Firefox, or any browser. When you visit the site, you just have to click this bookmark and as you scroll down, your browser will keep loading the next page. To find out more, you can watch this video or visit their website at http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/pagezipper.

Use File Host to Send Large Attachments

ryan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:24:52 +0000

Emails can be rejected if the attachment size becomes too large. For example, when sending a 30mb attachment to someone using hotmail, the email won’t reach him simply beacuse the file size is too large.

To overcome this, file hosting services can be used. These sites host files for you, all you have to send is the link for your receipient to download the file. This is useful as the file size limit is increased from 10mb (hotmail)/20mb (Gmail) to the limit that the host provides. The file size of these host range from 100mb to 2gb (average). I would encourage all to use these host to send files. Basically, after uploading files to host, a link will be provided so you can share it. I usually use these 2 host when I need to.

zshare

Mediafire

However, there are certain drawbacks to these kind of host. For example, some host only host your file for a certain time frame. Well, I know that zshare and Mediafire do not pose these kind of restrictions. Anyway, if you would like to upload to multiple host, you might want to try Gazup!