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February 24th, 2009

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Aero Diamond Theme - Free Download

Aero Diamond Theme
With so much hype surrounding Windows 7 I thought that I’d start adding some awesome Windows 7 themes. This beautiful blue and soft theme really start this category off nicely. I like the minor modifications like the new glassy start menu, the blue progress bar, the blue close button and the cool start orb. Also the creative wallpaper changes every five minutes so you’ll never get bored of your new Windows 7 theme.

Are you still using Windows XP? If you are then visit our FAQ page to download our XP Theme Patcher. If you’re using Windows 7, you don’t need the Theme Patcher.

Title: Aero Diamond
Author: alkhan
Download: Windows 7 Aero Diamond Theme

Written by MyVistaThemes.com on February 24th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Manual Removal of W32/Murlo.VN Trojan

Manual Removal of W32/Murlo.VN Trojan
W32/Murlo.VN is a trojan. The trojan will infect Windows systems.
This trojan first appeared on February 21, 2009.
Other names of W32/Murlo.VN Trojan:
This trojan is also known as TrojanDownloader:Win32/Fakeinit.A, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Murlo.vn

Changes Desktop Wallpaper
Damage Level : Medium/High
Distribution Level:
Medium
No Removal Tool for W32/Murlo.VN Trojan
W32/Murlo.VN Trojan Manual Removal Instructions
Recommend Removal from Safe Mode:

How to Start in Safe mode:
Restart your Computer, Press F8 Repeatedly, when your Screen turns on, Select Safe mode, press enter.
The Infected Files Can be Seen in these folders and names also Running in Tasks
End the Following Active Process Before Removal
  • [ Kill the Process, Use Killbox if your Access Denied ]
Add Comment if you Want the File Remover

Download W32/Murlo.VN Trojan Known Files Removal Tool

[In Windows Vista Run As Administrator, After Execution System Will Restart]

  • %Windows\System\frmwrk32.exe
    If you have any of these files in running process from task manger, end the process before removal.
    Note: if task manager is disabled, Download the following file, Click to Download - Enable Registry.reg [ Right Click - Save Target As/Linked Content As ]
    Open it with Regedit.exe [%system32\regedit.exe], then it Confirms Add to registry Yes or No, Confirm Yes, then click Ok.
W32/Murlo.VN Trojan Entries Manual Removal From Registry
Click Start, Run,Type regedit,Click OK.

Note: If the registry editor fails to open the threat may have modified the registry to prevent access to the registry editor.
  • Download this UnHookExec.inf, [ Right Click - Save Target As/Linked Content As ]
    and then continue with the removal. Save it to your Windows desktop. Do not run it at this time, download it only.
  • After booting into the Safe Mode or VGA Mode
  • Right-click the UnHookExec.inf file and click Install. [This is a small file. It does not display any notice or boxes when you run it.]
The W32/Murlo.VN Trojan modifies registry at the following locations to ensure its automatic execution at every system startup:

Delete The Entries
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Delete run=frmwrk32.exe

Search Registry For W32/Murlo.VN Trojan File Names listed above to remove completely,
Edit Menu - Find
, enter Keyword and remove all value that find in search.

Exit the Registry Editor,
Restart your Computer.

Recommended Removal Tools:
Kaspersky Antivirus or Internet Security (Shareware)
Spyware Doctor (Shareware)
AVG Antivirus (Freeware)
Killbox (Freeware)
Ultimate Links PC Tips

Written by FireFly on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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Windows Live Hotmail – now with POP3 support

Just saw this via Richard (Windows Observer) on Twitter.

Hotmail now supports POP3. What is POP3? According to Wikipedia:

“The Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP3 and IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol) are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both.

POP3 has made earlier versions of the protocol, informally called POP1 and POP2, obsolete. In contemporary usage, the less precise term POP almost always means POP3 in the context of e-mail protocols.

The design of POP3 and its procedures supports end-users with intermittent connections (such as dial-up connections), allowing these users to retrieve e-mail when connected and then to view and manipulate the retrieved messages without needing to stay connected. Although most clients have an option to leave mail on server, e-mail clients using POP3 generally connect, retrieve all messages, store them on the user's PC as new messages, delete them from the server, and then disconnect. ”

The website Windows Mobile Cool provides details on how to set it up in your favorite email client here.

Previously:
Windows Live Hotmail – New Improvements!

Resources:
A Look at Windows Live Mail 2009

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Written by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista, Live & 7 on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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450 Rollover Minutes: AT&T Nation - Save!

I’ve been looking at the AT&T Nation rollover minute deals for a while now, scouring details to see who has the best deal on 450 minutes. After wasting hours on the ‘phone’ and ‘mobile’ web sites checking their discounts I finally checked Amazon and bingo!

