Monthly Archives: December 2008

Happy Holidays

Dear readers and subscribers, Tech Thoughts is taking a break for the holidays. Regular posting will begin again on Monday, January 5, 2009. Wishing you a safe and happy Holiday Season, and a properous 2009. Bill Mullins

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Stolen or Lost Laptop Tracker Software – Adeona Free

You’ll never lose your Laptop computer, and you take particular care to ensure it won’t be stolen, right? Of course you do. But does loss, or theft, of laptops happen? You bet. Recent survey results from the Ponemon Institute, indicates … Continue reading

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Virtual CloneDrive – Speedup CD/DVD Access With This Emulator

Virtual CloneDrive is a small freeware application that allows you to mount image files, from a hard drive, as a virtual CD or DVD drive, just as if you had inserted the application into a physical CD/DVD drive. To explain … Continue reading

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Hazard Shield – Enhance Your Anti-Malware Solutions Free

Hazard Shield jumps into the already overcrowded anti-malware application market, as yet another free anti-malware contender. On the other hand, choice is good, and it’s always a plus to have another free and effective security application to choose from. In … Continue reading

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Computer Security – Time to Think About It

Here we are getting ready for the holiday season, once again. For many of us it’s a wonderful time of the year, full of memories of previous Christmases, and great anticipation for all the good things to come. During the … Continue reading

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Glarysoft Security Process Explorer – Rate Running Processes for Security

Glarysoft, the developer’s of the powerful, free system tool Glary Utilities (which should be part of every casual/intermediate computers users’ toolbox), also offers a free enhanced task manager; Security Process Explorer. This application though, is better suited to experienced or … Continue reading

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Maximize Layered Malware Defenses – A-squared HijackFree

There are plenty of good anti-malware products, but experienced computer users’ realize that to ensure maximum safety, it’s important to have layered defenses in the ongoing fight against malware. Given the virtual epidemic of malware currently circulating on the Internet, … Continue reading

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What’s On Your PC? – Find Out With Free Belarc Advisor ((Version 7.2x))

In order to effectively maintain your computer and proactively deal with problems that may occur, it is essential that you have as much information about your system as possible. If you need help from a computer support group, from a … Continue reading

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Getting a New Computer for Christmas? – Essential Security Precautions

So you just might get a new PC for Christmas – if you’ve been good this year! Before you test drive this new machine though, there are some fundamental precautions you need to take before you connect to the Internet. … Continue reading

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McDonalds Email Christmas Offer is Scroogy Malware

Who’s going to turn down an email savings coupon from that great American institution – McDonalds? The cyber-criminals behind this spam/scam email are counting on the fact that not many of us will turn it down. Let’s face it – … Continue reading

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