Thursday 23 September 2010

How to test your anti-virus

We all will have an anti-virus or two installed in our system for sure. Once I want to test the anti-virus I have installed. I cant risk my system by directly installing an anti-virus. Then i came across this method of creating a fake virus. The procedure to test the anti-virus is as follows:

  • Open notepad.
  • Copy the below code in the file.
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*


  • Then save it with the name fakevirus.exe

    If this file got deleted immediately that means your antivirus is working and updated. Try it.

Sunday 5 September 2010

Shortcut Keys to Shutdown and Restart your Computer

Hi Friends,
I just learned the shortcut keys to shutdown and restart our computer or laptop. Well this is not necessary but you guys know I like playing around with my computer. Don’t you think it is better if your computer shutdown or restart with just a double click of your mouse.
So get ready and follow these points to experiment, be creative yaar.

  1. On your desktop, right click>shortcut(select shortcut)
  2. You will then see a Popup Window(Create Shortcut wizard)
  3. In ‘Type the location of the item’, Key in ‘Shutdown -s -t 01′

You might be thinking what does -s -t stands for, just hold on I will explain later.
shortcut keys to shutdown, shortkut shutdown
Click ‘Next’ and you will be prompt to name the Shortcut. Give it any name you want and click ‘Finish’.
Now, whenever you hope to shutdown your Computer or laptop. Simply double click on this shortcut icon.
You can also fully customize this shortcut Icon.
Right Click>’Properties’>’Change Icon’
This allows you to change Shortcut Icon to any image you want.
If you want to create a Shortcut Icon for restarting your Computer or Laptop, Simply change -s to -r.
As s stand for shutdown while r stands for restart.
Change the number after -t to set the time of your Computer and Laptop to wait in seconds before shutting down.
You can also insert a comment by adding -c ‘Your Text’ to the line. It will display the Text you specified while counting down the time in seconds.
So how is the tricks, did you try??? Leave a message if you liked it.