Have Your Say Here : Antivirus Program

I have so far used various free antivirus program to protect my computer from virus/spyware/malware infection and here is the list of AV program I used :

1. Avira
2. AVG
3. TrendMicro
4. Avast

Let us talk about Avast AV first.It updates quite constantly and scanning is quite fast.However,it cannot detects most of the well-known viruses and my pc constantly keep infected with virus even though I keep my AV program up-to-date.Therefore, it is a no-no to me.

How about TrendMicro?

Well, its live scanning is pretty slow and even offline scanning also quite slow and cannot detect much of the viruses.When it detects the virus, it is already too late for me to clean up as it cannot remove the threats detected and the updates has already been suspended due to virus infection.

What you think about AVG?

Among Trend Micro and Avast,AVG provides the best antivirus protection to my pc as it can detect almost every single low-level - mid-level viruses.It provides scanning detection to USB device such as pendrive too.I know that in the very beginning the AVG7 did not have this functionality until it upgraded its version to AVG8 and till now the latest version has this capability.Scanning speed is quite fast and reliable.However, you have to add your crack software(if any) to "exception" in scanning especially keygen as the AV will remove it if you do not configure your AVG application.(by default-AUTO Heal).This is quite common as crack or keygen software role is to find a loophole in the program to make it works as genuine.*wink*.Free version AVG does not provide any extra protection like advanced spyware protection.Therefore,if high-level trojan downloader is able to to beat your AV program then you must remove it manually in safe mode.I encountered one of the trojan downloader infected my pc while I was using AVG.It asked me to uninstall your AV program as it is no longer up-to-date.I was in the midst that time and followed what it prompted me to do.I ended up my pc with a fresh copy of new OS..

Have you heard of Avira?

Maybe yes maybe no.The AV company just set up its physical store in Malaysia not long ago.Therefore, in the beginning many people are wondering what AV program is that,I assume.I know its existence in one of the forum which I have forgotten the forum website few years ago.I tried to use it for the very first time and I found it was very easy to use and install.Furthermore,it provides great scanning capability and guard protection so you are safe while you are on the net.Many free AV program do not have this feature in the beginning and is only available for pay version.However,with the strong demand of user for safe surfing,many AV program currently provide this capability in their free version AV program.Among all AV program I have used, I give this AV program a thumbs up and is currently using its paid version.*wink*

If you have your opinion, just leave a comment here.We can share more knowledge about this.What I said is based on my experience of AV program I used.It differs for every individual.^^

Basic Steps If PC Is Infected With Virus

Step by step

1. Boot your PC in safe mode by pressing F8
2. Go to "My Computer" right click on it then select "Properties"
3. There are General tab,Computer Name tab,Hardware tab, Advanced tab, System Restore tab and etc.Click on System Restore tab, then at the bottom, click "Apply" then click "Ok".REASON: Turn off system restore point is to prevent viruses from being spreaded to other drive.
4. Go to "Control Panel" and select "Automatic Updates".
5. Turn "off" Automatic Updates then click "Ok" at the bottom
6. Delete all the browser cookies, cache, history and passwords.REASON:Some cookies contain viruses which keep on replicate the same files making your pc hang.For Mozilla Firefox users, go to "Tools" menu, at the submenu, select "Clear recent history" then it will pop up a window,select "Everything" then press the button "Clear now".For Internet Explorer users, go to "Tools" menu, select "Delete Browsing History" then it will pop up a window.Check all the boxes then click "OK".
7. Go to "Start" and choose "RUN" then type "regedit"  
8. It will pop up a Registry Editor window.You will see 5 root directories.Choose  and expand "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" directories.
9. Now, look for SOFTWARE directory then expand it.
10. Search for MICROSOFT directory and expand it then look for WINDOWS directory.Expand it.
11. Expand the Current Version directory look for RUN directory.You will see other folder below  RUN folder which will have RUNONCE, RUNONCEEX.Delete all folder start with RUNxxxxEXCEPT RUN folder.
12. Below RUN folder after deleting RUNxxx folder is SETUP folder.DON'T delete.Your task is finished.
13. RUN your anti virus program with latest update definition.Update antivirus program before  proceed  with scanning.If virus is detected, DELETE it.After a complete scan, run the antivirus all over again to ENSURE your pc is free from infections.
14. Reboot your PC. 

Movie : Legend Of The Fist:The Return of Chen Zhen

After watching Ip Man 1 and Ip Man 2,I am getting more interested for the movie starred by Donnie Yen.Today afternoon, I went for a movie with my close friend,T.Even though we were late for the movie,but I still felt great.He is quite a talented actor who plays most of the chinese kungfu movie within these few years.I started to watch almost every single movie starred by Donnie Yen.

