Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

USB Flash drives are convenience personified. With the ever increasing capacity to store data and the convenience to slip them into your pocket has obviated to need to carry bulky laptops and CD Drives with you to carry data. But this convenience comes at a price. Not only your stored data in these little gems is prone to theft and lost cases, but is also vulnerable ...

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Keyloggers are tools to record the activities of computer users. They are mostly used for the purpose of stealing passwords and private information, but there are some legitimate uses also. For instance, an employer may be wanting to know about how its newly recruited employees are using their office time. ...

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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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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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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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In order to make your Internet surfing fast and convenient. almost all of Today's Internet browsers have AutoComplete feature, which allows you to save your login name and passwords. These login details are used to automatically fill the web forms every time you visit a particular website. Security Issue of Browsers' Password Saving Feature Yes, it is true that it adds to your convenience, but there are ...

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"This site may harm your computer". How many times you have seen this phrase on a Google Search Page. A click on such a link will lead your browser to another warning page that this web site may be harmful for your computer. We know that you are careful enough to trust Google ...

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This post gives you steps required for file encryption of MS Word 2007 files. Similar steps exist for the encryption of the files in other versions of MS Word. MS Office has a built-in utility, which allows you to easily encrypt your word file with a few clicks. But remember that this file encryption method just provides you password protection and nothing else. It can ...

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Data Security on USB Flash Drives is a growing concern. USB Flash Drives, with the size no more than a pack of chewing gums, is always prone to theft or loss. It is much easier for you to loose a USB or Pen drive than you get your laptop or desktop computer stolen. Hence ...

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Temporary Internet Files - Browser's Speeding Tools Today's Internet browsers use Temporary Internet Files to serve you webpages and media content faster and quicker. Temporary Internet Files is a directory on Microsoft Windows computer systems. The directory is used by Internet Explorer and other web browsers to cache pages and other multimedia content, such as video and audio files, from websites visited by the user. This ...

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