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Secure data by preventing Restore of deleted data

by Avinash March 12, 2010 Computers
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The title of the post may seem wrong or odd to most of you. The title is correct and I am talking about other side of story of data security. Any deleted data over your hard disk can be recovered using specialised applications even if your hard disk is not working or you have deleted it from your hard disk .....

How to Protect confidential files, folders with password and hide them

by Avinash March 10, 2010 Software
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Taking a small break from giveaways , here is a normal and useful post for most of you. How often you are concerned about security of your critical and personal data stored on your system? What you do to protect that data? Apart of Antivirus solution, do you use any special tool or application for securing your data?
Today I will .....

Block/Disable USB Pen Drives to be used on Your Computer

by Avinash January 24, 2010 Computers
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USB Pen drives are a great tool for carrying out our data from one place to other easily, but they can also be responsible for virus infections on your system along with the easiest way to steal your confidential and sensitive data from your system.

Using a simple registry edit, You can Block/Disable USB Pen Drives to be used on Your .....

Manage your Paswords safely with KeePass Password

by Avinash January 10, 2010 AntiVirus
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Managing and remembering passwords can be a tiresome and bulky job for anyone including me. You need to remember passwords for almost everything. You need password for logging into your computer, email, banking accounts, credit cards, Networks, social networking and what not. The problem is you have different passwords for for every service even though sometime you want them to .....

List of TOP 10+ Bogus & Rough Antiviruses you should stay away

by Avinash December 23, 2009 AntiVirus
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Today, I will talk about something different. Normally I have talked about antivirus, antispywares, anti-adwares or ways to get rid of these malicious stuff. Today i will talk about some of the worst Rough Antiviruses (the term which is used for these kind of spywares or adwares) from which you should stay away from.
First of all, lets define what Rough .....

Stop cut, paste, copy, delete, re-naming of files & folders

by Avinash December 8, 2009 Software

How often you leave your computer unattended and scared of someone copying your data or messing up with your system by deleting, renaming files and folders or ending processes running on system? There is a small utility which can help you avoid all this. I have talked about  a similar utility M File Anti-Copy few months back. Today we will .....

How to lock Windows Using USB Flash Drives with Predator

by Avinash August 29, 2009 Software

Many of us are paranoid about security of the PC we use and use many tools for securing it along with Antivirus on it. Often you need to leave your system running and go somewhere leaving it open. Many of us do a manual lock screen  using command (Windows key + L).
Here’s something new. You can lock your PC using .....

Lock/Encrypt your USB flash drive / External hard disk with Rohos Mini Drive

by Avinash August 6, 2009 Computers

Most of us use USB flash drives/ external hard disk for our day to day use. One of the concerns that arise with the use of these USB drives is the lack of security associated with these drives. If we these drives are lost or stolen, the data stored in them is at great risk.
There are few tools available to .....

Continuous Data Protection: Must for Enterprises having critical data

by Avinash June 20, 2009 AntiVirus

Few days ago i talked about  “Point-in-time recovery : Backup solution for enterprise and business” in which we talked about point in time concept. That particular concept is nearly perfect but it does have a drawback if the enterprise need to recover data that got lost between the two scheduled backups.
For some enterprises and businesses , losing even a small .....

Free license Giveaway of either Mozy Home or Carbonite Backup for 1 year

by Avinash June 4, 2009 Internet

In my previous post, i talked about Backing up your Files/Folders and computer online with Carbonite backup solution. Carbonite backup isnt free and it costs $54.95 for one year subscription. The other backup solution which i have talked about few months back is Mozy Backup. Mozy backup got a free option too but with many limitations. Its paid unlimited Mozy .....

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