The story of Legend Of The Fist sets in 19th century in Shanghai during World War 1.Chen Zhen survived and  in disguised came back to China from Europe war under Third World recruits by France and British in 1917 in assisting his comrade to defeat the Japanese.He worked as pianist in one of the most popular nightclub in Shanghai,Casablanca and befriended the notorious mafia boss, nightclub owner, as one of the way to get influences of army forces of China.At the same time,he fell in love with the nightclub hostess-siren-singer, KIKI (Shu Qi) who is a spy and also a daughter of Jeneral Yamaguchi.

As Chen Zhen was listed as "WANTED" in dead list by the Japanese,therefore, he uses Qi as his surname.However,his real name discovered by the Japanese and he was caught and being torture in the hell prison.He was tortured by electric shockwave and some cruel sentences.Then, he was thrown outside the Shanghai street where he was rescued.His comrades were killed and his sister was raped by the Japanese.During that time, the dead list released were the people who want to defeat the Japanese and also the people of the mass media.This dead list sent the shock in whole Shanghai area and all the people were living in fear.

 

Launching of iphone 4G

Green operator launched its iphone 4G package on 24 Sept at 1200 while at the same day its rival, Yellow operator launced its iphon 4G too but at 6 hour earlier.Both were trying hard to get attention from all the Malaysian folks and subscribed its services to enjoy special price for the state-of-the-art 4G phone.

The differences between 4G iPhone and 3Gs iPhone are:

4G iPhone                                                                

Resolutions :  640 x 960

Camera      :  5 megapixels + auto focus + front camera + LED Flash
Cellular      :  Quadband GSM, pentaband HSPA
Wi fi          :  802.11/g/n
Dimension  :  Slightly smaller than 3Gs (114.3x58.7x9.4mm)
Capacity    :  16 or 32GB
Video        :  H.264 up to 720p @ 30fps (framerate per second)

Sim size     :  Micro SIM

Weight      :  137g

Battery life :  up to 7   hours talktime on 3G

                    up to 14 hours talktime on 2G

                    up to 10 hours data on Wifi

                    up to 40 hours audio

                    up to 10 hours video

3Gs iPhone

Resolutions :  320x480 resolutions

Camera      :  3 megapixels camera auto focus                               

Cellular      :  Quadband GSM, triband HSPA

Wi fi          :  802.11/g

Dimension  :  115.5x62.1x12.3

Capacity    :  8GB

Video        :  VGA @ 30fps

Sim size     :  Normal SIM

Weight      :  135g

Battery life :  up to 5   hours talk time on 3G/data

                    up to 12 hours talk time on 2G

                    up to 9   hours data on Wifi

                    up to 30 hours audio

                    up to 10 hours video         

So,above are some of the basic ideas which one you will choose for.Of course,I will go for iphone 4G as it is slightly smaller and have more functionalities than 3Gs iphone..^^.Thumbs up for 4G iPhone~

Basic Step To Prevent Virus Infection From Thumb Drive

First of all, I know that many people have at least one thumb drive in their pocket.It is handy and can bring it anywhere.Some of them may have quite large capacity too which is up to 32Gb.I still remember when I first bought my first pen drive in 2004/05,the capacity of 512MB cost about RM120 and that was the promotion price during second quarter PC fair.But right now,it cost about RM24 to get 1Gb of pendrive.

Ok,let's back to real topic of today.Many people feel very convenient to double click on anything to open up some files or data which stores inside the pendrive.However,they do not realize how dangerous they are if double clicking on its pendrive.If the pendrive is infected with trojan or virus,it will spread to your PC if you double click on it.So,NEVER double click on your pendrive to prevent further infections to your PC.

The solution is to right click of your pendrive drive let say drive L, then you will see Open, Explore,Cut,Paste and so on.Left click on Explore to open the desired files/folders in the pendrive.Every single files stored inside your pendrive,must RIGHT click then choose EXPLORE.This is the basic step to prevent virus infection being spreaded from your pendrive to your PC.In case your pendrive is infected with virus,your PC is still safe to use if you RIGHT click and EXPLORE the file in the pendrive.

Fakers

I have circle of friends and some are fakers and some are really worth to be friended of.What is fakers?How fake they are?Fakers are who pretend to be so good to you once in a blue moon and nevertheless they are the one who create the highest percentage of problems to you.Just for an example, they pretend they know nothing about subject A but in the end those ended up with A's.OMG..They get close you and tell you they know nothing but they are hiding.Not for being humble but being selfish to their friends.

It is so common if we are sharing our knowledge and let us expose and know each other.I don't mean to know every single little thing regarding your personal things but something that we can share.But some are really do not know anything and thus they tell you "Yes I can do that assignment,Do not worry Just pass it to me and I will finish it for you".You guess what happen in the end?The result was we were being back stabbed forcefully by them telling our lecturer/tutor that we did not cooperate and we did not give them any work to do..I was like WTF..!@#$%^.Our marks were deducted and added into her coursework.I was so angry that time as like I want to chop them off into thousand pieces.Their attitudes are even worse than an animal.From that day onwards, we were not in the same group anymore.NEVER~You say them stupid,nope,they are not.You say them smart,not really too.You are going to judge what kind of person they really are.

