All Posts Tagged With: "firewall"

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What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet

Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger [...]

26Sep2007 | Kline | 17 comments | Continued
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The Best Free Software For Your Computer

A few weeks ago, I received my new laptop and had to install it from scratch. Although it’s a time consuming process, a new PC installation is a great opportunity for you to search the web for the best (and most reliable) apps for your PC. The good news is that you can grab most [...]

7Sep2007 | gili | 34 comments | Continued
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Is Norton 360 Security Worth $79.99?

I was stunned to see that Symantec’s latest security offering, Norton 360 will cost $79.99. The service comes ‘packed’ with antivirus, antispyware and firewall technologies as well as backup features and several tune-up tools for Windows PCs. It also includes:
‘technologies to protect online transactions in addition to techniques to block traditional threats from [...]

28Feb2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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List Of Ad-free Proxy Sites

I seem to be getting a lot of traffic from readers looking for proxy sites.
Here’s a great list of Ad-Free proxy sites produced by OneTipAday.
If you haven’t discovered this site yet then it’s worth checking it out as it only posts one tip a day, which won’t overload your feedreader.
More: Ad-free Proxy Sites

15Dec2006 | Everton | 32 comments | Continued
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PicBlock: Block Porn Pictures From Displaying Automatically

I’ve never been a big fan of the way that most security services, particularly web filtering software operate. I hate the way they don’t really employ any intelligence about the content that is being viewed, and they either block a complete site or don’t, with no middle ground.
I don’t have any kids so my PC [...]

15Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Browse The Net Freely At Work And At School - Use A Proxy

The corporate firewall at my workplace is very draconian. I remember frantically trying to find a Sony logo before I had to give a presentation to Sony on network gaming, but having to give up as all Sony sites were blocked because they had links to Sony Playstations.
I used to get around this by [...]

24Nov2005 | Everton | 34 comments | Continued