X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

and save with name virus.com

I prefer you to save it in desktop. Then open the the file virus.com and if your antivirus find it your antivirus is Ok and you can keep it , but if it doesn’t recognize it like a threat i prefer you to change your antivirus. Try it don’t be afraid , it doesn’t damage any part of computer.

My Antivirus caught it.. how about yours??

Leave your comment…

Google’s New social networking place Buzz is now available as a widget. Add it anywhere in you site. For more details visit moretechtips‘ post about it..

Try it now!

Google Buzz Widget – A jQuery Plugin.

Well who doesn’t need a performance boost to their computer? Well may be someone who have a ‘Dell Studio’ with 4 GB ram and 1GB graphics card will laugh about performance boost…  Anyway there are people like me who need  little tweaks to speed up their system. Heres some simple steps to make your windows work faster..

There are a few unwanted “features” windows offer that eats up your CPU, they are good tools though but if performance comes above visual effects in your priority list then this trick is for you..

On Windows :

1. Right Click on ‘My Computer’ select ‘Properties’
   (Short-cut: Win Key + Pause/Break)
2. If you are using Windows Vista, Click on the ‘Advanced system settings’ on the left panel
3. Now you are in ‘System Properties’ window, click on the ‘Advanced’ tab
4. Saw the ‘Performance’ section? click ‘Settings’ next to it
   
5. In the ‘Visual Effects’ tab you can see various options to enable or disable
6. You can Disable all the effects to get the maximum performance or you could just disable the most unwanted effects
7. Heres a list of effects that wont be much of use to you :
   • Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
   • Fade or slide menus into view
   • Fade or slide tooltips into view
   • Fadeout menu items after clicking
   • Show shadows under menus
   • Slide open combo boxes
   • Slide taskbar buttons
8. The second optional list to disable that really change the style of your Windows :
   • Use a background image for each folder type
   • Use common tasks in folders
   • Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop
   • Use visual styles on windows and buttons
9. You could simple select ‘Adjust for best performance’ option to disable all effects and styles

Now considering how you choose the options the system performance really changes!

Ever thought of downloading Windows Updates from their site without using ‘Automatic Updates’? If you are a ‘techie’ you must have thought of it at least once. Here is a simple way to do this :

1. Go to the Windows Update Web Site. Make sure you open it in Internet Explorer, for some reason this site wont open in any other browsers!
2. In the left panel, under Other Options, select “Personalize Windows Update”.
3. Under “Set Options for Windows Update”, select the checkbox for “Display the Link to Windows Update Catalog under ‘See Also’”, then click “Save Settings”.
4. Go back to the Windows Update web site.
5. In the left pane, under “See Also”, select “Windows Update Catalog”.
6. Select “Find Updates for Microsoft Operating Systems”.
7. Select the operating system and language of your choice.
8. Select “Critical Updates and Service Packs”.
9. Select all of the patches you’d like to download.
10. Then click on “Go to download basket” to download them..

Thats it!

To run any of these apps go to ‘Start’ => ‘Run’ and type the executable name (ie charmap).

1. Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)
2. Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
3. Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)
4. Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
5. DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
6. Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)
7. IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
8. Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).
9. Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).
10. ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases)
11. Object Packager = packager.exe (to do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears to have comprehensive help files).
12. System Monitor = perfmon.exe (very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance, for upper-geeks only )
    
13. Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell).
14. Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe (documentation is virtually non-existant).
15. Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry).
16. Network shared folder wizard = shrpubw.exe (creates shared folders on network).
17. File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe
18. Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe (I’ve included this for those people that lose it from the System Notification area).
19. System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98! ).
20. Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account database – use with care, it’s virtually undocumented but it appears to encrypt all passwords, I’m not sure of the full implications).
21. Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet.exe
22. Driver Verifier Manager = verifier.exe (seems to be a utility for monitoring the actions of drivers, might be useful for people having driver problems. Undocumented).
23. Windows for Workgroups Chat = winchat.exe (appears to be an old NT utility to allow chat sessions over a LAN, help files available).
24. System configuration = msconfig.exe (can use to control starup programs)
25. Group policy editor = gpedit.msc used to manage group policies, and permissions

Please note that adding or editing any settings in these tools may harm your computer. Please make sure you know what you are doing..

In my case I love Firefox , its the best I think. Anyway its your choice, but please stay away from IE 6 or earlier. They are really waste to display modern sites.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks.

