Sysinternals Antivirus is a rogue program. These malware application try to sell you their software by making you think that you PC is infected by the malware. Sysinternals Antivirus is installed through the use of Trojans that display fake security alerts and pop-ups on the computer. While running, Sysinternals Antivirus will scan your computer it detect harmless of Windows system files as malware but will not allow you to remove them until you purchase the program.

Below is the print screen about this program

How to remove Sysinternals Antivirus?

One of the free anti malware software called Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware can detect and remove this rogue application.

• Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware to your desktop.
• Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the on screen instruction to install the program.
• At the end, be sure a check-mark is placed next to the following:
  • Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
  • Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
• Then click Finish.
• Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
• When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
• Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. Reboot your computer if prompted.
• When completed, a log will open in Notepad. The rogue application should now be gone.

By default, Mac OS X only able to read NTFS format hard driver. But it cannot write to it, This means we unable to write file size larger than 4GB to hard drives.

I downloaded an ebook from internet. The ebook in .chm extension. I can’t read it in my linux machine.

So, i just install a software called xCHM to read .chm file.  xCHM can show the content tree if one is available, print pages, change font face and size, remember bookmarks, display a searchable index, and search for words in the current page and the whole book.

How to install it? Just follow the following steps:-

Fedora/Centos

a) Login as root user

su -

b) Type the following command to install it

yum install -y xchm

After that, you try to double click the .chm file, you should able to open it with xchm program.

Hardware manufacturers always release new versions of their drivers to fix bugs, increase performance, increase stability on your computer, or add new features. When these drivers are released it is recommended that you upgrade your driver to take advantage of these new enhancements.

DriverEasy is a freeware allow us to scan, detect and download drivers. DriverEasy allow us to keep existing hardware driver up to date and download driver for unknown device. DriverEasy have huge Hardware Driver Database which allow us to scan more than 1,000,000 of  hardware driver.

Just click HERE to download DriverEasy to scan your computer hardware driver.

Once downloaded, just double click and follow the on screen instruction to install it.

A) After that just run DriverEasy program, then click the Scan Now button to scan your computer hardware

B) When the DriverEasy scanning your computer hardware, it will auto-detect your computer hardware automatically.

GKrellM is a free system monitor software that used to monitor the status of CPUs, Main memory, hard disks, network interfaces, local and remote mailboxes, and many other things. GKrellM is freeware and available for several operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

You can install GKrellm by:

On a Debian system:

apt-get install gkrellm

On an Fedora system:

 yum install gkrellm:

On an Fedora system:

• click HERE to download

Here is the Gkrellm screen shoot

Below are the Features (from GKrellM web site)

• Hostname/systemname display.
• Clock/calendar.
• SMP CPU monitor that can chart individual CPUs and/or a composite CPU.
• Temperature, fan, and voltage sensor monitors if supported by the kernel and the mainboard hardware. Linux requires lm_sensors modules, sysfs sensors for kernels >= 2.6.0 or a running mbmon daemon. Sensors can also be read from mbmon on FreeBSD. On Linux, you can also monitor disk temperatures from the hddtemp daemon and nvidia GPU temperatures if nvidia-settings is installed.
  Each sensor monitor has a configurable alarm and warning.
• Process monitor with a chart for load and forks and a display of number of current processes and users.
• Disk monitor that can chart individual disks or a composite disk.
• Internet monitor (http, ftp, …) that displays current tcp port connections and charts historical port hits for over two days.
• Net interface monitors with charts for all routed net interfaces. Data rx/tx LEDs and a timer button that can be linked to a ppp or isdn net interface and displays on line time.
• Memory and swap space usage meters, and a swap page in/out chart.
• File system meters which show capacity/free space and can mount/umount.
• A mailbox monitor which can launch a mail reader, a mail fetch/check program, and a sound notify command. Builtin new mail message checking for mbox, maildir, MH, POP3, and IMAP mailboxes.
• APM laptop battery meter with a configurable alarm and warning for low battery time left.
• Uptime display.
• Multiple monitors managed by a single process to reduce system load.
• Charts have auto scaling or fixed scaling modes.
• Commands can be configured to run when monitor labels are clicked.
• gkrellm can run in client mode and collect data from a gkrellmd server running on a remote machine.
• Both gkrellm and the gkrellmd server are plugin capable so special interest monitors can be coded.

