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Change Fonts and Save the World

Today is the 40th Earth Day so it's probably appropriate to mention how you can help the environment with little or no effort on your part. How? Simple, change your default font for printing. Each font displays characters in a slightly different w...

Suspicious.Insight Symantec Rating Hurting Small Software Vendors

Symantec has implemented what they are calling "reputation-based security" and it is causing smaller software vendors some trouble. The basis of this new twist in security is to trust programs that many people use and, by default, not trust any pr...

How to Use WinDirStat to Analyze Your Hard Disk Contents

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for all current verions of Microsoft Windows.

Haiti Relief - Good and Bad

The earthquake in Haiti is a tragedy. Sadly, tragedies tend to result in an upturn in malware and social engineering directed toward the tragedy. The Bad The social engineering schemes that have arisen in just a couple of days are many. The worst ...

What is a Folder With File Extension {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}?

What is a folder with the file extension {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and what can you do with it? In 32-bit Vista and Windows 7 you can create an empty folder with that name and suddenly have instant access to many configuration options in one place.

Computer Knowledge Newsletter - July 2000 Issue

Register.com Hole; Excel Vulnerable; IE 5.5; MS Security (Active Setup Download; Office Script; IE Script); Scrap Files; Hacker Insurance; Private Info Sold?; High Hacking/Virus Cost; E-Signatures; Extension List Improved; Trojans (BAT/Simpsons); Macro Viruses (OF97/VVac-A; WM97/Antiv-A; WM97/Class-EX; WM97/Ethan-CZ; WM97/Fs-Q; WM97/Marker-AL/EF/EQ/ER; WM97/Melissa-G; WM97/Metys-D; WM97/Opey-AE; WM97/Rendra-A; WM97/Sherlock-A; WM97/Surround-B; WM97/Thursd-AB/AI/AJ; WM97/Touchme-A; XM/Totaler-B; XM97/Divi-N; XM97/Divi-O); Worms (VBS/Cod-A; VBS/Jer-A; VBS/Stages-A; VBS/Pica; WIN32/Pikachu)

Beware Spambots

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What is goog-malware-shavar?

goog-malware-shavar is Google's anti-phishing API. Google uses it to identify malware, specifically phishing. Google provides data for the anti-phishing feature implemented in the Firefox and Chrome browsers and Google Desktop. These clients get their blacklist and whitelist data using an "update protocol".

What is File Compression?

File compression is commonly used when sending a file from one computer to another over a connection that has limited bandwidth. The compression basically makes the file smaller and, therefore, the sending of the file is faster.

What is a Scan Code?

In the keyboard are little switches. When you press a key one of the switches is activated and when you release that key the switch is activated again. Each key on the keyboard has its own code that it sends when pressed and when released; this is called its scan code.