1. More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.
2. Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box. Note : In newer Firefox you have to goto ‘Manage search engines’ then select ‘Edit Keywords’.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
   • Spacebar (page down)
   • Shift+Spacebar (page up)
   • Ctrl+F (find)
   • Alt+N (find next)
   • Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
   • Ctrl+T (new tab)
   • Ctrl+K (go to search box)
   • Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
   • Ctrl+= (increase text size)
   • Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
   • Ctrl+W (close tab)
   • F5 (reload)
   • Alt+Home (go to home page)
4. Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control+L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control+Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For “.net” addresses, press Shift+Enter, and for “.org” addresses, press Control+Shift+Enter. Cool right?
5. Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
   • Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
   • Ctrl+Shift+Tab (rotate to the previous tabs)
   • Ctrl+1 to 9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
6. Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
   • Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
   • Shift+Scroll Down (previous page)
   • Shift+Scroll Up (next page)
   • Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
   • Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
   • Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
7. Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why ). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.
8. User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out for this tutorial soon.
9. Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder. You can find custom built user.js file at techlifeweb.com.
10. about:config The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar.
11. Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.
12. Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
    • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
    • Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
    • Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
    • Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30.
      This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
    • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”.
      This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
13. NOTE : I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEM OCCURED DUE TO CHANGING UNWANTED SETTINGS
14. Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
15. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
16. Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:

• 0: Display a close button on the active tab only
• 1: (Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
• 2: Don’t display any close buttons
• 3: Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

Simply follow these steps:

1. Log into your GMail account
2. Now goto your settings panel by clicking on the ‘Settings’ at the top right hand corner of the page
3. Now you are in settings panel, select the ‘Filters’ tab
4. You can see any filters you have created there, If not yet, lets create one to filter out our unwanted mails. Click on the ‘Create a new filter’ link at the bottom
5. Whooshh.. Create a filter panel opens above. Now we have some options. If we know the email id of this guy who sends us the unwanted msg, you could simple enter that id in the field ‘From’ or if you don’t, don’t worry we have more options.
6. We could even block a mail that was also send to some other email id. For example consider you have 2 mail ids you gave both to everyone, what if the other guy sends his mails to both of the accounts? It duplicates right? So you could say, enter anyone of your mail id at the ‘To’ field. Thats it!
7. Another option, Consider you want to block mails with common subject like : ‘Facebook Invitation’, ‘New Offers’, ‘Orkut Invitation’, etc.. just enter the words that comes in as the subject to the ‘Subject’ field
8. Or you could also make that case to the content of the mail. Just enter words to catch in the ‘Has the words’ field. Or vice-versa in the ‘Doesn’t Have’ field
9. Remember that you set the right criteria before proceeding, you always check whether you were right by clicking in the ‘Test Search’ button
10. Click ‘Next Step >>’ when you are done with filling the filters
11. Now.. you are taken to ‘Part B’ of Filtering mails, here you have to select – what to do with the filtered mails. You have some range of options, you can skip it from inbox, mark it as read, apply star, or add labels, or forward it to another mail id, and you could delete it automatically whenever a mail with filtered options received. And finally you can set ‘Never send it to spam’ its only required if your important mail is constantly send to SPAM folder automatically.
12. So when you are done with your choice just click ‘Create Filter’ button. Note: If you also want to delete the current mails which follows the selected criteria check ‘Also apply filter to ## conversations below’ before proceeding.

Thats it!!

Congrats.. you have successfully created a filter that filters your inbox. Enjoy!

1. “Hey, are you busy?” or “Are you doing something?” ~ two phrases guys open with to stop from stammering on the phone.
2. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.
3. Before they call, guys try to plan out a little about what they’re going to say so there aren’t awkward pauses, but once he’s on the phone he forgets it all and makes it up as he goes.
4. Guys go crazy over a girl’s smile when they’re attracted to them
5. Guys will do anything just to get you to notice him.
6. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend or ex love-interest. Unless they’re going for the let-her-complain-to-you-and-then-have-her-realize-how-wonderful-and-nice-you-are method.
7. A guy who likes you wants to be the only guy you talk to.
8. Boyfriends need to be reassured often that they’re still loved.
9. Don’t talk about your guy friends to your boyfriend.
10. Guys get jealous easily.
11. Guys are more emotional than they’d like people to think.
12. Giving a guy a hanging message like “You know what?!..uh…never mind..” would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking. And he’ll assume he did something wrong and he’ll obsess about it trying to figure it out.
13. Guys are good flatterers when courting but they usually stammer when they talk to a girl they really like.
14. Guys hate asking parents for money to buy girls presents. So they come up with ideas like saving their lunch money for a week. But it never works because guys are always hungry so they end up asking the parents for money anyway.
15. Girls are guys’ weaknesses.
16. Guys are very open about themselves.
17. It’s good to test a guy first before you trust him. But don’t let him wait too long.
18. Your best friend, whom your boyfriend seeks help from about his problems with you may end up being admired by your boyfriend.
19. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don’t need to give advice.
20. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.
    
