Every year millions of dollars are siphoned by the cyber criminals from the bank accounts of ordinary users. This is done by injecting malware into your web browser and monitoring your financial activity. This can be avoided by using the free HitmanPro Alert software that warns you if a program is trying to compromise the critical functions of your web browser. It can successfully thwart the attempts of well known trojans like Zeus, SpyEye, Shylock and more.
Read moreEnable Do Not Track in Thunderbird
When you open email messages in Mozilla Thunderbird, they may contain embedded HTML web content. Opening of this HTML content is same as opening a webpage in a web browser. This means that some of servers hosting this HTML content may track your online behavior. Fortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird allows you to enable the do-not-track feature which sends a request to all the servers not to track your online activity.
Read moreHow to Uninstall Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 7
Microsoft has recently released the preview version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 users. But since this is a preview version, some of those who install it in Windows, might want to remove it once they have checked the new features that it is going to bring. If you want to remove Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 7, then you can go through the following simple steps.
Read moreFind and Remove Malware and Rootkits With HitmanPro
HitmanPro is a second opinion malware detection and removal tool. It gives you a second opinion about the possible infections on your PC that your regular antivirus is not able to detect. You can use it alongside your regular antivirus software. It uses the cloud based malware detection technology from the antivirus software leaders like Kaspersky, Bitdefender and Emsisoft.
Read moreHow to Fix Missing Create New Folder Context-Menu in Windows
After installing a software on my Windows computer, suddenly the ability to create new folders by right-clicking in a folder and selecting New → Folder disappeared in Windows. This was a very annoying trouble as I was not able to create new folders easily in Explorer, instead I was forced to open the command prompt and create folders using the mkdir command. But after sometime, I figured out the problem and fixed it.
Read moreHow to Change User Agent String in Internet Explorer
Some web sites display differently depending on which web browser you are using to access them. Similarly, some websites are designed specifically for a particular browser and they display properly only on that web browser. If you are an Internet Explorer user, then you can easily change the user agent string and fool the website into believing that you are using a different web browser.
Read moreHow to Schedule Email Cleanup in Outlook.com Webmail
The Outlook.com webmail service, that has replaced previous email services from Microsoft, offers a great many number of ways to keep your Inbox clutter free, organized and clean. One of the features in Outlook.com is the cleanup scheduling of the messages so that messages from a specific sender are automatically moved or deleted after a preset number of days. This works great for newsletter or notification email messages, as you can auto-delete them after a month.
Read moreSchedule Locked Files For Deletion with Boot Deleter
Sometimes when you try to delete a file in Windows, it fails to be deleted no matter how many times you try. The basic reason for such deletion problems is that the file is in used by the Windows system or some other program and cannot be deleted. Such files can be deleted easily upon reboot if you set them to be deleted automatically upon restart using the freeware tool BootDeleter. This freeware tool can set any locked file to be deleted on Windows restart.
Read moreDetect Malware and Rootkits using Free SanityCheck
Suspicious programs running on your computer, strange popup windows and unusual hard disk activity are some of the telltale signs of malware infection in Windows. But if you want to be sure, then you can use the free SanityCheck software to analyze your computer and see if some of the programs running on your PC are really questionable and whether they should be further investigated.
Read moreLICECap : Capture Screen Activity into GIF Files
If you want to make a tutorial about how to do something in your Windows PC, then it is best to capture the video or animation of that activity. The free LICECap application allows you to record screen activities into a GIF animation. This GIF file can be viewed using any popular image viewer, can be embedded inside a webpage or shared with friends. You can use LICECap to record many things like a chatting session or computer problem etc.
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