Win32 Sality virus mainly spreads though removable medias like the USB flash drives and external HD’s. This virus are is known as the variant of “new folder” virus and are capable of replicating itself into every folder inside the hard disk.

Common problems with Win32 Sality includes:

1. Able to install any antivirus or any software.

2. System functionality like Task Manager, Reg-edit , MS-config etc. can stop working & in some cases control panel as well as your folder options.

The Sality Removal Tool is mainly designed to scan and kill win32.sality virus and does not offer removal of any other variants. Viruses like khatra.exe and ghost.exe virus which is also comes under the same Sality variant.

So, I am coming up with the 3 methods to remove Win32 Sality completely.

Method 1

Download the following three files (rmsality.exe, rmsality.nt, rmsality.dos) from here and run the rmsality.exe file.

You can also specify the disks (or partitions) to heal as a command parameters, e.g.: “rmsality C: D:”. Run the rmsality.exe file as an administrator (in windows vista and windows 7) to start the tool for scanning.

Method 2

Download the latest Avast Home edition from here and install the anti virus and scheduled a boot up scan. During boot scan when the virus is detected just press 1 to delete the files.

Note: Do not select Delete all infected files as it can delete some system files resulting in system crash. Delete any .EXE or .COM apps that you think may be infected.

Method 3

This method I came across through Sastrowijoyo’s blog article. I am just posting it here for easy reference.

1. Take your infected hard drive out of your PC.

2. Go to someone who have the latest updated Kaspersky antivirus (AVG won’t work)

3. Put your hard drive to his/her PC

4. Run his/her windows.

5. Scan your hard drive using his/her Kaspersky antivirus. You’ll find out that most of your .exe files have been infected.

6. Disinfect all of them

7. You will find that some files in your system32 couldn’t be disinfected. This is the core of the virus. get rid of them.

8. You will find that a file couldn’t be deleted. This is the main problem. i haven’t find out how to delete this. Just leave it alone

9. Copy the installer of the kaspersky from his/her computer.

10. Run your windows, install the kaspersky and update it to the latest version.

11. Your PC is safe now.

To have your Reg-edit and Task managers

To have your Regedit and Task managers working back as normal you’ll need to restrict anything tweaking it, try this:

Enable Task Manager

Start->Run and type gpedit.msc Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Del Options on your right ensure that Remove Task Manager option is set to “Disable”

Repeat for regedit and ensure that Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools is set to “Disable” under Systems close the window after making the changes restart your PC and you are free again. Just watch out for the virus though.

Disable Autorun Feature of Windows

Turn Off (Disable) Autorun Feature of All Drives in Windows without Any Tool

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Michael Arrington: Founder of TechCrunch

With 7.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views / month, TechCrunch  has 1,037,662 followers on Twitter, it has over 3,337,000 RSS feed subscribers aand its articles are always on top of Tweetmeme, Digg and Social Bookmarking Sites.

Competing with iamweb2.0 &  Mashable, TechCrunch has reached the #1 Tech Audience Online.

These are the 10 reasons why TechCrunch is on the top of Technology blogs today.

Be The First

TechCrunch take the things very keenly, that are happening & that can influence the world in the near future. They put them first to their tech audience.

New Internet products and Companies

Now as Technology & Web is emerging, new web & technology based business, products & services are too emerging like never before. They profile those & review them.

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the web 2.0 space.

- Michael Arrington

Increasing The Scope

Yes, they went with wide range of content and new media,  growing their network in every arena where they come up with the most of the content that pleases audience.

The Crunch Network consists:

1. TechCrunch
2. CrunchBase
3. CrunchGear
4. MobileCrunch
5. TechCrunchIT
6. TechCrunch Europe
7. TechCrunch Francais
8. TechCrunch Japan
9. The Gillmor Gangs
10. Elevator Pitches

The Skilled Team

TechCrunch Network is equipped with a team consisting people from most diverse fields, powering the entire Crunch Network.

Simple Design & Content Reach

TechCrunch blog design is really simple, so its easy for the reader to  reach the content they are looking for. They present the content in a simple way that is easy to grasp on.

Easy navigation & less number of ads is most important features of their blog designs.

Write for the Web & for People

They acts as a medium between business, products, services & the readers & mainstream audience.

Like all good web 2.0 services, this site will be a two-way communications medium. Comments, trackbacks and other feedback will be welcome. We will distribute this content in every way our readers want it – our website, RSS, Atom, email, and other web 2.0 distribution mechanisms that companies that we profile will think up!