21. Guys love you more than you love them if they are serious in your relationships.
22. Guys will brag about anything.
23. Guys use words like hot or cute to describe girls. We rarely use beautiful. If a guy uses that, he likes you a whole hell of a lot.
    
24. Guys think WAY too much. One small thing a girl does, even if she doesn’t notice it can make the guy think about it for hours, trying to figure out what it meant.
25. Guys seek for advice from girls not other guys. Because most guys think alike, so if one guy’s confused, then we’re all confused.
26. Any guy could write out a rulebook or advice book for flirting, but no guy can write out a book about relationships.
27. Try to be as straightforward as possible.
28. A guy has to experience rejection, because if he’s too-good-never-been-busted, never been in love and hurt, he won’t be mature and grown up.
29. If the guy does something stupid in front of the girl, he will think about it for the next couple days or until the next time he spends time with the girl.
30. No matter how much guys talk about anything-adult, personality is key.
31. Guys learn from experience not from the romance books that girls read and take as their basis of experience.
32. Guys worry about the thin line between being compassionate and being whipped.
33. If a guy looks unusually calm and laid back, he’s probably faking it and is spazzing inside.
34. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl, he really is. Guys rarely say that.
35. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he’s just actually saying, “Please come and listen to me.”
36. Guys don’t really have final decisions.
37. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him. It doesn’t happen that often, so when it does, you know something’s up.
38. If your best guy friend seems to avoid you or is never around when you’re with your boyfriend, he’s probably jealous and likes you.
39. When a guy looks at you for longer than a second, he’s definitely thinking something.
40. Guys like femininity not feebleness.
41. Guys don’t like girls who punch harder than they do.
42. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.
43. Don’t be a snob. Guys can be intimidated and give up easily.
44. Guys like everything in moderation. Put on makeup, wear perfume. Just not too much.
45. Guys talk about girls more than girls talk about guys.
46. Guys hate rejection, but they hate being led on even more.
47. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions and are MAD confusing but somehow are drawn even more to them.
48. A guy would give his left nut to be able to read a girl’s mind for a day.
49. No guy can handle all his problems on his own. He’s just too stubborn to admit it.
50. Not all guys are stupid. Just because ONE is a jackass doesn’t mean he represents ALL of us.
51. Guys don’t like girls who are too skinny.
52. Guys love it when girls talk about themselves, they always are thirst to know more about you.
53. Always make sure you know what kind of stuff your getting into love with a guy , like whether it’s a one time deal or not .
54. Believe it or not shy guys are the most easiest to talk to. It may not seem right but trust me they will start opening up like books after you just ask them questions about their lives and unnoticeable tell them about yours.
55. Even if they refuse it all guys are ticklish on the ribs.
56. Guys love neck rubs and if he lets you keep doing it, it means that he really likes you or his neck really hurts.
57. Guys will test the waters to see how far they can get with you. Even if he doesn’t intend to it will happen. Know how far it is you want to let him go and he will respect that after you let him know a couple times.
58. When a guy sacrifices his sleep and health just to be with you, he really likes you and wants to be with you as much as possible.
59. Guys are always doubtfull about the one he loves most, bcoz he doesnt want to loss her.
60. Once guys are involved into a serious relationship with a gal, its almost impossible to make him change his mind by anyone except the gal.

Charlie Miller, the hacker who discovered a hole in the new Apple Safari in ten seconds in the Pwn2Own contest, can now take complete control of an iPhone by merely sending a text message. And no, you don’t even have to open it!

Once taken control, the hacker can exploit the hole to make calls, steal data, send text messages, and do basically anything that the user can do with his iPhone. Miller and his partner Colin Mulliner demonstrated this scary scenario to CNET writer Elinor Mills at the Black Hat Security Conference on July 29, 2009. The two are professional researchers with a security firm and are just showing Apple the many security loopholes in their device.

CNET’s Elinor Mills described how it happened: “While I was talking on the phone to Charlie Miller, his partner, Collin Mulliner, sent me a text message from his phone. One minute I’m talking to Miller and the next minute my phone is dead, and this time it’s not AT&T’s fault. After a few seconds it came back to life, but I was not able to make or receive calls until I rebooted.”

The attack is enabled by a serious memory corruption bug in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages, said Miller, a senior security researcher at ISE – Independent Security Evaluators. There is no patch, despite the fact that Apple was notified of the problem about six weeks ago, he said. All current versions of the iPhone operating system are affected.

Asked what an iPhone user can do when attacked, Miller replied: “Rebooting wouldn’t be a bad idea. It would stop all but the most sophisticated attacker. However, it doesn’t take but a second to grab all your personal info from the device, and as soon as you turn it back on, the bad guy could attack you again. That’s why I think this is so serious.“

So if you have an iPhone in your pocket.. be alert!

Source : Article by Elinor Mills at CNET News