Monthly Archives: July 2011
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – July 21, 2011
Google’s Search Engine Now Sniffs Out Malware – Google’s search engine is now fighting against a strain of malware that secretly intercepts Web browser activity on Windows PCs. Infected users will see a big yellow box at the top of … Continue reading
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ClearCloud DNS Service Bites The Dust – Pick Up The Slack With Norton DNS
Occasionally, when I’m stuck for time, I’ll post an edited version of an earlier article. In choosing an appropriate article, I try to focus on a free application or service that has real value, but is often underappreciated. More and … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – July 20, 2011
The Best Free Antivirus – Every computer needs antivirus protection, period. If cost is an issue, try one of these nine free antivirus apps in this roundup that are designed to safeguard your PC from malicious attacks. Free Windows utilities … Continue reading
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Join The Crowd – Snoop On Your Kids Internet Privacy – 55% Of Brits Do!
Do you monitor your children’s online activity? Is an invasion of your child’s privacy on such a scale, necessary? Do you tell yourself that you’re just being prudent? We know from survey after survey, that teenagers have misplaced confidence in … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – July 19, 2011
Lifehacker: TunnelBear Enables Easy Access to Location-Restricted Web Sites in the US and UK – Tunnelbear is a two-switch VPN service that allows you to access content across the world. In the current version you can only switch between the … Continue reading
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Best Free Security Applications – The Hot Naked Truth!
Without a doubt, the most popular question that comes my way, in one form or another is – which antivirus application(s) would you recommend? This question is asked so often; I think it’s probably a good idea to answer it … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – July 18, 2011
ISP Copyright Alerts: Your Questions Answered – News that a coalition of copyright holders and ISPs would jointly go after subscribers downloading illegal files created quite the controversy last week. Many were concerned that their ISPs would be snooping on … Continue reading
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Clean Up With Click&Clean Firefox and Chrome Extension
If there’s one thing regular readers here seem to agree on it’s – CCleaner is an awesome application. You can count me in the “awesome application” appreciation group. This free system cleaner is still my “go to” application for simple … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – July 17, 2011
IE Wins Malware-Blocking Tests – The in-house reputation system used in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 is markedly superior at blocking social-engineering attacks than the Google equivalent used by Chrome, Firefox, Apple’s Safari, an independent test by NSS Labs has … Continue reading
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