History of my life

I still remember when I was in secondary school I used to wondera what life was I going to have after that. I wished to enter university since I was 5 years old. Although it sounded quite ridiculous as a child who nodded his head even though he did not know what it meant when my mum told me if I want to enter university. I never gave a second thought and said "Yes".

I graduated from secondary school in year 2002 and that was the time to determine my future.To my surprise, I did not get what I had expected.I knew where my talent was and I knew what to do during that time.That was my thinkaing that time.The results did not look good to me.I was so disappointed. My dream was gone and it felt like hell.

My parents told me that getting bad results is not the end of the day.Life still have to go on.My mum said,"You must be tough,son."I took their advice and I struggled in finding any reputable universities to accept me.I could not get into any local universities, partly I blamed certain factors where some people don’t need good results to get into the local university they wanted, but I also blamed myself as I did not have the good results to show them that I am talented enough.

I made up my mind to register in one of the college half subsided by the government. I got a place, majoring in Information System Engineering. My parents told me that I am used to spend a lot of time with the computer and always hang out with IT savvy friends/colleagues so I should study IT.I was thinking if IT is suitable to me. I knew nothing much about computer actually.What I mean is the IT field is very wide. It can range from programming,web design,multimedia design,computer interaction and multimedia,information system,information technology management, to list a few here

During my first year in college, I was struggling with communication problem as I could not speak Mandarin. I was Eng/Malay educated and never spoken Mandarin except in kindergarten. I found it hard to cope with the language initially. I spoke Eng + Malay with them. Some of them were looking at me curiously as to why I spoke in Malay and Eng but not Chinese. They only came to know later that I am what the Malaysians call, a "banana".

I had to learn from scratch and after a year plus, I was able to communicate better with them.It was never an easy life for me.I struggled with lots of obstacles.I met with an accident right after 5 months in KL.It happened about 5 minutes away from college.I remember it was raining so heavily and I can hardly see any cars in front of me.Out of a sudden, the car in front stopped to turn at a junction without any indicator lights on.My car hit the rear bumper of the front car and my car suffered huge damage.The aunty came out of her car and told me to pay RM400.I asked her to reduce the price so we can settle it peacefully.I offered her for RM300 but she rejected.I decided to report to the police with the assistance from one of the AAM agent.

He was not so honest,I suspected.My car claimed RM3400++ just for my car components replacement .The components replaced were absorber,coil spring,strut bar,accumulator and fixing the bonnet only~~I was like WTF~~I could not blame him totally because if he did not stop by and assisted me, I would almost be cheated by the woman.

Academic wise, I was not doing very well also. My course should have been all about IT, so I was wondering why I need to study account as well. Anyway,I did not bother it much and I kept on studying the course.Well, I failed my first ever subject in  my life, the account subject.I cried for one whole night.I cheered by my housemate not to give up and assume that was the first lesson.I worked hard and went for re-sit.Well,I passed with grade B.Not bad I said.Another semester,again, accounting methods 2.It haunted me for the second time and I re-sit again and got a C.I felt so disappointed.My target is to get at least B.The other subjects were well managed at lowest grade B.

I graduated from Diploma with Merit and was promoted to continue my Advance Diploma.Many told me that Advance Diploma is just a Diploma and I can for sure tell you it is totally WRONG!!!.Please do some research and investigated carefully before you speak a single word.I know I am so sarcastic but that is the fact.It is equivalent to a degree.Of course there are certain colleges offer advance diploma but some are not recognized.To my surprise, I went through a lot ups and downs during those years.I have registered for Bachelor of Degree for Information System from Campbell University so at the same exam day I need to take two paper one from morning and one in the afternoon.I did not do well in my final year.Lots of thing happened. From my personal problems to financial I struggled a lot.I do not mind  if I have no friends but what I hate most, friends who betray.

I told myself I would not be TOO good to anyone else even he/she is my best friend.People are very selfish  sometimes.They even used you to achieve their goal and sacrifice you.You are treated like a cow which will be chopped into pieces after a certain time just to fill their adrenaline of eating beef. Once in a while they sweet talk you,on the other hand you are stabbed and fired by machine gun bullets.They never come to find you unless they have something that need your help.I remember a case that they called me if can fetch them to LRT station as their cars did not have enough space to accomodate "our" friends to KLCC.They all prepared to go and had their fun while I was having a "stupid" day in a condo facing the wall.I was being called only to fetch them.I was like WTF you are thinking man.I am your driver or someone who will come and fetch you anytime???Come on man..