Previously I’ve shared with you a tip on how to obtain genuine license key for Kaspersky AntiVirus which will last you a year. However, the promotion only lasted a few days and it is no longer giving out free license key. As far as I know, many people benefited from this tip and manage to use one of the best antivirus in the world for a year for free. However, there are also people who were too late to know about this tip and didn’t manage to get a free kaspersky antivirus license.

Do not despair. Today I am going to share with you on how to get a free Norton Antibot genuine serial number that will last for 366 days. Norton AntiBot uses Active Behavioral-Based Analysis to stop and remove malicious bots before they can cause damage or steal personal information. It adds an additional layer of security to protect your identity and works with other security products to provide protection against emerging threats.

If you go to Symantec’s website, you’ll find that Norton AntiBot cost $29.99 for a year license but if you follow the steps which I am about to show you, you’re going to get the genuine serial number for free!


Norton AntiBot is a great security tool that adds an additional layer of security to protect you from trojans and bots. Remote Access Tool (RAT) trojans are very dangerous because it is designed to avoid antivirus detection and once you’re infected, your computer is in total control of the hacker. The hacker can capture whatever you type, take screenshot of what you’re doing, have access to your files, and can even command your computer to do certain things such as spamming or DDoS. In short, Norton AntiBot protects your computer from being hijacked.

Features of Norton AntiBot:

Actively monitors your PC’s applications and processes 24×7, so it’s always protected

Removes detected bots and malware and their related components, custom installation files, and registry settings

Protects against emerging variants of bots and other malware threats—without relying completely on signature updates

Has minimal impact on your PC’s performance, so you can continue to work and play normally

Detects malicious software at the deepest levels of your Windows® system in real time to defeat hidden attacks that other products can’t tackle

Includes protection updates as available throughout the renewable service period

Just follow the few simple steps below on how to get your free 1 year Norton AntiBot genuine serial number.

1. Visit this page to get Norton AntiBot serial number. Enter your email address, check the box for “Ich akzeptiere” and click the button that says “Gratis Produktschlüssel anfordern”

2. Now check the email address that you’ve entered earlier. You should get an email from [email protected] with the subject “Norton Antibot“. If you didn’t get it, check your spam/junk folder. The Norton Antibot serial number is in the email.

3. Download Norton AntiBot and install.

4. Run Norton Antibot after installing, press the “Enter Product Key” button and enter the serial number that you got from the email. You must have an active internet connection when entering the serial number. After entering serial number, you’ll get a message that says “Product key has been updated”.

5. Now you’ll see that your Norton AntiBot has a subscription of 366 days!

When Norton Antibot is sitting at the Windows tray, it doesn’t take up much memory. I’ve also tried infecting myself with Bifrost trojan, and it immediately detected it as threat and even gives me details on what it does to my computer such as Registers executable to survive reboot, executable changed, executes from the filesystem, writes to Windows directory, injects code and executable is packed. In my opinion, Norton AntiBot works better than Trend Micro RU Botted which is still in beta and offered for free.

If you’re wondering why is Symantec giving out free Norton AntiBot serial number, well, actually this free license is meant for people who bought the German ComputerBILD magazine 😛

Thanks Jim for sharing this tip with us!

Few days ago Kaspersky 2009 product was released and I was excited as hell to give out free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 license key to my subscribers. I have the 30 KIS license keys with me and it’s ready to be given out next week. Nearly 300 applicants has taken part in the draw. What if I tell you that there is no need for me to give the 30 KIS license, and all 300 of you, including the ones that haven’t taken part can now get it yourself for FREE!

Do you all still remember the article on how to obtain free 1 year Kaspersky Anti-Virus genuine license key for everyone which I posted 3 months ago? I am sure it has benefited hundreds, if not thousands of people for this free KAV license. However, the promotion only lasted a few days which wasn’t long enough for more people to get the free license key.

Listen carefully people and BE FAST because here is another trick that allows ANYONE to get free 1 YEAR Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 license key which can be used on 3 computers!


Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is the all-in-one security solution that offers a worry-free computing environment for you and your family. It has tons of features which is capable of protecting your computer from old, current and future security threats.

