One of the most notorious rootkit families on today’s Internet is the TDSS Rootkit family which is known as Rootkit.Win32.TDSS, Tidserv, TDSServ or Alureon. The rootkit began to spread in 2008 and is one of the causes for unauthorized Google Redirects that users experience when the rootkit is active on their PC system. One of [...]
Rainmeter 2 Brings Unified Installer, New Plugins
The popular desktop customization suite Rainmeter has been updated by its developers to version 2.0 The new version is fully backwards compatible to existing Rainmeter 1.3 or 1.4 installations and can be installed over the top of those versions. One of the biggest changes in Rainmeter 2.0 is the new unified installer which combines 32-bit, [...]
Samsung SSD Magician Tool
Solid State Drives (SSD) are faster, silent, more expensive and sometimes more complicated to maintain than conventional platter based hard drives. Especially the maintenance of the drive is a factor that may keep users away from purchasing a drive, or frustrated if they find out that their SSD does not support TRIM or garbage collection. [...]
How To Enable IPv6 On Windows XP
Most ISPs are in the process of enabling the IPv6 protocol which is then available for usage in addition to the currently used IPv4 protocol. Windows Vista and Windows 7 users do not need to enable or configure their operating system for IPv6 usage as it is enabled by default. The situation is different for [...]
Ghacks January 2011 Best Of
A friend of mine recently asked me if I could write a best of post at the beginning of every month. He mainly asked that because he did not have time to check my website every day which could mean that he missed interesting articles. I’m interested in your opinion as well. A total of [...]
Angry Birds… The Movie
I’ll come clean and say that I’ve still not been drawn into the whole Angry Birds phenomenon, but that’s not to say I haven’t heard about it. It’s very difficult not to have heard about Angry Birds after all! Movie studio 20th Century Fox are counting on this as it’s now been announced that the [...]
Windows Package Manager Npackd
It feels strange that Microsoft never managed to integrate a package manager into the Windows operating system. Npackd is a free Windows package manager that aids the user in discovering, installing, updating and uninstalling applications. Npackd, which is pronounced unpacked, queries a server on the Internet on startup to retrieve the latest application database. It [...]
Record from your web cam in Linux with GUVCView
Recently I have had to do some video tutorials. I tried recording these tutorials with Ubuntu’s default Cheese Webcam Booth, but unfortunately the combination of my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, Ubuntu 10.10, and Cheese didn’t want to record video in any usable FPS. So I had to look elsewhere. My search turned me to GUVCView [...]
DownThemAll, Built-In Firefox Download Manager
Download managers are handy programs to manage downloads more efficiently. They usually offer features that web browsers don’t, for instance resuming downloads, speeding them up by separating files into segments that are downloaded simultaneously or options to queue downloads. DownThemAll is a built-in Firefox download manager that comes with all the bells and whistles one [...]