Prevent Viruses Spreading Through USB Drives

by vbb March 9, 2009

A lot of viruses use USB media to propagate.You must have encountered New Folder.exe or many such viruses spreading through USB drives..In order to be propagated by this way,the virus usually attack the Autorun file on the USB drive.AUTORUN.INF file is used by Windows to start some programs automatically.Viruses are usually programmed to spread automatically [...]

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How to check BSNL/other Broadband Usage

by vbb March 9, 2009

Almost all ISPs have broadband plans which allow only limited free data transfer in a month.For example, in BSNL broadband plan-Home 250 you are allowed to use a maximum data transfer of 1GB per month.Any data transfer above that is chargeable at a premium rate. Hence it becomes quite important to check your usage regularly.ISP [...]

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How to Secure your Internet Browser -Add WOT for Firefox & IE

by vbb March 7, 2009

A Web Browser is your gateway to the Internet.There are plenty of web browsers including Internet Explorer,Mozilla Firefox,Opera,Google Chrome and Safari.Like any other software they also have bugs which can be used to control,attack or hijack your computer by malicious people. Online threats now include exploiting your browser to control your computer.Browsing unsafe sits can [...]

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Watch and Download swf, flv and other Animation Files-Video Cache View

by vbb March 5, 2009

Majority of the animation and small videos shown on the Internet is made using Flash.And they have an swf or flv extension.Usually people like to save it for watching later but doing this is  not a piece of cake as flash by itself dos not allow you to download. However there are plenty of tricks  [...]

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SIW-Know Everything About your PC Hardware and Software

by vbb March 1, 2009

To know about the hardware details on a computer,the traditional method goes by visiting Control Panel=>System=>General,where you get to know Processor and RAM installed(shown in figure).Digging deep you can visit Device Manager on the same system=>hardware,which can give you a list of hardware,including some details about them. But sometimes you want to know everything about your [...]

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Batch File for Scheduling Automatic Connection to BSNL Broadband for Night Downloads

by vbb February 28, 2009

As already explained ,one of the advantage of bridge mode is easy scheduling.The methods to connect to BSNL broadband via bridge mode(by dialing) can also be accomplished through batch files. Here are two batch scripts which are used to connect or disconnect your broadband connection.These scripts can also be scheduled at a particular time so [...]

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Scheduling Downloads In Utorrent

by vbb February 24, 2009

BSNL Broadband has some popular plans like plan 500C and 500C+ which allow unlimited download  in night hours i.e. between 2am to 8am.Sure this is not the time for normal browsing but for download freaks.You can schedule software and other file downloads using your favorite download manager like Flashget. However a majority of downloading is [...]

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How to Create a PPPoE Dial-up Connection in Bridge Mode

by vbb February 24, 2009

You have already read “How to Configure your BSNL modem in Bridge Mode” and its benefits too.Now in Bridge mode you have to create a dial up type connection to connect to BSNL broadband. Here are steps to create it.The screenshots are taken for a Windows XP computer but they are almost same for Windows [...]

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How to Configure your BSNL modem in Bridge Mode

by vbb February 16, 2009

IT’s good to configure your modem in Bridge mode after knowing the benefits of bridge mode.Here I have shown the configuration settings.The screenshots shown are that of Nokia Siemens modem model S2l_141.However the configuration settings are  applicable for almost all BSNL modem.

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BSNL Modem-Bridge vs PPPoE Mode

by vbb February 14, 2009

When you get your modem from BSNL,it’s configured in Router mode (PPPoE mode)by default.You enter your user name and password in the modem.When you switch on the modem ,it authenticates itself using the entered user name and password. There is another mode of connection where you have to dial using your user credentials.This mode is [...]

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