1. Go to this page and click the blue link that says “To get free protection, go to the Kaspersky Barclays offer page“.

2. Select your title, enter your first name, last name and REAL email address. As for Online Banking membership number, enter 12 digit number that starts with 2010. An example of the 12 digit online banking membership number format is 201056789112.

3. Now check the email address that you’ve entered earlier. You should get an email from Kaspersky Lab ([email protected]) with the subject “Register with Kaspersky”. If you didn’t get it, check your spam/junk folder. Click the activation link at the bottom of the email.

4. Your default browser will open. Click the Next button to submit your email confirmation ID.

5. Check your email again. You should get another email from Kaspersky Lab ([email protected]) with the subject “Your Kaspersky Activation Code and download instructions”. Note down the activation code. That’s the genuine license key for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.

6. Download latest Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.357 and install.

7. Follow the instructions and when you get to the part where it ask you to activate the application, click Activate online. Just paste the activation code and click Next. You might need to create an account with Kaspersky as you’re entitled to product technical support. Enjoy having Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 on your computer for 365 days without paying a single cent!

Thanks to Relequestual for emailing and informing me about Barclays Bank customers that uses their online service can get free Kaspersky Internet Security. This Kaspersky key can be used on 3 computers and you get round-the-clock technical support from Kaspersky.

2 years ago, Barclay bank signed a deal with F-Secure for 1.6 million licenses. Now if I am not wrong, Barclay is also paying for every KIS license that is generated from Kaspersky’s website. So be quick and get your free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 license before Kaspersky and Barclay notice this leak and close it. See, no harm in subscribing to Raymond.CC’s Newsletter because I bring you the best tips and tricks.

WordPress is my favorite content management system because it has tons of very nice free themes and also plugins. If you’re willing to spend money, there are also paid plugins which features some powerful features that are not found in free plugins. Nearly all websites that I host for my customers have been converted from plain HTML to WordPress. Now my customers can log in to their own website and post or edit pages without messing with HTML codes and then uploading to website using FTP.

I recently purchased a new local Malaysian webhosting and transferred some domains there. WordPress installation is fairly easy, just create database, configure the wp-config.php and run the installation script. Should take less than 5 minutes to get WordPress running. However, I encountered a very weird problem that is I kept on getting the error below.

'.__('Already Installed').'

'.__('You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.').'
');} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>

ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you\'ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.'), '../readme.html'); ?>

error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST['weblog_title']) ? stripslashes($_POST['weblog_title']) : ''; $admin_email = isset($_POST['admin_email']) ? stripslashes($_POST['admin_email']) : ''; $public = isset($_POST['blog_public']) ? (int) $_POST['blog_public'] : 0; // check e-mail address if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die('

'.__("ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address.").'
'); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die('

'.__('ERROR: that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [email protected]').'
'); } $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, 'admin', $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>

admin

'.__('Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you.').''; ?>

I’ve also tried their Installatron Applications Installer which can automatically install WordPress without manually creating database tables and setting up the wp-config.php file but also getting the same error. I created a support ticket and found out that the solution to fix this WordPress installation problem is VERY simple.


So far I only have experience in cPanel but this server is using Direct Admin. After adding a domain to my Direct Admin control panel, somehow I missed out enabling PHP access for the domain. Here is how to enable PHP access in Direct Admin. If you do not have access to Direct Admin control panel, you can ask the person who is hosting your website or your webhost to do it for you.

1. Login to your Direct Admin control panel.

2. Click the Domain Administration button.

3. A list of domains will appear. Click on the domain that you’re having problems installing WordPress.

4. Check PHP Access and click Save. Now try installing WordPress by running the install.php script. Sometimes a solution can be so simple yet we try so many other confusing methods to try to fix the problem.

The runonce page (http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx) is a page which appears automatically when you run the Internet Explorer for the first time or if you Reset Internet Explorer Settings from Tools > Internet Options > Advance Tab. The purpose of Runounce page is to allow you to customize some of the settings such as default search provider, automatic phishing filter, activate ClearType, language selection and joining Customer Experience Improvement Program.

