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13 August 2008

Downloading McAfee ViruScan Virus Definition using Batch script and Wget

Category: Tips and Tricks — kamaruddin @ 9:40 am

Have you encounter this situation in your office? You have to keep all workstations with McAfee ViruScan updated with latest definition but only the lucky few are entitled for web access. Unlike Avira Antivir, McAfee is not using static filename for its virus definition (ie. sdatXXXX.exe) and is incrementing everyday. Using a download manager won’t work since its dynamic naming nature.

Here’s where the good old buddy WGET and batch script come in rescue.


@echo off
set TargetPath=D:\Antivirus

IF EXIST "%TargetPath%\update.ini" del "%TargetPath%\update.ini"
wget ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/datfiles/english/update.ini -O "%TargetPath%\update.ini"

FOR /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('type "%TargetPath%\update.ini" ^| find /i "datversion="') DO SET DatVersion=%%a

REM // If you can get it by FTP remove the REM otherwise use HTTP
REM wget ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/superdat/intel/sdat%DatVersion%.exe -O "%TargetPath%\sdat%DatVersion%.exe"

wget http://download.nai.com/products/licensed/superdat/english/intel/sdat%DatVersion%.exe -O "%TargetPath%\sdat%DatVersion%.exe"

IF EXIST "%TargetPath%\old.exe" del "%TargetPath%\old.exe"
REN %targetpath%\update.exe old.exe
REN %targetpath%\sdat%DatVersion%.exe update.exe

If you can’t download via FTP as some crappy ISP disabled it for reasons, you’ll have much luck with HTTP.

Scheduled it into your computer/server (Task Scheduler) and have it ready warm and fresh the next morning. Bye-bye manual downloading….


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28 July 2008

Downloading Video Without Installing Any Software

Category: Tips and Tricks, Web — kamaruddin @ 9:30 am

I teach you how to download video without the help of software video downloader. Now you don’t have to worry messing around your computer by installing (with trial-and-error, duh!) your perfect video downloader software (shareware/freeware). Downloading video is now as easy as 1,2,3…

Leechvideo.com Screenshot

Step 1:
Hit LeechVideo website

Step 2:
Enter the Video URL you wish to download

Step 3:
Grab the Video URL and paste it to your download manager of choice or better yet, DownThemAll!

Easy and clean way of downloading video, doesn’t it? You may also want to check out KeepVid.


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21 July 2008

Easter Eggs in OpenOffice & Firefox 3

Category: Fun, Opensource, Tips and Tricks — kamaruddin @ 11:11 am

1. Space Invaders in Calc

Enter “=GAME(”StarWars”)” in any cell and press Enter

StarWars in Openoffice Calc? Space Invaders in Calc… Yay!

The 2nd time you enter the formula, Calc will complain “Oh no, not again!”

2. Meet Calc Developer Team

Enter “=STARCALCTEAM()” in any cell and press Enter

Geeks behind OpenOffice.org Calc

3. Meet Writer Developer Team

Enter “StarWriterTeam” (case sensitive) and press F3.

Openoffice Writer Dev Team

4. Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! in Firefox 3

Enter “about:robots” as URL in Firefox 3 and let the robots greet us. Just in case, if you’re wondering what Klaatu barada nikto! is.

Welcome Humans! Greeting from the robots!

5. Getting in too deep will void you warranty in Firefox 3

Enter “about:config” and you’ll be warned that it might void your warranty :)

firefox3_1.jpg


Reference:
1. Free Software Magazine
2. Quick Online Tips


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12 July 2008

Yay! It’s Official!

Category: Opensource — kamaruddin @ 11:05 am

Firefox 3 World’s Record CertificateMozilla Blog posted a happy announcement. Guinness World Record gave room for Mozilla and its community a piece of history. Mozilla owns the record for “Largest Number of Software Downloads in 24 hours”. 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!

It’s community support that rules! Opensource Rules!


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Waspadai Pencurian Identitas di Internet

Category: Indonesian, Security — kamaruddin @ 10:27 am

Ilustrasi Digital IdentityTahukah anda kejahatan yang sedang trend saat ini? Mudah dilakukan, relatif aman, calon korban tak terbatas, penanganan kasus lambat dan perlindungan korban yang masih belum maksimal? Pencurian Identitas jawabannya!

Pencurian Identitas/Identity theft adalah tindakan memalsukan identitas seseorang (korban) untuk kepentingan pelaku. Pelaku menggunakan informasi seperti nama, alamat, TTL, telpon, e-mail, foto dan identitas lainnya untuk mengambil keuntungan mengatasnamakan korban. Pencuri ini biasanya cerdas dan tahu betul bagaimana “menggunakan” korbannya.
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