Assisting Dummies

By Grey Olltwit

 How many times have you suddenly got a virus on your computer and you are certain that you didn’t surf on the net anywhere you shouldn’t, or downloaded a dodgy email or opened an attachment to one? Maybe your technical guy has told you, “well you must have done something like this”.

Did you consider that the culprit might have been that free software program you downloaded many months ago? Well the fact is that more and more so called free programs available on the internet, contain trojan virus’ of various shapes and sizes. These are small files dropped onto your computer during the installation of ‘that’ free program, which seems to work so well and you like so much. A trojan virus often doesn’t activate straight away. It is programmed to wait until a particular time, sometimes lying dormant for many months before activation. In this way it covers it’s tracks as to where you got it from. The virus then works its magic, altering your files, messing with your registry settings, and generally creating havoc on your system, so that eventually your computer gets slower and slower, keeps freezing, and finally gives up. And during this process that little virus has sent all your passwords, bank details and any other private information you had on your computer back to its originator. In simple terms its theft, but there’s often not much you can do about it.

Another pain are those programs which are added during installation, such as toolbars, search helpers and the like. The big boys like Yahoo and Google are just as brazen in giving you these annoying freebies as many smaller internet companies. They cover themselves by giving you the option to uncheck a box if you don’t want their other little special things. How many times have you overlooked that little check box and now are locked into searching with Yahoo et al. Other nastier little surprises in free programs are the ones that hijack your internet browser, so that every time you come across a page that’s not available, it springs into life giving all sorts of unwanted options. Or it replaces every fourth or fifth page of browsing with its oh so helpful information.

Many free programs also come bundled with spyware which looks all through your computer and sends sensitive information back to its master. Some can become so annoying and almost impossible to remove, that the only option is a complete wipe of your hard drive and to re-install Windows. Sound familiar? Isn’t it better to purchase a program or website membership and be sure of a program’s cleanliness, as the author is getting properly rewarded for his work by your payment and doesn’t need to resort to these vulgar tactics.

Grey Olltwit has been producing educational software for over 12 years and providing it for download on his website. Now with over 200 programs, Grey Olltwit Educational Software is used by more than 8 million people world-wide in over 50 countries.

Top Engineering Colleges in Orissa
By pushkar

 The top Engineering institutes and the supreme Engineering institutes available in the state of Orissa. There are 37 Engineering Colleges in Orissa.They offer Computer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, Civil Engineering, Electronics and communication Engineering, Textile Engineering, Agriculture and Technical Engineering Programmes.

With the spread of education across the country, the State of Orissa has fast emerged as a favoured education destination for engineering colleges. Promoting education in every sphere is a priority for the Government with its 9 universities and numerous quality institutes both in Government and private sector. Engineering Colleges have made a mark by providing a good set of global technocrats and managers. Orissa engineering institutes would enable the incumbent secure successful jobs in India or a career abroad.

The Mechanical Engineering department in some colleges are well equipped with a Computational Laboratory. Most of the Computers are loaded with different type of softwares, like NASTRAN & PATRAN, NISA - II, Auto Cad, Analysis JAVA. The Department of Electrical Engineering has the Electrical Machines Lab, Power Electronics and Devices Lab, Network & Devices Lab, Instrumentation and Control Lab, High Voltage Lab, Power System and Computation Lab, Embedded system/DSP/Soft computing Lab modern facilities available in various colleges.

The department of manufacturing offers a four year undergraduate degree course in Manufacturing Science and Engineering leading to BTech. Degree. Core manufacturing subjects. Civil Engineering, the degree programme includes Computer Aided Analysis and Design and Remote Sensing besides an integrated and systematic foundation in Physical and Engineering Sciences like solid, fluid and soil mechanics, Materials, Graphics and Surveying. Computer Science & Engineering Departments offers the following four years undergraduate and three years Master Degree Courses. BTech. degree in Computer Sc. & Engineering, BTech. degree in Information Technology and Master Degree in MCA ( Master in Computer Application). Advanced research of the institutes areas are Parallel Processing, Algorithm Engineering and Foundation of computing., Networking, Data Mining & Soft Computing, Software Engineering, Image Processing.

For more info about Top Engineering Colleges in Orissa and various Indian Engineering Colleges, you may like to check Ekikrat.in, Indias first user generated social web content Portal.

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