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Windows Vista’s UAC Block Spyware/Rootkits

Several months ago the highly-respected AV-Test.org ran a test to rank various antivirus applications. In that test they had 30 rootkits that were tested on both Windows XP and Vista. On Windows XP none of the seven antivirus suites could detect all of the rootkits, and only four of the 14 anti-rootkit tools proved to be 100% successful. Those aren’t very good odds.

On Vista the story was a little bit different. Only six of the 30 rootkits could actually run on the operating system, and that was after the testers turned off the User Account Control (UAC). The UAC stopped the rootkits cold in their tracks, provided that the user actually acknowledges the prompt and reacts accordingly.

I know that many of you are not big fans of UAC in Vista, but it does look like it does the job that Microsoft intended. Without Vista’s UAC the rootkits would be able to silently embed themselves onto your computer, and the protection UAC provides is especially important when the antivirus suites fail to do their job. That’s one of the reasons that I, to the amazement of many, have always left UAC enabled on my Vista machines.

P.S. Vista SP1 has made the User Account Control slightly less annoying, and here is a video demonstrating the differences.

Via: Cyber Net News

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts To Make Your Life Easier

Before Heading On make sure you have enabled keyboard shortcuts in Gmail Settings, you will find the Settings tab at the top right corner of your screen where you will see this page

Shortcuts:

Browse through mails

K: to move the black arrow upwards.

J: to move the black arrow downwards.

enter key: this is to open the mail which is indicated by black arrow

While reading the email

R: to reply to the mail

F: to forward the mail

!: to mark the mail as spam

s: to star the mail

#: to delete the mail

How to get back to inbox once mail is read

U: this brings you back to inbox if you were reading your mail

How to send an email

C: this takes you to compose the email

How To Change Half Open Connection Limit In Windows XP Sp3

Microsoft Released Service Pack 3 of Windows XP few days ago and for those who upgraded the TCP/IP connection limit was reset to the default i.e 10 half open connections, for p2p users its the crappiest thing but don’t worry now you can change your TCP/IP limit back to whatever you like using this patch.

If your Net Max Half open connection limit is lesser than what you set in your P2P software then it will greatly affect your download and upload speeds

Now you can enjoy your p2p Software’s again!