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Rapid AntiVirus Removal

Rapid Antivirus (RapidAntivirus) is another crude and primitive fake malware remover propagated using methods of shadowed downloading. This rogue may be installed without your notification by Zlob or Vundo trojans. Disabling this program you do not render it harmless, total deletion of all its files and registry entries is required to remove Rapid Antivirus effectively. [...]


Fixing Vista and Windows 2000 Authentication Problems

This is a very well explanation to fix user authentication problem on windows Vista or windows 2000. Here is the simplified step by step to do it. On my Vista machine I opened the local policy editor (You can find this under administrative tools in the control panel).
Browse to Local Policies -> Security Options

Looking at:
Network [...]


OLPC with Windows XP is ready

According to ZDNet, Microsoft has finally now released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer.
JkonTheRun put up a single shot of the OLPC XO running the customized XP (see an enlarged picture below). We don’t have many details at the moment [...]


Microsoft funds Apache

Instead of continuously battling the Open Source movement, Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software’s biggest supporters.
“Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF [...]