Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Removing MS32DLL.dll Virus

"I can’t delete MS32DLL.dll.vbs it says u cant delete it and I have closed all applications but it’s not working"

MS32DLL.dll is marked as a trojan virus which comes from a virus script file with an extension .vbs, these sort of files can atomically run themselves and spread normally through pen drives, flash drives or a flash card, when this virus infects a computer it automatically clones itself through portable USB devices.

There is another Virus called Hacked By Godzilla virus which carries the same file and adds Hacked By Godzilla text in Internet Explorer Title Bar. MS32DLL.dll runs a small process wscript.exe which you need to terminate to remove MS32DLL.dll virus.

Let’s see how can we remove the virus related to MS32DLL.dll

Fix:

In order to remove the MS32DLL.dll virus follow the procedure given below, the whole process of removing the virus will involve

Ending the MS32DLL.dll Virus Process

1. Press CTRL, ALT and DELETE Key together, this will open up task manager

2. Click the process tab and locate the process called wscript.exe

3. Press Delete Key after selecting the process or Right Click and Select End Process

n order to delete the virus you will need to first show the hidden files and folders

1. Open My Computer, Go to File Menu >> Tools >> Folder Options ,

2. Locate Hidden Files and Folders and check Show Hidden Files and Folders, and press OK

3. Search for the MS32DLL.dll.vbs on your computer and delete the files where ever found.

Removing The Registry Entry Created By MS32DLL.dll Virus

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, and type regedit and press Enter Key

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –> Run

if you see any key for MS32DLL.dll virus, delete the key

3. Now Navigate to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Internet Explorer –> Main

If you see Window Title Key with Value Hacked By Godzilla virus,delete the entry

4. Exit Registry and Restart your computer

If you have followed all the steps listed above to remove MS32DLL.dll virus, when you restart your computer there will no MS32DLL.dll virus left on your computer.


Gmail gets a proper PDF viewer

Gmail's integrated software-free PDF viewer has received a nice upgrade courtesy of Google Docs. Now opening up a PDF in Gmail won't fire up your native PDF viewer (like the slow-to-load Adobe Acrobat), and instead will send you to the document reader built into Google Docs.

There are two other benefits to this, the first being the updated page view which lets you hop around the document a whole lot faster. The other is the built-in zoom, which scales the text to fit your monitor with a higher degree of detail than the text resizer found in your browser.

Gone with the transition is the option to open up PDFs as HTML pages straight from the message, which still remains as a viewing option once you're in the new PDF view and in search results from Google.com. Presumably Google.com results will get the updated viewer next. This would be a huge benefit to Google Search users without access to a PDF viewer (like on public or shared computers) as Google's current HTML conversion wipes out much of the formatting that can keep fonts and image placement intact, which can make things like brochures and newsletters unreadable.

Google wants an internet fast lane


San Francisco - Google has approached major internet service providers in the US with plans for its own fast lane that would send its traffic to users at higher speeds than other internet content, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The proposal would appear to violate the widely accepted principle of net neutrality whereby the operators and owners of the network treat all traffic the same. Large network providers have long lobbied for the ability to charge companies for providing higher speed for their web traffic, but were bitterly opposed by Google and other large web companies like Yahoo and Microsoft.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Refine Google Search

If you consider yourself a Google guru and know every search operator that’s mentioned on Google page, please stop reading.

For everyone else - this dl.tv video podcast with Patrick Norton and Matt Cutts will help you quickly recap some useful tips for searching Google more efficiently. You may know a lot of these Google tricks already but refreshing skills once in a while should be fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfYd15ALsw&eurl=http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/refresh-google-search-skills/5527/&feature=player_embedded

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Useful Firefox Addons

A bare copy of Firefox is a wonderful thing, but when you start stuffing it with add-ons it gets even better. Here's our top 25:

1. All-in-one Sidebar

All-in-one Sidebar makes Firefox's Sidebar more useful by displaying pretty much anything you might want: source code, downloads, add-ons, page info, entire web pages…

2. Stealther

Jealous of Safari's Porn Mode – ahem, Private Browsing? Now you can have it too, with Stealther.

