Adobe has updated the Adobe Reader from version 8.0 to version 8.1. Adobe Reader, formerly known as Adobe Acrobat Reader, is the most popular free software that lets users open, view, search, and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files with built-in security features. One of the major feature in Adobe Reader 8.1 is enhanced support and compatibility for Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista.
Be careful when you receive an email promising a trailer of the film, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and also the chance to win free tickets. Don’t try, don’t buy, don’t click and don’t reply. Just delete it because this widely spammed email is just a malicious program called Troj/Yar-A which tries to download further malware from the internet.
Symantec has released its free public beta for its new Norton AntiBot software that can identify malware on user’s system by analyzing its behavior. This public beta version Norton Antibot is based on technology licensed from Sana Security plus a few minor add-ins from Symantec’s SONAR behavioral scanning technology.
If you have un-ticked or unchecked the check box of “Always ask before opening this type of file” for a particular file type or file extension on the File Download dialog box when you download the file with Internet Explorer (IE7 or IE6 or older), you will no longer see the File Download confirmation dialog again. The files will be automatically downloaded once you click […]
Whenever you download a file such as zip file, Word documents, Excel worksheets or Powerpoint presentations from the web using Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) in Windows Vista, a download dialog window which allows you to choose whether you want to open or save the file to the disk will pop up. On this dialog box, there is a check box on “Always ask before opening […]
Windows Media Player 11 or commonly known as WMP 11 in Windows Vista is a bloated software media player, which famous for its slow loading time, slow response time, lack of codecs and full with DRM anti fair use restriction crap. You probably won’t want to use it with Windows Vista. If so, you can try out GOM Player, one of the best alternative media […]
It’s been an interesting few days for Apple and their Safari web browser. On Monday, Apple released a PC version of Safari 3 (beta) at the 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference. But within a few hours, Internet security specialists and hackers had uncovered several bugs capable of crashing the Windows operating system as well as a major security flaw making it possible to remotely take control […]
Microsoft main rival, Apple Inc, has released a Windows version of its Safari Internet browser for the first time a few days ago at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple has highlighted the features of its next upgrade to the Mac OS X operating system and extended its invitation to web developers to create web-based programs for its upcoming iPhone.
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation has been updated to version 1.7.36.0 or 1.7.0036.0 since May. WGA validation is anti-pirary measure used by Microsoft in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and up-coming Server 2008 to limit the ability of illegitimate Windows users to download extras and updates. WGA v1.7.36.0 is believed to only deploy to some system running Windows XP.
When using Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) in Windows Vista, loading time between songs on automatic playlist sequence or pressing the Next or Previous (Back) or Play button is extremely slow and may take more than 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 seconds or take ages simply to load and change songs, with “Media changing” message. Beside, the last 10 seconds of any track were choppy […]
What exactly is Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition? A hacker group named DiGiTAL has released a software package named Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition, an edition of extremely popular 2007 Office Systems suite. The group claimed the Blue Edition as a secret edition that only available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and not to the general public. It further claimed that the released […]
When using Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) in Windows Vista to surf and browse the Internet, the following “Work Offline” error message may appear occasionally pop-up no matter during surfing normal webpages or secured encrypted HTTPS pages even though the Internet connection or wireless access appears to be connected. “No connection to the Internet is currently available. To view internet content that has been saved on […]
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