33% Off Handy Backup

Holiday Special Offer: Novosoft Slashes 33% Off Handy Backup Prices

This Christmas Novosoft LLC gives likeable discounts for Handy Backup and updates.

Novosoft LLC, an acclaimed international software development and IT-consulting company, announced holiday season hot deals for Handy Backup. This Christmas pack of three licenses for full-featured Handy Backup Standard, Professional, Full, and Server editions are slashed by 33%. All updates plug-ins, including the popular MS Exchange and Database Backup plug-ins, are available for half of the price. Users of Handy Backup versions prior to 6.9 might update their programs with the same 50% economy.

"It has become a part of our culture: Christmas is shopping time," remarked Nataly Sigaeva, head of Novosoft Marketing department. "As we shop this holiday season, we expect discounts. It’s a tricky thing with the diuscounts however: too small a discount is not what shoppers expect, and too large of a discount result in less profit for investment into product development. For tweaking our special offers we use the most sophisticated techniques of discount amount calculation, which nonetheless might be described in terms of a single paradigm: the price is to be the most competitive."

An opportunity to purchase Handy Backup and plug-ins and update older versions with the special economy offer expires on January, 10, 2011.

Handy Backup is a family of data backup and disaster recovery software for individual PCs (Handy Backup Standard, Professional, and Full), servers (Handy Backup Servers), and Android mobile devices (Handy Backup for Android). Starting from the version 6.9 the software presents advanced online and disaster recovery features.

Prices range from $0 for Handy Backup for Android to $599 for Handy Backup Server. This holiday season packs of three licenses for Handy Backup PC editions and Handy Backup Server might be purchased with the 33% discount. Plug-ins and updates are available with the 50% economy.

To learn more, please feel free to visit http://www.handybackup.net/order.shtml

About Handy Backup Server

Handy Backup Server is the special Handy Backup edition providing means of efficient backup for enterprise networks. The software features centralized remote control of server and workstation backup, synchronization of multiple network drives, data recovery with simultaneous distribution of files and disk images to several network computers at a time, and much more other features. The program is capable of backing up of MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes, ODBC-compatible databases, and other important data.

ShopToIt.ca Canada’s First Mobile Shopping Application

ShopToIt.ca Launches Canada’s First Mobile Shopping Application

PRESS RELEASE
Source: Shop To It Inc on Monday, December 20th, 2010, 10:00am EST

CALGARY, December 20 – Shop To It Inc., announces the launch of ShopToIt Mobile. This groundbreaking new app for iPhone and iPod Touch is the first of its kind in Canada, offering deal-savvy Canadians the ability to compare online and in-store prices, locate deals, find and map local stores, and share content with their friends via Facebook and Twitter, right from their mobile devices.
“Canadians are no strangers to cross-border shopping, yet all studies show that although we may use the Internet for sourcing and researching products, 84% of Canadian online shoppers prefer to purchase in a local store. ShopToIt Mobile combines the best of both worlds putting real time comparison of online and offline prices, and local store information at your fingertips,” says Scott Sanderson, co-founder of Canada’s largest bilingual online shopping network. “Now Canadians can get the instant gratification we want while supporting Canadian retailers.”
Brendan Duddridge, CTO and head developer on the project adds, “Its been an exciting challenge getting this app off the ground. I’ve already experienced more than $100 in savings on my Christmas shopping in local stores, while testing the app’s scanning and price comparison features. I hope Canadian shoppers will download it, if only for the benefit of price matching from retailers.”
Whether a shopper is weighing their options on the latest 3D TV, or on the hunt for the must-have shoe of the season, ShopToIt Mobile will match them with offers from online retailers, as well as local stores near them where they can conveniently complete the purchase. Fully bilingual, ShopToIt Mobile quickly and efficiently pulls information from a database of over 6.5 million products, and maps the shopper to thousands of local and online retailers. Features include:

• Daily deals: conveniently see the best daily deals in your area
• Never over-pay again: scan and compare prices from other retailers
• Share content with your social network
• Find sales, get directions to local stores, and so much more!

ShopToIt Mobile is free to download from the iTunes store, or visit  shoptoit.ca/iphone for details on the robust functionality of Canada’s first comparison shopping app.

How To Remove SystemTool 2011

System Tool 2011 'SystemTool' is malware cleverly designed to act like legitimate system tool and anti-virus program. It unfortunately is nothing more than a 'rogue' program. This type of malware is designed to trick the computer user into believing there is something wrong with their computer, and that it can be fixed with this program. Furthermore, systemtool 2011 (like most other rogue malware) then pretends to try to repair the damage (or clean the virus) but ultimately fails - requiring you to purchase the licensed version - which promises to clean the infection or problem. 

Ultimately, buying the 'licensed version' results in nothing being cleaned or removed, and you have no recourse to get a refund. 

