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I'm sure you use many keyboard shortcuts and combinations but if not here is the list of the most common shortcuts used while working with a Windows operating system.

Windows Key: will open the Start menu
Windows Key+Break: will display the System Properties dialogue box
Windows Key+D: will minimize the windows to show the Desktop
Windows Key+E: will open Internet Explorer
Windows Key+F: will open the Search option for files and folders
Windows Key+F+CTRL: will open Search option for computer
Windows Key+F1: will display Help/Assistance option
Windows Key+L: will lock your Desktop
Windows Key+M: will minimize or restore all windows
Windows Key+R: will open the RUN option
Windows Key+TAB: will switch between open items
Windows Key+U: will open Utility Manager
ALT+ Hyphen: will display the Multiple Document Interface child window’s System menu
ALT+ ENTER: will view the properties for the selected object
ALT+ ESC: will cycle through the items in the order that they were opened
ALT+ F4: will close all the window that is open
ALT+ SPACEBAR: will display the System menu
ALT+TAB: switch from one open program to another on your taskbar.
F1: used to request help/assistance
SHIFT: If you press and hold down the SHIFT key while inserting a CD-ROM it will skip the automatic-run feature
SHIFT+DELETE: will delete the file permanently
CTRL+ESC: will open the Start Menu

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is the newest browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

 

Internet Explorer

 Internet Explorer (IE) by Microsoft is the most common Internet browser today. IE was introduced in 1995 and passed Netscape in popularity in 1998.

Netscape

Netscape was the first commercial Internet browser. It was introduced in 1994. Netscape gradually lost its popularity to Internet Explorer. The development of Netscape officially ended in February 2008 the development and support of all Netscape browsers. After February 1st 2008, there will be no more development, support, or security patches for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browsers. Users are advised to stop using the browser.

Mozilla

The Mozilla Project has grown from the ashes of Netscape. Browsers based on Mozilla code is the second largest browser family on the Internet today, representing about 30% of the Internet community.

Firefox

Firefox is a new browser from Mozilla. It was released in 2004 and has grown to be the second most popular browser on the Internet.

Opera

Opera is another Internet browser. It is known to be fast and small, standards-compliant, and available for many operating systems. Opera is the preferred browser for a number of small devices like mobile phones and hand-held computers.

Recently I've bought a new optical TEAC mouse for my notebook. I have had my old one for two years I guess but not sure. Anyway the new mouse looks pretty enough:-)

 

Do you know that each optical mouse has a small camera inside allowing to take more than a thousand snapshot pictures every second? A fitted light-emitting diode provides light underneath the mouse helps to highlight slight differences in the surface underneath. This differs from older-technology mice, in which a round ball rolled against a mouse pad to indicate movement.

As regards wireless technologies there are two types of mouse -  infrared (IR) based on optical principle and radio frequency (RF) based on wave principle.

If you are looking for a 100% free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page check out Superstat Professional that positioning itself not only as responsive and quick loading  counter of the number of visitors to your web sitebut but also  keeping statistics on the number of visits each hour and each day.

 

Hit Counter offers any site counter style serves, it doesn't need  need your email either, which means that someone won't contact you ever! All it needa is:

The website the counter is going (for your stats)
The website counter style you want
What number to start counting from
The number of digits to show
Whether you want your visitors to see your website stats

Rapid Counter -  offers free hit counters for your web site. Get a free web counter and track the visitors to your website. Totally Free counter for counting hits to your page. The counter also comes in a variety of styles.

If you are looking the easiest way to move all your programs, files, and settings from your old PC to your new PC the new computer programm PCmover is perfect chance to do that.

 

This is the only migration utility that will help you to  move all  you want whatever you want then your new computer will have the personality and functionality of your old PC plus all of its own pre-installed software.  Works with almost any Windows operating system, from Windows 95 to Vista.

