Posts Tagged ‘Firewall’

It is a known fact that more than 87% of all emails sent today are spam. And unlike earlier, most of these spam emails are part of sophisticated malware attacks, phishing attempts and internet scams. Web based email services like GMail does a pretty good job at filtering the spam messages, but in case you are looking for a corporate level solution to provide best email ...

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USB Ports offer a great convenience to the computer users. In the unlikely case somebody wants to know more about USB... Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to connect devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve plug and play capabilities by allowing hot swapping; that is, ...

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Accessing Blocked Websites How many times it has happened that... You want to watch restricted video form any country, You have just been kicked out of a membership site or forum. They have blocked your access by banning your IP Address, but you want to access that site. You live in Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan Uzbekistan, Vietnam, or ...

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The success of Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn is all about the WEb 2.0 era. The popularity of them is growing day  by day and people have started finding answers to theor problems through searches with these sites. However, often, they are considered to be a big time-wasters and a drain on ...

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Problems of Conventional Antivirus Software Today's popular security software and antivirus applications have a reactive approach. They act of post-event basis. First a new malware or virus is identified, then its signature files are included in the database of that security software, then the end-user is expected to download the signature files and software updates and after that only the user can feel protected against that ...

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Windows Firewall is a feature, which is often not used by most of the computer users. Some do not know about it, some are too busy to give it a damn thought and rest think that it is too geeky for them to understand. I have seen many Windows Experts just shying away from this topic, and their machines are not protected with this important ...

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The security of your PC starts right from your Operating System, which is the core of all the functions performed on your PC. If you have Windows Vista on your PC, then Microsoft has incorporated a decent utility within your Control Panel, which checks the basic security aspects of your system, and lets you know if any of them needs your attention. It is called Windows Security ...

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