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When you want to install a antivirus program on your computer, you will be asked to uninstall your previous antivirus program you used. Setup can continue but not recommended…You do have such an experience, do you have not? The problem is that you have already uninstalled it, but the Setup program says that you still have it.
Kaspersky Lab (they made wellknown antivirus program) has a solution.
Download their software in order to delete your previous antivirus software from your computer.
http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208280135
I had been using McAfee Internet Security Suit and it worked fine, system started quickly and suspicious files were removed, although sometimes I did not know that it was not at all likely.
It is their technology that detects so-called “Artemis” which is not the same as the original. Perhaps cracked. Anyway, someone has changed the original file and let others download it.
McAfee treats them as Trojans, but Kaspersky doesn’t seem to be doing so. It makes me nervous.”Which one is right?”
I test “Kaspersky Pure” now.
How good it is, I do not know. It starts very slowly on my PC, it takes almost 2 minutes, McAfee took only 1 minute. And ever since I installed Kaspersky Pure, Windows Sidebar works but gadgets shows different order each time I start Windows, as if I had a virus or so. 
I tested a compressed file which contains the setup program and DAT files, and so on.
Virusscan engine starts very quickly, but so what.
It was 100 MB file and took nearly 20 minutes to scan, and I started to get tired of waiting until it was done, and while it took so much memory so that I could not do anything else.
McAfee VirusScan is one of the few who discovered viruses in PC cleanup software I told before (Yes, it infected a programmer’s IDE), so each time you cleaned up your PC, your PC infected by virus.
To be sure, Trojan horses are not viruses. But question is which of them should I trust.
The answer is both. I do not have to be paranoia, I think.
If you do not want to receive not one suspicious file on your computer, then McAfee is choice, otherwise it does not matter, I think. If you have accidentally installed the so-called “Cracked software (Patches, Keygen, etc…)” in your computer, likely you are infected with Trojans, but McAfee virusscan will remove most of them.
There is on-demand virusscan also if you are concerned (for example by NOD32). If you are still worried, there is a webservice – VirusTotal – Free Online Virus and Malware Scan (http://www.virustotal.com/). VirusTotal is a free virus and malware online scan service. You send the suspicious file to their server and they will check it with several virusscan and you will get results soon.
However, you decide whether to keep the file or not.
Encrypt and decrypt software “Personal” has been updated to version 1.0.2.1060
Added functions
- Drag and drop function to input
Changes
- When you use an image as a password, it shows its hash on the text field… has been changed and not shown anymore.
- Corrected the spelling errors
Download it from here.
Personal.zip 1.44 MB (1 517 232 byte)
Hashes
MD5: 3027511C9ADB257E796F14AFB4A4B164
SHA1: 448C6432EC6F7527699EBAD040AFFD379722ECB1
MIDITEST is a program that can play MIDI files and use the SoundFont in your system and even replace it with another if you want it.
You must have at least DirectX3 or newer. People tend to have much newer nowadays. If you have Windows7, you have DirectX11.
I found BASS.DLL (http://www.un4seen.com/) handling MIDI decently and in addition it can read and play SoundFont.
Actually, it was an example program with some programming language in the package I downloaded from the BASS website and I modified a bit. It is what you have here.
Since the original files were open source, so you have them too, I think. I just put a few buttons, and wrote a few lines of code – really just a few lines.
You can either download the software files or source code in Delphi. You can download both if you wish, of course.
When you start this program, you see the SoundFont your computer is set to. If you cannot see it, your computer does not use it at all. If you have a newer computer, it’s so sadly. But you can do it with this program.
The SoundFont is quite large if you want a good sound. And I would not include it in this package. Fortunately, BASS website is such that you can download it for free.
These files will not be updated in the future.
miditest Exe (323 KB / includes everything you need)
Hashes
MD5: DD1A5C88E5768D6C3026D947A4220B05
SHA1: C4F65604A27021249E611A5D2D4D8E655DBDE20B
miditest Source (136 KB / includes everything you need to compile with Delphi)
Hashes
MD5: F2026F54D38CBB487722761E2E24C9D7
SHA1: 66B960368AA35AC9401383186EC862878087096A
I received some information via e-mail. Actually a few. One person told me about CPP and Delphi components, ActiveX and such.
Thank you very much for you to care about this software.
I looked at the things the one recommended.
New Audio Components v.2.5 (for Delphi)
Their (or his) Demo “Recorder”, did not record anything. I changed my Windows’ mixer setting, but it did not work either. So I did not want to try more. I threw them to the Trash.
