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Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. So here is the tool for easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. vLite can also create the bootable ISO and apply the tweaks directly.

This tool doesn’t use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are protected as they would be if you install the full version only without the components you select for the removal.

Here you are, another addictive game that has the same concept as the previous Tower Defense game I posted except that it’s BETTER!

Defend your village from invading monsters in this strategic thriller! In this real-time strategy game, you are tasked with building towers to defend your citizens. Choose up to five different defense towers, all with different strengths. As you progress through 6 detailed levels with hundreds of raids, you’ll be able to build new towers and add skills with the gold you’ve earned. Choose your defense carefully to keep your citizens protected! Even one monster could spell certain doom for your entire city!

I’ve played Master of Defense game before and it’s very addictive. I just kept on playing non-stop! I played Master of Defense few months back and today I found another similar game, a Macromedia Flash based Tower Defense game inspired by Elemental TD for WarcraftIII.

The aim of the game is to kill the creeps before they reach the end of the maze, do this by building attacking towers on the grass around the maze.

A rootkit is a set of software tools intended to conceal running processes, files or system data from the operating system. Rootkits have their origin in relatively benign applications, but in recent years have been used increasingly by malware to help intruders maintain access to systems while avoiding detection. Rootkits exist for a variety of operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris and versions of Microsoft Windows. Rootkits often modify parts of the operating system or install themselves as drivers or kernel modules.

From what I know, virus destroys and create havoc on your system, trojans is to gain complete access to your system, spywares is to spy on your surfing habits and tricking you into buying softwares. As for rootkits, it’s also to gain complete access to your system except it is much tougher to detect than trojan. Your antivirus could not detect such programs because they use compression and encryption of its files. Luckily most script kiddies would just stick to trojans because it’s much easier to use and requires less knowledge compared to rootkits.

But my advice is never take anything for granted. Do scan your computers and servers for rootkits. You might never know that your servers has already been compromised by advance hackers which they use it to launch DDOS attacks.

Today I am going to expose a topic on hacking knowledge that some of you might know and most of you don’t. When you’re going to hack something or someone on the Internet, you won’t want your IP address to spill out. That’s because your ISP could easy trace you by two simple information which is the Time and IP Address. So you’ll use proxy or even chains of proxies to avoid being directly traced by the victim’s firewall. What if the administrator of the proxy server has logs and your IP is being logged in there? It’s possible that the proxy administrator pass your information to your ISP and you’ll still get caught at the end of the day. Don’t forget, there are lots of information to obtain from an IP Address if a person knows what tools to use. One of it is your MAC Address.

There are many many BitTorrent clients you can find on the Internet and µTorrent, BitComet, Azureus, BitTornado are the few popular ones. I strongly agree that Torrent technology is the best so far in terms of fair file sharing. For example, if a user is downloading at 30 KBps, they should upload at 30 KBps. However, due to the unique workload properties of many real-world swarms, this is not always enforced. So I glad that I found a new “selfish” bittorrent client that improves performance. I’ve joined a wrestling torrent site for a very long time now and a year ago, when there were 200 seeders, it would maxed out my download speed. Nowadays, even if there’s 400 seeders and less than 50 leechers, I am only getting 20-30kbps download. This new BitTorrent client will fix this problem!

Sometimes I find it hard to connect to my Windows Live Messenger since the Taiwan earthquake which disrupted Asia’s internet connection. Every time I connect, I get the error message “We were unable to sign you in to Windows Live Messenger, possible because of a problem with the service or with your Internet connection. Please make sure that you are connected to the Internet. Error code: 81000306“.

I am already connected to the internet and I can surf the Internet except it’s a little slower but connecting to Windows Live Messenger seems to be impossible at that time. Here’s how I fixed the problem.