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Top Ten Application to be Installed

Friday, July 10th, 2009

After I bought a laptop and formatted it with Windows XP (I’m comfortable with XP than Vista) and installed its driver (drivers are included when you buy a laptop or any computer hardware), I still can’t fully utilize it without my top ten must-have application/program to be installed on my workstation. So here goes my list according to what I need and of course what I want..

Irfanview 4.10

Since the company I am working deals a lot with scanned documents such as contracts, pictures, certificates, passport, etc that needed to be kept and upload, we are required to deal with the Irfanview for proper uploading on the database.

QuickTime

My multimedia preference and suitable for Iphone, Itouch or any Apple products

Macromedia

Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Dreamweaver are my list of Macromedia. Although I didn’t fully utilize them, they are great alternative for Adobe Photoshop, Moviemaker or PHP or Notepad.

Chrome

I got better viewing of my WordPress in Chrome than Internet Explorer plus I like their interface.

Skype or Yahoo Messenger

Must have messenger! You can contact me on my Skype account muffie.rojas and my Yahoo Messenger account m_f_t_rojas

Chikka

Don’t have any load? You can text for free using this messenger. But aside from sending message to computer, your message will be forward on the cell phone. You have different credits on Smart, Globe, US Mobile Phones, Cingular Wireless, Sun, Guam Cell, Saipan Cell, India Mobile Phones, , Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Alltel, Excelcomindo, Nextel, Boost, UK, Spain, 1528 Smart HK, Smart Pinoy Italy.

Adobe Photoshop

Do I need to explain?! Before uploading pictures, you need to at least resize, add designs, and of course edit your picture for more effect and to erase those unwanted pixel ha ha!!

Microsoft Visual Foxpro

My first fully learned program. Very usable in making a system in different unit or department plus it is very easy to utilize. I’ll be posting more FoxPro code on my upcoming articles.

Eset Antivirus

My workstation defense against viruses, spyware, root kits, and other internet attacks. Keeping my workstation and data safe from hackers and thieves.

Microsoft Office 2007

My all-around application that is being use. We have the MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Publisher, MS Word and MS Project. I‘m betting on Microsoft Office 2007, not that I don’t like the Microsoft Office 2003, but 2007 got more features than the latter and I’m used to 2007.

That’s it for now.. More Top Ten to come!

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Virus Preventive and Removal Tips

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Virus poses a major threat to your computer as well as your files and data. You can get a computer virus anywhere from, sharing storage media such as floppy disc, memory stick, USB, CD/DVD, downloading a file from the internet or installing a program.  Here is a brief description of virus and worms.

Viruses – A virus is a small piece of software that attach on real programs. Each time the application program runs, the virus runs, too, and it has the chance to reproduce by attaching to other programs or spread virus.

Worms – A worm is a small piece of software that uses computer networks and security holes to replicate it but is the most common. A copy of the worm scans the network for another machine that has a specific security hole. It copies itself to the new machine using the security hole, and then starts replicating from there, as well.

If you are smart, you will stop viruses before they enter your computer. You can do this by purchasing an antivirus. Antivirus will check all files of your computer before virus or unwanted file enter and will alert you if a virus is detected before it contaminates your system. If a virus is detected, your antivirus program will quarantine or delete it so that it cannot harm your computer.

Another way is the System Restore, which restores the registry and critical system files to a previous checkpoint. Often a virus will cause a system to hang, and a subsequent hard reboot will render a system restore point from the same day corrupt. Restore points from previous days should work provided the virus is not designed to corrupt the restore files or also exists in previous restore points.

Also Administrators have the option to disable such tools. For example, preventing the downloading or running of an extension file such as filename.exe. With this the security is higher in entering of a virus or unwanted file. Or simply avoid copying or sharing your files and avoid downloading file from the internet. Installing an innocent program might be your step on having a virus.

When you know a virus is running on your computer but the antivirus cannot seem to eradicate it, use the Windows Task Manager. Go to Process and find an unusual image name that you think is a virus then right click and choose End Process.

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