Norton Power Eraser is a free portable software program for the Windows operating system that has been designed to remove deeply embedded and difficult to remove malicious software from a computer system. It can specifically detect crimeware such as rogue antivirus programs that are being used to trick the user into either downloading threats to [...]
New Google Cyber Attack Details Emerge
Back In January Google revealed information about a cyber attack that had been carried out against the company. The information released at that time were scarce but the impact was huge as it made Google rethink its Chinese market strategy when it became clear that China was behind the attacks. No information was provided how [...]
Using netstat
As promised (in my article “How do I find my network information in Linux?“) I am going to introduce you to the netstat command. This command is a very useful tool for discovering networking information such as routing tables, network connections, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships. But it’s not quite as simple to [...]
No More Http In Google Chrome
Many Internet users load websites by entering the prefix http:// and the url of the domain in the address bar of the web browser. This is a standard that has been there since the invention of the World Wide Web. But http is in fact not needed to load websites. Removing it from the query [...]
How do I find my network information – in Linux?
Taking a cue from Martin’s helpful article (see “How do I find my IP Address“) I thought it would be a good idea to offer the same information for the Linux operating system. But with Linux there is one issue to get around – that of the number of different tools available to use to [...]
Sun ODF Plugin For Microsoft Office No Longer Free
Sun released a plugin back in 2007 for Microsoft Office that allowed Office users to work with Open Document Format (ODF) documents. The Sun ODF Plugin was maintained by Sun and offered as a free download. The recent acquisition of Sun by Oracle had an impact on the availability of the plugin. The Sun ODF [...]
Norton Internet Security And Norton AntiVirus 2011 Beta Download
Security companies like Symantec or Kaspersky release new versions of their products each year. Norton is now offering beta versions of their upcoming security applications Norton Internet Security 2011 and Norton AntiVirus 2011 that can be downloaded directly from the Norton Beta Center. A registration is required before the programs can be activated on the [...]
Incredible StartPage For Google Chrome
The standard blank tab page in the Google Chrome browser is already pretty handy. It displays popular websites as thumbnails, a text link to browser the bookmarks that have been added to the browser, a list of recently closed tabs and a link to the full browsing history. The Google Chrome extension Incredible Startpage offers [...]
How Do I Find My IP Address
If you ware working in tech support you keep hearing questions very often. One of these questions is “How do I find my IP address”. The IP, or Internet Protocol, address is assigned to devices in a computer network for identification and addressing purposes. The current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, knows public and [...]