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Category: freeware

  • Grooveshark

    Disclaimer: I received no compensation for this review. All the opinions are my own. There are a couple of actions you can do with music you have on your computer: You can listen to an arbitrary song from your library You can jump in the song you are listening to You can share it with…

  • A portable AntiVirus collection

    Over at the GSD blog I found a nice collection of descriptions on how to create portable anti-viruses. VIPRE would fit nicely in the collection, however I wanted to do a quick description on how to do this with BitDefender (I’m doing this from memory, so some details might be wrong!): Get the free edition…

  • Free Microsoft e-book: Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista

    From /dev/random (where I stole the title from – because I’m a lazy bastard :-)): you can get an (electronic) copy of Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista by signing up for a free newsletter. I actually have read an older version of the book and found it very good. A large part of it…

  • Installing Avira (AntiVir)

    After a tutorial on installing Avast and one for AVG 8 I decided to write up a tutorial on installing Avira (the former AntiVir). Download the install kit from their website (warning! there is some upselling going on) Install the software Done! Unfortunately there aren’t any options to make the program more silent or transparent…

  • The cost of freeware

    I saw this link on the anti-virus rants blog: Catalyst Conversation Starter: The High Cost of “Freeware”. Given that I’ve just posted two tutorials on how to install and configure free (for home use), I wanted to share my experience: One of the products the paper specifically mentions is AVG. I’ve been recommending, installing an…

  • Installing Avast

    Besides AVG, Avast! is the other free AV out there, so I’ve created a tutorial about installing it too. I don’t have as long experience as with AVG, so feedback is welcome and I’ll update this guide when I receive it. The premise is: you are installing this for a friend / relative / family…

  • Installing AVG 8

    The premise of this tutorial is that you wish to install AVG for home use (because the free license covers only that) at a friend, relative, parent, etc, and the person who you are installing it for is not a power user. In fact these two posts (Installing AVG and Installing Avast) are an extension…

  • Nmap online

    Some brave people have put online a service where you can scan an arbitrary computer with Nmap using their server to do the scanning on your behalf. One can say that this is the grownup version of Shields Up!. I was worried that their service could be abused in an attack-by-proxy (or in this case…

  • Windows PIO mode fallback problem

    Windows (starting from Win2k I think) has an interesting feature: after a certain number of failures on a given IDE channel, it reverts that channel from DMA to PIO mode. This is perfectly reasonable for hard disks (although a user warning would still be useful), but for CD-ROMs this is deadly because a bad CD…

  • An other nice looking utility

    Here is an other utility that looks great: HT Editor. Editor / Hex Editor / Disassembler / Assembler. I’ll take it for a spin and get back to you with the results.