Rising PC Doctor: A comprehensive security tool for Windows

Rising PC Doctor is a comprehensive security tool that will enhance your protection against malware and online threats. Rising is the leading antivirus software developer in China and this tool has seven key functions such as Automatic malware analysis, Immunization of USB devices, Auto repair Windows, Trojan Interceptor, URL Alert, Trojan Download Blocker and Internet Explorer Protection.

1. Automatic Malware Analysis: Scans at Windows startup for potential malware. If you permitted, possible malware is automatically transferred to Rising’s Automated Malware Analyzer (RsAMA) for detailed analysis. The user is informed about the result of the analysis and can quickly react to new threats for which conventional protection is not yet available.

2. Immunization of USB devices: By immunizing USB devices prevents spreading of malware via USB sticks and MP3 players.

3. Auto repair Windows: Scans for vulnerabilities and unsafe settings in Windows and other third party software and lets you download updates from Microsoft.

4. Trojan Behavior Detector and Blocker: By using behavior based analysis it stops Trojans and other malware before they can load and harm your PC

5. Trojan Download Blocker: The advanced Trojan intercepting technology by Rising blocks malware such as Trojan downloader before they can infect your computer.

6. URL Alert: Warn you before visiting suspicious web sites. You may also report suspicious sites.

7. Internet Explorer Protection: Monitor and protect your system when malware tries to invade to the system through IE.

Also there are some advanced tools for experienced users such as such as Disk Cleanup, System Startup Management, Service Management, Network Application Management, LSP Repair, File Shredder, and Special Virus Removal Tools which are designed to eliminate only a limited number of viruses.

However, remember that Rising PC doctor is not an antivirus program (More information about Rising antivirus here) and also it can’t considered to be a freeware, it is an adware (ad supported program). More details and free download of Rising PC Doctor will available from Rising Global site.

Returnil Virtual System 2008 Personal Edition now with more features

Returnil Virtual System (RVS) is a powerful virtualization technology for windows that doesn’t let anything affect the windows installation drive. Through the virtualization technology, it creates a theoretical layer over the main (C) drive. If enable the RVS, any changes on ‘C’ drive will be automatically saved only in this layer and will be automatically erased up on the next reboot. So RVS can easily prevent malware and spyware programs, because any changes made to the system are automatically erased when you restart the computer.

This is a great tool for those who want to try different software on their PC.

The new version (2.01) comes with many new features. One of the main features is File Protection - This new feature will allow the user to selectively protect files and folders on alternate partitions. Further, the user can also specify the entire partition or drive (extra internal drive, USB drives, IEEE drives, etc).

More information and free download from Returnilvirtualsystems.

Mega icon collection - 2 (2500 free icons)

Here is another great looking huge list of commercially free icons for your design works. All these icons are free for personal and commercial use and don’t require a back-links or credit to the author. Usually these types of icons can be tough to find. Iconpot.com is the right place for finding such commercially free icons.

You can download more than 2500 different category icons directly from iconpot.com. (See here for 7500 free icons for all of your projects)[via].

How to prevent copying contents from computer to USB devices?

In some particular situations you may want to prevent copying content from your computer onto a USB stick. For instance, if you are working with highly confidential data or copyrighted material, you might want to restrict other user from copying this. As USB devices are extremely handy, anyone can easily copy contents from a computer, so this protection is very useful in some instances.

USB WriteProtector is a handy tool for Windows that allows users to disable USB devices from copying contents from a computer. You can very easily enable or disable this by clicking a button. (You can also do the same by modifying a registry key. Read below how to do this in XP)

Download USB WriteProtector (190Kb) from http://www.gaijin.at/dlusbwp.php and unzip it in a folder. Run the USB WriteProtector exe, select your language, click ‘USB write protection ON’ button for write protecting USB devices. You can disable it at any time by clicking on ‘USB write protection OFF’ button.

[By modifying a registry key, you can also disable writing to USB devices. Here is how. Click Start – Run. Type ‘regedit’ and hit enter.

Now navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System\ CurrentControlSet\Control
Right click on ‘Control’ and create a new key and name it StorageDevicePolicies. On the right pane create a new DWORD value by right clicking and name it WriteProtect, give it a value of “1″ and reboot your PC. Now no one can copy content onto USB devices. To re-enable this, change the DWORD value to 0. This is what the above tool does.]

How to repair damaged word documents?

Some days back one of my friends college project work was accidentally deleted from USB pen drive. I recovered it using recovery software, but the document became corrupted and unable to open it. As it is a big project, I made a search on the net and find a free tool for repairing damaged word document called Repair My Word. Even though it is unsuccessful in recovering the whole document, it decently recovered most of the parts, so he can complete it with out much effort.

Repair My Word is a data recovery program for Microsoft Word documents. It is designed to recover text from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files) that will not open normally. The recovered text can then be saved as an error free Microsoft Word document. It will repair Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 for Windows.

Repair My Word is simple to use. Download (1.5Mb, v1.1) and run it (no installation required). Open the corrupt Word file; preview the recoverable text in the preview window and save this text to a new error free Word file. That’s all.

Fix your monitor settings online

Here is an interesting online tool where you can check and cure dead pixels of your LCD screen, fix brightness, gamma, phasing, flicker, etc of your computer monitor. For instance, if you're thinking of buying a new monitor then try to get one without TN technology or if you're not sure if your monitor is TN run the TN checker.

TN Technology means color is not consistent and depends on where you're sitting. If block color seems to fade when viewing the TN checker page it may mean you have a low budget TN powered monitor.

Optimize and compact Windows registry safely

You can easily optimize your system by defragging almost all fragmented files using Windows defrag tool, but not the registry. Because Windows does not provide access these files while operating. In Windows, registry data is consistently being written to and removed during a normal windows operation.

Whenever a user makes changes to, for instance, Control Panel settings, or File Associations, System Policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the registry. Overtime all these data become fragmented. This fragmentation slow down in computer and affects its overall performance.

Quicksys RegDefrag (latest version 2.3) is a free tool for Windows that optimizes and compact registry by removing gaps, fragmented and wasted space in windows registry files, thus improves the whole system performance.

Using this program is very simple. After installation, click on ‘Defrag Registry’ button, then click ‘Analyze’ after analyzing click ‘Defrag’ button for optimizing and compacting registry (a restart is required to complete the process). It will automatically create registry restore point, so that you can easily restore your registry, if anything went wrong (you can also create a back up manually).

Current version (a portable version also available) supports Windows 2000 / XP/ Vista /2008 and Seven.