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3 free softwares to turn your Webcam into video surveillance camera

Filed under Computer tricks, Free Softwares, Freeware, Security Tips, Windows Tricks by on February 9, 2011 at 3:54 pm {4 comments}

There are many situations in which you require to monitor your work area or your home. Here we have few free softwares which can turn your Webcam into a surveillance camera ;-) .

1. Rise Sun:

Rise Sun is a free Windows based video security software. Which uses a webcam for motion detection. In case of any movement detection it automatically takes a snapshot and saves it on your hard disk. It can ring an alarm if any movement is detected.  You can read more about this software and download it from here.

2. TeboCam:

TeboCam does the same job as Rise Sun. But it can send you emails also in case of any activity. TeboCam can generate snapshots at regular intervals and if any movement is found it can create emails and send the snapshots to you via mail or it can directly upload it on the website. To know all the features of it just download it and use it ;-) . Here is the download link. TeboCam

3. Prog’z WebCamSpy:

Prog’z WebCamSpy is not as good as the previous two softwares mentioned here. But it can be used to make your webcam a spy cam. It is a lightweight software. Does not require much resources to work. It just sits silently and takes snapshots using webcam at regular interval and saves them on your computer. It also can zoom on particular portion while recording so you can use it for monitoring specific areas. Download Prog’z WebCamSpy

If you know any other good software which can be used for the same purpose then please share it with us using comments form below. :)


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Interesting story behind Trojan Horse

Filed under Tech-Updates by on February 8, 2011 at 8:22 pm {3 comments}

We all have heard about the viruses named Trojan Horse, Trojan Horse is a kind of virus which appears to perform it’s intended tasks, But silently steals all the information from your computer or harms your computer in a way which may be difficult to recover.

Interestingly I got to know a story about the name Trojan Horse virus, Here it goes…

In Greek Mythology they believe there was a city called, City Of Troys & there was other kingdom of Greeks. They fought for about 10 years and the war was called the Trojan War. After 10 years of fight the greeks still had nothing in their hands, it was a fruitless siege , So the greeks declared that they quit from the War.

Now the greeks built a giant horse made of wood & gave it as a trophy of victory to the citizens of Troy called TROJANS. The trojans happily took the horse inside the city. On the same night the trojans were busy celebrating their victory while 30 soldiers who were hiding inside the Giant Wooden Horse came out  & opened the city gates for the Greek Army. The Greek army then destroyed the entire troy city.

Since then everything that causes the target to bring a vulnerable object in to a secured area is referred as a Trojan Horse. Hence the name Trojan Horse is given to viruses that pretend to be something else, but once they are inside the system they start messing up the entire system.

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SvcHost Exe process info & virus details

Filed under Software Troubleshooting by on February 6, 2011 at 8:50 pm {one comment}

What is an SVCHost.exe file? & What is it doing in your task manager?

An svchost.exe file is a windows generic host process & is there for a good reason, This files is a native integral part of the windows operating system. It basically supports various windows services running from the Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files of windows. The services that may require SVCHOST.Exe include Windows Firewall, Automatic System Updates, Windows themes , Plug and play, Fax & printer services & many more. These services ideally start automatically when the windows system starts. These files are found in all windows operating systems launched after windows 2000 NT. (i.e Windows XP, Vista & 7)

When your windows system boots, The Svchost.exe file checks the windows registries & automatically builds a list of services that needs to be loaded. Usually each SVChost.exe carries different services from windows. If you find multiple SVChost.exe files in your task manager, there is nothing to worry about, It’s absolutely normal for windows to run multiple svchost.exe simultaneously.

SVCHOST.exe Virus & Removal

It is possible for malicious softwares to modify the windows registry & make SVCHOST.exe process to load the wrong malicious .dll files. Which will endup in making your computer or network affected with viruses and malewarez.

Another common approach is that virus files are names SCVHOST.exe did you see the difference in the filenames ? SVC vs SCV??
What this file sCvhost.exe does is that it allow hackers to access all your personal information, This is a virus of tye W30/Agobot-S , You may also call this a trojan horse. Since it hides itself with a genuine process name.

How to remove Svchost.exe virus or sCvhost.exe virus:

1. Removing the Svchost virus can be a very tedious task, Though i personally managed to somehow remove the virus using advanced tactics, It is not recommended that you try and follow the same, Because a single mistake could lead to a damaged Operating system, Which would be difficult to recover.

2. So instead of giving you the steps I find it appropriate to suugest you that you should use an Anti-virus to do this for you.

3. You can grab your self a free copy of antivirus over here ( Norton Internet Security).

100% CPU utilization error in SVCHOST.EXE Process & Memory Leaks:

The first solution to this problem is that you may just want to restart the computer, Most of the times this will solve your problem,Another quick solution for this problem is to start the task manager & find the process causing this problem & then right click the process name and set the priority to low.

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