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According to a recent study, it has been proved that for some time, Macintosh operating system is not as secure as it used to be, long time back. In some or the other way, your system is at risk 24 hours round the clock, when you use your machine to go online, or when you use an Internet browser, share your computer with other users, share files on a network, even when you use a P2P program, use a mail program or a chat program. Macintosh spyware removal tools will help you all the time, whenever a spyware infection happens to be installed on your system.
If you try to open a file or an attachment, then mac osx removal spyware will warn you, if according to it, the file might be dangerous for your system. First of all, it checks for the extension of the file. It will warn you that the file is completely unsafe if it is an extension, which typically runs a program. There is a spyware tool called mac scan for the Macintosh users called Macscan, it will reveal the presence of potential harmful spyware within few seconds on your computer.
The choice is not left in our hands, whether we want a particular program to get installed or not. Today, so many applications come along with the risk of compromising machine security whether online banking, P2P file sharing, BIT torrent downloads or even online shopping. Even on an operating system like Macintosh, which is known to be one of the safest operating system all over the world, even on such an operating system, removal of spyware has become a necessity these days. It’s your responsibility to protect your privacy being violated like this way online. Absolutely, the protection is within your reach, if you use Macintosh spyware tools.
» Continue reading Kill the Spyware, but it Kills Your PC
How to Speed Up the Internet
Are you feeling fed-up with slow Internet connection? Find out if there is anything to do to overcome that problem in this article.
Have you been complaining about how long it takes to connect and find stuffs on the Internet? Sometimes getting your computer to start also takes too long. Then the wait for web page to load makes you really tense. Several calls to your internet service company yield the same answer – there is nothing wrong with your connection. So is there anything else that you can do to overcome this problem?
To find out how to speed up the Internet, you need to understand a few things first. There are three basic components that work together when you surf the Web. You need to have a computer, a suitable web browser and an internet connection.
As the owner of your computer, you need to make sure that your computer is periodically ‘serviced’. By means of ‘serviced’ you need to make sure that all program are running without fault, your hard disk is not fragmented and there exists no malicious software on your computer. This will ensure that your computer can give the best performance.
» Continue reading Slow Internet connection – Tips to speed it up
How to Make a Bootable CD
We are so accustomed at getting a usable CD for software installation and virus detection. In some cases, you need to make it on your own. Find out more in this article.
Computers nowadays are usually equipped with compact disk (CD) drive. CD can hold bigger storage compared to previous storage media like diskette and floppy disk. Therefore it is seldom used to store software installer, antivirus system and backup data. In order to make them work, you need to make them bootable. So what is a bootable CD?
Bootable CD in question here is a CD that contains the operating system (either simple or complex) so that it can run by itself. This means it can make the computer works without requiring the computer to read the hard drive during start up. It is very useful to restore faulty hard drive and to clean a computer that has been infected by virus or malware. That way, all programs in your hard drive will not run, including the virus. This is to avoid further damage to the computer. However, the contents on your hard drive can be accessed through a bootable CD.
» Continue reading Ever wonder how to make your own bootable CD?
Adding more font types for your Office
Once you acquired more experience using Windows applications, you may soon crave for more variety of font types. Find out how to install more font types in DIY way.
We normally use Windows applications to finish our work. These might be some word processing applications, spreadsheet, text editor, design, publishing or web development applications to name a few. Even if you use different applications for different purposes, they usually involve text output or printouts in one way or another. These applications usually come with some pre-installed fonts, but after some time, you might find them quite boring and need some new typeset to work on with. Installing new typeset may be easy for those who have the computer background, but others may not have any idea on how to go about it. This article will show you how to install fonts in Windows XP easily.
The first step is to get the fonts that you want. You can find this from the Internet. Try to search on something like ‘fonts for Windows XP’ and you will see a whole lot of the search result. Choose the one that you like from the list. You need to download appropriate files that contain the fonts into the folder of your choice. If it is an archive (for example .zip or .rar), you need to extract it before it can be installed.
The second step is to go to Control Panel. Click Start menu -> Control Panel. Then in the Control Panel, click the Fonts icon menu. This will eventually display a window with the fonts that have been installed on your computer. To add a new font, go to ‘File’ menu -> then select ‘Install New Font’.
» Continue reading How to Install Fonts in Windows XP
To run any of these apps go to Start > Run and type the executable name (ie charmap).
WINDOWS XP HIDDEN APPS:
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- Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
- Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)
- Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
- DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
- Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)
- Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)
- IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
- Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).
» Continue reading 25 Windows XP Hidden Applications
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