Antivirus software not enough to protect your system anymore!

When it was thought that the proliferation and dissemination of malware had reached a critical mass in 2008, it's obvious that it is only getting worse out there for people who want to keep their systems protected.

Where a good antivirus program used to be enough, it's not anymore.  Certain types of malware are getting through antivirus-centric software, and malware should now be considered to be a separate threat from viruses, as there are just too many of them being created and released for one antivirus team to keep up with.

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You need software like SuperAntiSpyware along with software like Avira, and the software to be configured properly, to be well protected anymore.

Block a lot of dangerous files before your protection software has to deal with it

There is a file on your Windows computer called HOSTS.  Without getting too technical, this file is the first thing that's looked at by your computer whenever you try to visit a website.  There's a few things the HOSTS file can do, but the feature I'm addressing is the fact that the HOSTS file can point a bad website into neverland, efffectively keeping your computer from even loading the website at all.  The guys over at winhelp2002 keep a HOSTS file maintained by many security professionals and users that you can download and apply to your HOSTS file.  If you need any help on how to use this file, please get computer repair Chico help via At Home Computer.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Ad-addled! Websites Trying To Divert You Into Spamland

Well, as a person who has used computers for over 20 years, it's easy for me to take things for granted that newer eyes would be misled by.  A big one on the web needs to be addressed, and those are Links That Have Nothing To Do With What You Want!  What do I mean by this?  Well, you go to a website to download, say, a codec pack.  On that website, SOMEWHERE, is the link to download that codec pack, but also, there are a lot of other links that masquerade as things that may lead you to believe you want to click on that.

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Here's another example:

Clicking on the right link is how you avoid downloading the wrong thing onto your computer, and sometimes that wrong thing can be... you guessed it, a virus!  (Or some form of malware)

Browse safely!

Sick of Youtube viewing times? Pwn Youtube.

Numerous reports over the last few months of Youtube's abysmal performance have not resulted in a response from Google-owned Youtube. This website has grown in popularity with a way of circumventing those terrible starts and stops that have been occurring of late on Youtube.

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Simply do what the above photo shows you, and you will have a number of choices on how to download the file.  There is also an option to simply download the Youtube video as an MP3 file.

iOverclock, a Cydia app to speed up your jailbroken iDevice

In my earlier post, I mentioned I hadn't found a very good article or video on the subject of overclocking your iPhone. I HAVEN'T TESTED THIS APP, but the fact that it's an app and not a plist hack or pre-kernel mod makes me think it's worth posting.



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I haven't done any followup research on what people are saying about iOverclock, so if you feel so inclined to try it, research a bit, and if you learn something useful, come back here and let me know!

Take the edge off your limping iOS 4 iPhone 3G phone with this quick fix

I've had a lot of friends of mine complaining about the performance of their iPhone 3G phones since the iOS 4 update. Well, check this out. Apparently it can take the edge off.



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You can also overclock your iPhone 3G, as the processor is purposely underclocked in the 3G to preserve battery life, and clocking it to a normal speed would push it into the speed of the 3GS (which runs iOS 4 well), but I haven't found a great guide for that yet.

New Anti-Lasers have been invented

A functioning anti-laser has been built, which they call a coherent perfect absorber (CPA). What's that? Well, think zero canceling for light. And if you don't know what that is...

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In the anti-laser, incoming light waves are trapped in a cavity where they bounce back and forth until they are eventually absorbed. Their energy is dissipated as heat. The creators believe that CPAs could one day be used as optical switches, detectors, and other components in the next generation of computers, called optical computers, which will be powered by light in addition to electrons.

If the new Macbook Pro does indeed tout Intel's Lightpeak technology, these new advances are going to be getting serious spotlight in the coming months.

Apple going to launch new Macbook Pros next week

It's getting tougher and tougher for Mac to keep things secret up until release, as they are becoming more and more watched. computer repair chico, ca.

Apparently, the new Macbook Pros are going to use Lightpeak, a technology Intel's been working feverishly on for a few years now. Ultimately, the idea is all copper wire will be replaced with fiberoptics for much faster data travel. However, it looks like at this time this is not the case, but a humbler version of Lightpeak is expected to be in the new Macbook Pros.

Ray Kurzweil, the documentary, coming out soon

Alright you guys, this documentary is going to be worth watching. This man built the first synthesizer to realistically emulate a piano, the K2000. My dad bought me the K2500 12 years ago and it still work perfectly and is only less advanced architecturally than the K2661. But this is just one among many achievements that have affected us.


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BTW, he also came up with text-to-speech technology!

The Voynich Manuscript

This makes my mind race with curiosity and wonder.

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This is over 200 pages of vellum (that's animal hide) estimated to be from the 14th century.  All hand-painted and handwritten, the author unknown.  But here's the best part; out of all the cryptologists and language experts who have looked at this manuscript (which is now reportedly in the thousands), no one has been able to decipher the language.  Hard to believe however that this is jargon, but logic would certainly conclude this...