Virut is a botnet malware family that has been infecting computers since it first appeared in 2006. Through these years it has modified and updated itself with advanced anti-detection techniques so that it does not get caught by regular antivirus products. It uses many polymorphic and encryption techniques that make it so difficult to detect. But by using the right tools, you can detect and remove it from your system very easily.
Read moreBolide Slideshow Creator : Make Amazing Videos from your Photos
If you have come home after vacations, then you must be having a great many number of photos of the memorable moments. If you want to share them with friends, then you can make a slideshow video from your photos and upload it to Youtube. If you upload the video to Youtube, then you do not have to upload all pictures one by one, you can just upload one video and be done with it. You can use free Bolide Slideshow Creator to turn your photos into amazing MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV or FLV videos.
Read moreEdit Subtitles for Videos and Movies with Subtitle Edit
Sometimes when we get movies either entirely or partially foreign languages that you cannot understand. One easy solution to understand the foreign language portions of such movies is to download subtitles from the internet for those movies. Some of these subtitles are hastily written and contain grammatical or spelling mistakes. You can always correct and edit subtitles using the free Subtitle Edit program.
Read moreSendTo-Convert : Change Image Formats from Right-Click Menu
When you are copying images from your PC to your mobile devices, you have to be careful about the image formats as some of the image formats are not natively supported on the mobile operating systems. For example, you cannot view TIFF image format in Android without the help of a third party app. Using the freeware SendTo-Convert application, you can easily change the image formats into more popular and widely supported image types by just right-clicking on images.
Read moreSecureAge SecureAPlus : Antivirus + Application Blocker
SecureAge SecureAPlus is a combination of standard antivirus and application blocker. It can not only detect and remove malware, viruses, trojans, rootkits etc. from your computer, but it can also whitelist which applications you want to run on your PC. It uses the free ClamAV antivirus engine and definitions along with its own application whitelisting technology.
Read moreHow to Download Wikipedia Articles in PDF Format
Although not so authentic, Wikipedia is a great source of all kinds of information. You can find articles on almost any kind of topic on Wikipedia. If the information does not exist on Wikipedia, then you can start a new article for it and contribute your knowledge about it. Sometimes when we find an article on Wikipedia, we want to print it or download it for offline use. Fortunately, Wikipedia allows you to download any article in the printable PDF format.
Read moreQuickly Switch Firefox Profiles with Profile Switcher
Firefox lets you create two or more profiles for Firefox each of which has its separate configurations, bookmarks and add-ons. You can use these different profiles for different requirements, for example, one profile for gaming online, another for internet banking, third one for social networking sites and so on. If you use multiple Firefox profiles then you can use the Profile Switcher extension to quickly switch from one profile to another.
Read moreReset Chrome Browser Configuration with Chrome Eraser
You can always clean the browsing history and cookies in the Chrome browser, but if you want to completely reset the Chrome configuration then you can make use of the free Chrome Eraser application. It can reset the configuration of current user profile for the Chrome browser. It can also completely delete all the configuration files of the Chrome browser for the current user.
Read moreIdentify Language of a Phrase Using Polyglot 3000
Sure we can use Google Translate to automatically detect the language and translate it into English at the same time, but sometimes Google cannot identify close resembling languages like Bulgarian and Russian. Besides Google Translate supports only very popular languages. This is where free Polyglot 3000 comes in – it can easily identify the correct language of a phrase, sentence or word instantly using its offline database of more than 470 languages.
Read moreRip DVD BlueRay and Transcode Videos with VidCoder
If you want to save your DVD and BlueRay movies into MP4 or MKV video files or just want to convert a video from one format to another, then you can use the free tool VidCoder. VidCoder is a DVD or Bluray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows. It does not support ripping encrypted DVD or Blueray disks. It uses HandBrake, that we have posted about before, as its encoding engine. Unlike Handbrake, the VidCoder interface is very easy to use and offers many more options.
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