Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
The latest build of the Vivaldi web browser ships with a bunch of improvements that include support to silence websites in the browser with a simple click, and support for Netflix. The […]
Windows 10's usage share continued to climb in November 2015. Depending on the service that you are consulting in regards to operating system usage share, Windows 10 is already the second-most used […]
Otter Browser Beta 8 brings the open source browser one step closer to a final release. The new version introduces new features and improvements to the web browser. The Otter web browser […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint with the FCC yesterday about Google "deceptively tracking students" that participate in Google's Apps for Education program. Google Apps for Education (Gafe) is a […]
Online privacy is not an easy concept to explain to the majority of Internet users due to its abstract often near-invisible nature. While it is clear to anyone that leaving window blinds […]
MiTeC Network Scanner is a free advanced scanner for the Windows operating system that supports the scanning of IP and Port ranges as well as advanced features such as running remote commands, […]
Tab Groups is a brand new add-on for the Firefox web browser that replicates the functionality of Firefox's built-in tab grouping feature. Mozilla announced some time ago that Tab Groups would be […]
If you don't use Google Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer but require Flash, you need to download and install a version of Flash on your system so that browsers that run on […]
For years, Mozilla developed and maintained not only the Firefox web browser but also the Thunderbird email client. Both products were received well when they were first released and both managed to […]
TeamViewer 11 is the latest version of the popular remote desktop application. The new version ships with 16 new features that improve performance, quality and other features of the program. The team […]
How do you know whether a Firefox add-on is signed or not? And what does it mean if it is signed? One could say that you find out as soon as you […]
W10Privacy is without doubt one of the most comprehensive privacy-focused tweaking tools for Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system. Recent updates introduced new tweaks and support for changes introduced in the November 2015 […]
Microsoft announced recently that it added additional means of protection against the installation of so-called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) to Windows Defender but only for Microsoft Enterprise customers. It is unclear why […]
Work on Firefox's Tracking Protection feature continues as Mozilla plans to give users more control over the feature by adding tracking groups to the system that users can allow or disallow individually. […]
The developers of the popular torrent client qBittorrent have released version 3.3 of the software for Windows, Linux and Mac systems. I switched from uTorrent to qBittorrent years ago as I did […]
Pref Helper is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that reveals preference names behind Firefox options. The Firefox Options provide users of the web browser with customization settings. While those […]
When Microsoft released the retail version of Windows 10, window titlebars supported only the white color. This meant that every titlebar, with some notable third-party exceptions that used their own color scheme, […]
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, just like previous versions of Windows, comes with a truckload of services preinstalled. Some of these services are required for all Windows 10 systems regardless of type […]
While Mozilla is still in the process of setting up add-on signing for its Firefox web browser, Google uses the system already for apps and extensions for its Chrome web browser. Mozilla's […]
Firefox Electrolysis, a new multi-process architecture of the browser also known as e10s, won't see a release in stable Firefox this year. Mozilla announced back in early 2013 that it was considering […]
DeadLock is a free program for the Windows operating system that helps you unlock files or folders that you cannot delete, move or rename because Windows claims they are still in use. […]
Depending on how you use your computer, you may come in contact with the Microsoft Management Console on a regular basis, once in a while, or not at all. Home users may […]
Vulnerability Test Suite (VTS) is a free application for Android that scans devices running the operating system for publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities. Publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities remain a threat months or even years after disclosed due […]
Whenever there is a sale on Steam, and the number of sales per year increased sharply in recent years, you can be sure that things get quite hectic in the beginning. It […]
The new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens will be out in less than a month and the hype surrounding it is already in full swing. The movie marks a new era […]
When Mozilla announced a year ago that it would not renew the search deal it had with Google in favor of regional deals that would give the organization more flexibility and independence, […]
There is a constant cat and mouse game between malware, security software companies and computer users, and the chance of one side winning the battle seems slim at best. Malwarebytes revealed recently […]
Mozilla announced back in the beginning of 2015 that it would require Firefox add-ons to be signed before they could be installed in release and beta versions of the web browser. The […]
Mozilla launches a stable version of Firefox 64-bit for the Microsoft Windows operating system this month in silent fashion. While it is available for download, it is not yet listed on the […]
RCC is a free program for Windows that scans the Windows Certificate Store when it is run highlighting potentially dangerous certificates. Two major computer manufacturers -- Lenovo and Dell -- put millions […]
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system may uninstall programs -- desktop programs that is -- from the computer after installation of the big Fall update that the company released earlier this month. I […]
Mozilla removed the native option to change the address that is opened when Firefox users open a new tab page in the browser in Firefox 41. It enabled you to change the […]
The most recent version of Opera Max for Android adds support for music streaming app to the data compression proxy. Opera Max is a standalone application that routes traffic through Opera services […]
This guide looks at NoScript's Script Surrogates functionality, explains how you can add or remove surrogates from the popular Firefox add-on, and explains what the feature is being used for. Most Internet […]
Some Dell laptops ship with a self-signed root certificate eDellRoot and private key that attackers can exploit. The issue, first reported on Reddit, has resemblances to the Lenovo incident earlier this year […]
You can learn a lot about a site when you monitor its network connections when you connect your browser to it. You may see connections to third-party sites, ads, web analytics scripts […]
One of the first things that I do when I get a new Android phone is to enable encryption on the device. Actually, that is something that I do on every computer […]
The guide offers three methods to disable sponsored offers during the installation or upgrade of Java on machines running the Windows operating system. Sun Oracle's Java is widely used both on the […]
Simplified Tab Groups is a brand new add-on for the Firefox web browser that aims to provide Firefox Panorama / Tab Groups users with a replacement for the native implementation that Mozilla […]
Microsoft changed two days ago how the first major patch for its Windows 10 operating system is delivered to systems running it. Previously, users were able to download the patch via Windows […]
