Submitted by Deepesh Agarwal on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 10:34
High risk Microsoft Windows worm Win32/Conficker is on the rise, according to a report by F-Secure a fresh variant of the worm is propagating fast and has already infected more then nine million computers exploiting Windows Server service vulnerability, once infected the user is being prevented from visiting anti-virus and anti-malware websites making it very difficult to fix the infection.
How Win32/Conficker Spreads
Microsoft has issued a fix long back in last October via Security Update MS08-067, if you are not infected you can apply the patch and get secured against the vulnerability, however, if you are already infected download the free Removal patch from F-Secure from the link at end of the post.
Getting your computer keyboard and mouse locked is a much needed functionality while cleaning it or when you have toddlers around your computer, free portable utility Toddler Trap lets you achieve this functionality with ease, just launch the small application and it will take focus negating any keystrokes and mouse movements.
A probable concept screenshot of Microsoft Office 14 is now leaked out from a powerpoint presentation hosted at Microsoft servers, Microsoft has not declared any release dates or roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Office but speculation is that Microsoft Office 14 will get released in 2010.
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Microsoft Windows provide a small power icon to display the battery status in system tray, the small icon provides a rough idea about the amount of power remaining and the user is required to hover the mouse over the icon to get the exact amount in percentage, to make things more noticeable and detailed there exist quite a few battery monitoring software's but all of them take up precious desktop space to display the power status, to solve this problem free utility Power Meter Plus uses a smart approach displaying the power status transparently, the meter gradually becomes more visible as the power levels drop, meaning the lower the power the more noticeable the meter will be.
