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Avast Antivirus Redistributable Download Link

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The download link available on the official Avast website links to the web installer of Avast free antivirus. Installing Avast using this file requires an active Internet connection for the full package to be downloaded. Googling “Avast redistributable download” brought up a lot of spammy looking websites which hosted the file on file sharing sites.

I got hold of the direct Avast redistributable download URL:

http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avast_free_antivirus_setup_offline.exe

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Disable Javascript in Firefox 23

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The latest Firefox version 23 has been released and it is on news for a lot of reasons.

A new logo, lack of support for the <blink> tag, blocking of mixed (HTTP content on a HTTPS page) to name a few. Among these is “the inability to disable javascript” an article said. What?

Then how do I disable javascript in Firefox 23 to test my new blog design sans JS?

Earlier it was just a matter of Tools menu > Options > Content tab and uncheck “Enable Javascript” to disable javascript.Continue Reading…

How to delete a file association in Windows 7

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When you open a type of file (eg a .php file) for the first time Windows asks you to choose a program to open this file a.k.a “Open With” and from then on this type of file becomes associated with that program (unless you uncheck “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file”). While you can change this program association via Control Panel there is no option in the GUI for removing it. Windows XP had an option  in the “Folder Options” (Tools Menu > Folder Option) dialog box to remove file associations but in Windows 7 you have to tweak the registry to delete a file type association. In this article we’ll see just that.

In addition to this I’ve also written on how to reset a .lnk file type association, this is when you/someone/some application accidentally (or intentionally) associates the .lnk extension with notepad (or some other program) this causes all shortcuts on your desktop and start menu to open notepad with absurd characters.Continue Reading…

Setting up an authoritative DNS in Windows Server 2008

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Nowadays all major domain registrars offer managed DNS service along with the domain name(s) you register with them. You can use them to create most of the commonly used DNS records like A, MX, CNAME and some even allow you to create AAAA(IPv6), SRV and TXT records. But if you want full control over the DNS of your domain(s) its better to setup your own server for DNS hosting.

Setting up a full fledged authoritative DNS server is not so difficult as it sounds. If your know how DNS works you can easily setup your own DNS hosting server to host an unlimited number of domains. In this article I’ve setup an authoritative DNS server using Windows Server 2008 R2.Continue Reading…

How to use PuTTY to create a SSH Tunnel

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The SSH protocol has a unique feature of tunneling other protocols and encrypting them. This article will show you how to use the popular terminal emulator PuTTY to create a SSH tunnel to pass VNC traffic which is normally unencrypted. This is just an example of tunneling VNC traffic through PuTTY you can tunnel almost any traffic (eg HTTP, FTP) by changing port numbers. First I will show you how this is done through the GUI and then by using command line parameters of PuTTY which are very similar to the “ssh” command in Linux. This article assumes that a VNC server software has already been installed on the target Linux computer and a VNC session has been created.Continue Reading…

Copy your Office Outlook Signatures to another computer

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Losing your email signature in Microsoft Office Outlook when you relocate to another computer is a commonly faced problem. I have always been facing this at work, I open Outlook, compose an email and click on the “Signature” button in the toolbar and I see only “Signatures” button 😯 then I remember that I am sitting in another computer 😥 now I go searching for my signature in the sent items folder 💡 and copy it to the current email only to find that either the signature breaks  😳  or the image from the signature is missing OMG! Faced a similar situation? read on as I explain how to copy your Office Outlook signatures to any computer you use. You can use this tip to backup your Office Outlook signatures also. This works in Office 2007 and 2010, I have not tried it in other versions.Continue Reading…

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