The Downadup or Conficker worm is a new danger for security experts! It spreads through PCs worldwide and has infected over 9 million of them in record time. According to researchers, drives like USB sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm. Hackers reveal their intentions. Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure issued an [...]
If your computer has stopped responding and has started receiving Dumprep.exe error messages, it's time to check the small memory dump file. The cause of this occurrence could be hardware issues or damaged registry entries. A small memory dump file records the smallest piece of useful information that is capable of identifying the reason for [...]
An upcoming Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 and Vista is scheduled for the first half of 2009. Confidential sources disclosed that Microsoft is going to deliver a Release Candidate in February, 2009 with the final SP2 binary scheduled for RTM (Release To Manufacturing) in April, 2009. Officially, Microsoft announced that a more [...]
Seagate, being a world famous leader in the designing, manufacturing and marketing of hard disk drives, offers products for a wide-range of applications like Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. The company focuses on providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's rising demand for information storage. Drive vendors [...]
Tweaktown, a hardware website has run some tests on SSD performance on Windows 7 compared to Windows Vista Service Pack 1. SSD performance was tested both in a single drive and RAID 0 setup configuration. The tests were conducted using the Patriot Warp 2 128GB SSD drive and Intel's ICH9R south-bridge chipset. They were run [...]
Hard working virus writers have come up with a new way to infest computers all over the world with their evil programs. The latest monster they created is the Seneka Rootkit. A rootkit is malware consisting of a program that takes basic control of a computer system, without authorization by the system's owners and legitimate [...]
Last week Microsoft released a beta version of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). It is a solution that allows users to run older operating systems and applications on newer Windows-based systems. The MED-V 1.0 Beta is the first release of Microsoft that includes technology from Kidaro. Kidaro is a company that was acquired by Microsoft [...]
P2P is the providing and receiving of digital files over a network following the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where files are stored on and exchanged by different users. Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing offers you the possibility to share public-domain music, audio, images, documents, and software programs over the Internet. Also, file sharing allows you to keep [...]
A week ago, Microsoft released a public beta version of its new operating system, Windows 7 . Microsoft described its new OS as an "exciting new version". In addition, the software giant claimed that it will deliver a more personalized computing experience. It looks like two Windows 7 predictions are coming true. First, it will [...]
In these days of economic crisis many companies are avoiding the purchasing of new PCs. Businessmen are trying to prolong their computer's life span with a simple tune-up instead of purchasing new ones. Tune-ups enhance your PC's performance, altogether extending the life of your machine. The market today is crammed with many software packages which [...]