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Windows 7 SP1

Windows 7 SP1 Beta is out, provided are hotfile and torrent links and the changelog for the release.

First Windows 8 Build Screenshots

Windows.7.x64.7700-2010-01-27-21-03-01_01

Comrades at WZor, as promised, have publicized a number of screenshots from a Windows 7 post RTM build as well as the technical data from build 7700.0.100122-190. MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.POST-RTM.7700.X64.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT FILE: 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso SIZE: 3,231,166,464 byte SHA1: C0CB719B781D49B39D8CC93A27F990A366B8E4C7 MD5: EBEB8AEC73339536564D26DB584A9474 CRC: B3F323D6

Modern Warfare 2 vulnerable to Virus and Trojan attacks

Modern Warfare Virus

Modern Warfare’s silly practice of opening ports and connecting directly to hosts leaves an easy path for a hacker to launch an attack against your PC. This can become a keylogger, or place your computer under a botnet.

Office 2010 Beta is Live!

Microsoft Office 2010

Office 2010 has been released to the public. Grab it now for testing, the product features a number of aesthetic and functional improvements over the previous version, bug fixed, and a few new tools.

Security Essentials weekend report

Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s leap into the Anti-Virus market. The suite aims at tackling viruses, trojans, worms, and malware. It is surprisingly light on resources (unlike a certain Windows-Defender) and has features to match its competitors.
This is the first week that Essentials has been out of beta, and the MS Malware Protection Center has released some interesting statistics.

PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat

utorrent

Whether you are looking for an alternative to PG2 because it fails to function properly, or simply looking to cut down the number of processes you are running – the information here is for you.

It is possible to block ip-ranges with utorrent’s built in ipfiltering system.

Slow torrents with Windows 7

Utorrent Max Half Open Connections

After getting windows 7 I noticed that my downloads of the Linux kernel through utorrent were running at incredibly slow speeds. Though the reasons behind this may be complicated, the solution turned out to be rather simple.