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Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

Some of you have probably heard about Conficker.C, the computer virus/worm that is set to activate on April 1st.  Conficker.C exploits a particular vulnerability in Windows that was announced in October of 2008 which allows code to be remotely executed. Nobody exactly knows what Conficker.C is supposed to do on...

Tags: Antivirus, Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Conficker.C, Chances, CLAMAV, CCleaner, WinDirStat, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Tools & Techniques, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-27

WinDirStat 1.1.2 (Windows)

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows all current variants. WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: the directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size; the...

Tags: Disk, Bernhard Seifert, WinDirStat, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-09

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WinDirStat Portable 1.1.2.8 (Windows)

WinDirStat Portable is a disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool packaged as a portable app, so you can see exactly what's on your device or a host computer's hard drive and easily free up space.

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, PortableApps.com, WinDirStat Portable, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-07-16

ZDNet Readers' Choice: Top 25 free, lightweight apps

ZDNet Readers' Choice: Top 25 free, lightweight appsMissed two but maybe they aren't popularIf you are including Gimp, then how about Google Apps Picasa. This is an excellent free photo organizing program. Google has even put out a Linux beta of this handy program.http://picasa.google.comGoogle Sketchup - a highly...

Tags: Linux, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Paint.net, Notepad++, lightweight app, Top 25, ZDNet-reader, Zotero, TextPad

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaningLOL!That's a good April Fools joke right there!A wise choice!You can't go wrong with it! If Loverock recommends it then it must be good.I'll stick with my Antivirus XP 2009, thanks.I'm KIDDING! :pVery Poor RecommendationsCommercial Anti-virus: You recommend ESET NOD32 and...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, clamAV, Conficker, antivirus, Clam AV, early Spring, Norton 360, good excuse, actualy, virus

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?

Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?A few Light AppsVLCFoxit ReaderFilezillaIceChatQuicktime AlternativeIZArc...everything else is rather heavy.Joeycan't live without ....starup.cpl .......!!!!!http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtmlRE: Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?THE best free lightweight app of all-time has got to be Irfanview:http://www.irfanview.comThe swiss army knife of images.RE: Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?Definitely as...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, lightweight app, Reader Poll

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

AVG Antivirus Free Edition (Gallery: Free and essential Windows apps)

AVG Antivirus Free Edition (Gallery: Free and essential Windows apps)Stupid questionHow is Paint.NET superior to Windows Paint? The blurb doesn't really say.RE: AVG Antivirus Free Edition (Gallery: Free and essential Windows apps)The best there is - I killed Norton on my computer and all of my clients...

Tags: Operating systems, NETWORKING, media player, AVG, essential Windows app, AVG Antivirus FREE EDITION, AVG AntiVirus, Windows App, Gallery, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

A+dozen+free+%26+essential+apps+for+Windows

A+dozen+free+%26+essential+apps+for+WindowsNot a very wide appeal to these toolsThere are only 2 or 3 mentioned here that most people would find useful, but still worth mentioning none the less.Reg Cleaners tend to scare meI like the idea of cleaning registries, but for some reason or another every time I attempt to...

Tags: freeware, AVG

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Where did my hard drive go?

I've said before that mobile hard drive capacity seems to be the only thing that doesn't keep up with Moore's Law, but this is getting ridiculous.It seems like space on my MacBook Pro hard drive is disappearing. In 1992 I had a PowerBook 100 that came with a 20MB hard...

Tags: hard drive

Blog posts 2006-04-18