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Sophos Conficker Clean-up Tool

Nirmal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:30:24 +0000

The Conficker worm, also known as Downadup surfaced last November and has already infected thousands of business networks and PCs. Conficker worm is supposed to exploit PCs on April Fool’s Day. We had already written about McAfee Avert® Lab’s Stinger Conficker removal tool. Sophos also has a Conficker removal tool which will allow you to detect, isolate and, then, of course, remove the Conficker virus from a PC.

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The tools is available as a standalone and a network version. The standalone version is to remove Conficker from one or more single computers. The network version allows to remove Conficker from an infected network.

Download Sophos Conficker Removal Tool

Remove Conficker Worm- McAfee AVERT Stinger Conficker

Nirmal — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:00:33 +0000

Most of you might be aware of the Conficker worm which is supposed to exploit PCs on April Fool’s Day. After this date, machines infected with the “C” variant of the worm may not be able to get security updates or patches from Microsoft and from many other vendors. The creators of the worm will also start using a communications system that is more difficult for security researchers to interrupt. The Conficker worm, sometimes called Downadup or Kido has managed to infect a large number of computers.

McAfee Avert® Labs has released a small worm removal tool called AVERT Stinger Conficker which can help you to remove the Conficker worm from PCs affected. This special build of its stand-alone cleaning tool christened Stinger which will be updated on a daily basis to include any undetected Conficker variants from the wild.

Users whose computers are not configured to receive patches and updates from Microsoft and who are not running an up to date antivirus product are most at risk. As of now, we are not sure what could be the effect of this worm or rather how intensive this worm could be, so its always better to have all the updates and patches installed.

Download McAfee Stinger Conficker

List of GoDaddy Promo Codes and Discount Coupons

Nirmal — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:04:07 +0000

When it comes to purchasing domains, the first name that comes is Godaddy. Yesterday I was shopping for some domains and while doing so, I did a search for discount coupons and promo codes for GoDaddy. I have complied a list of Promo codes and coupons which can get you some discount when purchasing domains.

gdp0609g- 20% off on $75 or more.
OYH3 – $3 off / $6.95 any .COM
gdp0611aa- 30 % off on .Com domains- Valid till June 30 2008
cjcsave10 10% off
cjcdeal 15% off $75
cjctenoff $10 off a $50 purchase
cjcsave $5 off a $30 purchase
cjc20off75 $20 any order of $75 or more
gdp0518 – Get NEW .INFO, .NET and .ORG for $15.00 only!
gdp0424a – Renew your .INFO now. Just $6.99 for the first year and $8.99 for additional years.
BTPS7 – 20% any order of $50 or more
OYH1 – 10% off whatever
OYH2 – $5 off a $30 purchase
BTPS4 – 10% off anything
chill1 – 10% off
chill2 – $5 off $30
chill3 – $6.95 .com domains
hash1 – 10% off
hash2 – $5 off $30
hash3 – $6.95 .com registration
gdd1101c – 10% off any order of $40 or more
gdm0702 works for two .nets for $10

If you had used any coupons recently, you can share it here.

Zoho Sheet gets more Features, Supports Visual Basic Macros

Nirmal — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:00:00 +0000

Zoho has added a host of features to Zoho sheets and the important one is the support for Visual Basic Macros and pivot tables. With this Zoho Sheet becomes the only Spreadsheet application that supports VB Macros apart from Microsoft Excel. Currently Zoho Sheet lets you import your existing speadsheets with Excel macros or create new ones. Another feature added was the support for Pivot tables. Zoho Sheet now allows you to create Pivot tables & Pivot charts on your structured data or from a range of spreadsheet data.

Apart from these there are also other features introduced, like sharing spreadsheet, multiline cells, auto filter, new publish options freeze panes and many more. You can check out all the features here.

CrossLoop Unveils Marketplace- Technical Support Service

Nirmal — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:34:56 +0000

Few days back I had mentioned about a screen sharing service, CrossLoop, which is very simple and easy to use and yet secure. CrossLoop has now announced a new feature called Market place, which is basically a Tech support service where people who needs help can contact helpers in CrossLoop. Currently there are around 5000 helpers in various categories like Windows, Mac, networking, security etc.

