While moving out to the a new place, i know i’m going to face trouble… i need to tidying up my magazine collection and my books. The problem lies in the magazine, damn, i have a lots of it.

The magazine i collect is about gaming which i love the pictures and layout of the magz. but sometimes the reason is beyond that, i love to see how the magazines progress trough each edition and each year. Here in my country, Magazine about PC gaming is very rare, if they appear they never pass a three year life span. Only one that i knew that has passed 3 years, Game 21. But enough for the sentimental reason, These magazines i dont want to throw it away or recycle it, but they are taking up lots of spaces (2×2meter to be exacly :D). I’m going to face real trouble if i dont take care of it.

After i ask uncle google away, i found a pretty good answer, here they are:

• Pass them along to friends and family. This is the simplest way of putting magazines back into circulation.
• Host a monthly reader’s exchange. Invite some people over for coffee — you can even advertise the event to broaden your circle. Everyone brings their used books and magazines, and goes home with something new.
• Donate magazines to groups and organizations which will use them. Anyplace that has a waiting room will usually be grateful to receive fresh reading material — doctors’ offices, hospitals, and automobile service departments. Even better: arrange regular magazine deliveries to nursing homes and women’s shelters.

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After long consideration, i make up my mind that i dont want to throw it away and dont want to give all of it, i want to keep it for a while longer :P i sort it first the clean one and kept it under the bed, some of them i gave it to my friends and the bad one threw it away. Right now i have thrown half of my collection. So what is the moral of the story? the moral is that u can always saving up garbage as long you have the spaces to keep it :P oh yeah one more thing as long as your wife agreed too :D

This post is to help Poppie get rid the virus on her laptop.

okay, you got virus on your PC and its makin you sick, so what to do?
To be honest here in Indonesia the virus is different from the majority virus around the world, because almost all of the local virus spread via devices such as flash disk or memory card. The method is also quite intriguing, they use social engineering (see example to understand better about this term) to disguise the virus.

e.g. to fool users they use folder or Microsoft office Icon to persuade on clicking the virus. Before they could appear on the folder, Windows usually initiate autoruns. While on autoruns, the virus on the flash disk or Memory card change the registry of all the folder on the device to permanent hidden and hide the extension of the file like .doc or .exe. The flash disk or memory card that is used to spread the virus are chosen because internet is still not a common thing in Indonesia. The computer rental or the internet cafe are usually the hive of it.

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Seeing this pattern, i notice that no antivirus from outside Indonesia could handle it quickly, the famous brontok virus is not recognize by Norton Antivirus until a month, Mcafee too. The only antivirus right now in my experience that could manage Local virus quickly from outside Indonesia are AVG and Kaspersky.

Luckily there’s a Local PC magazine that are taken the initiative in making antivirus for local virus. The Magazine are PC MEDIA with his famous antivirus PCMAV.
They use two method in bashing away the virus, their own signature of key of local antivirus and use Clam AV (Open Source Antivirus) database to eliminate from international virus.
The biggest advantage i think the Antivirus itself it’s portable and downright slim, 2mb only the PCMAV and 18mb with the Clamav main db, daily db and local library.

To use it right away u could donwload it here

Download PCMAV antivirus July Edition (2mb)
International Link
http://depositfiles.com/files/6677969

Local Connection (Indonesia)
http://www.indowebster.com/PCMAV_With_Updaterar.html

Download PCMAV Antivirus with main+daily update of CLAMAV antivirus and the required library for windows XP (June 20th update db, 18mb)
International Link
http://depositfiles.com/files/6673720

Local Connection
http://www.indowebster.com/PCMAV_CLAMAV_Database_with_Windows_Libraryrar.html

Beside the famous signature of local antivirus, PCMAV have some downside, u can’t setup proxy for updating, u need to cure/heal the file manually by pressing the cure/heal button and if u have 512mb ram, well prepare to stop working for a couple of hour. The scanning process is quite long, it may take up for 2hour+ for a full 80 gig of harddisk. But the scanning is perfect it may catches virus that unidentified by AVG or AVAST antivirus. The bad thing is if you’re using system restore on your XP you better turn it off for a while. sometimes if the virus identified as system file and it is locked, u can’t fix it with PCMAV that where other software come handy.

by Ng?c Hà

There are two other free software that is a must have on my PC regarding security, Unlocker and COMODO firewall (The best Firewall IMHO). Like i said before, there are file are locked and can’t be fixed with PCMAV, Unlocker work perfectly in EVERY SITUATION like this, there almost hundred of incident i’ve solved with Unlocker. Unlocker is a free software and a solution for (and i quote from the website )

Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

pic by freewareblog

Unlocker unlock all of this issue, if u cant unlock it right away, Unlocker will unlock and delete it(if requested) after reboot. download it at http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ . Genius app!!

For firewall, i use Comodo Firewall, this is the best firewall there is, at first u may find tedious to approve EVERY application that want to connect to the internet, but once it identified it as a safe application u dont have to approve it anymore.

Actually there’s one little DOS command script that i make to remove permanent hidden on folder or file that have been damage with the virus. A really small script (1 kb) and u can read the content of the script with notepad. Use this script ONLY INSIDE REMOVABLE STORAGE or partition drive that doesn’t have Windows System folder (e.g if u have windows folder on C: , dont use this script on drive C:).
Download it Here
International Link
http://depositfiles.com/files/6678292

Local Link (Indonesia)
http://www.indowebster.com/Permanent_Hidden_Removalrar.html

this just plain hillarious :))

Ahh Book Fair! this event always kept me busy :D
The event started on June 29th and finished at Juli 6th, I visited it twice on the first day and second at a day before finished. For sure by coming to this event it makes many of my schedule ruin, one of them is writing on my site :D I even delay writing post for my friend poppie about solving virus issue on her laptop. I bought many books on the event because it’s ridiculously cheap, My favorite publisher Ufuk Press, put a 40% discount on every books and 75% on old publish book (I bought a 600 page hardcover book in a mere USD $2.50 ).

Every books that i’ve been holding to buy because it’s too expensive become buyable (yes that’s a word :D) on Jakarta Book Fair, the only regret is that i dont prepare enough budget for the event so there’s a lot of books that i’m missing to buy.

I’ve been busy reading since then, one of my favorite book is Paul Arden book, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite, This book is very concise about it content. He reminded me that it is not safe to play safe anymore and sometimes the clever thing is not to be too clever. With an insightful illustrations on every pages, for me this book is a must buy.

Now, i’ve read 4 books and i think i need to slow down or there’ll be no more books for me to read in my home, because i promise my wife i’ll not buy books for the next two month :D

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The Cinematic Diablo III teaser

Diablo 3 Gameplay Video Part 1 *High Quality*

Diablo 3 Gameplay Video Part 2 *High Quality*

The official site for diablo III is on http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/. The site features a lot of screenshot, wallpaper and artwork.