Saturday, November 22, 2008

How to Use a Wireless Connection with Your XBox 360 Without Spending $100

Buy the Belkin wireless gaming adapter. I bought mine from Buy.com recently for $20. That is a lot less than the $90+ that Microsoft wants for their adapter. Check out the product page here:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=154416

Monday, November 10, 2008

Online Virus Scanning Site

Here is a link to another site that allows you to upload suspicious files for scanning and then scans the file using multitudes of virus scanning programs.

NoVirusThanks.org is a site that was born in 26/6/2008 with the intent to offer to users free services that will help them to prevent a computer virus infection and to identify possible viruses in their computer.

Below is the list of virus scanners that will be used to scan your file.

Antivirus Homepage Engine
a-squared Emsi Software 4.0.0.23
Avira AntiVir Avira 8.1.2.12
AVG AVG Technologies 8.0.0.0
Avast! ALWIL 4.8.1229
BitDefender BitDefender GmbH 7.0.0.2555
ClamAV ClamWin 0.93.1.0
Comodo Comodo Group 3.0
Dr.Web Doctor Web, Ltd 4.44.0.0711200
Ewido ewido networks 4.0.0.2
F-PROT 6 FRISK Software 4.4.4.56
G DATA G DATA Software 2.0.7309.847
IkarusT3 Ikarus Software 0.1.32.4
Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab 8.0.0.357
McAfee McAfee 5.1.0.0
NOD32 Eset Software 3.0.677
Norman Norman 5.92.08
QuickHeal Cat Computer Services 9.50
Panda Panda Security 9.5.1.00
Solo Antivirus SRN Micro Systems 7.0
Sophos Sophos 4.32.0
TrendMicro Trend Micro 1.1-1001
VBA32 VirusBlokAda 3.12.0.300
VirusBuster VirusBuster 1.4.3

How To Find Out Who Sold Your Gmail Address To Spammers

source: betadaily.com

We hate spam and hate those spammers too. But how do we get spam? We get most of the spam from the spammers who buy our email address from the websites where we register and give out the email address.

It is absolutely impossible for us to find out who sold our email address to those spammers who choke our inbox with unwanted emails. But now there is a solution to find out people who sell our confidential information to others. Gmail provides a not so explicit feature which you can use to find out which website is giving out your email address to spammers. This will not work for the previous websites where you have already registered but you can use it for future registrations.

Here is how to use it:

1. While signing up for any new website enter your Gmail address as your_user_name+website_name@gmail.com.

2. Don’t worry, you will receive the mails as usual because Gmail doesn’t recognize any combination of words or numbers after the “+” sign.

3. Whenever you get any spam message just click on the “Show Details” link to expand the email header and find out the email address to which it was sent. The images below show a test which I did with a “+” sign on my email address.

4. If you had signed up according to the step number 1, you will be able to find out who gave your email address to the spammer.

Use this to find out which websites are selling your email addresses, check out their privacy policy and sue them if they lied. If you found this useful, don’t forget to share it with others.