Everyday Nerd

McAfee is offering a free one-year subscription for its VirusScan Plus product. If your antivirus software is expiring soon or you want to try an alternative, then the price is definitely right. The offer expires December 31, 2008.

A firewall and spyware protection are also thrown in with the VirusScan product.

1. Follow this link: http://us.mcafee.com/root/campaign.asp?cid=53347

2. Enter VSPPROMOCF into the promo code box and hit Submit.

3. You will see the $39.99 charge zeroed out, but you’ll also see a CD added to your order.

4. Click Remove to delete “Discover and Recover Emergency Reinstall CD” from your order.

4. Click Checkout to receive your free McAfee download.

We’ve all been there… you go to bed, leaving some programs open - maybe some of them unsaved documents.  The next morning you scream in agony because your computer was restarted from your friendly neighborhood automatic update service!

Now, you can safeguard your PC against this with Shutdown Guard!  Just a little tray application that prevents your computer from restarting, shutting down, or even logging off!  Nice huh?  Written for Windows XP, the author has not tested on Vista, it did not work for me on Vista Business.

When a shutdown, log off, or restart is detected, Shutdown Guard will prompt if you want to continue.  Only when confirmed will it continue the shutdown sequence.

Shutdown Guard

Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 Codeweaver is giving away Crossover Mac Pro, Games Mac, Linux Pro and Games Linux for FREE!!!!  Their servers are getting hammered, so they have put up a signup page for today’s promo:

** NOTE:  you must enter your email address to receive the serial number for the below products.

http://down.codeweavers.com/ (Server is back online after swarm)

http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/

For Tuesday, October 28, 2008 only, they put up fully unlocked builds. Download them below:

• Download CrossOver Mac Pro
• Download CrossOver Games Mac
• Download CrossOver Linux Pro
• Download CrossOver Games Linux

If you are a Linux / Mac user, and want to run Windows applications or games, this is THE way to do it.  Go grab it while you can folks!!!

Hope you got yours!

Once you have your serial number, you must register it by November 30, 2008.

Vista’s UAC can be annoying, and although I’ve shared with you how to make it less annoying, Norton (Symantec) has come up with a replacement UAC that is makes it much better!

With one BIG feature - “Don’t ask me again”  I think I’m in love!  There are several programs I run during the course of the day that the UAC prompts me.  I run them every day I don’t need to be prompted to open the command prompt, or and administrative mmc window!  Also, it’s fast!  Much faster than the default Windows UAC.

Thanks to Norton UAC Replacement, I’m running UAC-less on the daily apps that I use, but still have the protection from of UAC for everything else!  Although it is in Beta, Norton UAC Replacement is solid, and I have had no issues so far - I’ve been running it for about two weeks now.

Link: http://www.nortonlabs.com/inthelab/uac.php

If you have ever had to reinstall Windows, you know what a pain it can sometimes be to find drivers.  There always seems to be a driver that is hard to find.  Double Driver, is a nice little utility that creates a backup of all you drivers (something you do BEFORE you re-install Windows).

This may be a program that you only use a couple of times, but it can save you hours of a headache!

 Download Double Driver