There are usually a lot of things that don’t need to be running or active if the system is idle. This may include the computer monitor, music playing in the background or certain windows or processes that do not need to be open in idle state. System Silencer is a versatile highly configurable program to [...]
PCMan File Manager: Another light weight file manager
In the seemingly never-ending quest to find the perfect, light weight graphical file manager, I have gone through just about every one I can find. So far my favorite has been Thunar (see Thunar content on Ghacks for more information) which comes standard with a few distributions. PCMan File Manger can be found in the [...]
How To Detect A 64-bit Alureon Rootkit Infection
Alureon, or TDL, TLD3 and Tidserv, is the first rootkit that can infect 64-bit Windows PCs. Before that, only 32-bit systems were affected by rootkits, and many Windows users realized that in February, when Microsoft patch MS10-015 caused infected machines to display a blue screen. It obviously was not Microsoft’s fault back then, which was [...]