Monthly Archives: December 2007

AVG Anti-Virus Pro free for a year

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 27, 2007
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 [...]
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Internet connection problems?

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 18, 2007
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:
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Vista Service Pack 1

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 9, 2007
If you are using Windows Vista, then watch out for the Service Pack 1 release this week. Don’t forget to upgrade….
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Annoying ads?

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 9, 2007
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
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Spyware and Malware problems?

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 5, 2007
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 down, [...]
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