Posted by: Manish in Blogging Tips & Advices, Computers & Laptops, General, Local News, Tips Tweaks & Tricks, tags: antivirus, Download Stinger Conficker Removal Tool, Downup Virus, Remove Conficker Virus, Remove W32.Downadup, W32.Kido Virus
Welcome back! Conficker, also known as Downup or Downadup, is a new, incredibly sophisticated worm that came into existence on around October 2008, which has already infected millions of PCs around the world till this date.
Trust me, W32/Conficker is something you must be very alarmed about because this worm is a resilient virus with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology capable of completely killing your Windows Security System, and guess what - this virus is due to be activated on April 1!
The programmer of this virus has repeatedly been updating its software and computer experts don’t have a single clue what the creator is going to execute with this virus on April 1; the virus is scheduled to contact a server for instructions exactly on April 1. Is Conficker an April Fool’s joke or an unthikable cyberworld disaster, no one knows for certain as of yet. Even computer experts around the world are finding it completely impossible to destroy it.
With an innovative built-in p2p capabilities, this worm can force its way to shared folders, printers, office network, USB flash, and hard drives pretty quickly, and can completely destroy your security software, disable windows update, Windows Defender, Windows Error Reporting tool, etc., leaving your computer open to any attacks. Plus this worm uses a sophesticated RPC request and can execute codes on the targeted computer. Spooky, isn’t it?
Speculation about Conficker’s purpose ranges from the benign — an April Fool’s Day prank — to far darker notions. One likely possibility is that the program will be used in the “rent-a-computer-crook” business.
- New York Times
If you feel your computer is infected with this deadly virus, here’s what you can do to (hopefully) remove W32/Conflicker worm from your PC.
Steps of Removing W32/Conficker using Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool:
- Disconnect from the Internet
- Run the program to try and remove the Conficker worm
Steps of Removing W32/Conficker using Symantec Virus Removal Tool:
- Disable System Restore and disconnect from the internet
- Run the tool to scan for Conficker worm
- Restart your computer and re-scan again to confirm there is no worm
I am not sure that these security tools can completely remove W32.Conficker from an infected system, but it surely is worth a try, so go for it.
UPDATE: March 28, 2009
Here is another W32.Conficker removal tool released just recently by McAfee, named as Stinger, which can remove 11 trojans including Conficker safely. Download McAfee’s Conficker Removal Tool.
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Did you ever wonder if a picture that you encountered is an original picture or an edited version? Well, there are a lot of photos out there, which are an edited version, yet claimed as original photos. If you really want to identify if a photo is an original or a modified version, here is a software utility, JPEGsnoop, that can help you analyze whether the image is an original image or the one that has been modified before.
Whether you know or not, each digital photo contains various inner details of the photo and JPEGsnoop is one powerful software utility which can decode such hidden information which helps to differentiate between the original versus edited photos. Here is an example of the JPEGsnoop result analysis.
If the signature matches a camera model, the image is most likely original but if it matches Photoshop, then you’ll know instantly that the image has been edited.
JPEGsnoop version 1.3 is a freeware which can decode such signatures from various images files and even video files such as .AVI, .MOV, etc. So if you do want to identify those fake images claimed as original, start downloading JPEGsnoop now and know it for yourself!
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On my previous post, I had described to you briefly about how to select web hosting programs that perfectly caters to your specific needs and demands. Today, as I was doing some more extensive research on web hosting programs and web hosting companies, I landed on this site, “My Best Rated Web Hosting,” which I’m sure will be very useful to you too!
Whether you are searching for a dedicated server host or a reseller hosting, blog hosting or forum hosting, e-commerce web hosting or business web hosting, this site provides comprehensive web hosting reviews and comparison on all, along with their advantages and disadvantages!
“My Best Rated Web Hosting” has narrowed its search for web hosting providers on various categories such as:
- Top 3 Dedicated Server Hosting
- Top 5 Small Business Hosting
- Top 5 High Bandwidth Hosting, and many more!
