How to: Two Ways to Protect Your Pen Drive from Viruses

March 9th, 2006 A corporate attorney, with first hand experience of identity theft, formulated guidelines for the employees in his company. It contains very useful and non-trivial advice and information to protect yourself from identity theft.

September 30th, 2008 We all know about anti-virus software these days. I guess you have read my comparative study on anti-virus software too.

February 5th, 2007 Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security tool failed independent tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin. The security testing group found that Live OneCare missed far more active viruses than any other program tested.

July 21st, 2006 Biometric security systems using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition have started to become mainstream. They are very likely to be common within a few years.

February 17th, 2006 Why do we use "virus" to describe malicious replicating computer programs? Most of these programs are very complicated and intelligent (comparatively), which resembles more like a bacteria than a virus. Viruses are very simple organisms, very unlike todays "computer viruses".

March 19th, 2009 Yes its true and I am in no mood to be joking. You can infect a person through computer virus.

August 22nd, 2007 Fedora project has created a simple script to install Fedora 7 on a USB Drive with 1GB+ capacity. To use the script you will need two things: 1.

April 3rd, 2009 I am sure you don't want to downlaod and install and run the mammoth Windows 7 yet in your PC. But being a curious techie, you can not leave it unattended either.

March 20th, 2009 We have always been concerned about hiding a particular file or folder from someone for definite purposes. I won't go into that now.

January 5th, 2009 Are you fed up of the jog trot looking at the same default icon of your removable drives again and again? Just imagine if you could set cool pic for the driver icon whenever you insert the memory card of your phone, camera or your USB drive for that. How about a new icon to impress the fellas? Here's an idea to allow you to see your old wine in a new bottle.

January 19th, 2009 Windows 7 is doing really good with the netbooks. With me using HP Mini 2140 running on VIsta, Windows 7 beta was a welcome chance.

December 2nd, 2008 GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from Smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - The British Prime Minister is set to announce the appointment of the nation's first cyber security chief who will be responsible to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage. Brown's decision comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and business are vulnerable to online attacks from hostile countries and terrorist organisations.

August 10th, 2006 I have never seen them so concerned about computer vulnerability from Microsoft Windows software. Everyone knows Windows OS is vulnerable by default.

April 9th, 2009 Win32/Netsky.Q worm, that's the top email virus threat faced for the last 24 hours, waiting to muck up your mails. The viruses, trojans, worms, rootkit,  malware, and spywares have become the most nefarious cyber-threats that could incur unrepairable damages to your PC.