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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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.pit = PackIt File

PackIt is an old data compression utility for both archiving and compressing files on original Apple Macintosh computers. It was written by Harry Chesley to help distribute files via his magazine: MacDevelop. The original PackIt (version I) was si...

.sda = Self-Dissolving Archive File

.SDA is an older Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 format. The files are based on the two Commodore versions of ARC, written by Chris Smeets. The "self-dissolving" name indicates that the file needs no external program to get to the archived files wi...

.sfx = Self-Extracting Archive File

Originally, a .SFX file was a self-extracting archive using the LHArc compression algorithm and used on the Commodore computers. The archive format was developed by Chris Smeets for the Commodore platform mostly as a CS-DOS extension for the Commo...

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