 

"PCmover can migrate your PC across a network, Laplink USB cable, Laplink parallel cable, Windows Easy Transfer Cable, or any type of removable media that can be read by both PCs. If your computer has multiple users, PCmover gives you the option to migrate some or all of the users at once. The security information about file ownership and access control is preserved for each user. You can even use PCmover to migrate your PC to an Intel-based Mac."

 

The Internet Storm Center reports about the Survival Time on the Internet today. The survival time is defined as:

"The survivaltime is calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. If you are assuming that most of these reports are generated by worms that attempt to propagate, an unpatched system would be infected by such a probe.
The average time between probes will vary widely from network to network. Some of our submitters subscribe to ISPs which block ports commonly used by worms. As a result, these submitters report a much longer 'survival time'. On the other hand, University Networks and users of high speed internet services are frequently targeted with additional scans from malware like bots. If you are connected to such a network, your 'survival time' will be much smaller.
The main issue here is of course that the time to download critical patches will exceed this survival time.

With the help of honeypots, we can measure the survival time. For example, we can use low-interaction honeypot such as nepenthes or amun that emulate common network-based vulnerabilities and deploy them at different locations. The average time it takes to download the first binary is an estimation of the survival time: The honeypots emulate known vulnerabilities and are thus exploited by different kinds of autonomous spreading malware - similar to an unpatched system. At our lab, we deployed ten honeypots in different network ranges and measured different things as I'll explain with the following graphs. These are all based on measurements between August 2007 and July 2008."

Perhaps very soon we will say goodbye to computer mouse that   have stood a good deal for 40 years over. A Gartner analyst predicts the demise of the computer mouse in the next three to five years, BBC reports.

 

"The mouse works fine in the desktop environment but for home entertainment or working on a notebook it's over," declared analyst Steve Prentice.

He told BBC News that his prediction is driven by the efforts of consumer electronics firm which are making products with new interactive interfaces inspired by the world of gaming .

There were about 600 new computer viruses released into the Internet each month.  About last new one Kaspersky Lab reports, that they have detected a malicious program that infects WMA audio files. The objective of the infection is to install a Trojan that gives a cybercriminal control of the user’s computer.

The worm, which was named Worm.Win32.GetCodec.a, converts mp3 files to the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format (without changing the .mp3 extension) and adds a marker with a link to an infected web page to the converted files. The marker is activated automatically during file playback. It opens an infected page in Internet Explorer where the user is asked to download and install a file which, according to the website, is a codec. If the user agrees to install the file, a Trojan known as Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Agent.arp is downloaded to the computer, giving cybercriminals control of the victim PC.

Unlike earlier Trojans, which used the WMA format only to mask their presence on the system (i.e., the infected objects were not music files), this worm infects audio files. According to Kaspersky Lab virus analysts, this is the first such case. The likelihood of a successful attack is increased because most users trust their audio files and do not associate them with possible infections. It should be noted that the file on the counterfeit web page is digitally signed by Inter Technologies and is identified by usertrust.com, the resource that issued the digital signature, as trusted.

Immediately after Worm.Win32.GetCodec.a was detected, its signatures were added to Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus databases.

If you dont know yet what Antivirus 2009 is - you are lucky guy. I'm trying to get it out righ now. Antivirus 2009, also known as Antivirus2009, is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses false spyware results to lure you to purchase its full version. Antivirus2009 is an updated version of Antivirus 2008. Other Antivirus 2009 aliases that have recently appeared on the Web are: XP Antivirus 2008, Vista Antivirus 2008, Ultimate Antivirus 2008 and System Antivirus 2008. It looks like that

 

Antivirus 2009 is usually promoted via a ZLOB/MediaAccess Codec installer found on adult websites. Zlob has been the trojan of choice to infect users with pop ups disguised as system notifications that lead to websites with rogue anti-spyware programs. You can also install Antivirus 2009 manually on the rogue website antivirus-scanner.com. Antivirus 2009 may use its system scanner to display false positives which work as an incentive to make unsuspecting users purchase Antivirus 2009's commercial version.

