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Here is an interesting issue I came across today and thought I would share the solution in case anyone else has the same issues. Upon double clicking on a mapped drive letter in “My Computer” or Windows exlporer I was getting the “Open With” prompt window. As it turned out the pc had a virus […]
Just a quick post today. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has helped me clean another pc.It is another free antispam antispyware program that has not made My Top 10 Most useful free prgrams list but I think I must give it an honorable mention. The program can be downloaded from http://www.malwarebytes.org It is only a few megabytes in […]
Number 3 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is Zone Alarm personal Firewall available from http://www.zonelabs.com From the Zone Alarm website ZoneAlarm Free Firewall blocks hackers from infiltrating your home PC by hiding your computer from unsolicited network traffic. By detecting and preventing intrusions, ZoneAlarm Free Firewall keeps your PC free from viruses […]
Number 4 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” are Portable Apps available from http://portableapps.com From the website: A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable […]
Here is another small tip that may help someone out. To find which ports are open on your windows pc. Open a command prompt then type netstat -na It will list the ports that are open and listening on your pc as well as any that have any that have an ESTABLISHED connection to them. […]
Number 5 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is IZArc (Available at http://www.izarc.org/) From their website “IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, […]
Number 6 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is FileZilla FTP Client (Available at http://filezilla-project.org/) FileZilla is a free FTP client. For those that do not know what that means, It is a program that allows you to transfer files between your pc and other computers on the internet. This comes in handy […]
Number 7 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is AVG Anti Virus (Available at http://free.avg.com AVG is a very useful and necessary program for anyone that is on the internet or checks email. There is a free version and several non-free versions available. The non-free version usually come with some extra functionality or […]
Number 8 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is CCleaner. (available www.ccleaner.com). CCleaner is another very useful program for removing unnecessary files. This one isnt intended as a Spy or Spam ware removal tool but is still very handy at letting you know what is usually ok to delete. It checks locations like […]
Number 9 on “Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is Lavasoft’s AdAware (available at www.lavasoftusa.com ).Lavasoft is another one of my favorite removal programs for Spam and Spyware. It is very simple to install and update. There are really 2 buttons that you should concern yourself with. The Update button and the Scan button.I highly […]