I shouldn’t be surprised, but I really figured one of the major cellphone web sites, or even AT&T would have the best offer (especially since they invented rollover minutes!), not Amazon.

Note that Amazon requires your zip code for most of their cellphone products since they need to know what is available in your area. Especially with roll over plans.

Written by admin on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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Final Overclocking and Benchmark Results


Since I’m home sick today, and utterly bored, I was sitting here this morning surfing the web, and I noticed that there is more and more information becoming available on the web (from *reliable* sources) around Phenom II overclocking and what is safe so I decided to revisit the idea.

I was at a friends house last night who just built an Intel Core i7 920 System with an Nvidia GTX 285 Video card. After getting everything loaded up, we ran it through a default run of 3DMark 06 and it scored 15K and some change. Now, I knew I’d spent a *lot* less (especially on the Video Card), and I also knew that at stock speeds I was getting around 11K in 3DMark, but when I’d been messing around with the OC, I had broken 14k at least once. Now, that’s pretty doggone close, and I really do hate to leave all that performance on the table. You always want to get the most bang for your buck…right? I sure do.

As I said, after reading some of the new information that has come about, I feel pretty confident about the stability, safety and longevity of my overclocked system. This has always been why I never have done much with overclocking before – I get it all set up, then I chicken out, turn it all back off and leave well enough alone. This time, I spent the extra cash on the unlocked Black Edition processor, and I made sure I got a case with proper air-flow, *and* for the first time I got something other than a bargain basement Motherboard and a “just enough” PSU. I’ve done everything right this time, so why not reap the rewards?

Anyway – Below you will find my final, stable overclock settings, and you will find some basic benchmarks comparing stock speeds to the overclocked speeds.

System Setup and Specifications:

Stock Speeds:

AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0GHz, 1.35 Voltage (1,800MHz NB/1,800MHz HT Link/Reference Clock 200MHz)
ASUS M4A79 Deluxe
8GB DDR2-800
ASUS ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB PCIe GPU Clock=575MHz RAM Clock=1000Mhz
Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB HDD (Primary)
Western Digital WD3200AAKS 320GB HDD (Secondary)

Overclock Changes:

AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.58GHz, 1.375 Voltage (2,050MHz NB/1845MHz HT Link/Reference Clock 205MHz)
ASUS ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB PCIe (GPU Clock=700MHz RAM Clock=1185Mhz)

As you can see, I have an overclock of (actually) 588MHz on the CPU, and that is only needing an extra 0.025V…I can live with that! Also note, I also raised the Northbridge speed (would have been 2,000MHz had I left the reference clock at 200MHz). My reason for raising the reference clock was that I couldn’t quite  hit 3.6GHz @ 1.375 Voltage, and I didn’t want to make that leap to 1.4V, so I went back to the 17.5 Multi and raised the reference clock to “meet it half-way” so to speak.

Also I was able to (easily) get and extra 125MHz out of the GPU. From what I’ve read on the web, I’m 100% sure I could get more out of the GPU, but that is as high as AMD’s ATI Overdrive in the Radeon drivers will let me go, and I’m not going to use a 3rd party tool – I’m going to use that limitation as my governor!

So finally, here are some benchmark results! (This isn’t Tom’s Hardware, ExtremeTech or Anandtech so no fancy graphs, just results)

Cinebench R10:

Stock Speeds:

Rendering (Single CPU): 3137 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 10327 CB-CPU

Overclocked:

Rendering (Single   CPU): 4104 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 14458 CB-CPU

3D Mark ‘06 (Default Run):

Stock Speeds:

11722 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4426
SM 3.0 Score 5160
CPU Score 4174

Overclocked:

14063 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 5333
SM 3.0 Score 6228
CPU Score 4883

CS:Source Video Stress Test (set ‘fps_max 0′ in the console to stop from limiting fps to 300fps):

Stock Speeds:

1680×1060 @ Default (NoAA/NoAF):
312.81fps
———
1680×1050 @ 8xAA/16xAF:
285.58 fps

Overclocked:

1680×1060 @ Default (NoAA/NoAF):
436.39 fps
———
1680×1050 @ 8xAA/16xAF:
324.04 fps

HDTune:

I really wasn’t expecting to see any difference here, but surprisingly there was a slight advantage on Burst Rate, Access Time and CPU Usage when overclocked…

Stock Speeds:

HD Tune: WDC WD6400AAKS-00A7B2 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 56.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 116.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 94.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.1 ms
Burst Rate : 136.0 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.8%

Overclocked:

