Access All Shared Folders In One Single Window With ‘fsmgmt.msc’

Microsoft has some hidden snap-ins which are many times very useful to accomplish some tasks very quick. Like, to manage all your shared folders in one window you can use one of the Microsoft’s snap-ins.
Click on Start > Run and type fsmgmt.msc and hit enter. This shows to you all the shared folders of the [...]

Wordpress 2.3.3 Security Release

A new version of Wordpress has been released just a few hours ago by the Wordpress team. The update is considered critical and fixes a security vulnerability and some minor bugs. The security flaw was found in the implementation of the XML-RPC which would allow any registered user to edit comments of other users using [...]

FREE 1 Year Kaspersky Anti-Virus Genuine License Key for EVERYONE

Last December, there were a few companies such as AVG and Webroot SpySweeper giving out free genuine license key to everyone. I have no idea why they did that but I think most probably they made enough money for the year and itâ??s a marketing strategy to get more people using their products. Once the [...]

Tweaking Hidden Ubuntu Settings With Ubuntu Tweak

Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network
icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security
settings, etc. Currently Ubuntu Tweak is available only for the Ubuntu
GNOME desktop, i.e., it will not work on Kubuntu or [...]

Quicktip - Forgot your grub password? Here’s how to change it.

Say you have a grub password to keep nefarious evil-doers from modifying your er… grubs. Then say a few months go by and you decide to modify some stuff but you’ve forgotten your password.
What do you do? Well, you can try this.
First, open up a Command Line Interface terminal (CLI) and type:
grub
Now you’re [...]

Find out your bios password

The bios can be protected with a password to prevent others from accessing its settings. You have to enter the password to be able to access it, if you can’t provide the correct one the access gets denied. The following method describes a way to recover the password if you forgot it or bought a [...]

Test your Anti-virus program

Do you know that your anti-virus solution is working ? You could try to test your anti-virus program against the EICAR (European Expert Group for IT-Security) test file to see if it reacts the way it should. All you need to do is create the testfile and scan it with your virus scanner. If the [...]

Why and how to disable the UAC elevation prompts (Secure Desktop Prompting)

Yesterday, I described how to start an application at an elevated level, i.e. with Administrator privileges under Vista. Unfortunately, this won't prevent UAC (User Account Control) prompts from getting on your nerves. Every time a user or an Administrator runs an application requiring Administrator rights, UAC will prompt you for confirmation to proceed. Microsoft calls [...]

How to bypass Internet Censorship

If you are looking for a comprehensive, and I mean really really comprehensive, guide on bypassing internet censorship you might want to take a look at the excellent guide written by Freerk. The guide is divided into two parts; The first analyzes different methods to censor information on the internet and the second part describes [...]

How-to Secure Your IRC Connection

This is a follow-up post to my first post about how to secure your mIRC client. Securing your IRC connection is important in order for you to stay anonymous.
One way of securing your IRC connection is by encryption using SSL.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which [...]
How-to [...]

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