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We all know the infamous e-mail spam three step: A spammer obtains your e-mail address. The spammer begins to inundate you with e-mail spam. You receive the e-mail spam and get rid of it. It’s common knowledge that the easiest way for spammers to obtain e-mail addresses is to purchase them from Web sites that require e-mail addresses for some reason or another. A typical example would be where an e-mail address is exchanged for desired information being advertised by…

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A new IE7 exploit is now making the rounds. It has already been incorporated in toolkits that install information-stealing trojans. Read on to learn more. A new zero-day Internet Explorer 7 exploit is now out in the wild. It’s a drive-by dropper that resides on malicious Web sites. Brian Krebs, the tireless security watchdog for the Washington Post, points out all the details in his blog “Microsoft Investigating Reports of New IE7 Exploit.” iDefense, a Virginia-based security firm, made mention…

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If you use the Microsoft Windows XP’s Hibernation feature on your laptop or desktop to put your system to sleep at the end of the day rather than turning it off, you can schedule your system to “wake up” in the morning. Using the Scheduled Task Wizard, your machine will be ready and waiting for you just as if you left it on all night.Here’s how to set up this schedule: 1.     Go to Start | All Programs | Accessories…

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Microsoft will be releasing the next version of IE soon, but you might want to hold off. If your organization relies on Web-based applications, you should make sure everything works with the new software before your clients upgrade. A lot of the industry talk speaks highly of Microsoft’s next version of Internet Explorer. There are several new features, including private browsing, advanced screening of malicious web sites and downloads, and a compatibility tool that allows the software to correctly render…

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If you are not able to remove or uninstall an application in Windows XP using either the Uninstall option or the Add/Remove Programs tool, you could try using the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility. As long as you installed the application using the Windows Installer, this utility will remove all the folders, files, registry keys, and entries from your system and allow you to start over with a clean slate. Here’s how: Download the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility from…

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The Fonts folder, located in the Control Panel, provides a number of features you can use to keep track of the fonts installed on your Windows XP system. For example, on the View menu, you’ll find the List Fonts By Similarity command, which gives you a unique way to organize your fonts, and the Hide Variations command, which makes it easier to quickly discern available fonts by showing only one font from each family. f you want to add more…

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Copy desktop themes to other Windows XP computers. f you have created a favorite desktop theme and you work on more than one Microsoft Windows XP computer, you may have considered recreating that theme on your other computers. However, manually recreating the desktop theme can be a tricky and time-consuming operation. Here’s how you can easily copy your favorite desktop theme from one Windows XP computer to another. Steps On the computer containing your favorite desktop theme, right-click the desktop…

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Windows XP’s Backup utility does not allow you to directly select any type of recordable optical media (i.e., CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW) as a backup destination — even though you can copy files to recordable optical media from within Windows Explorer. However, there is a workaround that will allow you to indirectly make the Backup utility use recordable optical media as a backup destination. How it works In this workaround, you direct the Backup utility to save the backup…

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1: Speed up Firefox This hack requires a few steps. Search for pipelining in the filter and you should see: network.http.pipelining: Change this to true. network.http.proxy.pipelining: Change this to true. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: Change this to 8. Now search for max-connections and you should see: network.http.max-connections: Change this to 96. network.http.max-connections-per-server: Change this to 32. 2: Disable antivirus scanning This is only for the Windows version. If you’re downloading large files, this scanning can seriously slow things down. And since you will…

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Ability to hibernate is enabled by default on every Windows Vista installation. If you have disable and turn off hibernation feature, accidentally delete hiberfil.sys using Hibernation File Cleaner of Disk Cleanup tool, or you just simply cannot and unable to find the Hibernate button to put the computer into hibernation state, you can re-enable or try to enable and turn on the hibernation functionality in Vista again with the following command. In Windows Vista, users no longer able to enable…

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