There is no point is asking whether you are aware of Nirsoft and Sysinternals because these two website sites are very popular among the Windows Admins. These tools have become part of a windows admin’s daily use. Its very inconvenient when you need to carry this tools in a flash drive which is actually very essential in your daily work. Windows System Control Center is freeware tool or platform which is actually arranged in such a good way with a proper [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Open notepad Copy this code in the text file…. X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* then save it with the name fakevirus.exe If this file got deleted immediately ….that means your antivirus is working. Note: This tips only tells you that the on-access real-time scanner is working. It doesn’t mean at the anti-virus is upto date, it just means it *has* a definition library. So keep your antivirus software updated regularly.
Categories: Tips
How Long Has Your System Been Running? Here’s how you verify system uptime: Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt. At the prompt, type systeminfo Scroll down the list of information to the line that says System Up Time. Displayed will be the days, hours, minutes and seconds on how long the system has been up. Note that this command only works in XP Pro, not in XP Home. You can, however, type net statistics [...]
Categories: Tips
Microsoft has released the new version of Autoruns 9.5 this week. It has the extra feature to list all the installed codecs in a computer. I could tell you it is an essential tool when I was troubleshooting a virus problem. Let’s see what is this tool all about ( for those who dont know about this wonderful tool) Autoruns will show you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in [...]
