Avast! Anti-virus Boot Time Scan

These past few days my computer is very laggy and webpage loading speed is like the stone-age. I don't know what's causing it. I can't open yahoo messenger too. I have tune-up utilities with one click maintenance and avast as my anti-virus. When I run both, it doesn't show any virus or problems in my computer. I reached the point of desperation that I need to surf the net with a good pc running and all my efforts to try correct it was futile. I have no background with computer stuff so I'm just trying to try and fix things without spending money to bring it to some technician.

I was checking what else I can do with Avast. This is what I found.

BOOT TIME SCAN
The boot-time scan is one of the main weapons of avast! It runs before Windows is loaded and before potential malware has a chance to activate, thereby enabling an infected system to be cleaned before any damage is done. Moreover, the avast! boot-time scan uses direct hard drive access, which bypass the OS file system drivers and is thus able to handle even the most stubborn rootkits.

I highlighted the phrases which made me to try it out. The results? I had over 2000 files infected with Win32: Relevant-M [PUP] and most of it are Win32: Sality. I was amazed that I have this many infected files. After the scan and deletion of these unwanted files. My computer is all fine in loading and no longer laggy! I wish I did this earlier last year. It doesn't pay to be ignorant.

Avast! Boot-Time Scan is simply wonderful!

How to let it run?
If your using Avast too then open it.
Go to "Scan Computer" then look for "Boot Time Scan".
Simply click the "Schedule Now" button.
Then in the "Areas to Scan" just choose "All hardisks".
Also don't forget to set Heuristics sensitivity to HIGH. It's this easy.

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A great phone by Nokia!

Cellphones are a need to today's daily living. The trend now with mobile phones are with touch screens. Which are expensive, will ran out of battery after a day, loads slow if you have a big archive of songs and videos and for me I don't find it worth it. I simply go for practical phones.

I go with mobile phones which has...
long battery life.
gets easily full when charged.
over 50 messages to save.
sent items.

Not neccesarily a colored one. With or without mp3 music or songs. I go for these kind of phones simply because of practicality. I don't have the leisure of charging my phone everyday.

Now I found such a phone which suits for me!
The Nokia 1203 and 1204.

Features: It has a flashlight. Does not need to take long hours to get fully charged up. Stand by battery life is 5 days! Can save upto 100 messages. It's not colored, neither does it have music or videos. But this is the phone for me.

Now we come to an interesting part of the discussion, how much does it cost? Here in the Philippines, I bought each phone for about 1,299 Php! That's over $20 in American dollars.
If you would ask me if the price is worth it for such a simple phone, then the answer is YES!!!

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Making an online forum

So it occurred to me that I wanted an online forum. Since I have been lingering in these places for over a year now.

A good friend of mine gave me free hosting. (I'm lucky I have a good friend)

So the question now came to me. "What forum script will I use?"
I googled for free forum scripts and found several ones to choose from.

1. phpBB
2. SMF
3. myBB
4. yaBB
5. E-blah.

Several friends recommended to use SMF, because:
1. It has active online development.
2. Most secured free forum script.
3. Easy customizable
4. Lots and lots of free mods to use.

I said, ok why not give it a try.
Doing things in the cpanel really took time for me to know.
I have no experience doing such a thing before.

Eventually I knew how to install it online.
Know the basics, editing themes, adding mods etc.

Now I'm happy. But not completely happy.
SMF is really good, custumize friendly and simple to use once you get to know how to do it.
But the appearance is not appealing. I have downloaded dozens of themes and none of it would satisfy me.

So, I left it for now. Until I saw another forum using myBB script.
I said Gosh!, this looks good! The appearance is almost the same with vBulletin (the best paid forum script today). Then there I go, "I want to use this one!!" LOL.

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Bookstore... books! books! books!

I was in a bookstore the other day, and today or later on for that matter I'm talking to myself "WHAT THE HELL am I doing in there??" It's not my typical hang-out place when I have nothing to do and roaming the city for unwinding sessions. Ok so enough of the rudeness in me. I happened to ask the saleslady for a reviewbook about a certain concept in the field I am in to. I did a quick look and I was surprised! The questions were sooooo similar to our major exam questions the other year, the situations, the choices, the drugs almost everything!. In the midst of the shock I got (yes I was shocked, I'll tell you why), I immediately purchased that book. Went home and tried to finish reading it which later was in vain. It ended up in a corner of my room left to collect dust for eternity! Bwahahaha (Ok that was being sarcastic in a sick way).

Ok, to be serious. I almost did finish reading it until I got caught up trying to meet deadlines with requirements. I said I was shocked because I never knew about it in the first place or no good soul bothered to tell about it. It could have helped me bigtime back then. I then bought a another review book about another concept and after having a fixed time of reading these books everyday, I find myself understanding things better than I did before. Now I have set my mind to buy another book this weekend if I manage to save more money from my allowance.

The moral of this incident is. "Reading a lousy-looking book is not soo bad until you get the message it was intended to relay" and "It pays to invest in study material"

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Incident reports! What a semester!!