Instead of getting rid of computer problems, and virus, systemtool 2011 victims will experience annoyances such as continuous pop-up alerts, system tray notifications, and of course endless reminders to purchase the licensed version of System Tool 2011. Efforts to remove or uninstall system tool 2011 program will fail as many of windows functions are unusable. Task Manager, Add or Remove Programs, and Windows Registry Editor will not work. The start menu is also modified to show only limited programs - and of course System Tool 2011. Many users will resort to purchasing a system tool license. Doing so will lead the buyer to an online payment processing web site where credit card information will be requested. Providing your credit card information will bring credit card charges for unknown transactions. 

System Tool 2011 Infection Details;

It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\System Tool 2011
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “5648541024″
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]”

System Tool 2011 will create these malicious files:
%AppData%\[random]\
%AppData%\5648541024
%AppData%\5648541024\5648541024.bat
%AppData%\5648541024\5648541024.cfg
%AppData%\5648541024\5648541024.exe
%UserProfile%\Desktop\System Tool 2011.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\System Tool 2011.lnk

How to Remove System Tool 2011

The process to remove System Tool 2011 can be either manually (harder to accomplish) done, or automatically (simplest) done.  You will require 'Malware Bytes' Anti malware program which can be downloaded from malwarebytes directly. The full version can be purchased as well.

Manual removal of system tool 2011
1. Restart your computer in Safe Mode

- Repeatedly Press 'F8' on keyboard as soon as you turn on the computer to access the boot menu
- Select Safe Mode to start the computer loading only minimal resources

2. Delete Windows registry entries systemtool 2011 created.
Note: BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
- On Windows Start Menu, Click Start > Run
- Type in the field, regedit
- Find registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary

3. Delete System Tool 2011 Files:
- Browse and delete malicious files detected above.
- Some files cannot be deleted instantly. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to open Windows Task Manager, look for any virus-related files mentioned on this page and highlight it, click End Process. Try to delete the file once more.

4. Run Your Antivirus and Anti Malware Programs
- You must be connected to Internet to be able to update your anti-virus program. This is needed to have the latest database available and detect newer threats.
- Thoroughly scan the computer and clean or delete all detected threats.

How To Remove HDDDiagnostic

How To Remove HDDDiagnostic

Similar to my other posts about malware programs such as how to remove XP AntiVirus 2010 and how to remove XP Guardian 2010 another nasty malware program has cropped up. This one is called HDDDiagnostic.

HDDdiagnostic pretends to find problems with your hard drive and warns you that you have no free space, or there arew critical errors, it even goes so far as to warn you that you have no hard drive. That is funny actually, because unless you are running Windows off of a USB stick, or a CD\DVD installation, you have to have a hard drive to actually even be seeing these errors - but I can sympathize with those that are not computer savvy. This program may seem legitimate simply because it does not appear to do any harm....it is not claiming that there are virus on the pc etc. So many may believe it is a windows error.

Some typical HDDDiagnostic errors:

Windows detected a hard drive problem.
A hard drive error occurred while starting the application.

HDDDiagnostic will display false error messages and system tray popup notifications such as these:

Critical Error
Hard Drive not found. Missing hard drive.

Critical Error
RAM memory usage is critically high. RAM memory failure.

Critical Error
Windows can't find hard disk space. Hard drive error

There are several removal methods starting from simple to difficult.

1) The first step is to identify the malware.
Download rkill to kill the rogue process

2) Delete HDDDiagnostic using Add or Remove Programs.

3) Empty your temp folders; such as:
c:\temp
c:\system32\temp
c:\documents and settings\current logged on user\local settings\temp
Note: Current logged on user is the folder name of your windows account.
Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to see the current logged on user (it will say logged on as:)

4) Empty the recycle bin
5) Restore the pc to an earlier time ( start\programs\accessories]system tools\system  restore

Advanced HDDDiagnostic Removal Guide:

1. Open process explorer (CTRL-ALT-DEL)
2. End any process similar to a random numbers eg: (7969594392.exe) process.
3. Open your temp directory :
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Local Settings\Temp
Windows Vista\7: C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Temp

4. Delete all files from that directory. Some files may be locked by the malware.
5. Open process explorer again and end explorer.exe process.
6. Create new task "explorer.exe"
7. Delete the files which were locked
8. Search for occurrence of "random number" (or whatever the process's number was)
9. Delete all the entries that refer to that program name
10. Scan your computer with anti-malware software.

Additional HDDDiasnostic removal tips can be found here

Chat That Connects to Anything

Keep Connected with Pidgin Universal Chat Client

Nothing is more annoying then trying to connect with someone on chat with a different client. You may be using hotmail, or AOL, then are using Yahoo of Google. How to solve this...The solution requires a universal chat client. There are many, but not every universal chat client connects to all chat networks.

Enter 'Pidgin' The Universal chat client that connects to all major chat networks. Pidgin is the universal remote for instant messaging services. Used by millions, Pidgin can connect to any chat network simultaneously, including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google and more.



With one simple download you can chat with your friends on MSN, say hi to your mom on Google Talk and discuss business with coworkers on Yahoo all at the same time. Pidgin is available for Windows, Linux and other UNIX operating systems and is completely free with no ads or spam.

Download Pidgin