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Refinancing Student Loans Can Be A Financial Lifesaver

By mrizos at 3 August, 2009, 12:00 am

Financing an education can be extremely expensive these days and it is more common to have a student leave school in debt than not in debt. In most cases this debt runs into the tens of thousands of dollars, and when it is private student loans the interest will accrue while you are in school and get added on to the loan after you graduate.

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Consolidating Private Student Loans

By mrizos at 29 July, 2009, 12:00 am

Financing an education can be extremely expensive these days and it is more common to have a student leave school in debt than not in debt. In most cases this debt runs into the tens of thousands of dollars, and when it is private student loans the interest will accrue while you are in school and get added on to the loan after you graduate.

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Remove Vundo and Virtumonde Using Free Software

By mrizos at 18 June, 2008, 12:00 am

Virtumonde is a pernicious Adware Trojan that is usually installed into your windows pc (Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista) via an outdated Java Runtime Environment. Vundo, also known as Virtumonde and Virtumondo creates random letter DLL’s in C:windowssystem32 (tyeyavv.dll for example) that inject themselves into the winlogon.exe process as well as the explorer.exe process. Since Vundo injects itself into winlogon.exe removal can be very hard because winlogon.exe is in use almost every second. The biggest problem with Vundo is not necessarily the removal process, but it’s actually the detection process since Vundo creators make hundreds of variants a day in an effort to evade detection (which seems to be working unfortunately).

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Prevent Malware with User Account Control

By mrizos at 8 June, 2008, 12:00 am

User Account Control (UAC) was introduced in Windows Vista as way to control administrative access to programs and settings while logged in as an administrator.

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How To Make a Bootable AntiVirus Disc

By mrizos at 4 June, 2008, 12:00 am

Why Bootable Antivirus?
In a bootable environment we are running a stripped down version of windows in a ram disk (programs are loaded directly into ram), thus the hard drive on the PC is treated as attached storage (like a flash drive).

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