Facebook Looking to Bloat 350 Million Users’ Computers
I login to my Facebook profile to find the first step toward their downfall. While apparently they want to provide their users “better security through software“, this is nothing more than a marketing stunt for Facebook to monetize their large user base. Facebook is in partnership with McAfee to offer a free 6 month subscription [...]
3 Excellent Alternatives to Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word has long dominated word processing software. While their products usually suck and bring about a plethora of criticism from all over the web they are probably doing something right with their Microsoft Word word processor which is part of their bloated Microsoft Office package. Today, Microsoft Word is pretty much synonymous to word [...]
Protect Your Laptop From Theft With an Alarm
Laptops are handy and easy to carry around, thus they are always eyed by the desperate low life thief looking for some easy pickings, and with Netbook sales soaring, it just got a notch easier. Leaving your laptop unattended even for a very brief moment can be a mistake worth a thousand dollars. Thus, a [...]
4 Ways to Tell If a Site is a Scam
Each day thousands of no good losers setup what they like to call e-commerce websites to scam unsuspecting surfers into disclosing credit card information and make some easy bucks off it. While in most cases, signs on the website desperately scream ‘scam’ in to your face and the victim probably deserves it for being dumb [...]
Protect Your Portable Device with an Antivirus Software
Portability is easier than ever today with hard drive prices plummeting dramatically, thus maintaining several portable backups of files and sharing them among peers is common practice, the widespread use of portability has also led to several infected computers and portable drives. Today, if you take virtually any portable drive and perform a full scan [...]
How to Find Out Which EXE Files are Safe
Malicious software developers are becoming more tactical in disguising the identity of a virus, they do this by hiding them and naming them with something unsuspecting and crafty. You can’t really determine if a file on your system is safe to run by their file name by checking the processes in your task manager, and [...]
Simple Ways to Deal with Vista Start Up Failure
A lot of Vista users face the problem of booting up the OS. A number of Vista users have reported the problems they face with using it with regards to the extremely slow pace at which it boots. Users also say that their PC often hangs up at start up and their computer starts showing [...]
Top 5 Rules to Keep Your Computer Free From Viruses
Virus- A word that arouses bad memories for a lot of computer users. Formatted drives, stolen passwords, brand new computer behaving like a Pentium-2 with 16 MB RAM- sounds familiar? I know. You are not alone. Almost every computer has fallen prey to these pesky little programs created to cause problems to us and fun [...]
The Internet is Great, but It Can Be a Bummer Too
The induction of the internet in our life has been like a boon. They have opened up in front of us an altogether new era of knowledge and learning. Moreover, the internet is a very special avenue which has helped a lot of people to get help in a variety of matters and has also [...]
The Dangers of Donating or Discarding Your Old Computer
Today it seems that most people replace their laptop or computer every three to four years. Most people are not aware of the proper way to dispose of their old equipment once they buy their new computer. Before you smash your old desktop or laptop to pieces and throw it in the garbage, please consider the following points to help stop pollution and identity theft.
