Showing posts with label PC Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PC Tips. Show all posts
Dec 26, 2011
Dec 23, 2011
Securing a Computer with BIOS
BIOS which stands for Basic Input Output System is though one of the most important part of a pc, it is normally overlooked when it comes to securing computer. BIOS helps boot your computer. You may not have realized its importance as mostly all we want and care about is to reach desktop as soon as pc boots up. Securing your pc and data from unauthorized access is important if you have important personal or official data in your machine which you wouldn’t want to share with others. One way to protect it from others is to set a password on your account effectively preventing others from logging in. However, such type of protection is very basic and subjected to a number of other exploits.
The computers these days come equipped with Biometrics based authentication which normally authenticates you either using fingerprint scans, facial recognition or other ways. Even though this is effective, there are ways to circumvent this. A user can always make a bootable pen drive or boot your machine your Linux based live CD & therefore can easily access your confidential data.
To make this possible, one has to access BIOS and change the priority of bootable devices by setting pen drive or live CD as first bootable device. You can prevent this from happening if you set a user password on your BIOS. This will also add a layer of protection in your pc. A BIOS password will help if someone tries to access your BIOS and change order of boot device or make any other setting as BIOS will first authenticate the user before making any changes.
The only problem with this method is that you will have to remember your BIOS password otherwise it may lock you out if you happen to forget it. This is unlikely though but possible.
Dec 22, 2011
Hotspot Shield Free for Secure Browsing

Great news, today i got a reliable tool while browsing. these days most of internet users are suffering while their online activities. they are worry about their privacy. so i found a answer for that and it's Reliable Wi-Fi & LAN Security! Designed for Windows. now i'm using it...
Hotspot Shield enables access to all information online, providing freedom to access all web content freely and securely. Standard antivirus software protects our computer, but not our web activities.
Image Resizer for Windows
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Image Resizer for Windows is a utility that lets you resize one or more selected image files directly from Windows Explorer by right-clicking. I created it so that modern Windows users could regain the joy they left behind with Microsoft's Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP.
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NOTICE: You may need to manually uninstall any previous versions before running this setup.
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Dec 13, 2011
How to clear PC sensitive information on system shutdown?
During data processing some operating systems use the hard disk as memory, called virtual memory. During processing, operating system transfers some data and programs from RAM to hard disk and reloads again when required. The data or programs are stored in hard disk in temporary file called the swap file. This technique of swapping data between memory and hard disk is called paging. Operating system spends a lot of time in paging process, instead of executing the application software.

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