So if you’re a first-timer, looking for that “perfect web hosting” to start your own new site, you may want to check this cool web hosting review site. Remember, every information you collect about web hosting is another step towards your perfect web hosting. So do research, research, and more research till you are fully satisfied, if you don’t want to end up completely messed up with a bad web hosting provider. 
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Do you want to start a new site of your own? Interested in blogging on a self-hosted domain? If you’re looking to start your own named domain, I’m sure you’ll have a lot of things going on in your mind such as which web hosting company is good, which one to go for - cheap hosting or reliable hosting, etc. just like I was when I started this blog, Enfotainer.
There are a lot of web hosting companies that claims to provide a perfect web hosting solutions at an affordable cost. And if you are one of those first timers looking forward to host a site, then things can certainly become a bit more confusing for you.
I’ve undergone the same process where things became really confusing as all companies that I try to get web hosting services from equally claimed to provide a reliable web hosting services with 99% uptime, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited web space, at a dirt cheap price, etc. etc.
So how do you decide which web hosting company you should go for that can perfectly cater to your needs and also your budget? I’ve just came across a fantastic site with which you can definitely find a best web hosting program that perfects suits your needs. Web Hosting Choice is a fantastic site dedicated to help users choose the right web host for their personal or business purpose.
With Web Hosting Choice, you can not only find the top 10 web hosting providers based on many variables such as customer satisfaction, affordability, reliability and dependability, site uptime and downtime, and technical support, etc., but also get valuable information on which web hosting program may perfectly suit your needs and also your budget! If you are going to run a blog site like mine, why would you purchase a hosting plan that is a perfect hosting program for a forum hosting? You see my point?
If you are first-timers to start your own new site, I suggest the following:
- Do an extensive extensive research on various web hosting companies. You may want to visit sites like Web Hosting Choice for such research.
- Narrow your search, seek advice from those using the exact web hosting plans.
- Visit various web hosting directories and find out more about a specific web hosting company in terms of customer satisfaction, reliability, affordability, site uptime, and also technical assistance.
Remember, you need to select your web hosting company very carefully because once you select it, it will be kind of troublesome to switch to another web hosting company.
Anyway, good luck on your search for a perfect web hosting program. Do contact me if you have any confusions. I’ll do my best to sort things out for you!
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 AVG Anti-Virus is one of the best free anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for your windows which I have been using for a long time. Now, AVG Anti-Virus has just released a newer version of the software, AVG Anti-Virus 8.5.
In this new version, a new security feature called LinkScanner Active Surf-Shield has been added in addition to the previous features, which can check web pages for threats when you’re about to click that link!
Here are the key features of this free antivirus and antispyware protector:
- Updated Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware protection against viruses, spyware, adware and trojans
- *New* LinkScanner Active Surf-Shield that protects in real time against poisoned web pages while you’re surfing
- LinkScanner Search Shield for real-time safety ratings for all search results in Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live search
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is however only available for single computer use for home and non commercial use and not for business/server protection use.
AVG Anti-Virus 8.5 can be downloaded for free for Windows XP, Vista and also 7.
Download AVG Anti-Virus 8.5 Free Edition
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I’m always up searching for cool software, and last night I came across this browser called Wyzo, a browser that gives you all-in-one media experience. Wyzo focuses on optimizing your online media experience by giving you very easy access to your favorite media sites with this innovative native torrent support.
Previously, if you ever needed to download a torrent file, you needed to have a BitTorrent client, right? But not anymore as this awesome new browser will get you any torrent files with just a single click! Pretty cool, isn’t it?
With Wyzo, downloading your favorite media contents from your favorite media sites is more easy and cool! You can always customize your start page with Wyzo, where you just need to select your category (such as web, torrents, images, video, news, blogs, etc.) and it brings to you the most popular searches of all.
You can expect this brower to be just as reilable as Firefox as this browser is built on top of it. However, only Windows and Mac versions are available, though the Wyzo team will release a Linux version sooner.
So if you are one of those who likes to try new things, give Wyzo browser a shot for an all-in-one media experience: you won’t be disappointed!
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