If you don’t complete the runonce customization page, this page will automatically load each time you open Internet Explorer regardless of what you set as the Internet Explorer’s default home page. So the simple way to get rid of runonce page is to complete the form.

However, there are times when you can’t complete the runonce settings page. The page will either appears blank, or just does not load and ended with an “Error on Page” with a plain blue color page. Sometimes the runonce page loads without problems, but the “save your settings” button will never work and only gives you “Element not found” error. So every time you open IE7, this page loads and nothing will happen.

Update: The RunOnce2.aspx page is no longer available. If you try to access, you might see the error message “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”. The resource cannot be found. Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly. Requested URL: /runonce2.aspx

Here is how to fix this annoying IE7 runonce customize your settings problem.


If you think Internet Explorer problem is not worth fixing, think again. My web statistics software shows that 58% visitors who visits this blog site is still using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Firefox is at 35%. I never abandon Internet Explorer and will fix any problems I found because it is still an important part of Windows.

There is a registry setting which will tell Internet Explorer whether the runonce page has been shown and completed or not. If it has been shown and completed, this page will never be loaded again. If not, it will annoy the hell outta you! To bypass runonce page, edit the following registry values by following the steps below.

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate the following registry subkey, and then click it:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
3. In the details pane, double-click the RunOnceHasShown registry entry and enter 1 in the value data box. Click OK.
4. In the details pane, double-click the RunOnceComplete registry entry and enter 1 in the value data box. Click OK.

Both values RunOnceHasShown and RunOnceComplete value must be set to 1. If any one is 0, the runonce page will start loading again whenever you launch Internet Explorer. Ok, that’s the hard way. The easy way to fix this runonce problem without launching and editing the Windows Registry (regedit) is to use a small tool which automatically does this for you. Simply download and run IE7 Runonce Remover. Click the Remove button and that’s it! You can also use this tool to undo the registry and bring back the RunOnce page.

Now your default Internet Explorer home page will be displayed. By default this page is redirected to MSN.COM. Microsoft should have thought about this problem before creating this page 😛

[ Download IE7 Runonce Remover ]

Most of the recent laptops and netbooks already comes with wireless capability allowing you to connect to wifi hotspots. Previously I’ve written a few guides (XP, Vista, Hotspot) on how to share the wireless Internet connection without a wireless router. Let’s say you have a direct connection to the Internet via network cable and the computer has a wireless adapter. Since your computer is connected via cable, the wireless adapter will not be in use and it is possible to make the wireless adapter to share the Internet connection that you are getting from the cabled connection. This saves you from spending money in buying a wireless router.

However, the steps are quite long are involves a lot of steps. Moreover there are also many different network configurations and the steps that I’ve written might not work for you. Good news is I found a free software called Connectify which is able to “EASILY” turn your Windows 7 computer into a wireless router with only one click. Trust me, sharing an internet connection using your wireless adapter cannot get any easier than this!

1. Fill up this form to obtain the Connectify download link. The page mentioned that the link will be sent to the e-mail address but

2. Download and install Connectify. (The installer ConnectifyInstaller.exe is only 1.41MB in size)

3. Select the Internet connection you wish to share (My internet connection is coming from Local Area Connection and Connectify automatically selected it)

4. Choose a name for your new wireless network (You can leave it as Connectify)

5. Choose a wireless passphrase (You will to enter a wireless password that contains at least 8 characters)

6. Press the Internet Sharing button to turn on your wireless network

Now, from your other devices, you can see your wireless network. Choose to join it, and enter the wireless passphrase to connect.

Your wireless hotspot created with Connectify is encrypted with WPA2-Personal (AES) encryption by default and you cannot turn it off. Your security is as strong as the Passphrase that you select.

Although this guide ended up with 6 steps, but in short you only need to download and install Connectify, set the passphrase and click a button. I think I can do that all in less than 5 minutes. Connectify is a real WiFi Access Point running on your computer and it’s not an ad-hoc mode. Any device that can connect to a regular access point, can connect to a Connectify Hotspot, with no special setup or software required. Do note that Connectify is still in beta and some old wifi adapter cannot work. I’ve tried setting up connectify with D-Link DWA-110 and it couldn’t work. But when tested on a built-in Intel wireless adapter, it works perfectly.

