Interesting…the guy who invented JavaScript has found (and founded) a new niche (Brave Co.) after the Mozilla disaster. Ironic, because this browser will show you content with ads stripped out as well as elements designed to track your online behavior…so your security will be MUCH greater. Supposedly though, it will not remove all ads: It’ll leave those actually useful to you. For phones, it will speed things up by a factor of up to four, and up to x14 for laptop...
One of my fave websites ( gHacks.net ) owner has produced quite an extensive review and comparison of available software to modify W10’s data collection and bad features like Wi-Fi sharing. It was nice of Martin Bormann to include urls and screenies…as well as a table of comparisons. All these programs have to be run with “Elevated Status” (as Administrator) or the changes you make won’t be applied. A very good “take away” is to make ...
So…not a whole lot to say. Will do everything WinZip can…and very fast. Has a portable format. and for Mac, as well. There are many features (more than noted below)…I’d advise going to the website and navigating…under features . There are screenshots available, too. Features : Compression and Extraction: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, LZH, ISO, 7Z(7z.001), and EXE(e01). Extraction Only: RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, AES, ALZ, APK, ARJ, ...
Google notified Trend Micro about a problem with its software…specifically the password manager feature, which stores very strong passwords and at the touch of a button fills them in on the appropriate websites. The vulnerability comes from the way the tool interacted with Chrome 49…it was written to interact with Chrome 41…and the newer sandbox feature in Chrome 49 so, the Trend Micro tool doesn’t comply with the new security features in Chrome 49, so tha...
This app was released back in August. I remember seeing some post about privacy tweaks in Forums…but this little gem offers over 200 tweaks in the categories you can see in my screen shot which was captured on the source page . If you’d like to see a list of the tweaks, go here . You can see screen shots of each category here . I posted on version 2.1 quite a while ago . This one’s for Windows 10. What’s new? Seeing the concerns being raised about ...
Forbes on line just gave its readers some malware…because “On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware "exploit kits," lock up their hard drives in exchange...
MS is having problems in China, so it decided to “modify” W10 for the Chinese government. There are no specifics, but what do you bet one of the changes will be related to “Privacy Settings”? Folks all over the world have expressed concerns over what and how ‘depersonalized data’ is being collected…but the Chinese government more so…wonder why? In the past, China has managed to get its own official versions of Windows XP. So, T...
Well, it’s free, and it works, for MacOS and Windows. It will clean and speed up Firefox, Pale Moon, Chrome, Opera, Thunderbird and Skype as well, with an up to x3 increase in speed. No, it won’t speed up IE or Edge. Why does it work? It works because with time you get larger and more fragmented databases. “Firefox (and sometimes it's add-ons) uses SQLITE databases to store lots of its settings. By the time the databases grow and Firefox starts working slowly. SpeedyFo...
Although Google has reported it with respect to Chrome, it likely affects other browsers. It’s from AVG and it installs automatically without permission whenever the user installed the main AVG AV software. Since Chrome has similar tools, it isn’t even necessary. AVG set their browser extension to bypass the normal vetting process by the Chrome Store. This allowed AVG to change the user’s home page when opening the browser and new tabs. Apparently, it also did not encr...
What an amazing athlete… Meadowlark (I always loved his name!)…joined the Harlem Globe Trotters in 1954…played with greats like Wilt Chamberlain…brought happiness and joy to millions all around the world. They were serious players as well. Here’s a video…not great quality…but there are others. I’m gonna miss you, Meadowlark…Rest In Peace. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/sports/basketball/mea...
The Windows Club has put together a really excellent list of resources for graphics creators, designers…and artists…all really good free sources. I’ll spare you the screen shots…the urls are what matters, after all. You can read more at the linked text above, descriptions of the offerings at each website…and there’s lots! http://www.freepik.com/ , http://www.fordesigner.com/ , http://www.freevector.com/ , http://downloadpsd.com/ , http://www.vecteezy.c...
“Superfish” enabled “man in the middle” type attacks on Lenovo computers, and since other OEMs have models which have been found vulnerable to similar attacks. the software generated its own root certificate so it could intercept traffic from secure sites and overlay its own ads on the page. If hackers were to gain access to this certificate, they’d be able to spoof secure websites and steal sensitive data. Now MS will no longer allow ad injection...
“CISA was meant to allow companies to share information on cyber attacks — including data from private citizens — with other companies and the Department of Homeland Security. Once DHS had all the pertinent details, they could be passed along to the FBI and NSA for further investigation and, potentially, legal action. The thing is, critics saw the bill as way for government agencies to more easily keep tabs on Americans without their knowledge.” – engadg...
This filter is part of your MS OS as well as IE and Edge. It’s like Google’s SafeBrowsing BUT it has a wider scope, and it works system wide. So, MS has added protection against “drive-by” attacks to the service. “Drive-by attacks originate often on trusted websites where they are executed through third-party scripts such as advertisement or hacks. If it often the case that they don't require user interaction for execution and that is it enough for the user to visit a websit...
People don’t know it…because Adobe hasn’t told them. Yet. I use Bridge all the time to organize my images, but have recently gone over to Lightroom to do my cataloging because I can do basic adjustments and use presets and then edit further in Photoshop (there are just things Lightroom can’t do) and then take them back into Lightroom to finish, if I need. “ Bridge CC is Adobe’s flagship desktop media browser and powerful digital asset manager t...