- Michael Arrington

Powerful Headlines

Look at these:

1. Letting Data Die A Natural Death
   
2. This Is What Happens When Your Mother-In-Law Uses Internet Explorer 6
   
3. Google Squared Gets Better, But It Still Can’t Find Mars

These are some of the example of the headlines of the posts I figured out recently from TechCrunch. These depicts the unique way they go for Titles. They go for titles that are  quite interesting & appealing.

Content, Content & Content

TechCrunch publishes some 10+ posts every day. They vary in their areas & are written by their teams. So, these articles are diverse & vary in presentation.

They know what to post, when to post & how to post the articles.

In-Depth Article Coverage

If you read some TechCrunch posts you will quickly see how they track down the source of information, they check out the original report, examine the original study and write a short summary of the most interesting points.

The Depth of coverage is mainly drawn on a series of articles that are linked quite nicely.

Encourage Sharing

Yes, TechCrunch post for their readers & valuable information that  readers enjoy, they will spread the word to their friends for you. So, Blog is embedded with most popular social networking site buttons like Twitter & Facebook.

But they are readers who never hesitate to spread the interesting artilces to Digg, Stumbleupon & other social networking sites & that is the real source of their traffic.

So, Good & quality content can’t remain hidden for a long time. It will came out definitely.

TechCrunch is a great example & inspiration to bloggers. It shows how anyone can start from scratch, work hard & can establish an blog empire, just like Michael Arrington did with TechCrunch Tech Media Blog Network.

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But with the help of a few search operators, you can increase substantially the chances that you’ll find what you’re looking for on your first search try. So, here comes the role of operators & limiters to make your searches more effective & about 10 times faster in showing the exact result.

Using (~) Operator

Place a tilde (~) directly in front of your search term to find pages with words similar to the term in question. So searching ~inexpensive domains will return pages that have the term “cheap domains,” “affordable domains,” and “low-cost domains” as well.

Using (+) Operator

Use the plus sign (+) to search for two terms appearing together.

Using (-) Operator

Use the minus sign (-) to find pages that contain one term but not another.

Using (*) Operator

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to search for a term along with any other word, and quotes (”blah de blah”) to find an exact phrase.

Using (site:) Limiter

If you looking for on the site by going to Google or another search engine, and entering a search term along with site:www.thesitename.com (or .org, .edu, etc.) will yield you the exact website with specified URLs.

Using (define:) Limiter

Use define:word to return a definition.

Using (link:) Limiter

Use link:url to find pages that contain a link to a specific site or page.

Using (inurl:) Limiter

Use inurl:searchterm (or allinurl:searchterm) to retrieve pages whose URL contains a specific word or phrase.

Using (intitle:) Limiter

Use intitle:searchterm (or allintitle:searchterm the find pages with the word or phrase in their title; and,

Using ( info:) Limiter

Use info:url (or id:url) to get information about the page.

Using (safesearch:) Limiter

To keep adult-oriented content out of the results, use safesearch: searchterm.

To Find Weather

If you’re looking for a weather report, simply enter weather place or zip code and press Enter to see the temperature, conditions, and forecast for that locale.

Using (related:) Limiter

And to see pages similar to another page, type related: url.

**Javascript Bonus

Curious about when the page you’re on was last updated? Just type javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the address bar and press Enter to see the date and time in a pop-up window.

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I do not know how to start a Torrent, search for a torrent or download a torrent because I Know Nothing at all about Torrents and would like to know if you can help me, Please?

So, here is a step by step tutorial to

1. Download and Install a BitTorrent Client

2. Find and Download a File

If you want to learn from basics & understand more about torrents, torrent trackers, BitTorrent Clients, Limewires & how does torrent works? you can see this & can learn about a faster & better search engine for torrents, Kisckasstorrents here.

Download and Install a BitTorrent Client

• Download BitComet. Its a torrent Client. This program downloads files from BitTorrent. (The most popular are BitTorrent, Azureus(Now called Vuze) and uTorrent.)

• Click on Save File.

• When the download is finished, go to BitComet Setup(.exe File) double-click on it.

• Click Run, Ok, Next, I Agree, I Agree, Next and Install. The program will install. Click Finish. The program will start up.

Find and Download a File

• Go to a BitTorrent search engine… Say Mininova.org

• Click on the text field near the top left of the page, and type in your desired ebook, game name etc. Click Search.

• You will be taken to a search-results page.

• You will probably see a page like this, with a mix of files with different sizes.