Do not click on any link provided by Antivirus 2009. Once you click on the link provided, you'll be redirected to Antivirus 2009's website (antivirus2009.com) to download and purchase Antivirus 2009's rogue anti-spyware program. Antivirus 2009 has the ability to recreate itself after reboot and its "System scan" messages may continue to pop up on your task manager. It is advised to run a scan with a reliable anti-spyware program to check for the presence of Antivirus 2009 on your computer.

How to get it rid?

Step 1 : Use Windows File Search Tool to Find Antivirus 2009 Path
Go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders.
In the "All or part of the the file name" section, type in "Antivirus 2009" file name(s).
To get better results, select "Look in: Local Hard Drives" or "Look in: My Computer" and then click "Search" button.
When Windows finishes your search, hover over the "In Folder" of "Antivirus 2009", highlight the file and copy/paste the path into the address bar. Save the file's path on your clipboard because you'll need the file path to delete Antivirus 2009 in the following manual removal steps.
"Antivirus 2009" files can be found in the directory path(s):
%ProgramFiles%Antivirus 2009

Step 2 : Use Windows Task Manager to Remove Antivirus 2009 Processes
To open the Windows Task Manager, use the combination of CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
Click on the "Image Name" button to search for "Antivirus 2009" process by name.
Select the "Antivirus 2009" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.
Remove the "Antivirus 2009" processes files:
av2009[1].exe
AV2009Install.exe
Antivirus2009.exe
av2009.exe

Step 3 : Use Registry Editor to Remove Antivirus 2009 Registry Values
To open the Registry Editor, go to Start > Run > type regedit and then press the "OK" button.
Locate and delete the entry or entries whose data value (in the rightmost column) is the spyware file(s) detected earlier.
To delete "Antivirus 2009" value, right-click on it and select the "Delete" option.
Locate and delete "Antivirus 2009" registry entries:
MicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMenuOrderStart Menu2ProgramsAntivirus 2009

Read more about How to Remove Antivirus 2009 Registry Entries

Step 4 : Detect and Delete Other Antivirus 2009 Files
To open the Windows Command Prompt, go to Start > Run > type cmd and then press the "OK" button.
Type in "dir /A name_of_the_folder" (for example, C:Spyware-folder), which will display the folder's content even the hidden files.
To change directory, type in "cd name_of_the_folder".
Once you have the file you're looking for type in "del name_of_the_file".
To delete a file in folder, type in "del name_of_the_file".
To delete the entire folder, type in "rmdir /S name_of_the_folder".
Select the "Antivirus 2009" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.
Remove the "Antivirus 2009" processes files:
Uninstall Antivirus 2009.lnk
Antivirus 2009.lnk
av2009[1].exe
AV2009Install.exe
Antivirus2009.exe
av2009.exe

Good luck!

via spywareremove.com

Autodesk has released first complete  package service to correct its popular products AutoCAD 2009 and AutoCAD LT 2009. Creators have eliminated more of errors, discovered by users during the using this product. Now everyone can download AutoCAD 2009 Update right from the site of Autodesk absolutely free.

Paragon Software, a leading software developer of productivity, security and educational applications for mobile devices and desktop PCs, has announced release of 3-th version of InterKey, the Multilingual Onscreen Keyboard available for Windows Mobile Devices.

 

InterKey 3.0 features include:
•    Multilingual layouts – the handy onscreen keyboard contains 60
national layouts that allow users to write in 36 languages and to
quickly switch between languages.
•    Several text input options – users can switch to the standard
keyboard or use keys large enough for finger typing.
•    Precise input – the zooming key feature reduces mistypes by zooming the keys being touched.
•    Special keystrokes known as gestures (space, uppercase, and
others) allow all the advantages of a standard keyboard, such as quick entry of uppercase, preceding character erasing, and other important functions.
•    Word completion function (available in the Professional Edition) allows frequently used words to be typed more quickly and easily by implementing the dictionary structure, and by auto-completing frequently used words. All new words, once entered, will be automatically added to the word database. 
•    New ergonomic layout design of the onscreen keyboard is an extra plus to the already easy to use working schema and rich functionality of the program.

