Archive for August, 2009

USB Flash Drives have literally put the convenience on the pocket of an average computer user. With the ever increasing capacity to store data and applications, USB Drives are becoming the instant hit today. But the convenience comes at a price and often it is in the form of comprise to the security. ...

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Gmail is probably the most feature rich, advanced and popular-among-the-geeks web based email service. After the long stint in remaining a BETA service, Gmail has recently some out of the BETA status and become a full-fledged service. Gmail is perceived to be the most secured web mail service. Because of its great security features, excellent spam catching ...

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If you forget the password to your web based email services like Gmail, YahooMail or Hotmail, then they ask you a predetermined security question to answer. It is supposed that the answer to that security question will be known to only the legitimate user and thus, he can recover his password. This is a usual practice followed by almost all of the web based emails and ...

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Email Security - The Basic of Your Security and Privacy With the ever increasing use of Emails for the exchange of messages and data, the email security concerns are growing like never before. The three main reasons, why you need a secured way for your email transmission are... Authentication - Email passes through many different computer ...

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Email Security - Do You Really Need Often I tend to think the Internet and PC Security concerns are hyped a lot. Looks like that antivirus and security software developers,  in order to increase their sales, create too much hype about the security threats and lure average computer user to purchase their products. But, time and again I am proved wrong. It is an established fact that ...

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This post is meant for the users looking for ways to ensure free USB security for their pen drives and flash drives. With the ever increasing popularity of these portable drives, the issues of data security on USB drives are becoming highly important. There are two issues here. First is how to safeguard ...

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Disclaimer: This tool may useful only for technically accomplished users, who can handle the intricacies of Windows well. SysInternal's Autorun - A Useful SystemTool from Microsoft If you are looking for a reliable tool to manage all of the windows processes, services, DLLs, startup applications and programs, then Microsoft provides you a free tool. It is a great utility, which lets you manage virtually everything with just ...

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What is Browser Helper Object, BHO A Browser Helper Object (BHO) is a DLL module designed as a plugin for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to provide added functionality. BHOs were introduced in October 1997 with the release of version 4 of Internet Explorer. Most BHOs are loaded once by each new instance of Internet ...

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Computer Privacy Issues are getting a lot of importance these days. The growing instances of Internet frauds and identity theft has created an awareness about online privacy issues and people have started to take these things seriously. Most of the attacks against your privacy and identity take place through the data stored on your computer. ...

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Passwords are keys to your online security and privacy. Maintaining the secrecy of your passwords is the most important task to ensure your Online and PC Security. However, it is fact that despite it most of the computer users do not give adequate thoughts over this issue and tend to continue using weak passwords in ...

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