• Click on the name (widest column) of a torrent that sounds good. That row will expand to display some ads, a Download .torrent link, and information about the files that the torrent links to. Click on the Download .torrent link.

To the right you see a number of Seeds and Leechers for each Torrent. A Seed is a user who has the whole file and is sharing it. A Leecher is someone who, like you, is in the process of downloading the file.

So you’ll want to pick a version of the file that has lots of Seeds and Leechers, so that the download is faster and more certain to be successful.

• If you have never downloaded a torrent before, a window will pop up, asking what you want to do with this file. Choose “Open with BitComet”, check “Do this automatically for files like this from now on” or “Always use this program to open similar files”.

• BitComet should open automatically and ask you if you want to download this file. Click OK.

• Wait patiently for the file to download. When it’s done, the file will be in the C:Downloads folder.

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Looking on Common File Extensions

• If the file is a .MP3, .RM then it is an audio file which you can play in a music player.

• If the file is a .AVi, .MP4, etc, then it is a movie file you can watch on your computer or transfer to a DVD, iPod, PSP, etc.

• If the file ends with .RAR or .ZIP, then it’s basically a kind of archive ZIP file, and you need to decompress it using WinRAR.

• If the file ends with VOB, ISO, CUE/BIN, or if it’s a VIDEO_TS folder, then it can be burned onto a DVD for viewing on a DVD player.

Remember, downloading media on BitTorrent is illegal.

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Understanding Meta Tags

Meta data is information about data. Meta tags are the set of HTML tags or Meta elements, typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.

The tag provides metadata about the HTML document.  Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be parsed by the machine(For example, Blogger templates are entirely XML documents & thus need either SAX or DOM type of parsers).To put it briefly, the meta tag is used by search engines to allow them to more accurately list your site in their indexes.

If you simply produce your home page, or any webpage and register the URL with a search engine, or a number of search engines, their spider/robot programs will (eventually) toddle along to your site to index it. Now, each of the search engines does this slightly differently.

Most search engines take only first 250 characters of the meta description into consideration but Altavista will grab everything in your document and index it, but will only show the first 250 characters in its description.

How They are Used?

These are the ones that are important right now. Basically, add these to the existing meta tags. In html view, put a space under your top <head> tag and add each line. Use the template below. Just copy and paste this into a text editor (word or notepad will do). Tailor the info to your site, then copy and paste again between your sites <head> tags.

<title>**60 characters**</title>

<meta name=”Description” CONTENT=”**150 characters**”>

<meta name=”Keywords” CONTENT=”**874 characters**”>

<meta name=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”INDEX, FOLLOW”>

<meta name=”Revisit-after” CONTENT=”21 days”>

<meta name=”rating” content=”general”>

Also there is a free software which can prove a great help in SEO which I had discussed in A Quality and Free SEO Software to take your website in top Search Results

Mel Ann and Tim, putting their ideas on how to optimize & thus maximize AdSense earnings. This 12 min video focus on some of the most crucial aspects a beginner must look into.

It is written in very conventional manner thus it becomes easy to go with the base concepts & knowing the elements of the language.

This 144 pages book will teach you Ruby programming.  It covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.

Table of contents

1   Welcome to Ruby
Basic Concepts of Ruby
Types in Ruby
Collections
Variables and the Like

2   Break it down now!
Methods
Blocks and Proc Objects
Modules
Files

3   Hustle and flow (control)
Conditionals
Loops
Exceptions

4   The System Beneath
Filesystem Interaction
Threads and Forks and Processes
Environment variables, command line
Win32 and Beyond

5   Looking Beyond Home
Networking and the Web
It’s Like Distributed or Something…
Data my base, please!

6   It’s a Library!
String Manipulation
Date/Time
Hashing and Cryptography
Unit testing

Appendix A Links and the Like
Appendix B High Performance Ruby with C/C++

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Gmail, known for its faster access & reliability, is one of the best free email provider that offers unlimited (or ever increasing?) mailbox space (Currently 7356 MB) with user friendly internet mail client. Apart from the basic mail settings available on other free email services, Gmail also has other settings that you might never use before , but may be useful for you in the near future. All of these settings are available from the Gmail “Settings” page.  How to Use Gmail in Offline Mode? Google Gears makes it so explains its extented ability to be accessed in the offline mode(when your network is not connented to Internet).

Here are the 15 Gmail settings that you probably miss out. So, configuring & customizing your Gmail account that suits your taste will be quite useful to you.

