Windows
Infected With Virus ?
Dec 9th
Symptoms of a virus infection:
If your system has been infected by virus you may see some of these symptoms.
- Your system might be too slow. You can realize this easily.
- Some error messages occur frequently or your system might restart automatically
- Some programs may hang when opened.
These are some of the things you will notice. If you notice these it doesn’t always mean that your system is infected.
So I will discuss how to cleanup your system. This is a general cleanup method, you can do it once in a week or month.
Tools:
Free Security Tools
Nov 8th
Today i will share with you a list of free security tools i am aware of. There are many, but i like these tools very much since they do a good job, for free.
Anti-Virus:
Avira Antivir:
I simply love this free edition of Avira, also it has realtime protection. I am using this for a long time and very happy with it.
Other free anti virus software which i haven’t used but worth mentioning.
Avast!
AVG Anti-Virus
PC tools free AV
http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/
Kaspersky AVP Tool
This is a fantastic tool from kaspersky. It has no realtime scanner, only on demand scanner. But still it is fantastic product.
http://avptool.virusinfo.info/en/
a-squared
My friends used to give very good comments about this. I haven’t used this, Just give it a try.
Analyzing BSOD – Part Two
Sep 25th
In this tutorial let us learn how to debug memory dump files and find a possible reason for the blue screen. In the previous tutorial i have mentioned how to disable automatic system restart. Sometimes, the file caused the stop error might not be displayed on the blue screen. In that case, this tutorial might be very useful.
About Memory dump files:
There are different types of dumps. To keep things simple, first we will start with “minidump”. This is a small dump file created at the system crash. The size of this file will be around 100 KB. These files have .dmp extension and saved in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\ [if C is your system drive]. The name of the file will look something like this
Mini122408-01.dmp
Analyzing BSOD – Part one
Sep 25th
Have you ever got a blue screen in midst of your work saying that your computer has been shutdown to prevent damage etc.,