Security
Is IP address linked to my home address
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008What kind of information can someone get from my ip address? Can they find my home address of where I live, phone number or any other personal information?
What are computer cookies
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Cookies are small little texts files (.txt) and they are put onto your computer by just about every website you visit on the internet. Even if you were to delete all your computer cookies right now you will get a few more with a few click of the mouse. Cookies are mainly used for personalization such as quick login to a website you visit regularly. Here’s a guide on how to delete cookies if that’s what you want.
How to remove AVG Free Antivirus
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007I did a tutorial on how to uninstall Norton yesterday so today we will look at how to uninstall another popular anti-virus, AVG free home edition.
How to remove Norton
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Norton Anti virus has got a bad reputation over the years for slowing down people’s computers, although I have heard some good things about the Norton AntiVirus 2008 version. I personally do not like paying annual subscription fees for anti-virus. Check out my guide on how to protect your PC for free.
Disable Windows Defender
Monday, November 12th, 2007Windows Defender offers good free protection against spyware with real-time protection. I generally would not recommend disabling Defender unless you already have another anti-spyware program on your system and want to save some system resource.
How to protect a computer for free
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007Easy and Quick guide to protect your computer
If you are running Windows you need to protect your computer from the nastiness of the web. Every program I list here are free and I use personally on my Windows Vista computer and will work on XP.
Keep your passwords in firefox secure
Thursday, November 1st, 2007I love the password manager that comes built into Firefox. It is very convenient and saves me a lot of time from entering passwords. But did you know that other people may be able to see your passwords in Firefox.
How do I erase my hard drive
Monday, October 22nd, 2007If you really want to erase your harddrive you could take it out, open it up and take out the platters and shred them up into millions of little pieces and send it off to space. Just kidding. Here’s an easier and just as effective way to go, it’s a little program called DBAN Darik’s Boot and Nuke.