3. Web Developer Toolbar

The name's a clue: the Web Developer Toolbar adds a toolbar containing useful tools for web developers.

4. Instapaper

Install Instapaper's bookmarklet and you can store interesting things to read later. You can view pages without ads or other distractions, and it works on phones as well as PCs.

5. FireFTP

FireFTP is an excellent bit of charityware – it's free, but donations are encouraged. It puts a fully featured FTP program right inside your browser.

6. Greasemonkey

The Swiss Army Knife of the Internet, Greasemonkey enables you to bend sites to your will through the power of JavaScript.

7. Tab Mix Plus

Get complete control over Firefox's tab handling, from the way tabs look to the way they work, with Tab Mix Plus.

8. User Agent Switcher

Browser sniffers stopping you from seeing sites? Pretend you're using a rubbish browser by changing the user agent string with User Agent Switcher.

9. IE View

Sometimes you need to view or test a page in IE. IE View is a Windows-only extension that makes it a one-click job.

10. IE Tab

Does much the same as IE View, but opens IE within a Firefox tab. Once again IE Tab is Windows-only.

11. Sage

Firefox's RSS support is pretty basic. Sage gives you a fully-featured RSS and Atom feed reader that's a joy to use.

12. HideBad

Pretend you're busy working with this excellent boss key. Not only does HideBad replace the current tabs with safe ones, but it zaps your browsing history, too.

13. Download Statusbar

Keep track of and control your file downloads without leaving the main browser window with Download Statusbar.

14. DownThemAll

Download every link or linked image from a web page in one fell swoop, filtering out unwanted file types automatically with DownThemAll.

15. FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes lets you control your music player, or take advantage of Yahoo!'s online MP3 player, while you wander around the Web.

16. Gmail Space

So unofficial that Google will probably kill you if it catches you using it, Gmail Space turns Gmail into an online hard disk.

17. StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is the easy way to discover sites that other people liked.

18. NoScript

Eliminate annoyances and security risks by blocking scripts and other executable content from sites you don't trust with NoScript.

19. BugMeNot

Don't want to register to read an article? BugMeNot gives you other people's logins.

20. Mouse Gestures

A massive time saver, Mouse Gestures enables you to navigate with a quick flick of the mouse.

21. Fast Video Download

Download embedded video clips with Fast Video Download so you can watch them at your leisure.

22. ScribeFire

ScribeFire is a superb in-browser blog editor that works with everything from LiveJournal to WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

23. BetterSearch

BetterSearch adds previews to search results so you don't end up on irrelevant, malicious or obscene websites. Unless that's what you're looking for...

24. FlashBlock

Flash is often used for in-page annoyances, so FlashBlock gets rid of all of it unless you specifically click on a bit of Flash content.

25. Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus eliminates invasive ads and makes some sites look very weird as a result.

When i t comes to browsers, Firefox is always my first & foremost choice..

JPEG or PNG ?

Many people come asking about which format is better while working with images. Its not actual the format that matters but actually the situation and usage of that image.

George adds - "JPEGs are for photographs and realistic images. PNGs are for line art, text-heavy images, and images with few colors. GIFs are just fail."

xkcd uses PNG for their web comics while Hugh MacLeod prefer JPG format for his cartoons.

Want to view Google Office in NY ??

You could take a tour of the Google's Office in New York with the below link...

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392/bctid1915468090.

Software geeks must go through and see how their competitors work profile is..

Google Via SMS

Now you no more require a web-enabled phone for performing your Google search.

Get cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules & ticket status, horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more ...all through SMS on your phone.

Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and we'll send you results back by SMS immediately.

Of course, don't forget to save 9-77-33-00000 to your phonebook for quick and easy access to Google SMS in the future!