If you want to know more about this software, click HERE to visit Gkrellm official web site

To configure GKrellm, just follow the following way:

1. Place your mounse cursor over top of the GKrellm application and press your F1 key, or
2. Right-click on the very top title bar of the GKrellm application and select Configuration. (NOTE: clicking on the title bar of a module rather than the top title bar may open configuration options specific to that module)

To protect confidentiality, it is important to encrypt your important files especially when you are share PC or share user account.

One of the free encryption software called EncryptOnClick allow us to encrypt and compress our files or folder with password protected. EncryptOnClick is a simple encryption/decryption tool, that uses military grade 256-bit AES encryption which is fully compatible with WinZip.

Just click HERE to download it. After that, just double click to install it.

How to encrypt and decrypt files or folder?

Step 1 – Encrypt files

- Click on File button to encrypt file

- Click on Folder button to encrypt folder

I going to show your how to encrypt file. Once you click on File button, a screen will pop out to ask you to select file that you want to encrypt.

After you select your file, another screen will pop out to ask you to enter password to protect your file.

You just enter your password and click OK to encrypt your file.

Step 2 – decrypt your file

This encryption software  is fully compatible with WinZip. The encrypted file can be decrypted by EncryptOnClick, as well as anyone that uses WinZip and has the proper password.

To decrypt file with EncryptOnClick

• open your Encryption file with EncryptOnClick
• A screen will pop out to ask you to enter your password to decrypt it

To decrypt file with Winzip

• open your Encryption file with Winzip
• A screen will pop out to ask you to enter your password to decrypt it

• After you enter the correct password, you able to see your file in Winzip windows

• Just on Extract to extract your file

After you reinstall your Windows, you need to install all your hardware drive 1 by 1 ( insert driver CD, install, change CD, restart). The entire operation might take up to 15 t0 20 minute. Here i going to intro 1 of the useful software called DriverMax.

DriverMax allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. You just need to create a free account, log in, and start downloading the driver updates that you need.

You can backup all your current hardware drive to a folder. DriveMax will scan all you computer hardware driver and save it. After you reinstall Windows, you just need to install DriveMax and load the backup file that you backup via DriveMax. The Import Drivers wizard allows you to install all the drivers that you exported earlier.

Just click HERE to download this software and try on it. Below are the screen shoot of this software

When you reformat your Windows machine, you need to install Windows OS and all the Hardware driver. Besides, you also need to install all the favorite software, plugin, Anti Virus and other software that you need. How to collect all your favorite software in a faster way and make it as customized installer?

One of the free tools call Ninite allow your to pick the open source/free software and generate customize installer for you. Ninite provide more than 60 type of open source/freeware. The best thing is we just need to one click to install all your favorite open source software. Ninite will installs software fast with default settings and says “no” to browser toolbars and other junk.

Below are the few simple steps to use Ninite:-

Step 1 – Go to Ninite Official Web site to pick up your favorite software

Click Here to visit Ninite Web site. You should able to see screen shoot as show as below

You will see the applications broken up into categories that include Web Browsers, Messaging, Imaging, Documents, Anti Virus, File Sharing, utilities, compression, tools and other items. Just check the check box next to each item you want to download.  After that, click on Green Button – Get Installer to customize your app installer.

Step 2 – Download the customized installer

Once your customized installer was ready to be download, just click Save File to download it.

Step 3 – Just one click to install the software

Just Double-click on the .exe file that you downloaded just now.  Ninite will download and install the apps you’ve selected.

Download and install

Finished installed

Once Ninite finished installed the software, just click on close button. If you wish to view the detail on the software installation, just click on Show details.

Note: Ninite currently only support Windows (Windows XP/Vista/7)

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature. I use this software to diagnose my HDD. Here is the screen shoot show that my HDD having bad sector problem:

Below are the key feature of CrystalDiskInfo:

• Supports a part of external USB disks
• Monitoring health status and temperature
• Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information
• Control AAM/APM settings

But sadly, this software only support Windows platform. We cannot use this software on Mac OS X and Linux platform. To download this utility software, just click HERE