Archive for December, 2007

AVG Anti-Virus Pro free for a year

Computer Active is giving away AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional for a year. The reason AVG is letting them do that is probably to get more people to try the Pro version and hope they will pay at the end of a year.
Here is a link to the download which is valid till Jan 17th 2008
ftp://AVG:av75@ftp.vnudownloads.org/avg7_503a1171_vnu.exe
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Internet connection problems?

You can release the DNS and renew to solve most issues. An easy way to do it is to create a batch file. Open Notepad and type the following:
@echo off
echo Easy Internet Refresh by Krishna C. Mandava
pause
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
START http://www.google.com
Now save the file with .bat as the extension. You can always edit it by [...]

Vista Service Pack 1

If you are using Windows Vista, then watch out for the Service Pack 1 release this week. Don’t forget to upgrade….

Annoying ads?

Annoying ads? Just block them with Adblock Plus, an addon for Mozilla Firefox. Visit this page to download and install the addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

You can manually block images and ads by right-clicking on the target banner and selecting ‘Adblock Image’. You can block annoying ads automatically by subscribing to one of the autoblock lists available for [...]

Spyware and Malware problems?

Here are some useful tools to use if you are having spyware or malware problems. ‘How do I know if I have something on my computer’? Well, there is no real sure shot way of knowing that but your computer normally shows some kind of symptoms when it is infected. Your computer might slow [...]