For more guidance, you could simply send "help" as SMS to the above number. Really very nice initiative from Google.


Wednesday, November 12, 2008

USB Devices getting Infected with autorun.inf

Autorun.inf flash drives malwares spread these days through various portable USB devices like iPod, pen drives, autorun.inf malwares cause various types of damages like drive does open on double click, double clicking on drive opens search and even restart your computer when you try to open pen drive infected by autorun.inf malware.

Flash Disinfector is another quite effective Flash Malware removing tool created by sUBs, it will target following flash malwares in general.

 W32/Perlovga (copy.exe | host.exe)
VBS_RESULOWS.A (Hacked by Godzilla, Hacked by Moozilla)
Bha.dll.vbs
w32automa worm (Autorun.vbs)
Trojan.Win32.VB.atg | Win32/Dzan | Worm_vb.bnr (tel.xls.exe | mmc.exe)
W32/RJump.worm (RavMonE)
Worm.Win32.Delf.bf | W32.Fujacks (spoclsv.exe)
W32.Fujacks.BH (Fucker.vbs)
WORM_AGENT.PGV (soundmix.exe)
W32/Hakaglan.worm (RVHost.exe)
Trojan.Win32.VB.ayo [AVP] (Macromedia_Setup.exe)
Trojan.VBS.DeltreeY.b#1 (Destrukto!!! | destrukto.vbs)

Usage of FlashDisinfector :

>  Download Flash Disinfector from here

> Double click Flash_Disinfector.exe, follow the prompts

>Your desktop may vanish for a while and then reappear back to normal

> Wait till it finishes the scan, and then exit the program   

 Download Flash Disinfector

Note: Make sure to stop any anti virus, firewall or any script blockers before running Flash Disinfector,  We would suggest to run Flash Disinfector in the safe mode id possible.

Microsoft joined hands with SUN for MSN Toolbar.


The next time you download Java from Sun website, you’ll be offered the MSN toolbar for Internet Explorer as well.

This is part of a new deal between Sun and Microsoft to promote Windows Live Search and other Microsoft products like Hotmail and Live Messenger among Internet users who have Java on their desktops.

An interesting part of the deal is that Microsoft has decided to distribute MSN Toolbar with Java and not the more recent Windows Live Toolbar – I guess this is because MSN Toolbar includes Silverlight and Microsoft is certainly looking for ways to push their "Flash killer" on Windows desktops.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

View Office 2007 formats using Google Services


If you have  a document either .docx or .pptx or .xlsx attached in your Gmail, then you can directly view that using the "View HTML" option provided by GMail.

Also if you are searching for docs in Google Search Engine, and the resultant document is in Office format, even then you can make use of "View HTML"  option as shown:

Track Indian Railway Trains Using GoogleMaps


IndiaRail Info is an interesting Google Maps mashup that helps you visualize the current geographical location of any train in India. Just type train name or train number and check its exact location on the map.



IE to move towards Webkit

Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that."

This is good news for web developers, who’ve long hated Internet Explorer’s total disregard for existing standards, as well as end users, who can now look forward to the next generation of web apps dependent on powerful Javascript engines.

While Microsoft rapidly developed IE up to version six in 2001, new innovation stalled after the apparent death of the rival Netscape browser between 2000 and 2001.

The lull in Microsoft's browser efforts afforded Mozilla the opportunity to release and refine the Netscape code into what became Firefox in 2003. During the same period, KDE shipped the fast and lean KHTML browser engine, a project Apple built upon to create WebKit, the rendering engine behind Safari 1.0, also released in 2003. That web browser renaissance spurred Microsoft to deliver a new version of IE in 2006.

WebKit has subsequently been chosen by a number of developers to serve as the foundation for their web browsers and other web related tools. That includes Nokia's mobile browser, Google's new Chrome, and of course the mobile Safari browser used by Apple's iPhone. 

