Monday, January 26, 2015

Where to get free graphics

Graphics or pictures or images are very useful when we want to illustrate something on our webpages, blogs or other work. It is very easy, but sometimes not right to simply search for images on the internet and use them without permission. There are however, places on the internet that allow pictures to be used for free.

The aim of this post is to put up a list of sites that allow users to use the images for free.
1. Pixabay.com
2. Images under Creative Commons licence.

Friday, January 16, 2015

How to Check for Spyware, Malware Infection

This article will present various ways to check whether your PC is infected by malware, virus and other nasties. Firstly, here is a recollection of other related posts in this blog, so I will show the link here instead of writing the same material again. The new material will be after that.

How to Check for Botnets

Security - Protection against Botnets

Windows Server 2008 - Firewall, Antivirus, AntiSpyware

Security Software Review, Discounts and Special Deals

Links to Smartphone Mobile Security Software

Malware: Windows Enterprise Defender and Windows Diagnostics

Online Scan - PC tools

Online Scan - Websites

Online Scanning websites and links for virus, malware, spyware

Online Scan - AntiVirus

Now for some new stuff. Some tools that can be downloaded and used are:


Google and download: TDSSKiller
- Start tdsskiller - Run as Administrator.
- Click on Change parameters.
- Check all options except "Loaded modules" and click OK.
- Then click on Start scan.
- When threats are found, choose the Skip option for all of them, instead of deleting.
- To open the log file, click on Report. Or it can be found in :\TDSSKiller.<version_date_time>_log.txt


Google and download: Farbar Recovery Scan Tool.
- Start FRST - Run as Administator.
- Select the option Addition.txt as well as others selected by default. Press the Scan button.
- FRST will create two logs - FRST.txt and Addition.txt - in the same directory the tool was run from.

Some list of tools and other advice can be found on:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-operation-cleanup-complete-malware-removal-guide/

Monday, January 12, 2015

How To Uninstall Pokemon Trading Card Game

The Pokemon Trading Card Game, is not so easily removed.

It may happen that your beloved one installed this Pokemon Trading Card Game without your awareness. The first thing any Windows user would do nowadays would be to go to the:
Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Uninstall -> Pokemon Trading Card Game.
..... or something similar depending on the version of Windows XP/Vista/7/8/etc

Error: a ''property.USER_profile'' error

However, some may encounter an error message above during uninstallation. There are several options.


Two of the recommended tools are:

Revo Uninstaller
CCleaner
See http://xtechnotes.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/links-to-free-software.html for the above and similar tools


The way without using any software is the following.
1. Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features
2. Scroll down the list of programs until Pokemon Trading Card Game is found.
3. Do not click the uninstall button above. Instead at the line item that says "Pokemon Trading Card Game", right-click and then choose Change or Repair something similar.
4. Then when a Window pop-up, click on the Uninstall button.
5. This uninstall should complete properly. If not, check out the software mentioned above. The other alternative is to boot into Windows Safe Mode and uninstall there.




Saturday, January 03, 2015

Migrating WordPress Blog

This post is also posted at http://travel4work.wordpress.com/
Migrating WordPress from <yoursite>.wordpress.com – which is a free service – to another site that you are paying for such as <yourdomain>.com/<yourNewWordPressHome> is very easy and it is all done through WordPress.
In this situation, my new website has Fantastico and it allow WordPress to be installed on my domain very easily – few clicks of buttons. Now assume both <yoursite>.wordpress.com and <yourdomain>.com/<yourNewWordPressHome> are running, here are the instructions.
1. Go to <yoursite>.wordpress.com and login there.
2. Go to the classic Dashboard.
3. On the left panel, go to Tools – Export.
4. Choose to export “All Content” and when asked, save the XML file to your PC.
This XML file presumably contains all the data for the two WordPress to communicate.
There are lots of pictures in my original WordPress site, but the XML file is only over 100kB, so obviously the Contents are not being saved, ie not needed.
1. Now go to the new <yourdomain>.com/<yourNewWordPressHome> site and login.
2. 2. Go to the classic Dashboard.
3. On the left panel, go to Tools – Import.
4. At the Import page, choose the WordPress option, and you will be asked to install the plugin called WordPress Installer. Go through with this.
5. Then click on Activate Plugin and Run Importer.
6. Click the button to choose the XML file to import from.
7. In the Import WordPress page, choose Import Author and “Download and import file attachments”.
8. You can now go back to the original site and just manually check the old settings, and apply the same settings to the new website. Some example of this to consider are:
a) Appearance – Themes – search for the same previous theme using the search bar and install
b) Appearance – Widgets – Text – Add your text, including Google Adsense code.