When I went in the nursing study, I told myself not to get an incident report even though my grades aren't that high. I aim for character rather than intellectual superiority. You can be smart and don't have the right attitude is a no-no for me. There are several reasons established why you can earn an incident report. Our beloved clinical instructors told us every generakl orientation that incident reports can either be a way of compliment a students outstanding performance or discipline in any shortcoming along this endeavor.

Going along my 2nd and 3rd year, I was happy that I didn't have any. It made me happy. The worst time is this semester. On my senior year. I was absent for 2 clinical days because I was sick which earns me 16 hours of make-up duty another 400 pesos for me to spend. Then my clinical intructor gave me an incident report for another 16 hours for neglecting my bedside duties of regulating my patient's IV fluid. Today, I just have earned another one for behavioral sanction. Eating along the national road wearing our clinical uniform and on duty hours. My day coudn't get any worst!

Its giving me rebellious intentions, "so its my last year huh? might as well do some crazy things!" Damn it, it hurts my ego this much.

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Skype simply amazing!

I'm sure all of us are using several Instant messengers. Windows messenger, yahoo messenger, skype and a lot more. Yahoo IM is quite popular and I am using it too. But I want to blog about Skype. I had to use it when I need to call someone abroad. I must say it made me save a lot of money for international calls. Here are the reasons why.



1. Skype has better quality when it comes to calls.
2. The interface opens up in quickly in old computers like mine.
3. Has lower calling rates when compared to Yahoo! Messenger IM - Landlin or CP calls.
4. And last but not least, they support Paypal if you don't have a credit card to buy their skype credits this would make it convenient.

I'm here in the Philippines. Often times I communicate with my aunt, uncles and cousins in America. It would be very money-wise if a lot of them knows how to use an IM. But my aunt and uncles don't. So they had to use a phone card to call us. First time I scrolled over the call rates of skype I was amazed! It's very cheap when you are going to call someone in the states! For as low as $ 0.021 cents! OMG, I liked it when I can use my Paypal funds to buy their credits unlike with YM which doesn't have this feature. When I had enough bucks in my Paypal account I bought $10 and guess what?! I was able to call them hours longer compared with buying cellphone load here or them buying phone cards there. But I'm a bit sad because my skype credit is almost out of funds and I am going to try to earn some more bucks online to get more credits in Skype.

Click here to download skype
Click here to see their calling rates in USD

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Shopping online

I've been keeping in touch with one of my cousins. We seldom talk lately because everyone seems to be busy. Every time I had a chance to chat with her she's at work. Yesterday we managed to chat though and she's been talking about her little angel (my niece). She told me that she's planning to buy her new clothes and also a little something as a reward for being a good little girl. Busy as she is with work and tired when at home, she plans to buy things online. We found an online shop where she had a lot of selections for girls clothing categorized for specific ages.

As for the "little something" she mentioned, she browsed the pets and toys category but she hasn't made up her mind yet. She finds the selections interesting and the site gives a lot of merchants to select from. Browsing some more categories lead her into window shopping for prices and other things that she would be interested in buying such as school supplies, cosmetics and beverages for herself. She can't believe that all of the things that she could think of buying are found in one place online!

It was getting late for her and she needs to wake up early for work the following day. She's going to show and browse the site again with her boyfriend so they can decide what to get for their daughter and check out more offers and prices. If you like to shop online visit shop and do some shopping! :D

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Medical Transcription a demanding job

This is the common setting when a medical trancriptionist is working. Looks very simple right? Sitting all day facing the computer and transcribing. But its not so simple if you ask me.

I came to hear about medical transcription from a friend online. I searched over the internet and I found that the requirements are very simple for a person who is in any medical related field. So I enrolled myself in a school and this month I would be getting my certificate. I am attracted to this because of a chance to work at home. But lately I realized that this profession is very demanding.
Why? Because it requires knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, medical terminology, laboratory results, and almost everything a doctor should know. Not only that you need to be very good with written English, and a high accuracy rate matched with a fast typing speed. I say it is demanding looking at the requirements. A common knowledge for doctors and a English proficiency of a English college teacher. And for what amount of pay? A few cents per line you transcribed or a few bucks per thousands of words? It looks very underpaid if you ask me. It is difficult to be an MT, especially if you just finished the course and found a job. Your lucky if you find a considerate dictator that speaks clearly and spells out uncommon terms or medicines.

I managed to find a friend who is doing MT homebased. She was able to let her client assess me and hire me on a trial basis. I was very happy. But then the rate is very low. I accepted it though considering I am a new and I am not yet very fast in typing. I just said to myself, there is no such thing as easy money and continued doing this. The doctor used to send me work once a week. But it has been over a week now and I have not heard anything from him although he replies to my email. I'm not sure where this will lead to. It would help if people were open to say things like "your fired" or "I can't send you work anymre" etc. Although I don't think that this is the reason in my case. Geez, I hate suspense. This is making me a little frustrated.

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