Connectify is free and runs only on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2, both in either 32 or 64 bits. It is not made for XP or Vista. Most ISP doesn’t allow you to resell your internet connection. However if you are sharing the cost with your neighbor, then I believe it should be fine.

Recently one of my email address has been constantly receiving emails from DHL system, Post Express notification, Post Express Information, United Parcel Service and Post Express Parcel. I started receiving those emails on 9th March and still getting it today. Before we go on any further, please be noted that all those emails are FAKE and containing attachment which are malware that installs fake anti-spyware software on your computer, trying to convince you that your computer has tons of infection and get you to pay them money to register the software. To be honest, I nearly fell for the trick in running the attachment because so coincidentally I was expecting a package from DHL and have signed up for email notification…


From:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Attachments:

Post_Express_Label_No.30845.zip
UPS-document.zip
UPS notification.zip
United Parcel Service Notification Letter.zip
United Parcel Service document.zip
UPSnotify.rar
Post_Express_Label_SER.71816.zip
tracking.zip
Post_Express_Label_VID99184.zip
document.zip
DHL_documents.zip
UPS.zip
dhl.zip

Message Body:

Dear customer. The parcel was send your home address. And it will arrice within 7 bussness day. More information and the tracking number are attached in document below.

Dear Customer. Email notification No.4185840. Your package has been returned to the Post Express office. The reason of the return is “Error in the delivery address”. Important message! Attached to the letter mailing label contains the details of the package delivery. You have to print mailing label, and come in the Post Express office in order to receive the packages! Thank you for your attention. Post Express Service.

Dear customer. The parcel was sent your home address. And it will arrive within 3 business day. More information and the tracking number are attached in document below. Thank you. © 1994-2011 United Parcel Service of America, Inc.

I ran all of the attachments on my test computer and found a lot of interesting things happening.

– The executable attachment melts and spits out a document.doc file showing details of delivery parcels

– Secretly download and install Win 7 Anti-Spyware 2011 OR Win 7 Anti-Virus 2011 and shows a fake Action Center. Tries to convince you that your computer has viruses so you’ll enter your credit card details on the software to register it.

– When run Task Manager, a fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert window opens. If click the Scan Online button, computer restarts and runs CleanThis, World’s leading security solution. There is no way to get back in Windows even in Safe Mode because CleanThis runs automatically before explorer and disabling Windows Task Manager (CTRL+Shift+Esc). The only way to clean this up is by using Antivirus Rescue Disk, preferably Avira or Kaspersky.

– Connections being made secretly to Yahoo SMTP, AOL SMTP, Gmail SMTP, GMX SMTP, Ukraine IP, UK IP.

The older attachments are already detected by most antivirus but as for the latest one which I’ve just received, only 18 out of 41 antivirus detects it as trojan. Some of the famous antivirus brand such as Avast, AVG, Comodo, Panda and F-Secure missed it. I believe the person who created this is not going to stop any time soon because I can see that every newer version has improved infection logic and typing errors (typo) corrected. Antivirus is not going to fully protect your computer if you’re one of the earlier person to receive the newer version of malware. You can either immediately delete the email or simply submit the sample to antivirus computer. Most antivirus has a built-in feature to directly upload the suspicious file to the analyst.

Spy Sheriff is one nasty spyware. If you search Spy Sheriff, one of the top result you will get is “SpySheriff – Spyware Remover and Protection Suite”. It claims to be a spyware remover and protection suite but what you don’t know is that the creator itself tries to sell their own products by secretly installing multiple spywares on your computer. When you get infected by Spy Sheriff, it actually drops many types of spyware into your Windows.
I was infected by Spy Sheriff few days ago and it wasn’t really impossible to remove. I believe there might be many variants of Spy Sheriff spyware because I searched around for removal techniques and never really found one that is able to 100% cleaned my version of Spy Sheriff spyware.


How do I know if I am infected by Spy Sheriff?
The most obvious is when you run your Internet Explorer, instead of bringing you to your default website which is usually MSN, it loads C:\secure32.html instead.

