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Have you get dizzy after format your computer and not found CD driver for your display and sound??
Now after you format your Computer and reinstall Windows, the first thing you do is install all the device drivers. If you happen to lose your motherboard or driver’s CD, you will have to find all those drivers on the net and download them. If you want to avoid such hassle, then use these free utilities which can easily backup and restore Computer Drivers whenever you want. This can come quite handy even if you manage to lose the Driver’s CD or your system gets crashed.

1) DriverBackup

It is a light weight and portable driver backup tool. You can use it to backup all your drivers and the backed up drivers will be saved like a tree structure. The drivers can also be restored if you want or you can also delete unnecessary drivers. It also includes automatic restoration from CD/DVD and an interactive command line builder.

2) Double Driver

Double Driver can be used to take a backup of all your Computer Drivers. It will scan your Computer and present you with a list of all the installed drivers. You can then select which drivers you want to Backup. Restoration of drivers is also possible.

3) Driver Grabber

It is a small application which can be used to grab all your Computer Drivers except the ones from Microsoft. It saves them into the same directory from where it is executed. You can also use it to analyze your drivers. It is also portable.

On 1st April, a worm named Conficker who are already infected millions of machines around the world, it is expected that something bad, but nobody knows exactly what. Some experts fear that an army of infected machines can be ordered for a coordinated attack or send a deluge of spam. But today, a publishing tool could assist in the impact, large enterprises and institutions, to achieve rapid weeds infected machines, networks on all the signs of infection.

Analysis of the worm Conficker has already shown that the computer is infected “phone home” on 1 April on a new set of instructions. It is already possible to see the machines individually, but it is a relatively long process. It is also possible to circumvent the problem by leaving just the communication on a network, but the latest version of Conficker must be silent, to April 1.

Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for Seattle-based Security IOActive companies contributed to the new analysis tool, and said they may be infected in such manner as it relates to the larger network. This makes it quick and easy to remove the worm and does not require access to specific machines. “It’s like driving through a neighborhood search for homes with big signs on their doors,” says Kaminsky.

The tool was Tillmann, Werner Felix leather, members of an independent Honeynet Project, asked Kaminsky, research on Conficker. The couple discovered that the worm changes the way a machine on a network. Kaminsky take on this subject, which indicates that researchers a tool that uses this information to find machines infected. The researchers built a tool and has worked over the weekend, ready for wide dissemination to other providers of security software. “Whoever Vulnerability Scanner with a company, it should be taken over until the end of the day,” says Kaminsky.