HD Tune: WDC WD6400AAKS-00A7B2 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 56.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 116.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 94.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.0 ms
Burst Rate : 143.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.4%

Written by jaysonrowe on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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PrivacyGuardPro

Description of PrivacyGuardPro and consequences of its residing on your PC

If to compare the face of PrivacyGuardPro (PrivacyGuardPro) and PrivacyProtectionSuite, you are unlikely to tell one from another; the only difference is the name of program referred to in the skins of these applications. It proves that these applications are misleading, and we believe PrivacyGuardPro has been released because of the increasing (un)popularity of PrivacyProtectionSuite, the latter is the program that had been released prior to the former. No matter which f these two are installed in your computer, remove PrivacyGuardPro and PrivacyProtectionSuite as fake privacy protection tools. They are installed normally either secretly or through the bothering flow of misleading alerts at the fake online scanners. The trialware of PrivacyGuardPro makes a request for the enormous portion of RAM, and Windows normally satisfies it. This creates a regular shortage of resource, so the programs that relay need it cannot run at all or do not run properly. That leads to sudden system reboots and losses of temporary data that you have not been in time to save.
Where this malware has been installed with trojan, you need also to remove PrivacyGuardPro subservient trojan as the trojan is normally a servant for many masters: consequentially, other rogue applications may or have already been installed with this PrivacyGuardPro’s trojan. Click here to start free scan in order to reveal infections and get rid of PrivacyGuardPro, incl. all associated viruses and trojans and other types of rogues.

PrivacyGuardPro Technical Details

  • Full name: PrivacyGuardPro, Privacy GuardPro, PrivacyGuard Pro, Privacy Guard Pro
  • Version: 2009
  • Type: Rogue anti-spyware
  • Origin: Russian Federation

PrivacyGuardPro screenshot:

Signs of being infected with PrivacyGuardPro:

The screenshot above is a typical window of PrivacyGuardPro; the rogue attempts to adjust Windows to allow its appearance at the beginning of every Windows session. Within this PrivacyGuardPro window, scan for privacy risks and errors is started, and it is hard to suspend it. The results of the scan are either false positives or the files with adult content or browsing history entries that the rogue has created by its own. There is no use to let this application run freely and it is good to remove PrivacyGuardPro at the earliest opportunity. The earliest opportunity is, as a rule, when the window of PrivacyGuardPro is displayed. However, in the specific case of installation with trojan, you may remove PrivacyGuardPro in advance, for the trojan may redirect your browser to the websites adverting PrivacyGuardPro and directly to the purchase form of this program. If you have noted these frequent redirections prior to the trialware installation, there is an option to remove PrivacyGuardPro in advance removing the corresponding trojan.
Click here in order to start free computer investigation and remove PrivacyGuardPro and relevant trojan as appropriate.

Automatic Removal of PrivacyGuardPro from your PC:

PrivacyGuardPro, as you can see, may have been installed with other infections. This way to remove PrivacyGuardPro is a warranty of your PC deliverance from any type of threats and allows you to remove PrivacyGuardPro again in case of re-installation. Follow the link below in order to start free scan get rid of PrivacyGuardPro.

Download PrivacyGuardPro Removal Tool

Manual Removal of PrivacyGuardPro:

PrivacyGuardPro manual removal is to be performed after you have closed every program. Therefore, you need to print PrivacyGuardPro removal guide out.
In order to make sure you have managed to remove PrivacyGuardPro manually, follow the link above and scan the computer for free; if other threats found, there are two options of their removal: also manual that requires you to find and apply relevant guides, or automatic removal (continue using Spyware Doctor).

Remove PrivacyGuardPro files and dll’s

Infralution.Common.dll
Infralution.Controls.dll
Infralution.Controls.VirtualTree.dll
PrivacyGuard.Common.dll
PrivacyGuard.exe
SharpZipLib.dll
uninstall.exe
PrivacyGuard RPO.lnk
Uninstall PrivacyGuard PRO.lnk
activate.dat
buynow.dat
filepattern.dat
help.dat
home.dat
lastscan.dat
mailto.dat
product.dat
registered.dat
settings.dat
uninstall.dat
update.dat
instance.dat
mia.lib
PrivacyGuardProSetup.dat
PrivacyGuardProSetup.exe
PrivacyGuardProSetup.msi
PrivacyGuardProSetup.par
PrivacyGuardProSetup.res

Unregister PrivacyGuardPro registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PrivacyGuard\PrivacyGuard
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PrivacyGuardPro, Inc.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PrivacyGuardPro, Inc.\PrivacyGuardPro
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MimarSinan\InstallAware

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Written by admin on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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