1- Gmail display language - if your mother tongue is Italiano, Bahasa Indonesia etc. , why don’t you try Gmail with some local flavors?

2- Maximum page size - 50 email documents in one page is too much clutter? Set it to 25!

3- My picture - send out your email attached with avatars automatically, so people recognizes you faster.

4- Personal level indicators - turn off the arrows on your mail document list if you find it annoying. I prefer to have it turned on so I can differentiate an email from a mailing list from personal emails.

5- Snippets - turn off / on snippets (message excerpts) besides your mail document list.

6- Vacation Responder - have Gmail automatically reply for each one of your email, useful when you are out of the office for a few days.

7- Send mail as - use a different address as your sender’s email address (From:). Imagine sending an email via your Gmail and ask the recipient to reply to another alternate email address.

8- Mail Fetcher - get other email documents from other POP email accounts displayed inside your Gmail. Great to combine multiple accounts into one.

9- Filters - automatically sort received email documents from different recipients to specific folders / labels. Comes with multiple filter types.

10- Forwarding - send a copy of each newly arrived emails to another email account. For backup maybe?

12- POP Download / IMAP Access - access your Gmail email documents from your desktop email client, online or offline.

13- My Clips - show or disable web clips (news headlines, Gmail tips, blogs, any RSS and Atom feed, relevant sponsored links, and more). Useful to show instant updates of your favorite RSS feeds.

14- Gmail Labs - Try out the experimental stuff from the gmail team & experience the innovative facilities in your Gmail account.

15- Themes - Give your Gmail account more interesting looks & feels by choosing your Gmail theme form a variety of Gmail themes pack.

With a large number of applications including projection notepads that track any pen, pencil or pen-like object; gestural interfaces for devices with inconvenient or ultra-small form-factors or locations (ie-wearable computers); and user identification and authentication through facial recognition, sight-enabled applications in consumer games, premise security, automobiles, military-aerospace, and medical applications. Using these virtual facilities the chance of breakage and infection transfer is reduced. Additionally virtual keyboards require no cleaning and they have no wires, buttons, or switches. All mechanical input units can be replaced by such virtual devices, optimized for the current application and for the user’s physiology maintaining speed, simplicity and unambiguity of manual data input.

Senseboard Technologies (http://www.senseboard.com) further extending the capabilities by providing the technology. The user can type on a hard surface like a desk or table, or into the air. The hand-mounts measure finger two hand-mounted devices that connect to the target computing device with the help of Bluetooth wireless networkingovements and tell the handheld what keys the user intends to press, based on the ubiquitous QWERTY keyboard layout. There’s also a pause function to capture the motion of the fingers and hands, enabling keyboard functionality.

Kitty (http://www.kittytech.com), a finger mounted keyboard for data entry into PDA’s, Pocket PC’s and Wearable Computers. KITTY, an acronym for Keyboard-Independent Touch-TYping, is a fingermounted keyboard that uses touch-typing as the method of data entry. The device targets the portable computing market and in particular wearable computing systems, which are in the need of a silent, “invisible” data entry system based on touch-typing. The new device combines the idea of a finger-mounted chording device (such as the “Twiddler” by the HandKey Corp.), with the advantages of a system that uses touch-typing (such as the Virtual Keyboard by Senseboard or the Scurry by Samsung) References: Canesta(http://www.canesta.com) Developer VKB Inc (http://www.vkb.co.il/) Virtual Devices(http://www.virtualdevices.net/)

By assuming that all is well and that no further commitment is required on their part they are potentially leaving themselves wide open to abuse of all sorts and in particular, the risk of having their personal details stolen and abused by criminals. Imagine for a moment, a personal safe. It contains all your bank details, personal contacts etc. Only you have access to that safe, it is yours.

Now what if you sold that safe, but forgot to take all your stuff out of it? By a combination of observation, trial and error and a bit of luck, they will be able to gain access to the safe, and all your personal data.

This is precisely how a so called “cookie” stored on your old mobile phone operates, as whenever you log into a website or visit it you will acquire a cookie. Even after you leave it, the cookies will remain in your internet history part of your phone. Before recycling your mobile phone, please make sure that you remove all traces of personal, sensitive information on your phone including your internet browsing history and internet files in order to protect yourself.

Once you hand over your phone, you will have no way of knowing just who will have access to it or indeed, what their intentions are with it and so it is imperative that you plan for this eventuality. Once you have been paid, the phone and all that is on it is the property of the mobile phone recycling company. You have been warned!