AudioLab v.4.3.1 for Visual Studio, Cpp Builder, Delphi…
This is heavy duty! And it worked, I could record the sound. It was very easy, too. But how to do more than very simple? Their demo works but “So what?”, I must say.
Their help is not at all helpful, but they explain so many classes they have done. Easy but a bit more advanced demo could not be wrong.
It is free for Non-profit products, but without source code. They have made some silly dialogue, too. They were a little rush of new version or what?
Without the help that really helps, also demo as not good enough. What if it is really good! There is nothing to do with me but I think they will lose many customers.
And I could not play the MIDI file with it. They want to say it’s “Audio Stuff” blah blah blah …
It feels like this is pretty useless.
I still have it on my computer, because it is free, but I do not think I will use them.
I’ve made a little progress.
This is the next version.
Small numbers at the end of the version number can be a little more then when I release it.
A new interesting feature there. Do you see it? I do not mean to Skins. You can record sound from other audio sources. So far, I have tested with YouTube, Internet radio, DVD, CD, Windows Media Player, RealAudio Player, Quick Time … and it worked!
Once again.
Thank you, you told me about it, Mr… It was actually quite fun to examine them.
Web Resizer version 1.0.6.1281 has released now.
The picture above is from Windows7
New Features
- Compatibility to Vista and 7
- Some more DPI alternative
Fixed Bugs
- It appeared double Default Profile.ini on the box at first start – has been fixed.
- On Vista. When you want to overwrite a saved profile, showed save as dialog – has been fixed.
- On Vista. Some minor behaviors after multi resize images – has been solved.
Download Web Resizer 1,77 MB (1814 KB // 1 856 652 byte)
Hashes:
MD5: DCF7F3D5E114638FE559DAF2CE8F1531
SHA1: 74FB496C5857FCA41F0B1A5200F3D2AD2D27364F
New update (version 1.0.4.1338) has releaced.
Works XP, Vista and Se7en
New Features
- A few buttons to make the template easy.
- File encryption, decryption function for your safety.
It is indeed the encryption and decryption, which is the biggest change in this version.
These features are designed to protect your password, but you can use these functions to protect your programs, zip files or whatever. Things you want to keep secret for other people.
Such cases
Maybe you want to give something away to your friends but just friends.
Use this software and encrypt it you want to give away with password, so that nobody can open it.
Give it to him or her, this program (GPW) and password so that he can decrypt the file.
Download (395 KB)
Unzip it and use it. It doesn’t have setup program.
This zip file includes only one file “GPW.exe”.
Hashes:
MD5: 6428398817C70A2813A127C6C303F91B
SHA1: 7467633EA816C0DD837FA5832F7E79AC6F968CEE
If you did not want encryption function, you can still download the older version here (239 K).
I want very simple program to calculate hashes. So I made it myself.
I test it now.
I use freeware SKIN.
I’ve tried to create MidiToWav with Microsoft Visual Studio Visual C++.Net2008 which is installed on my Vista. I managed to open and play the MIDI file.
It seems only to use the DirectX SDK, and I did it and it was almost easy. Too easy, one can say. It worked well in Vista and 7, but not XP. When I double clicked on the EXE file, it said I need to download .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 which is 231,5 MB.
My XP is “XPPro SP2″ and there is no Framework 3.5. It is an irony that the program file is less than 100 KB and to use it, I had to download 231,5 MB.
I checked the Visual Studio Project Property, where I see I always use .NET2 or .NET3 regardless, I want to or not. Soon there will be 4. It is the way Microsoft wants, I think. It makes easy and secure, for both users and developers, I ought to keep up with MS, but it feels wrong.
So, I terminated the project “MidiToWav” in Visual C++.Net.
I have good news too.
I learned that I could use DirectX, and someone made Delphi Unit. I can use IT.
I got it now!
“Now?”, you say.
It seems to be available Visual Studio 2010 soon, but I’ve finally got 2008. So I tested Visual C#.
And it works!
PURITY – Virtual Sound Workstation
Also available for Macintosh.
PURITY is a next generation of digital musical instrument workstation and PCM sound module software. PURITY is designed to realize and surpass the hardware musical instrument workstation perfectly on computer-based music production environments offering higher sound quality and more usability.
You must give the manufacturer your email address to download the demo. Try it! It is superb! You can download it from http://www.luxonix.com/
72.17 EUR if you are interested.