 

Guys from Acer have desided that newest PCs gaming monster called Predator should have spesial monitor and this G24 gaming LCD monitor has been released up.

 

The world’s first monitor offers a 50,000:1 contrast ratio, provides a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 and has HDMI and DVI ports with HDCP for those wanting to watch Blu-ray movies on it.

The good news is the Adobe can help you now to find out all these flash files that google and yahoo could not found befour. Michele Turner, Adobe’s VP of marketing for its platform business, explains: "We are releasing technology to Google and Yahoo that enables them to crawl and index SWF files. They are now searchable. This will open up millions of Flash files to search."
They have created a special Flash player for the search engines that  goes through the runtime of each Flash application and translates it into something the search engines can understand. Besides that visiting Adobe Site you can not only buy wellknown Adobe products but to download many useful featured such as

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To all those who are interested in the new version Image Compressor 2008 Pro Edition 6.5.0.4 is on sale already. So hurry on to download free beta version to test it.

 

Recompress JPEG file to smaller JPEG file - Shrink JPEG file size without resizing image dimension. · Stunning compression ratio.

Compress up to 90% of your original JPEG file size with very minimum quality loss. You may not notice the difference.

· Ability to limit maximum JPEG file size. Many devices, photography and networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster limit the size of image that can be uploaded.

· Capable of resizing image dimension too.

· Add both text and image watermark, rotate, and apply effects in batch mode.

· Presets to store your compression and image processing settings. Use different settings for compressing into hard drive, upload to website, email, or for transfering photos to gadgets, such as digital photo frame, iPod, cellphone, PDA and many others. Store more photos in your gadgets!

· Easy to use. Straight forward user interface lets both newbie and digital photo enthusiasts create optimum JPEG file with just one-click.

· Image Compressor is a CPU and memory intensive application.

· It analyze each pixels and adjust compression level to make sure the compressed image looks as good as the original without the need of user intervention.

At the first day of release on June 18th free web browser Firefox 3 was downloaded more than 8 million times, encroaching on close to a 20% market share in the Internet browser market, Mozilla reports. The new version of Firefox includes such new features as · the ability to zoom in and out of an entire web page instead of just text. All elements of the page – including the text, pictures, interactive feature – are affected by the new zoom settings. · an "awesome bar,", the name of the new and improved location bar which shows suggested websites according to "frecency" – a combination of the frequency of the page visited and how recently the page was visited. · smarter bookmarks, offline web applications, user interface upgrades, an enhanced download manager, and the quicker loading of web pages.

                                          

 Also Firefox 3 includes phishing and malware protection, plus our new instant site ID info. Besides that built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom, Firefox 3 makes allow you to work faster and more efficiently on the Web. You can customize needed set by your taste apartly from the rest, 5,000 add-ons will help you customize your browsing experience.

Computer viruses is thye problem that everyone user have met. Here  one of them McAfee gives advance notice about  we have to be on the alert.

 

  Virus Profile: A Virtual Card For You Hoax
Risk Assessment  
  - Home Users: N/A
  - Corporate Users: N/A
Date Discovered: 11/16/2000
Date Added: 11/16/2000
Origin: N/A
Length: N/A
Type: Hoax
SubType: E-mail
DAT Required: N/A

Virus Characteristics
-- Update Dec 01, 2003 --
The El Financiero Satellite News Service has published the article "A New Powerful Computer Virus Unleashed", which was based on this hoax rather than an actual virus.

AVERT HOAX Notice!!

McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.

This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for opening the email.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.

 

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:You should be alert during the next days:Do not open any message with an attached filed called "Invitation" regardless of who sent it .It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which "burns" the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.If you receive a mail called "invitation", though sent by a friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.