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Malware Removal guide for Windows

Published: January 2, 2011 Reading time: 2 min

If after following this guide you failed disinfecting your computer, or you cannot follow this guide yourself, I will be available to help you. The most important thing in fighting malwares is: Do NOT Panic. Do NOT Hurry. Do NOT ignore any step in removal guide unless I tell you. This manual for removing malwares can be used for either minor or major malware infection. Download and Burn Avira Rescue System to a blank Disc, Boot your computer using that and let it scan and remove malwares detected. Restart your computer into safe-mode with networking. (How to use Safe Mode?) Clean temporary files using TFC. [Let it reboot your computer, come back to Safe Mode With Networking] Download HitmanPro to your desktop, run it in force breach mode and click next to scan your computer, let it remove the malwares it find, if it ask you for license active the 30 Days trial version. after removal, restart your computer. [Try it in Safe Mode With Networking] Download, install and update Malwarebytes Antimalware, let it scan your computer and remove everything it find [Try in Safe Mode With Networking]. Download and run avast! Browser Cleanup to cleanup and reset your browsers. Download and install HostsMan. after install run it, click on “update Hosts”, choose “MVPS Hosts” (and you may choose “Peter Lowe’s AdServers List” for blocking Ads) and in below options choose “Overwrite Current” hosts. this step would immunize your Hosts File and would prevent any internet traffic to malware sites/domains and also would fix Windows Hosts File if it has been HiJacked by malwares. Disable System Restore and then re-enable it again. If you have windows installation disc, insert it into drive, open Run command from start menu (In windows vista/7, open start menu and type ‘Run’ and then press enter) and type ‘sfc /scannow’. this will check windows for mission or corrupted files and will restore them from disc. sometimes during getting infection or malware removal some files might get corrupted or being deleted which this action will solve it. Make sure your windows and all installed programs are fully updated and there are no insecure program: Check for Update. also you may do some additional scans too, here is some of them: ...

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Happy New Year!

Published: December 31, 2010 Reading time: 1 min

Hello ‘Omid’s Blog!’ readers! I wish you all a year full of fun, happiness and health in the 2011, hope all your dreams come true in the new year. Best Wishes -Omid

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Christmas Day : Facebook beats Google, most visited site in UK

Published: December 27, 2010 Reading time: 1 min

For the first time ever since the evolution of the Internet, if you went that far!, Facebook received more web visits than Google UK site, on a single day… Christmas Day. Google’s traffic share is constantly between 8-10% in U.K., while Facebook’s is well between 8-6%. Facebook accounted for 10.50% of the internet traffic in the U.K. on December 25th, marginally surpassing Google (9.77%). So, why was Facebook your favorite website on that day? You tell us! ...

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Red Hat Near Key Support Area

Published: December 27, 2010 Reading time: 1 min

New York, December 27th (TradersHuddle.com) – Shares of Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) are trading very close to calculated support at $45.27 with current price action closing at just $46.51 places the stock price near levels where traders will start paying attention. Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) develops and provides open source software and services, including the Red Hat Linux operating system. Red Hat’s current stock range is defined by current calculated support defined at $45.27 and by the resistance level at $48.78, which should be used by traders planning their trades. ...

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Facebook’s value surpasses Yahoo, eBay

Published: December 27, 2010 Reading time: 2 min

A new study from New York securities firm NYPPEX estimates Facebook’s enterprise value is now much higher than Yahoo and EBay, at $41.2 billion and significantly higher than other fast growing startups like LinkedIn, Twitter, Zynga, and Groupon. Facebook’s value has shot up 56 percent since the middle of 2010. None of the startups mentioned above have gone public but many let their employees sell shares in private markets as an incentive for their valued staff members. The private markets let investors buy a piece of a company early on but it is difficult to determine what the price of a share should be. ...

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Google may have told Logitech to stop the Revue

Published: December 27, 2010 Reading time: 1 min

Google really isn’t happy with its TV operating system. In addition to telling companies not to mention their Google TV products at CES next month, now it looks like the search company is actively stopping production on a device that’s already been released. According to a report on Digitimes.com, Logitech has ordered a suspension of all Logitech Revue components from its supplier, Gigabyte Technology. The Revue is Logitech’s set-top box that turns any TV into a Google TV. ...

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CIA launches W.T.F. (WikiLeaks Task Force)

Published: December 23, 2010 Reading time: 4 min

Washington Post: The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA headquarters, it’s mainly known by its all-too-apt acronym: W.T.F. The irreverence is perhaps understandable for an agency that has been relatively unscathed by WikiLeaks. Only a handful of CIA files have surfaced on the WikiLeaks Web site, and records from other agencies posted online reveal remarkably little about CIA employees or operations. ...

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Issues with the recent update for Outlook 2007

Published: December 21, 2010 Reading time: 3 min

MSDN Blog: On Tuesday, December 14, we released an update (KB2412171) for Microsoft Outlook 2007. We have discovered several issues with the update and want to inform you about problems you might encounter and what corrective steps we recommend. As of December 16, this Outlook 2007 update has been removed from Microsoft Update. This Outlook 2007 update was distributed via Microsoft Update. Many of you receive updates automatically and if you installed the update between Tuesday, December 14, and Thursday, December 16, it is likely that you are affected. ...

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Your own email @facebook.com? Beware Facebook survey scam

Published: December 20, 2010 Reading time: 1 min

Thousands of Facebook users have been hit by a scam which claims to give them early access to a facebook.com email address. Messages, appearing in the news feed of users who have fallen for the scam, read: Just got my own email @facebook.com! Quickly get one before someone takes your name [LINK] However, clicking on the links leads you to a webpage which tricks you into giving a third party application permission to post to your Facebook wall. ...

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New hacked site notifications in search results

Published: December 20, 2010 Reading time: 2 min

Today we’ve added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We’ve provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page. Now we’re expanding the search results notifications to help people avoid sites that may have been compromised and altered by a third party, typically for spam. When a user visits a site, we want her to be confident the information on that site comes from the original publisher. Here’s what the notification looks like: ...

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