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If your like me and you want to get better than expected speeds from web pages loading. It sometimes frustrates people that the speed of web page loading is slow to some people others like me always expect it to be slow. This is the downside of having a mobile internet, because of the locations of the cell towers and if there is any interference to or from the tower. This is always going to be a problem with this technology, if something is going on the network it will undoubtedly slow you down. So what can you do to speed up the web page loading and other web site functions. Here are some great list of available ways to get a little more speed from your modem:

Google Gears — This is one of those little extensions that will Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance. Although this is something you can use on all your website but if you like to go to certain websites alot for games or online interactions, who use JavaScrip will speed up your internet experience.

FasterFox — This is for Firefox only. What it does is : Prefetch Links, Page Load Timer, and Block Popups. This starts caching some of the pages to better help with web browsing. Although this is good by itself. I find that it is better to use this with some of the other programs.

RabbIT— is a web proxy that speeds up web surfing over slow links by doing: Compress text pages to gzip streams. This reduces size by up to 75%, Compress images to 10% jpeg. This reduces size by up to 95%, Remove advertising, Remove background images, and Cache filtered pages and images. This is pretty good for web access and seems to work well with Broad Band modem.

[ad#tmi-left-1]These are a few that I found to better help people who have cellular broadband to get a boost of speed from there service. Although this might not work on all networks due to the restrictions of some of the network policies this will at least help out with some. I’ll be trying this out on my Cricket modem later this month to see if it is good for that service.

Here is another virus that seems to be spreading lately. From the looks of it, it sees to be another email worm. Here is what eset says:

Aliases

Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.gt (Kaspersky), W32/Bagle.gen (McAfee), Trojan.Tooso!gen (Symantec)

[ad#ad2-right]Win32/Bagle.HE is a worm that spreads via e-mail. The size of its executable is 40565 B .

When executed the worm copies itself in the following locations:

Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\hidn\
hldrrr.exe

Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\hidn\
hidn2.exe

In order to be executed on every system start, the worm sets the following Registry entry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\drv_st_key

[ad#ad2-left]It seems to have a manual removal process, Unless you pay for the other software but according to the 411 on PC Security:

Win32/Bagle.HE worm is a “threat” that appears in security scans by fake antispyware WinDefender 2008.

The danger of Win32/Bagle.HE worm is supposed to scare you into wasting $49.95 on WinDefender 2008.

Unless you like getting ripped off, don’t download the software the Win32/Bagle.HE worm popup links to. You’re not really infected with Win32/Bagle.HE worm — you’re infected with scamware that you need to remove.

I’ll show you how to get rid of Win32/Bagle.HE worm and WinDefender 2008, for free.

[via 411 on PC Security]

According to this site you can remove it by doing some steps. I think Kaspersky has an easier way to remove it and it looks like most anti-virus software will remove this. You need to remember that only you can prevent this from the future. You should also update your windows update and make sure your system is up to date.