Another thing is you would see 2 different types of messages at your traybar.
1. Your computer is infected! Windows has detected spyware infection! Click here to protect your computer from spyware!

2. Your computer is infected! Windows has detected spyware infection! It is recommended to use special antspyware tools to prevent data loss. Windows will now download and install the most up-to-date antispyware for you. Click here to protect your computer from spyware!

For your information, Windows currently doesn’t have the capabilities to detect any spyware infection. So the detection is fake.

3. Spy Sheriff so called Spyware Remover and Protection Suite is automatically installed on your computer.

4. Upon being infected by Spy Sheriff spyware, my MSN Messenger no longer working.

All the trojans and viruses it comes loaded with send messages of your systems status and personal information to possibly hundreds of servers around the world.

In the above screen shot some of the malware packaged with Spy Sheriff are trojans sending SMTP [port 25]/email traffic to spf-jail1.us4.outbloze.com, mail*.messagelabs.com, mx.bol.com.br [Brazil], mx.centre.ru [Russia], and many other exotic black hat hacker locations around the world.

I’ve created a Spy Sheriff auto cleaner based on the Spy Sheriff spyware that I was infected. I’ve only tested this cleaner on Windows XP english version.

Please follow these directions and in the posted order.
1. Close all running programs such as your Internet Explorer and so on…
2. Download haxfix.exe and install.
3. Run HaxFix from Start -> Programs -> HaxFix and Press “2” to “Run auto fix“. It should automatically restart your computer when auto fix is completed.
4. Download Auto Cleaner/Removal for Spy Sheriff spyware
5. Double click “Run This Cleaner.bat” to start the cleaning of Spy Sheriff.
6. It should only take 1-2 seconds to remove Spy Sheriff from your computer.
7. Once completed, again, restart your computer manually.

Note: If this auto cleaner doesn’t work for you, just leave a comment below and let me know how you got infected by Spy Sheriff. I will do my best to update the cleaner based on your Spy Sheriff spyware infection.

Good luck in removing Spy Sheriff spyware!

It is always good to provide your visitors a method to contact you on your website if they have any question. In my opinion, it is better to provide a contact form rather than openly publishing your email address because it is easier as your visitor don’t need to login to their email address and also not everyone get to know your email address, thus reducing the amount of spam that gets in your email.

The better way is of course to provide live chat to your visitors. They get to easily ask question and maybe get an immediate reply if the operator is online. There are many powerful but expensive and complicated live support shareware scripts such as Live Person, Kayako SupportSuite and etc… If we are not offering any customer service, we probably only need to integrate a simple live chat on our site.

I found 3 live chat widget which you can easily integrate live chat to your website, blog, and even myspace within minutes!


Here are some advantages of having live chat widgets on your website.
– Instant communication to anyone who visits your website
– Visitors don’t need to download, install or sign up to chat with you
– Able to chat with people who don’t want to give you their IM contact.

1. Meebo Me Widget

I guess most of you all should know what is Meebo by now. meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free! Meebo Me was launched somewhere around August 2006 and it allows people to contact you and see when you are online whenever they visit your site by putting a meebo me chat window right on your own home page. When logged into meebo, you can chat with all of your visitors in real time.

What I like about Meboo Me is I can customize the color of my chat widget, leave offline messages when I am not online, and even send files. There are also a bunch of 3rd party applications that I can run together with visitors such as games, shopping, communication, news and etc. Offline messages can be bad because you can be bombarded with messages. The only way to disable Meebo Me offline messages is by disabling Meebo Me Widget.

To create Meebo Me live chat widget, head over to MeeboMe‘s website, enter Widget title, display name, select widget size and color theme, and click Next. At the next screen, you’ll either have to login or register for a new meebo account (if you don’t have one). At the final page, you’re given a code which you can copy and paste into your website html where you’d like the widget to appear. Once you’ve done that, sign in to meebo and you get to see the visitors on your site and start talking with them.