How does this work?

First you need to do a search for the field where you need help. The results shows the total number of helpers with their session and number of customers handled.

Next you select the person whom you want to contact. His profile is displayed with the areas of expertise, reputation and rate cards. The helpers can fill up their rate cards based on the services they are offering.

Once you have selected the helper, you can contact him describing your problem. One thing I could not get details on was how the payment is made to the helper, I guess it should be though Paypal.

This service is definitely going to be a hit considering the fact that lot of people with good technical knowledge can make huge money online. Blogger can also make money with this service by giving help in blogging, SEO and other stuffs.

So if you are a techie guy, you should be creating a profile in CrossLoop by now.

Skype Introduces Unlimited World Calling Plan for $9.95

Nirmal — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:28:29 +0000

Skype has launched a new plan for unlimited calls to 34 countries across the world for just $9.95 per month. Skype has announced three new unlimited plans, one for US and Canada, second one for Mexico countries and third for the world. The complete list of countries available can be viewed here.

This is one of the best offers for calling to landline phones to across 34 countries world wide. I was disappointed to see India not in the list of countries in the unlimited plan.

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Alexa Changes Website Ranking System

Nirmal — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:57:20 +0000

Alexa has changed the ranking system for websites and it claims that the ranking have improved methodology and better source. Alexa rankings was started in 1998 and till now it was using the Alexa toolbar to collect data for website ranking. There has been lot of discussions on the inaccuracy of Alexa ranking as it was based only on the toolbar information and this toolbar was used only by a minority of internet users.

As per the new system data is aggregated from multiple sources to give a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users. There is a change in ranking of many sites after this new algorithm. Alexa says that the old ranking have been removed and data is now available only for past 9 months, but it could be restored in the coming weeks.

This blog also saw a change in the ranking, 2 days back it was somewhere around 83k and now its 65, 139.

HP’s Online Storage and Sharing Service- Upline

Nirmal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:09:35 +0000

HP has recently launched its online storage and sharing service called Upline. Of late there has been lot of new services in this already over crowded area. DropBox, Foldershare are few of the recently launched service. Upline offers various plans suited to your personal or business needs. Upline offers unlimited storage for as low as $59 per year. HP offers three different paid plans- Home, Family and Professional. All the three accounts have unlimited storage space. It also offers a free account with a storage limit of 1GB.

Features of HP Upline;

Automatic Backup
1-click restore
Access from anywhere
Share with friends

The free account is limited to one year and after that you will need to buy if you want to access them. Upline has a desktop software compatible with only Windows for upload and backup. The interface is pretty neat and easy to use.

If you are looking for some professional back up service, then HP’s Upline is worth trying.

HP Upline Home Page

Send E-Mails to a Future Date with Time Machiner

Nirmal — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:18:10 +0000

Time Machiner is a simple and mini application which can be used to send a mail in future. This service can be used to remind you of friend’s birthdays and other important occasions. All you need is to pick the date on which the email is to be sent, email address, subject and content. The mail will be delivered on the date set by you.

I checked this service and I got the mail on the date I had set. Currently the option allows you to send future mail upto 2030. This is definitely an interesting service to try out.

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Watch Movies Online with Entertainment Magazine

Nirmal — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:19:12 +0000

If you have fed up playing games online, then its time to watch some English classic movies online from Entertainment Magazine. These movies can be watched online or downloaded for free. These free movies are the original classic, full-length, motion pictures produced over the last century. Its legal to download, legal to transfer to a mobile device or PC and free to watch online from anywhere in the world.

The collection contains over 200 English classic movies ranging from comedies, cartoons, dramas and romance to westerns and dozens of music videos, video clips and movie trailers. New titles are added weekly. The quality of videos are pretty good as well.You can check out the complete list of movies in alphabetical order from here.

Watch Movie Online from Entertainment Magazine