Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

Comodo Dragon is a web browser, built by the renowned security vendor Comodo around the open Source Chromium technology. Comodo is greatly known the world over for one of the most popular Firewall Technolgies and well-regarded in the security field. With Comodo Dragon, they have tried to combine their expertise in the field ...

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Importance of Strong Passwords Passwords are like your keys to online security. It is a pity that despite understanding the need of strong passwords, most people still continue to use weak passwords. Convenience of use and security are often at diagonally opposite ends, when it comes to web applications. People fall for convenience and avoid using strong passwords, because they do not want to ...

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Google Chrome Plus Browser - The Enhanced Version of Google Chrome If you love Google Chrome for its brute speed with which it allows you to surf the web, then there is yet another clone of it. ChromePlus. The enhanced version of Google Chrome. ChromePlus adds a few features to Google Chrome browser and make it ...

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Portable Web Browsers - Important Addition to Your Internet Security We have earlier carried a post on this blog, in which we have advised you to use multiple web browsers for different tasks to ensure your PC Security. While this has really worked with me, I have known people, who are really infatuated with ...

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Internet Browsers - The Weakest Link of Your Security Internet Browsers are the gateway of the modern day computers to the outside world. They allow you to interact with other computers, network and the web, in general. While Browsers link you to the information superhighway, they also provide a link for malware artists, ...

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Online vs. Offline Shopping - Convenience vs. Privacy When it comes to shopping, there is substitute for offline shopping, if Privacy is an issue in your mind. If you are shopping with cash, you can expect nobody to know about your shopping, except the security camera. But when it comes to online shopping, you ...

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Search History - An Important Data Search Engines have now become the starting point of your web surfing. Gone are the days when Internet Directories like Yahoo and DMOZ were used to get any information. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are the dem-gods of today's web. This means the searches made through them reveal ...

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Browser Search History - A Convenient Feature Search Engines have long replaced web directories as the starting point of web browsing. In their continuous process of evolving, many exciting features have been introduced, which let you quickly skim through loads of information and make you reach your target information quickly, easily ...

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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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Password Storage in Browsers Today's Internet Browsers are an intelligent lot. For easy web surfing and convenience they store a lot of your private data hidden in their files. It is true that this adds to some serious privacy concern by many privacy experts, but it is also true that this feature makes the use of Internet Browsers a lot more convenient....

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