Embracing WebKit as the basis for new generations of IE would enable Microsoft to benefit from its standards compliance and raw speed, while still enabling the software giant to extend its features with proprietary extensions, just as Apple's Safari browser adds unique features such as bookmark management and syncing, Dashboard Widget clipping, and SnapBack.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Process Manager Vs Task Manager


This piece of software does something which would be liked by most power users who have to hunt for process to kill in the Task manager.If you have Process Manager Installed on your PC,
You can manage your process with very fewer clicks (compare to Task Manager).


Workflow with Task Manager:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del
2. Click Task Manager
3 Select Application
4. Right Click selected Application
5. Click Go to Process
6. Right Click on Process
7. Roll over to the Change Priority
8. Click the Priority


Workflow With Process Manager:
1. Right in the task bar on any application
2. There are two new Option added here "Change Priority" and "Kill" , Click the intended priority or Kill the process.


Overall a very usable software and its available for download from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=220483&package_id=296630&release_id=635830

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Microsoft's Windows Azure


Microsoft has announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet from inside Microsoft's own datacentres. Windows Azure, previously code named "Red Dog," is similar to Amazon's Web Services platform, but Microsoft-centric. The project, called Windows Azure, was unveiled by Microsoft head techie Ray Ozzie during a conference for more than 6,000 Microsoft software developers at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Azure is an ambitious effort to create an operating system that allows for greater flexibility in using Windows—letting companies run some programs on their own computer networks while also commissioning Microsoft to dole out other tasks from its own massive data centers. If successful, Azure could transform Windows from a wasting asset to be defended at all costs into an offensive weapon that gives Microsoft advantages even Google can't match.

"What we announced today was much broader than anything anyone has tried before," says Senior Vice-President Robert Muglia.Indeed, Muglia compared the day's news to the 1992 launch of Microsoft's Windows NT, which enabled Microsoft to go from dominating desktop PCs into the much larger, more lucrative world of back-office corporate computing. That's because Azure could potentially affect the entire Net, from wonky programs used by companies to run their operations to consumer services doled out to teenagers' laptops and cell phones. While Microsoft has rolled out "live" versions of some of its programs in recent years that had Internet-based features, Azure is designed to be a common foundation on which they will all run. Gartner (IT) analyst David Mitchell Smith says "this is much bigger than NT. It's a tremendously broad and ambitious strategy. This is clearly about more than just competing with Amazon."

Download Youtube or Google video

Save2pc is another FREE utility which lets you download youtube videos in the most hassle free way and save the downloaded youtube or google videos as AVI or MPG files.


Save2pc is simple and very easy to use software which grabs the videos and save the desired video in AVI or MPG format, you don’t need any technical knowledge to use it.

With save2pc you don’t need use any web scripts or any online web services as you can do it simply and the easy way through save2pc interface.

Save2pc is completely FREE software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software.

Note: Save2pc will work with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista operating systems.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Microsoft's anti-piracy tactics in China


Chinese internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy genuine software.



The "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, which turns the user's screen black if the installed software fails a validation test, is Microsoft's latest weapon in its war on piracy in China, where the vast majority of 200 million computer users are believed to be using counterfeit software, unwittingly or not.

Netscape Founder,Jim Clark in love with Kristy Hinze

AFTER dating for nearly three years, Kristy Hinze, 28, the host of Project Runway Australia and granddaughter of the late Russ Hinze - Queensland's original minister for everything - is set to walk down the aisle and marry the American billionaire Jim Clark, 64, the internet pioneer who founded Netscape.



Apparently love conquers all, even a 36-year age difference.

Recollect words you forgot

It so happens many times that you well know a word but at that moment you failed to recollect.

In such cases, Tip of my Tongue may prove useful.








The Search Criteria includes many options like :
Starts With Contains Ends With

and also the synonyms of the word. This not only helps in recollecting words we forgot, but we also could you improve our vocabulary with the other matching words given there.

