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Zero Day Flash Exploit: Affects Windows, OSX, and Linux

April 28, 2014 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Go update folks. #exploit   #zeroday   #flash  

Zero-day Flash bug under active attack in Windows threatens OS X, Linux too
Adobe issues emergency update for exploits targeting Syrian dissidents.

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Filed Under: Google+ Posts Tagged With: exploit, flash, zeroday

3 Free Apps to Check the Speed of Your USB Flash Drive

March 8, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Data transfer rates (reading and writing) among flash devices can vary wildly and often the cost of a drive can be based on the read/write speed of the device (among other things like built in encryption, etc). So how do we go about checking the speed of USB flash drives to see if you’ve gotten the bang for your buck? The three tools below are free utilities that help you benchmark your USB flash drive performance.

Checkflash

The Check Flash website is in Cyrillic (there is an English option too) but it shouldn’t stop anyone from downloading this light and free USB flash drive speed testing and error checking software.

CheckFlash

With Check Flash you can test, manage and format your USB flash drive.  You can also run a read-write cycle on your USB flash drive, which returns not only the speed but also any errors (read/write or physical) in your USB drive. The software does not rectify the problem but merely reports it.

Check Flash v1.07 runs as an 812KB sized executable and does not require an installation. Snag Checkflash from MikeLab.

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Filed Under: Gadgets, Tech, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: drive, flash, rate, test, transfer

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