In your first run of skype you may get a little puzzled when you see the following in the top of skype window: The message is: "BtvStack.exe wants to use skype" If you see this - there is nothing to worry. It is actually the bluetooth driver in your computer which is trying to access…
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Firewall + Bandwidth monitoring software : Sygate Personal Firewall
I was planning for this post for a long time. I am a big fan of the software named: Sygate Personal Firewall. It gives a powerful and easy to use firewall along with a bandwidth meter to monitor the upload and download speed. You can view 4 types of logs - Traffic, security, packet and…
Continue readingW32/Mysamurai worm, Scary background in the Windows folder
I recently suffered by a worm named W32/Mysamurai. It changed the background of the C:\WINDOWS folder with a scary photo. My pc was dead slow and I was looking for the solution. Atlast the Norton Security Scan in my PC could detect it. There was a file named windxp.ini in the C:\WINDOWS\System32 folder which was…
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