2. Google Talk chatback badge

Google Talk chatback badge is pretty new, simple and nice. It only shows a nice Google Talk bubble with your online status. If the operator is online, the visitor is able to click on the link that says “Chat with NAME”. Then the operator will receive a link to accept the chat request. When you’re chatting with your visitor using Google Talk Chatback, you are actually using Google Talk Gadget (the web version of Google Talk). It doesn’t work directly with Google Talk desktop version though.

Once you logged in to your Gmail account using the link above, you are able to edit your nickname, title and choose to show your status message or not. You will then have to copy and paste the given code into your web page where you want Google Talk Chatback badge to appear.

3. Hab.la

The third and final one is Hab.la. Habla doesn’t have its own chat or web client. Once you’ve added the code on your website, you’ll notice a small bar appear on the bottom right of the page. It will either show “not available” or “click here to chat”. The operator will have to add hab.la to any Jabber client such as meebo, trillian, pidgin or iChat. There is nothing to configure and customize. So if you have a dark colored website, most probably the bar is not very visible for your visitors.

There you have it. 3 free and easy ways to chat with visitors on your website. Perhaps one day I shall implement a live chat on my website to chat with you guys…

I’ve been using Firefox 3 since Release Candidate 1 (RC1) right up till the final stable version which was released a week ago. The BETA version was released much earlier but I did not test it because it is usually very unstable and used for testing purposes only. As for Release Candidate, it is the final stage before a full release. After installing Firefox RC1, it worked perfectly with no crashes and I noticed that websites loads faster than Firefox 2. The only problem was the incompatible extensions which doesn’t effect me much because I only use FlashGot.

Although the new Firefox 3 is able to load up website much faster than previous version of Firefox, there is still a way to speed up and optimize Firefox 3. I was skeptical at first, so I made a full backup of my Firefox profile, tuned Firefox 3 with a click and website loads EVEN FASTER!


If you type about:config at the Firefox URL bar, a bunch of advance settings will appear. It’s not easy knowing which one to change will improve Firefox’s performance but you can find them on lots of Firefox related websites. Instead of manually changing the settings one by one, here is a very useful free software that is able to optimize the latest Firefox 3 with just a click.

FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x / 2.x / 3.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here – it includes all the performance optimizations. The only thing you must do is: make your selection. FireTune does the work for you.

According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed, FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance. FireTune does NOT modify the Firefox executable, or any other Firefox binary file. Everything can be undone easily provided you saved your original profile configuration file with FireTune’s profile backup feature before. Details on what exactly FireTune does can be found in the FireTune help file.

The simple way to tell whether Firefox is faster after optimizing is to follow these instructions.
1. Clear the Cache of Firefox and close Firefox
2. Open Firefox, go to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ and do a speed test on http://www.neowin.net/. Note down the time taken to completely load the website.
3. Clear the cache and close Firefox.
Note: I’d advice you to go through step 1-3 a few times to get an average of load time before optimization.
4. Tune your Firefox with FireTune.
5. Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.neowin.net/
6. Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization

The developer of FireTune noticed a speed improvement of 2.05 seconds – the load time was 9.47 seconds before optimizations, and 7.42 seconds after optimization. I’ve tested it myself and also noticed a speed improvement of an average of 2-3 seconds. I visit many website and forums everyday and it could definitely save a lot of my time. Actually I’ve heard about FireTune long ago but never tested it. I am glad that I have now… If you are using the latest Firefox 3, I strongly recommend you to tweak, tune and optimize it with FireTune.

[ Download FireTune v1.2 ]

One of our forum member tangomouse has created a nice and simple tool called Re-Enable to help us re-enable disabled Task Manager, Registry Editor, Command Prompt, Folder Options and even System Restore configuration that is normally caused by virus. Honestly the tool that I’ve been using to do this is Remove Restriction Tool v1.03 but now the latest version of RRT has grown so much that I’d say it’s a little too bloated. I just needed a simple tool that does the job and doesn’t have all those flashy interface that sometimes I can’t run on a virus infected computer.

This project started off to help another forum member but somehow it ended up in Softpedia and now in this blog.


As you can see at the screenshot below, it’s a no brainer to use this tool. All you need to do is put a check on the checkbox that you want to enable and click the Enable button. The disable feature will be instantly enabled or if not, a reboot would do the trick. Please make sure that the computer is free from virus or else the changes made by this tool will not be effective and there is no end to enabling/disabling competition between you and the virus.

