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  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Dec 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Web of Trust: collaborative online security

Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reasons other than safety. Web of Trust is a Firefox extension which rates the safety of websites based on ratings received by other users of the plug-in.
Users rate websites on [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 25th, 2007
  • Comments: 10

Windows Steady State

Who needs Windows Vistas parental control if you have all the options in Windows XP as well if you download the Microsoft software Steady State which probably was not designed with parental control in mind but with user control in general on Windows XP systems. The major benefit of Steady State is that you can create user accounts, restrict those accounts plus define that all changes made with these accounts are undone after rebooting the system.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Tools, Windows, software

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