Category: Computer Related – Basic

Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually occurs, company executives said Friday. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351630,00.asp

Researchers on Wednesday said they have uncovered attacks in the wild in which malicious Acrobat PDF files are exploiting a vulnerability in Flash and dropping a Trojan onto computers.

(Updated 16 July 2024 Original link found no longer valid.)

Scareware is software which pretends to be a security program, pretends to scan your computer and find threats on it, and demands money in order to remove the fictional threats. More

Disruption tolerant communications protocol being tested on the international space station. here

It’s never reasonable to throw out a drive because of a virus infestation. here

Warning: The following processes will permanently delete your file(s) and, in most cases, irrecoverable.
The ad-hoc method:
Highlight the file(s) you wish to delete, hold down the Shift key whist pressing the Delete key.
The permanent method:
Hold down the Alt key whilst double-clicking the Recycle Bin. From the pop-up Recycle Bin Properties, check the box that say “Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted”.

Try this in Windows; whilst holding down the Windows key and pressing F key at the same time will spawn the Search dialog box.

Plain old Web searching doesn’t do the trick anymore: It yields too much random data, or not what you need. Here’s how to get what you want when you want it, sometimes before you ask for it. here