Re-enable is coded in .NET but doesn’t need .NET installed because .NET dependencies are included in the program making it fully portable. That is why a single file is in 36.7MB. However if you working on a computer that already have .NET framework installed, then you can just use the 64KB version instead.

This product was last tested in the Softpedia Labs on 1st of September 2009 by Cosmin Anton and they guarantee that Re-Enable Portable 1.0.0.0 is 100% Clean, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. Re-Enable is only in version 1 and I am sure that it can be improved with a couple more features without making it too bloated.

[ Download Re-Enable With .NET | Without .NET ]

Recently I stumbled on a security software called Spy-The-Spy. This freeware is quite interesting and useful because it is made to spy on spywares. The developer of this tool figured that instead of building a database of spyware or try to figure out what registry belongs to spyware, he’ll just need simple tool that is able to notify him the very moment something is being installed on his computer.

If you’re wondering how can this tool monitor for spywares, it is actually quite simple. It simply monitors system folders for any new exe’s or dll’s being added, modified or renamed. Windows and System32 folder is usually the main place where spyware makes a copy of itself or drop even more spywares. So by monitoring important folders, you instantly get to know if something is being installed on your computer without your knowledge.


Spy-To-Spy sits in tray and watches folders you specified in settings. The folders include subfolders so you really just need to set C:\Windows to monitor all additions to Windows and System folders.

Now anytime an EXE or DLL is added, renamed or modified in the monitored folder, a warning message will appear telling you which file has been added, renamed or modified.

You have the option to add selected files to Quarantine. It will brute force kill the processes quickly one after another to avoid watchdogs and move the exe file to a Quarantine folder. You can also easily run SFC (System File Checker) from the menu in case if some system DLL files are modified and you have no backup for the file. Make sure you have the Windows disc with you because SFC requires it.

By default, Spy-The-Spy monitors only the Windows folder. I’d advice you to monitor Program Files folder as well because trojan coders already aware that Windows and System32 folders are being carefully monitored by most security software. If you’d like to be extra safe, you can even monitor the whole C: drive. You won’t really be bugged by the notification because it only monitors EXE and DLL files. Other file formats are ignored.

Spy-The-Spy is truly a simple and useful tool. It is small in size and takes up only 5MB from your memory. This tool is not perfect because it doesn’t monitor other dangerous file extension such as .PIF, .SCR, .VBS, .BAT and .CMD. Remember, Spy-The-Spy is only a file monitor. It doesn’t differentiate between real spyware and a legit file that has been added to watched folders.

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All this while I’ve been using Megaupload/Share.am Link Grabber to bypass Megaupload’s download limit slot problem. It’s been a few months that this tool has stopped working most probably because Megaupload has updated their code and the author of Megaupload/Share.am Link Grabber didn’t bother to update his useful tool.

Yesterday I desperately needed to download something from Megaupload and I was out of ideas on how to do it because the only tool that I was relying on can no longer be used. Everytime I tried to download something from Megaupload, I get the message All download slots assigned to your country are currently in use. Please try again in a few hours or install the Megaupload Toolbar for immediate access – with the toolbar installed, there are no more slot limitations for you!

For sure I don’t want to download and install the crappy Megaupload toolbar when I don’t even download from Megaupload often. I think it has nothing to do with slots being used up. It’s just Megaupload trying to promote their toolbar and get as many people as they can to install Megaupload toolbar. Luckily mEtRiX suggested a way that can bypass Megaupload download slot limit.


All I needed to do to bypass Megaupload download slot limit problem is download a Firefox plugin called Megaupload SX 4.3 and enable it before I visit the Megaupload download link URL. If you don’t have Firefox browser, I suggest you download and use it one now.

After installing Megaupload SX plugin, restart your Firefox and you’ll notice that a new menu “Megaupload SX 4.3” will appear in your Tools menu. There’s only enable and disable. Turn it on when you want to click a megaupload link and turn it off later the download has started.

It’s THAT SIMPLE! Another reason why Firefox is the best browser in the world.

