Posted on February 28th, 2007 by
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Once you get Vista installed or you purchase a new Vista machine, open the new Performance Information and Tools in the Control Panel. You should see your “Windows® Experience Index” … I would suggest taking a screenshot and saving it. Then as you add/change drivers or hardware you can re-calculate the WEI, however once you do this […]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by
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Previously I had reported the problems updating the HOSTS file in Windows Vista … well I’ve come up with a workable solution using SendTo. You can see the step-by-step instructions here. Note: I’ve tested several of the 3rd party HOSTS utilities for updating the HOSTS file and these do not work … hopefully the authors […]
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Posted on February 19th, 2007 by
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Unfortunately with UAC (User Account Control) enabled the “mvps.bat” is not permitted to update the HOSTS file. This is due to the restrictions imposed by UAC in that no “batch” files are allowed to access/change a System file. For now the only work-around is to turn off UAC (requires reboot) then run the “mvps.bat”, then […]
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Posted on February 16th, 2007 by
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The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [02-16-07]http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (134 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File – Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the “text” version makes a great resourcefor determining possible culprits … (556 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt Sign up for HOSTS file update noticeshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm#contribute
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Posted on February 13th, 2007 by
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Looks like these “codec” sites have ramped-up the threat level as they are now running a nasty javascript on these sites that NOD32 detects as “JS/TrojanDownloader.Agent.AB” As usual these culprits are registered at Intercage/EstDomains …
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Posted on February 6th, 2007 by
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Landing on pixyoung(dot)com the viewer is presented with a blank page and a bogus error … Yeah you guessed it, no mater which button you click you’re trapped into clicking Continue … however you can always press Alt & F4 on the keyboard to get out. Clicking Continue leads you to another Trojan.Codec site (sitesentrance(dot)com) […]
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