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Did your computer registry configuration messed up after infected by virus? Can’t open the regedit? Can’t show hidden files? Can’t remove the virus with antivirus? Then this should help you.

Most virus has almost the same way to protect itself being removed from computer including:

• Disabling Task Manager - you can’t open the regular task manager because this virus
• Disabling Registry Editor - you can’t open the regedit so you can’t restore your windows settings
• Creates a startup entry to start upon system start - this make sure, everytime your computer boot up, the virus loaded
• Creates its own exe files in Shared Documents folder which appear like ordinary folders - this action make the virus spread itself to another computers
• Disables Folder Options - you can’t show hidden files
• Uses your 50% or more processor - everytime your computer boot up, it is getting worse. Ouch!

Some anti-virus programs are able to scan opened files in addition to sent and received e-mails ‘on the fly’ in a similar manner. This practice is known as “on-access scanning.”

Anti-virus software does not change the underlying capability of host software to transmit viruses. Users must update their software regularly to patch security holes. Anti-virus software also needs to be regularly updated in order to prevent the latest threats.

But how if you already infected?

That must be pain in the ass. Not everyone has that updated expensive antivirus. There is a free virus remover named Killer Machine which has a big size and PCMAV Virus Cleaner 1.8

Or… IF you are not satisfied with that, fortunately, there is a tool called Smart Virus Remover that can help us KICK this kind of virus and restore our settings.

This application size is 557.4Kb, small and fast.

Download Smart Virus Remover

Can’t wait to download smart virus remover? Click here to download.

Can you really restore your settings with this tool?

These virus remover are what make up my own toolbox, but why stop there? Perhaps you use an alternate antivirus or remover to get a chore done versus the one I suggested. This is your chance to tell me which virus remover you use to make your computer healthy. Based on your responses, there may be a follow up post filled with reader suggestions.

Tags: antivirus, Computer virus, Computers, Malicious Software, Security, Task manager, Windows, Windows Registry

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This post will be quick and dirt. This post list how to shut down windows quickly. So if you had your computer hanged, you can use this trick.

In the previous post I wrote about hide system tray in XP and another one is about video converter. Check that out if you are interested.

Ok back to the topic, here is how to force windows to shut down:

1. Press windows + R [ or start > Run ]
2. Type : shutdown -s -f -t 2
3. Enter.

That’s easy. Your windows will be shut down.

Do you love this tip? You will like these links:

• Restore Windows Taskbar Auto-hide
• How to Hide System Tray in XP
• Video: Tweak your Vista appearance
• TrayEverything Puts Everything in the System Tray

Ok, since you’re here I’d like to ask you to join our newsletter below to get our latest tips.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Taskbar, taskbar reset, Utilities, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP

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We hate virus, don’t we? Now since many viruses come, we need a guardian to protect our computer. Not just antivirus like karpersky, Norton, etc. We need a cleaner! yes a cleaner like killer machine which we discussed earlier on itgossips.

Cleaner is an antivirus, a cool one, we can run it without install. And the best thing is most cleaner is free and lightweight. This post will talk about PCMAV antivirus which already come with 1.8 in version.

The PCMAV virus cleaner is built by PCMedia Magazine. Glad I have the download link here. If you want to download this file, click here to download.

Now since you already download it, you will need to install/extract it. I believe most of you will feel familiar with its interface. It’s clean and handy.

If you have an experience with this antivirus, please let meknow. Comment below.

Do you like this post? I believe you will like these:

• I’m A PC, and Apparently I Need Lots of Antivirus Software
• Next up, Kaspersky will work on antidivorce software [Jackpot]
• Antivirus products still fail on fresh viruses
• How Can I Find Out If a File Really Has a Virus? [Ask Lifehacker]

Tags: antivirus, Computer virus, Malicious Software, Malware, Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security, Security, spam, Spyware, Technology, Viruses, Windows

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System Tray - the icons which appears on right side of start bar - is an application that sometimes annoying. If we want to hide this icons, this post will cover how to hide system tray in your windows (XP).

In the previous post we discuss about ccleaner to clean up and speed up our PC and laptop. That tutorial is - like its title - to speed up our PC and laptop. However, this post will give a hint how to hide your system tray.

here is step by step how to do that:

1. Right click the start button.
2. Click properties.
3. Click task bar tab
4. Click customize
5. Click hide/unhide icons

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Voila! now your unwanted system tray is gone. Hope you like this tutorial. If you like this post, you may comment below to add you ideas how to tweak your operating system

When writing this post, I found these posts by other blogger. You should check ‘em out

• Save time by customizing Windows’ taskbar
• TrayEverything Puts Everything in the System Tray
• Faqs! Facts! Fax! Back up choices
• Restore Windows Taskbar Auto-hide

Tags: Click, Microsoft Windows, Start menu, Taskbar, taskbar reset, Utilities, Windows, Windows XP

Sniffing packet data is fun. We can sniff TCP-IP Packet with SmartSniff. The fun is, we can save TCP-IP Stream in HTML, txt or Word file so we can analyze it.

Available in Windows for free.
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Tags: SmartSniff, Sniffing, sniffing ym using wireshark, Software, Windows

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Transtool is the major Indonesian – English Translator. You can translate much word in one step. Just copy and paste the text and you will get the translated one. It’s very easy to use

To open the file, you will need WinZip to open the .zip file, or WinRar to open the .rar file. And then you can install it to your windows. Please repot if there is broken link.
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Tags: Compression, Computer file, Data compression, RAR, Windows, WinRar, WinZip, Zip