Cloud Antivirus : The new frontier of computer virus prevention.

I was searching the net trying to find some good free antivirus and came across this particular antivirus. What makes a cloud antivirus different from a conventional antivirus?

In conventional antivirus, the virus database is stored in your computer. As time goes by, lots and lots virus data will be downloaded to your computer and making it bulky sort of speak. This will cause your computer's resources. Each and every antivirus users will download virus patterns database and stores the same database in every PC which makes it redundant. Not all PC's experiences the same virus attack hence information on new viruses will take time to be known on the other side of the globe.

Cloud antivirus on the other hand will only install the client on your PC. The virus database are stored in an antivirus server and shared all around the globe. That means no more downloading virus pattern update. whenever there is a new virus threat, the information will straight away received by the server which relays it to the other users around the globe which uses the same client at the first user.

Currently there are 3 known free cloud antivirus in the market.

 1. Kingsoft Free Antivirus.

Never heard of this one but it claims a real-time prevention and advanced protection for your PC. Permanently free and steady antivirus software. Protection against attacks from worms, Trojans, pyware, malware and unnamed viruses. Automatic scan or demanded scans, which quickly cleans infected data Defends E-mail & MSN clients, and monitors webpages while you are surfing the Internet.

2. Panda Cloud Antivirus

This one is a relatively known antivirus company. It has got great reviews by reputed tech blog. But from what I read in the net, some user experience high resource usage with this antivirus. But its has high detection rate.

3. Immunet Protect FREE Antivirus 

Among all the cloud antivirus featured in this article Immunet, according to bloggers, is the best. Unlike the others, it is not a resource hog and it does most of the settings by itself automatically so people who are new to computers need not worry much.

Some of them have pro or plus versions which are not free but have additional features and functions.

I personally use Immunet a relatively unknown antivirus and from what i read from the net it runs in the most minimal resource and it wont hog your system. But most of all ... it can be used in conjunction with most of your favorite conventional antivirus for that added protection. I use Immunet Protect with my trusty Eset Smart Security.

Laptop always shows "On AC Power" even when on battery? Here's one solution you can try.

Is your laptop behaving like a desktop computer? Does it show it's on AC power all the time even when you are on battery power?

If you happen to answer "yes" then ... you have the same problem as mine. The most annoying part is when you forget to turn on the power and you are running on battery but it says "on AC power" ... then all of a sudden .... without any warnings and notifications ... your laptop just goes blank .... completely shuts down without the sequence. All your unsaved work goes with it.

Been searching for quite a while on how to fix this but lots of the time I ran into a dead end. you'd be surprised of how many people have the same problem.

In my case, it seems that I'm lacking a certain driver in my system which handles the AC/DC power monitoring.

You can try searching for the solution on your own but I gotta tell you ... its not easy ... fortunately though ... I'm kind enough to share this with you so you don't have to search any further hahaha...

But first let me just credit the person who helped us .. this person's name supposedly is Davey with a nickname dOGHAIR..

LIMITATION: This method is for Windows XP only ... I havent tried on Windows Vista nor Windows 7.
DISCLAIMER: This method is pretty harmless but that been said, use this method AT YOUR OWN RISK.

You can download a zipped file which contains a batch file that will repair the missing battery icon issue. All you gotta do is extract the file then go to the extracted folder and double-click the "install.bat" file. Keep on pressing "enter' until the whole thing is finished.

When it's done .. right-click "My Computer" then click "Manage". Select "Device Manager" under the "Computer Management (Local)" tree.

Make sure you have these two items ... under "Batteries" on the right side of the panel.

1.  Microsoft AC Adapter

2.  Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery

* please refer to the picture

Make sure the battery icon has no question mark or exclamation mark. If for some reasons it has ... restart you laptop. When that doesn't fix the problem, uninstall them by right-clicking them and choosing "Uninstall". Then repeat the "Install.bat" process.

The next step is to enable the icon in the taskbar .... go to "Start > Run" and keyin "powercfg.cpl" .... click on the "Advance" tab and "check" the "Always show icon on taskbar"

You should also have a "Power Meter" tab next to "Advance" tab ... "check" the "Show details for each battery" ... you should see battery icon there. When you unplug the AC power, you should see the AC plug icon turns into a battery icon.

That's just about it ... hope it solves your problem.

Files to download:

http://spaz.org/~davey/battery_fix_by_dOGHAIR.zip

Credits goes to Davey a.k.a dOGHAIR

My Family Tree

Hi guys,
Its been quite a while since I updated my last post .... Now I'm back hehehe ...

Lately I've been in contact with my relatives in Philippines. They are requesting me to create a family tree that can be accessed online by other family members and can add it up or merge it up with their own family tree.

My initial plan was to host a website especially for my family in other words, family website. But then I thought there must be a cheaper way .... one that doesn't require you to fork up cash to achieve such objective. Something like this blogspot ... its free and you can post as much as you like.

So I went googling here and there and came across quite a number of websites that offer free family tree hosting. Unfortunately though .... most of these websites has limitations such as, limited number of pictures you can upload, and limited number of family members that you can add and so on. You need to buy a pro version of it in order to get rid of the limitations.

Luckily, I came across this magnificent website that so far has no limitations like I just mentioned. Well, there are actually but its quite minimal and the pro-version features which are not in the free-version are not something I really need the most. As long as I can upload any number of pictures and add family members as much as I want, its cool with me.

As of now I am the unofficial family historian and the custodian of the Datu Amirhussin Family Tree hehehe

I figured that I share with you so that you can make your own family tree and perhaps we can merge our family tree and be surprised that we are related hehehe.

Here is the website http://www.geni.com/

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