802.11n – Wi-Fi’s next big thing

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

A group of technology companies including Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and STMicroelectronics is pushing their proposal for the eventual 802.11n Wi-Fi standard that they claim will offer speeds "up to 10 times the speed of the current generation". Glenn Fleishman over at Wi-Fi Networking News cuts to the chase: "An array ...

Scam Alert: Juice Boost

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

From the scam of a lifetime department: A spammer in our Broadband Tweaks forum is pushing a referral scam service called Juice Boost, which promises users 2Mbps speeds for free, anywhere there's a phone line, using "State-of-the-art data compression, byte stream and ultimate data burst technology". The service also promises ...

Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs. Sandvine reckons ...

New and Improved HFT Online!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Need help with any of your computing needs? Stop over at the new and improved HFT Online Forums and post your questions for the Experts! HFT Online

Problems updating AVG?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Navigate to your AVG install directory and rename your existing url.ini file to url.iniold.Copy the following and paste into notepad and save it as url.ini. Put this new file into your AVG install directory. You'll now have 3 options to select from with www.grisoft.com being the default.[SERVER_NAME] 1=free.grisoft.cz 2=ftp.grisoft.com 3=www.grisoft.com [SERVER_URL] 1=http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe 2=ftp.grisoft.com/pub/softw/60/fe/ 3=http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/ Actual URL=3