During the launch of the new Windows 7, Microsoft had a lot to say about the safety features it offered, and especially protection from viruses and malware. While it was always meant to be taken with a pinch of salt, the guys at security firm Sophos decided to put the operating system to the test.

Chester Wisniewski of Sophos writes that they loaded up a machine with a fresh version of Windows 7, and left all the User Account Control options at default. Then, they grabbed the next 10 unique virus samples that arrived in the SophosLabs feed to see how well the newer, more secure version of Windows and UAC held up.

“Unfortunately, despite Microsoft's claims, Windows 7 disappointed just like earlier versions of Windows. The good news is that, of the freshest 10 samples that arrived, 2 would not operate correctly under Windows 7,” Wisniewski writes.

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Here some free tips and tricks for Symbian mobile phones. With these secrets you can boost up your mobile phone.
Firstly have some extra ordinary Tricks:

How to reset The Operator Logo?

1) Go to the following dir :
C:\System\Apps\Phone\Oplogo
2) Delete any file in this directory
3) Restart the phone

How to copy & paste text:
Press and hold the pencil key and select your text using the scroll key.

Left function key will change to 'Copy'. Press it to copy the selected text to clipboard.

You can paste the clipboard contents the same way:

press and hold the pencil key and press 'Paste'. Or, press pencil key once and select 'Paste'

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Every Internet User’s dream! Infact, there are various services promising free local and international calls but sadly, only handful of them works. Here is something using Yahoo Messenger which can be used to make unlimited PC to mobile calls.

Yes, there are some services working fine but just for US but this one can be used to make free local calls to India and other nations. It worked for me. I couldn't resist myself to share this trick with my readers. Here we go:

How to make PC to Phone calls for free anywhere in the World?

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Manufacturing of a Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

A Hard Disk is the most important & vital component of a computer. In many years, it has seen significant improvements in the amount of data can store, also how fast it can retrieve. But in all these years, the basic mechanical

Structure of hard disk has remained the same. Under the case of each hard disk, you’ll see a PCB board. This houses the electronics that makes the drive do what it is expected to do. Inside the casing, the bulk of the space is occupied by one or more platters mounted one on top of the other, on a spindle on a motor. The data is stored on magnetic material on these platters. Finally, there’s the reading/ recording head, and its drive mechanism. Each face of each platter will have its own independent head. The processes may different with different disk manufacturers.

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Bangalore: Corsair has launched 128GB Flash Voyager GT pen drive. Corsair claims that this is the fastest 128GB USB flash drive and is able to achieve read speeds of up to 32MB/sec and write speeds of up to 25.6MB/sec.

Before you apply these plz read the basic to tutorial (click here) to break in to the phone and then restore it. so I'll only talk about the procedure to apply and remove the patches.

1) procedure to apply patches

step1: break into ur phone by loading breaker firmware via XS++

Follow till step3 and complete this step from the link given link: remove-security-prompts-on-se-phones

step2: now get into far manager and doublt click on FLASH on the left hand side. be in this folder only! DO NOT SINGLE OR DOUBLE CLICK ON MEMORY!!!! this is imp!

step3: drag the .vkp patch file from the right hand side in far (ur hdd) to the FLASH folder on the left (in phone).

step4: Y

Adobe Reader is the tool for opening and using Adobe PDFs that are created in Adobe Acrobat. With Adobe Reader you can view, print, and manage PDFs. After opening a PDF in Reader, you have a variety of tools to help you find information quickly.

Be one of the best internet security facility, BitDefender Internet Security now has released the new 2010 version, which is improved more than before. In the new BitDefender Internet Security 2010, it has added more protections, such as: Signature based protection, Active Virus Control, Heuristics in Virtual Evironment.

How To Repair Boot Files For Windows XP

The boot.ini file is a hidden file that is used to identify in what folder on which partition and on which hard drive Windows XP is located. Boot.ini always can become damaged, corrupted or deleted for a number of reasons and is usually brought to your attention by an error message, such as "missing boot.ini file, booting from c:".

Editing boot file in BIOS system will need considerable technical level, if you are not good at doing this, not to try it! You can download a BOOT file repair software online, it can easily help you to restore the situation. If you can not boot up Windows at all, well what you need is SystemSuite 9 Professional, which will provide you a bootable repair disk to repair boot files, no need to access into Windows.