What is SpamStats? Spamstats is a scripted method of tracking spam, emailed viruses, incoming, and outgoing messages. You are only limited on what is collected by the rules you create. Spamstats.vbs is a Windows Scripting Host (Visual Basic) script that when executed will update a MySQL Database (http://www.mysql.com) . The script is called from Mail Filter Pro v3.0.114b (or higher) which w...Read Full Story...

      What is BOINC?    The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatolog...Read Full Story...

Some programs that Top Cat Computing has posted here in our download library have been taken and upload to other servers without the consent of Top Cat Computing; therefore it has become necessary to list those sites that are authorized to host our files to ensure that the most recent versions of the program available and that they are unmodified. The VBS Scripts and Batch files that are posted ...Read Full Story...

The purpose of this document is to show, how you can automate the updating and distribution of your Norton AntiVirus Virus definitions, on multiple servers using a batch file. First, download the latest Intelligent Updater from the Symantec Web site (http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html), and place it in the F:\USERS\BILLD\NAV folder, each week. Note: You will need to change t...Read Full Story...

Do you want to make your web pages load faster in your clients browser? Here is a simple tip that can do just that. For small web pages, you may not see a noticeable difference, but as the size of your pages grows, this tip will help improve the speed that your page loads in your clients web browser. Background: When a user requests a web page, the request is sent to the web server and the resul...Read Full Story...

I have had many requests from users for "Live" viruses so that a user can test their antivirus product to see that it is working, and what the alerts would look like when an actual virus is detected. Using a "Live" virus to do this is extremely risky, dangerous and unacceptable for the purpose of testing and demonstrating. To resolve this problem the antivirus community came up with a file for jus...Read Full Story...

Situation: You wish to schedule Norton AntiVirus (retail versions) to run scheduled scans when a user is not logged in under Windows NT/2000/XP. Background: You schedule a Full System scan with Norton AntiVirus, and your computer is on but there is no user logged on. You check the Norton AntiVirus and scheduler logs and it appears that the task was not run. There can be several causes for the sca...Read Full Story...

FCOM/FCOM32 is a File Compare utility program that compares two files and determines if the two files are the same. The results are returned on screen and in the form of a DOS errorlevel. The errorlevel can be used in batch files to have the batch file perform specific tasks based on the results of the error level. Sample test batch files are included in the attached zip archive. The FCOM.ZIP f...Read Full Story...

REBOOT is an MS-DOS utility that can reboot your computer. By default REBOOT will cold boot your computer with no delay. To have REBOOT warm boot your computer, use the /W command line switch. Additionally, you can delay the reboot process up to 3600 seconds using one of the command line switch listed in the Command Syntax section below. Usage: This utility can be used at the command line, or...Read Full Story...