Ramkumar K R

I am running the free version of AVG Antivirus for almost three years now and so far never faced any major virus attacks on my system which needed a full cleanup with format and reistall of everything.. I am happy about it? Well have you?

I am sure many of you would have faced virus attacks, a friend of mine was not aware of a virus which was sending links to sites using his yahoo messenger untill I told him about it.. Its very common when you have an unsecured PC.

Whether your PC is connected to internet or not, you will need a good antivirus and antispyware. Your friend may connect his USB stick (pen drive) when he visits your home to share some snaps, which you cant resist, even your friend might not be aware, he is spreading viruses from his USB stcik/CD/DVD ROM.

This is where things like AVG antivirus and Google Pack can help you.

Google Pack is a collection of useful software for your system along with an antispyware and an antivirus. Currently Google pack is bundled with Google Chrome Web Browser, Google Apps, Norton Security Scan, Google Desktop, Google Photos Screensaver, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Skype, Google Earth, Google Toolbar for IE, Spyware Doctor, Picasa, Adobe Reader, Google Talk and Realplayer. In fact you can choose the ones you need to install and there is no need to download all, if you have few of them already.

Google Pack contains evaluation versions of PCTools Spyware Doctor and Norton Security Scan, which are good enough on a home PC. If you can, you may optionally upgrade to their full versions for enhanced protections.

I never had an antispyware in my system untill I downloaded Google Pack. I realised that even my system had many spyware infections . As I had AVG Antivirus home edition, I was clean in the virus section.

I would suggest readers to make use of these trustable free products for a safer PC and internet usage. This really doesn’t cost anything but hours of your time cleaning up your system on a virus attack.
Which one you wish to go for?

It all started with
Partition Magic 8 Error 510 – The version of the file system is not supported

I ended sleeping at 3:30 am on yet another day ! It isn’t new to me sleeping early in morning than at night.

I had two hard disks, one 80GB IDE and one 250GB SATA. The 80GB one was the old one which had the windows OS primary partition along with one extended partition with four logical drives. In addition to that I had a Linux partition on which I was having Fedora.

As the free space in my C drive (Win XP OS) was under 1 GB, I decided to resize the partitions and make some free space on C drive for windows to breath a bit more comfortable..

Thats where I ended up with – “Partition Magic 8 Error 510 – The version of the file system is not supported”

It took me a day’s time to research and find out that the linux partition in the same disk was causing this error. (My File systems were FAT32 and there should have been any problem for partition magic). So if you get such a message, first check whether you have any such partitions on your disk !!

Erazing the linux partitions did Partition Magic to work, but the prolems didnt get solved there !!

I was using grub as the bootloader. Once the linux partitions were removed, I wasn’t able to access my windows XP too !!! More problems

Luckily I had my laptop with me to do some more research on fixing the master boot record by using the windows “fixmbr” command for winXP.

My system was back to life…………..

Another day with short sleep from 3:30 …… But the experience and challenge to do things like this makes me to explore more and get into more troubles !!!