Note: There’s a small problem with this plugin. Even after uninstalling the Megaupload SX plugin, you’ll still be stuck at some other language when you visit Megaupload. If I am not wrong, it should be Portuguese language. Clearing your Firefox cache and cookies will fix this problem.

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To be honest, even though I can speak and understand English, sometimes it’s tough to understand what the actors or actresses are saying in a movie. For cinemas in Malaysia, there are English, Chinese and Malay subtitles being displayed simultaneously. So even if you don’t understand what the characters in the movie just said, looking at the subtitles really helps a lot.

Problem is, downloaded movies and videos don’t contain subtitles. I think one of the reason why movie rippers don’t include subtitles in video files is because you can have your own choice of subtitles language. Let’s say you only understand Arabic and don’t know a single English word but you want to watch the latest Ocean’s Thirteen movie. All you need to do is just download the Arabic subtitle which is usually smaller than 100KB in size to go with the downloaded movie.

Here’s how you find the subtitles you want and include it in the downloaded movie in step-by-step instruction.


A downloaded movie is around 600MB-700MB in size. Let’s try to search for “An Inconvenient Truth” subtitle.

1. Visit Subscene to search for the subtitle.

2. Type in the movie name; For example, An Inconvenient Truth at the search box and click Search button.

3. It will display a list of available subtitles for “An Inconvenient Truth”. As you can see, it has Arabic, Chinese, Brazilian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English and many more languages subtitle.

4. Click on the language that you’d like to download, type the four random characters and click the Download button.

5. Extract the downloaded archive file and you should get a .SRT file.

6. Copy the .SRT file to where your downloaded movie is located and rename it exactly the same as your movie file and retain the .SRT extension.

7. Play the AVI file with your favorite media player such as Winamp or BSplayer and it will automatically include the subtitle.

You might encounter a problem that is the subtitles are out of sync. It’s either too fast, too slow or appear in wrong places. The subtitle you downloaded may be a subtitle for a different ‘frames per second’ version of the movie. Try downloading more subtitles for your movie to see if any of them fit.

Another website that has a lot of subtitles for AVI movies is “DivX Subtitles“. I less prefer this site than Subscene because it requires registration in order to download the subtitles. But if you’ve read and implemented the BugMeNot article, you don’t need to register an account to download the subtitles.

It is very common nowadays for any web browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Maxthon, Opera and etc to have tabs. Tabbed browsing in web browser lets you load Web pages in separate tabs of a single browser window, so you can jump between them quickly and easily. Perhaps you’re reading a news story and want to follow an interesting link without losing your place in the original story. With tabbed browsing, you can do this without filling your desktop with new, unorganized browser windows.

Not only that, compare running 7 Internet Explorer browser with 1 Internet Explorer with 7 tabs. You’ll notice that your computer will start to crawl slowly on the computer that’s running 7 IE browser.

Now, you can also have tabs in your Windows Explorer! Microsoft should have implemented this feature in Windows Vista!



Quizo, a japanese has created QT TabBar that will add-on tab function to your explorer. It’s not a third party program that replaces your explorer… Installation is very easy. Just download the zip archive, extract to a new folder and run RegisterQTTabBar.exe.

Make sure that the Install button is selected and click on the next button. A few seconds later, you’ll get a message saying “Types registered successfully“. You have to restart or logoff and relogin to start having Tabs in your Explorer.

After relogon, you need to open explorer, and right click on toolbar. Check “QT TabBar“. First time you’ll see an empty tab. Close explorer window, and from next time QT TabBar will work properly.

The default shortcut key to go around the tabs in explorer is similar to Firefox browser. You can however edit the default shortcut keys with QTShortcutKeyEditor.exe

You can even set password to any folders. It’s an extra added feature for QT TabBar. Simply right click on the tab and select “Set Password…“. After you’ve set a password to a folder, when you try to access the folder, you’ll be prompted to enter the correct password.

Important Notes: If you’re using Windows XP, make sure Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 or 3.0 is installed on your computer. You can get Microsoft .NET framework 3.0 from Windows Update or download from here.

Very useful and it’s FREE. Highly recommended for power users!

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