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How To Clean Doraemon Virus

There is a new virus from Indonesia spreading from the Internet and is known to act as animation film characters such as Doraemon, Sinchan and Tom & Jerry. This virus will stay in your computer with a Real Media Player icon.

Here are some tips on how to clean it:

1. Better to clean it in safe mode.

2. Turn off the active virus process in memory. Use any task manager substitution tools, ie Itty Bitty process manager (download it at http://majorgeeks.com/Itty_Bitty_Process_Manager_d4690.html)

Do Kill process on some active virus files:
* C:\WINDOWS\Help\explorer.exe
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4 Good Reasons To Choose Linux

Lately, Linux operating system is used by many sectors, including businesses. For those of you who are trying to develop your business for instance, why don’t you consider Linux as the company’s computer operating system.

Besides of the cost saving, the following features are available in Linux that also as good as other operating systems available in the market. Specially for those of you who don’t know Linux well, this guidelines below might be useful in choosing Linux, as quoted from the PCWorld.

1. Why Choose Linux

Every Linux is available for free. You can install it in as many computers as you like free of charge. In addition, this Linux system has completed with many important application. For you who need word or counting editing software, available OpenOffice.org that is good enough. For pictures editing, there is Gimp application that is relatively good. Read More …

July 18th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

3 Solution For Our Troubled USB Flash Drive

SB Flash Drive as a storage media is often broken or won’t release safely from computer. These are some simple tips to deal with your Flash Drive.

1. Use Task Manager
Often when you are finished with your Flash Drive and want to unplug it, suddenly it does not want to be released safely from your computer. If you have already close all programs and the USB is still stuck, try to open Task Manager.

Press “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” together to view Task Manager in Windows XP. Then go to “Processes” tab. Check all the details of the processes that is currently running. If you find any process which is coming from USB Flash Drive, click on that process then press “End Process”. You can try to unplug your Flash Drive again.

2. Other Option
If using the task bar still give you no result, there are two options that you can do, that is:

- Shut down your computer then unplug the USB Flash Drive

- Or, you can take a risk by unplug it directly. This option will not give you any problem if the flash disk unplugged when all the programs are already closed. However, there is no guarantee that your data in that Flash DIsk will be save with this option.

3. Use “USB Safely Remove”
You can also try the trial version of a software called USB Safely Remove. This software is very useful to analyze why the USB Flash Disk won’t unplug safely from computer, then give us the solution. If you want to use the full version, you’re gonna have to buy it.