Security

Surf safer, faster and smarter with OpenDNS and WOT

Jul 12th

With all the phishing and spam web sites today, is becoming very difficult to stay secure while surfing, not to mention that you have to install all kinds of filters to get a minimum protection. So what do we do?

We go on and install every possible app until we find one that will please us? Makes you mad. Read the rest of this entry »

opendns, Security, wot

ZoneAlarm ForceField freeware

Sep 29th

Posted by Carol in Apps

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ZoneAlarm ForceField was designed to help you surf safer and without a trace.

No web history and no information is shared anymore with other users, so nothing will be stored on your computer anymore.

With numerous protection layers, Forcefield will shield your computer from the Internet against phishing, spyware and other treats.

Forcefield features and advantages :

Browse anywhere without a care
Surf safely on any PC – even public ones
Secure online transactions
Bank and shop security
Private browser
Dangerous download detector
Dodge all evil, uninvited downloads
Walk away from any machine without a trace
Advance anti-phishing, anti-keylogger and anti-screengrabber technology.

Be aware that Forcefield is in beta.

If you do decide to install it before the final version arrives, don’t forget to make a restore point.

Platform Windows XP, Windows Vista

Freeware

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Wrongs :AOL- From Kasper to McAfee

Aug 12th

Posted by Carol in Blogging

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Quick post:

AOL decided to replace its antivirus software Active Virus Shield, powered by Kaspersky with McAfee Virus Scan Plus instead…and they call it “Special Edition”.

The new suit is still free and includes a firewall, antivirus and a spyware protection.

So what’s wrong about it?

Users who have been using McAfee over the years know that is not only a difficult program to remove in case you don’t want to use it anymore, but also its antivirus scanning angine is not as good as Kaspersky.

One thing i really hated about McAfee, was the huge amount of CPU resources it was using, and i do not suppose that this has changed.

My recommendation – Try finding something else instead. There are lots of other antivirus, firewalls and anti-spyware freeware that won’t clog your system and slow it down.

Check out the disk space you need for it.

System Requirements

Windows Vista
Windows 2000, XP
200MB hard disk space – Huh???????

Today’s freeware

Jul 17th

Posted by Carol in Blogging

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WordWeb- This thesaurus/dictionary can be used to look up words from almost any program.
In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, ….

Windows 98/2000/Me/XP/Vista

PasswordSafe 3.09- Password Safe is an Open Source (free) tool that allows you to have a different
password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without
actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords.

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

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