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Activating Microsoft Office 2007 Beta November 5, 2006

A lot of people have been experiencing problems in activating their Office 2007 Beta 2. We can run office 2007 only 50times without activation. So i tried to activate my beta. But all the time i got an error message that there is some problem in my network connection, check my connection or try after some time. I tried it so many times. But all the time i got the same message. Then i googled for the solution or activation crack. I didn’t get any solution but found that lots of users failed to activate their beta. I didn’t get any activation crack. So I thought cracks will be available within 2 or 3 week. Wait for that.

But today i got a solution. There are some product keys that do not need any activation. Install your office with those keys.

One such key is : RQCRJ-FCTYM-V3PDF-GRD46-9YHXQ

If you install your office with this key it will not prompt you for activation.

Don’t worry if you are already installed with another key. You can uninstall and then reinstall the beta version by using the new product license key ( RQCRJ-FCTYM-V3PDF-GRD46-9YHXQ ) Or you can use the following method to change your product key by modify the registry without uninstalling the beta version.

1. Close all Microsoft Office applications.

2. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.

3. Locate the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration Note you may also find another subkey that resembles the following subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{30120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}

4. If you find additional subkeys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, open each subkey, and then identify the product by the ProductName entry. For example: ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007

5. When you find the subkey for the product from which you want to remove the existing product license key, delete the following entries:

· DigitalProductID

· ProductID

6. Exit Registry Editor.

The next time that you try to run an Office application, you will be prompted for a new product license key. Then, you can enter the product license key that is mentioned here. Vala problem solved….heheeeee

Yahoo Messenger Worm November 1, 2006

There is a very bad worm attack on Yahoo Messenger where it will take control of your messenger and without your knowledge sends some messages with a website links which contains the worm, to your friends list, without your knowledge.

This is a worm that spreads itself by sending links to your contacts in messengers like Yahoo. It disables Registry Editor and Task Manager. It changes the Internet Explorer (IE) home page and also modifies registry such that you cannot change the homepage address.

If your computer is infected with this virus ” It will sends the nsl-school.org url to all of your friend list in yahoo messenger using your ID . So with in few hours many of your friends will get infected with it.

What are those links ?:
Nsl-school.org
mytermex.com
myglobal-news.com/?news_id=18388
or other (Do not open this url in your browser).

Here are simple steps following which you can get the worm removed from your system:

1) Download this http://arunmvishnu.googlepages.com/RepairRegistry.reg file (or you can do it manually)
2) Double click on that downloaded registry file, you will be asked wheather you’re sure to add this to registry, click yes.
3) Restart your system.
4) Delete the file svhost32.exe from your Windows folder( If it is present).
5) Delete the file svhost.exe from your Windows folder( If it is present).
6) Lastly, search for: ENET.EXE and delete it if found.

Editing registry manually
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1: Close the browser. Log out messenger.
2: Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
3: To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)
Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better – Copy and paste)
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
4: Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit.
Start>Run>Regedit
From the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to http://arunmvishnu.siteburg.com or other.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Just replace the attacker site with http://arunmvishnu.siteburg.com or set it to blank page.
5: Now we need to kill the process from back end. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del
Kill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)
6: Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.
7: Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get.
Start menu > Run > Regedit >
8: Restart the computer.
Thats All..

Internet Explorer 7 Final Released November 1, 2006

Microsoft late Wednesday released the much-anticipated final version of Internet Explorer 7, the first major update to the market-leading Web browser in five years. The company has high hopes for the release, which arrives amid growing competition from Firefox.
IE7 includes a number of new features such as a built-in Phishing Filter and ActiveX controls that require manual activation to keep users protected. Under the hood, Microsoft has rewritten the networking architecture of the browser to stop URL spoofing attacks.
IE7 will also play a key role in bringing Windows into the so-called “Web 2.0″ era, in which rich applications can reside on a server but feel as snappy as those on the desktop. The release natively supports asynchronous JavaScript and XML, better known as AJAX, along with including a slew of CSS bug fixes and improvements.
Microsoft has additionally built a new RSS feed platform directly into IE7. Not only will users be able to stay up to date by subscribing to Web sites, but application developers can also hook into the platform and easily make use of RSS APIs.

Microsoft Office Videos August 31, 2006

Microsoft UK apparently commissioned Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to do a (spoof) training video with Gervais playing David Brent. The first part runs for 20 minutes and the second for 17 minutes.

They’ve been uploaded to Google Video and the good thing about this service is that you can download them. It’s like watching the lost episode of The Office.

Microsoft said on Tuesday it was investigating how two in-house training videos appeared on two Web sites. The videos, which popped up on YouTube and Google Video this month, were commissioned by Microsoft in 2004 as “a light-hearted way of getting our staff to think about the values they attach to working at Microsoft,” a company spokeswoman said.

he British series ended in 2003 with Gervais and co-writer Stephen Merchant saying there would be no further series. The Office is a mock documentary set in a company whose politically incorrect manager, David Brent, believes, wrongly, he is amusing and popular. By Tuesday, the videos had been pulled off the online video-sharing site YouTube. They remained on Google Video and Microsoft declined to say if it had try to have them pulled from that site.

“These videos were produced for internal use and were never intended to be viewed by the public,” said the spokeswoman said. “We are actively working to investigate how and why they have appeared now.”

Here is the link – http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/005589.html