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If you have anti-virus installed on your PC and wonder whether your anti-virus is working or not. What would you do to test the anti-virus software? Ask a programmer to write a virus to destroy your PC? No, you wouldn’t want any harm on your PC, just only want to test the anti-virus software. Fortunately, there is a test file that you can create by yourself to test your anti-virus without causing any damage to your PC. The file was provided by EICAR, which stands for European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, called the EICAR test file.

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Introduction

In this part, I’m going to create an installer project for install my windows service ‘MyService’. The installer wizard helps you to install service easily simply click next, next,.. and finish then you are done. With wizard installation, you can also uninstall the service from Add/Remove Program. If you prefer not to create setup wizard, you can install the service manually, too. You can find the detail about manually install the service at the bottom of this post.

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Introduction

In this part, I’ll show how to create a simple Windows Service project using VB.NET on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The example service will generate a message to application event log every 10 seconds.

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Introduction

What is Windows service? Windows Service is an application or a program that can run without needing any user interaction. It is useful in server environment that no need user to logged in on the system but the services are running. The status message of the service always write to event log.

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Introduction

Nowadays, virtualization is a solution which is interested by many IT manager. By converting existing system to virtual, you can save lot of money from buying new hardware every year, avoid hardware conflicts when you move virtual to another computer, etc. But when you convert system to virtual, you still need OS to run virtual software (VMWare, Virtual PC, etc).

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