KeyBoard Replacement for Mouse

It’s midnight, you have an important task at hand but the mouse just refuses to work. Either the mouse battery has drained off or the computer is failing to recognize the mouse as the driver got corrupted or some other problem.

Now if you got to find a workaround and there’s no spare mouse in the cupboard, consider using MouseEmu – it emulates mouse movements as well as clicks via the keyboard.







MouseEmu, short for Mouse Emulator, is a free Windows utility (~10kb only) that lets you control the mouse pointer using the keyboard. Simply run the program, and it will show a list of keys that you may press to move the mouse cursor in whatever direction you like.

It maps the Numpad Keys to mouse movements. So 8 is mouse-up, 4 mouse-left, 6 mouse-right and 5 mouse down. Numpad Keys 1,2 and 3 double up as Left-Click, Right-Click and Scroll-Click. Numpad 7 and 9 are used to scroll up and down.

Funny Google Hindi Translation

Google Hindi to English Translation suggests this funny translation of “आप हिन्दी समझते है ?”

Monday, September 8, 2008

THE MYTH OF REFRESHING THE DESKTOP


"Do you refresh your desktop?". Ask this to any Windows user and 99% of them will reply with a "yes". Of course, there are various needs for refreshing the desktop but the majority of people who does it doesn't even know why he is doing it. Refreshing the desktop is perhaps the biggest computer myth among all Windows users.
What does a desktop refresh actually do? Refreshing the desktop simply redraws the icons on the desktop. That's it! It doesn't refreshes the RAM. It doesn't clean your PC. It doesn't refreshes your computer the way it does to you when you wake up from a nap. Refreshing the desktop has absolutely no effect on the working or performance of the computer. So why is the tool there? As I said, refresh is used to re-display or redraw the icons on the desktop. Sometimes when you bring some changes to the desktop icons, the change doesn't get reflected instantly. In such cases, refreshing the desktop becomes necessary to bring the change to effect. Say, you have the desktop icons set to arrange themselves alphabetically on your desktop. When you add a new item to the desktop, this item wouldn't get arranged alphabetically, instead it would appear at the bottom of icon list on the desktop, irrespective of it's name. Now if you refresh the desktop, all the icons would be once more arranged alphabetically and the newly added item would go to it's appropriate position. This is what refresh is for. It is to re-display the desktop. Refresh has the same function when done in explorer.
So, if you are in the habit of refreshing the desktop, stop it. You are just wasting your time and effort. And the next time you see a person doing it, don't forget to explain to him the futility of this action.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

All about Chrome



The name Chrome isn’t in reference to a shiny polish or appearance, but instead to the term web browser creators give to the frame surrounding a browser.

Chrome , the Google WebBrowser , has created much sensation and acquired good hype even before its launch. But its a very simple,light -weight browser when compared to its competitors IE ,FireFox, Opera .... Chrome allows Google to remove the final wall between it and its users, as all of the company's web applications including its search, Gmail and word processing tools are accessed through a web browser.

According to Google, the problem with today’s web browsers are that they are all still based on a design that was first created to display web pages. Just that simple little task. Over the years many companies have found ingenious ways to squeeze more use out of web browsers, allowing us to use them to handle e-mail, edit photos, watch videos, even edit spreadsheets. The web browser has become a tool of many uses, but its design, despite the changes over the years, is still geared towards just one.


It does offer an innovative take on tabbed browsing, allowing you to detach and move tabs, shortcuts to access past searches and page visits, and a default page menu that lists your most-visited sites, but beyond those tweaks Google is offering the same promise for consumers that others web browsers are chasing; to experience the internet faster, safer, easier, and with more stability.

Still much to come in its siblings to offer even for Mac and Linux.As of now the beta version released supports only Win XP & Vista Users.



Friday, September 5, 2008

My Dedication

This being the first post in my blog, i want to dedicate this to Lord SriRama, whom i believe the most.
I also want to contribute my whole hearted gratitude towards my Parents, teachers and all well-wishers.

Thanks,
Satish