Microsoft kills a fake antivirus tool from 994,061 computers!

By Paul | Nov 25, 2008

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According to Arstechnica and I’ll quote:

Win32/FakeSecSen has gone by various names, including Micro Antivirus 2009, MS Antivirus, Spyware Preventer, Vista Antivirus 2008, Advanced Antivirus, System Antivirus 2008, Ultimate Antivirus 2008, Windows Antivirus, XPert Antivirus, Power Antivirus, and Ultra Antivirus 2009. Furthermore, it is skinnable, so each of these variants has a different GUI, although the basic functionality is the same: bother users with warnings of malware until they pay up.

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently released some data on how the removal tool performed this month: FakeSecSen was removed from 994,061 machines. That number isn’t the highest Microsoft has recorded before, and the number of removals depends on which malware Microsoft adds each month and how widespread it is.

[via Arstechnica]

This seemed to of happened this month with the usual Windows update. If you haven’t updated your system just yet you should. This troublesome fake virus seems to have been killed from several systems. This could effectively make it harder for these guys who ever designed this program to make money. I hope microsoft does even more virus removals in next month. If you still want to try to get rid of these viruses don’t forget to check out my tips on Virus removal.

Google SearchWiki dies after two days!!

By Paul | Nov 22, 2008

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According to Techcrunch Google Pulls the Google SearchWiki. Unsure as to way but here’s what they said:

Users are reporting that the recent changes to Google’s search engine, called SearchWiki, have simply disappeared from the site. It’s certainly gone from my account.

User reactions were mixed but weighted heavily towards “this is lame,” and there was no way to turn off the features other than to conduct Google searches without being logged in. Another way to turn it off was to switch search engines.

[via TechCrunch]

I’ve got my theory on this, and it’s quite a good theory. I think it was a making search results come up wrong or not at all. The last two days they’ve had that going my page views have drop BIG time. According to my Stats I’ve had 236 Unique Visits for Thursday, and 232 Wednesday. My Friday stats show that I only got 185 Unique Visits, dropping 40 to 50 people. My stats for today which is incomplete shows that I’ve only gotten 136 unique visits. Although that is complete you can see where I dropped drastically. I think Google was getting yelled at by websites due to the stats dropping. I am guessing people could tell if they wanted to go to a site just by reading the comments. This will hurt every site, including TechCrunch. I will say this is only a theory and this might or might not be the case.

Google Creates the ultimate Search Wiki!!

By Paul | Nov 21, 2008

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Google has started to do let people rate the searches and help find the better articles. Google is calling it Searchwiki. Here is a screen shot:

You can now help judge and rate search results. You can also X out the ones that are not right. I am going to play around with this even more. It started out on Google Trends and Now people are all wanting to know more about this. This could help my site even more. I want to know what others are thinking about this? Is this Good or can this be good for the spammers? You decide.

Some other Websites talking about this are:

These are just a few but I wanted to let you see what other websites are talking about this new feature. I do want to hear what you think about all this and what is likely to come later on?

Alien Ware Extreme Gaming Notebook M17 17 Inch

By Paul | Nov 3, 2008

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Looks like they are out of stock on this Laptop but they do have Alienware M17x-2857DSB 17-Inch Laptop (Black) which looks to be an upgraded version of this one!!!

Windows Vista® Home Premium (32- and 64-bit)(default)
Windows Vista® Ultimate (32- and 64-bit)
Intel® Core™2 Duo Or Quad and Extreme Processors (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
Intel® PM45 + ICH9M-E Chipset up to 4 GB
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 (Also Comes with CrossfireX Enabled)
Dual Harddrive In Raid 0 Config or you can have a single hard drive
1. 5400 RPM – Up to 1TB (2 x 500GB)
1. 7200 RPM – Up to 640GB (2 x 320GB)

So I saw this and had to tell people this is a sweet laptop for people who like to go and play games in a large group. You would be able to play for hours on end, all you would need is an power cord. I would love one of these to try out. If you want to go check it out or buy it. Here’s the Alienware M17x-2857DSB 17-Inch Laptop (Black).

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Toshiba Rolls out the Mobile Gaming Laptop!

By Paul | Oct 25, 2008

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o Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate (SP1, 64-bit7 version) (default)
o Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version)
* Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor1 QX9300* 4096MB PC38500 DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM3
* 128GB Serial ATA SSD3
* 320GB (7200 RPM) Serial ATA HDD3
* DVD SuperMulti (+/- double layer) with Labelflash drive
* NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics with NVIDIA SLI technology 512MBx2, GDDR3 discrete graphics memory
* Atheros 802.11 b/g/n wireless-LAN

This looking so sweet, to get the full picture check out the Toshiba Gaming website : Qosmio: X305 Let me know if anyone wants to buy me one!! I wouldn’t mind one these myself!!

Turn Aero OFF at will!!

By Paul | Jul 30, 2008

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A site talk about this really cool Regedit. To Do this you will need to do some things. Check out the full article at PC Heaven for the Reg Hack. I did the hack and it worked. I know have a way to turn off and on Aero when I’m on the road. I don’t have to worry about battery life for my Vista laptop. This should increase my battery life and extend my time on the system without slowing me down!!