Alessandro Zanello

More and more useful, free services online scanning suspicious files in real time as Jotti , NoVirusThanks , VirusTotal and ThreatExpert have become a reference: on these sites can provide a file that do not trust it because it is analyzed by a score or Most anti-virus, in order to have an overall picture and decide based on the percentage of recognition of the various anti-virus used as a threat.

In the digital era we live in the illusory belief that our data, be they documents, photos or films, can be preserved forever. Where once our favorite TV series on videotape could be damaged due to the fragility of the support, with a DVD or Blu-ray in many think they have taken to always secure their data, but it does not.

A CD or DVD generally has a guaranteed life of about ten years. Is likely that support will last for a few more years, but there is nothing certain. The damage develops from outside to the inside surface of the disk, and if there was something perhaps over many small files can be recovered, while if there was one big file that is irretrievably lost. Keep reading if you want a more permanent solution.

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If you open an FLA and you do not know what version of Flash has been created, having installed more versions of Flash, you can go to trial and error, wasting time and getting after the timeout error messages are unclear, such as "file format not correct "which, however, say that your version of Flash is not correct, or download Flaver.

Flaver open the FLA file, identify its version, and launches the corresponding Flash or warning that the PC in question is not the correct version is installed:

Flaver works with any version of Windows and all versions of Flash up to 19 (CS4).

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Perhaps not everyone knows that even the registry keys have access privileges, just like files and folders. For this reason can be that trying to remove a key stuck in the register by a virus there is to succeed, for the permissions that the virus author has deliberately modified. The following instructions to resolve the issue.

To change the access permissions of a registry key, follow these steps:

a. launch the Registry Editor (Start, Run, regedit, and OK or Windows-R, regedit, Enter)
b. find and right-click the registry key and select Permissions
c. under Users and Groups click Administrators
d. under Permissions for Administrators, make sure that the Allow check both of the following items:
â € ¢ Full Control
â € ¢ Read
and. click Apply and OK
f. exit the registry.
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One of the most common systems of propagation of the viruses today is based sull'autoplay: a USB memory stick that you have with an infected system has been modified so that when inserted into a system with active starts an autorun virus that attempts infecting the host system. There are countermeasures to prevent this from happening, but what about the keys of third parties over which they have control? It 's good idea to disable autorun, but this is a tedious process and unstable (you have to handle various cases separately autoplay), unless the use of Group Policy.

Start:

gpedit.msc

via Start, Run, or press the usual key combination is Windows-R (for Run, Windows is the key with the Windows flag, the second lower left, often on the third notebook). more »

If you do not belong to a domain, XP has some limitations: for example, XP Home does not support Group Policy Editor:

while XP Pro can not selectively apply policies to specific users, here a small freeware tool that requires no installation that addresses precisely these limitations:

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One of the strangest riddle that can happen is the inability to perform. Just compiled EXE. The error message usually complains about not finding the file itself, you know that you have to be in the folder of your project, there may be some variations, depending on the IDE used, but the gist is that the program does not located.

Before spending hours or days to seek answers do not exist, reinstall development environments, etc.., Try to exclude the folder from real-time control made by your antivirus: you might find that the program does not exist because the virus, using its heuristic algorithms, has identified a hypothetical threat in the exe and put in quarantine.

If this is the problem, the solution is to exclude the executable from the control, but the risk is that any subsequent attacks that compromise that file will not be detected ...