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Do you know what Internet Security Deluxe is?

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Internet Security Deluxe, believe it or not, is a fake anti-spyware program. Even though the name may be misleading, it is still classified as a rogue program that we find to be useless at removing spyware or adding security features for your computer. Internet Security Deluxe does neither, all that it is good for is taking your money in return for a worthless program.

Internet Security Deluxe or sometimes called InternetSecurityDeluxe typically comes from a Trojan infection which can be obtained through a fake video codec download. The Trojans that we have narrowed Internet Security Deluxe coming from are the Zlob and Vundo Trojan. Some computer users have reported getting Internet Security Deluxe directly from the InternetSecurityDeluxe.com website. Internet Security Deluxe can be installed by these Trojans without your permission. Sometimes the only way that you know you have Internet Security Deluxe installed is after you start to get fake popups and alert messages.

In non-techie terms: Internet Security Deluxe is not much different from other rogue anti-spyware programs. It performs malicious actions to get you to purchase a full version of the Internet Security Deluxe

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Hidden in the bowels of Windows is a super-secret Administrator account. Here’s how to unlock it, in case you ever need to use it.

Deep inside Windows, there’s a secret Administrator account, and it’s different from the normal administrator account you most likely have set up on your PC. Oddly enough, this Administrator account is not part of the Administrator group. (Note the differentiation between the secret Administrator account, and the administrator account you’ve set up. In describing this hack, we’ll always use the capital “A” for the secret account, and a lowercase “a” for an administrator account you’ve set up.)

What’s the difference between the secret Administrator account and a normal administrator account? On Vista, the difference is more than the name: the Administrator account is not subject to User Account Control. So the Administrator can make any changes to the system and will see no UAC prompts.

For this reason, you may want to unlock the Administrator account, and use it only for those times when you want to make a series of system changes and don’t want to be bothered by UAC. True, you could instead simply disable UAC on your system, but it’s...

If you will notice in desktops, the feature that allows you to upgrade storage in the form of hard disks and optical media players bolsters the need of addressing storage issues. Unlike in laptops where hard disk changing may not always be present, the use of various hard drives such as SATA or SCSI has made all the difference in addressing the storage issue.

Storage for some desktop users would depend on what files they are pointing. Normally, it is not plainly about documents and spreadsheets. With technology offering a lot of things for the modern computer geek, audio, pictures and videos have likewise entered the fray. With that in mind, you can just imagine the space that these files would occupy and normally it can negate the usual gigabyte capacity of hard drives as well.

Laptops are not made for storage of large files. Some of these mobile computers have been equipped with higher capacity drives these days but you will notice the timing. They only offer larger storage after some time. At this age, we are already exposed to larger capacity drives, perhaps double than what laptops can carry. Why? For one thing, laptops are not designed to

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When a removable drive (USB flash drive, flash card reader, portable hard drive) is attached for the first time, Windows mounts it to the first available ‘local’ drive letter. If there is a network share on this letter, Windows XP will use it anyway for the new USB drive because since XP network shares are specific to the current user and not visible in the context of the system where the letter is assigned. The USB drive then appears to be invisible.

You can change the letter assignments in the Windows Disk Management Console (right click My Computer -> Manage -> Disk management), but you have to do it again for every new device.

And, for USB devices that have no serial number (in violation of the USB standards) you have to do it too when you attach it to a different USB port.

So change the network drive’s letter to a higher one to get the lower ones available for external drives. Or let USB drive letter manager change the letters of USB drives for you.


Microsoft is aware of this and calls it a problem. Meanwhile a hotfix is available (…

The Windows Live Calendar Team have been rolling out an update to the Windows Live Calendar Beta today and have recently blogged about what users will find within the update. I am a very heavy Windows Live Calendar user currently so this is a very exciting release for me.  I figured I'd go down their list of changes / improvements / new features with a little context of my own based on my own experiences. Here we go!

Birthday Calendars: Any Windows Live Contacts that have their birthday entered in their Windows Live Profile (you can make sure you have your birthday added to your profile by going here) will have their birthday appear in a new calendar for you called "Birthday Calendar". This allows you to keep track of all your friend's birthdays. Never forget a birthday again!

iCal Subscriptions: You can now subscribe to public calendars (*.ics calendars) in Windows Live Calendar. A great resource for public calendars is http://www.icalshare.com/ (although at the time of writing this post I was having some issues with their website). I am a Space buff so I went and grabbed the

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