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Looking For The Best Free Screen Capture Utility? Checkout MWSnap
I like to use a lot of screen captures when I review an application – a picture is worth a thousand words, and all that. Lately, I’ve gotten more than a few questions from readers requesting the...
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SpywareBlaster – Still Worthwhile After All These Years
SpywareBlaster was one of the first free antimalware applications I installed on Windows 95; it’s been around that long. You might wonder if an application which was released when I was running a...
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Take 10 Seconds And Have BitDefender QuickScan Add-on Audit Your System For...
BitDefender’s QuickScan (last updated April 7, 2011), is a Firefox, and Chrome add-on, built around cloud based technology (a continuously updated malware database and scanner, hosted on remote...
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Keep An Eye On Your Internet Ports With Free TCPEye
A network monitor will allow you to analyze activity on your ports, and it’s a great way to for you to double check which applications are connecting to the Internet – that’s a prudent practice. If...
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Check Disk GUI–Check Hard Drive System Integrity The Easy Way
This past week I put up a post on Hard Drive maintenance – Don’t Wait Until Your Hard Drive Goes “Clunk-Clunk” – Check It Out Now With These Two Free Tools – which led to a query from Michael F., …...
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EncryptOnClick – Encrypt and Decrypt Files and Folders With A Few Clicks
The article I posted a few days ago – Free Secret Disk – Keep Your Secret Computer Files “Secret”, led to a more than a few reader questions on additional free encryption applications. So, I’ve...
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TrueCrypt – Free Encryption To The Max
Sophisticated and aware computer users know, that financial data and other confidential information, can easily be subject to intrusive viewing by those not authorized to do so. Some examples of how...
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SpringPublisher Free Version – Design And Output Business Cards And More
One of the very first freeware applications that I remember downloading, when the Sun first rose on the Internet, was a business card design application. Now, here I am, many years later, reviewing for...
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Ninite – A Jaw Dropping One Shot Multiple Application Installer
I’ve used, reviewed, and discarded, a mix of free “One Shot” installer applications – applications which download and install multiple user selected applications, in one pass. The only keeper from the...
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Avoid Accidents On The Internet Highway By Patching Your OS AND Applications
This morning, I read Ed Bott’s latest (Bott is a favorite of mine) – If your PC picks up a virus, whose fault is it? Here’s a summary - Want to avoid being attacked by viruses and other malware? Two …...
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Security Precautions For Your New Christmas PC
We are now officially in the “Holiday Season”, (the “Christmas Season”, to we traditionalists), so along with those visions of sugar plum fairies dancing in your head, you just might have visions of a...
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Free LiberKey Version 5.5 – A Computer Toolbox On A Stick
LiberKey (which I’ve reviewed previously – version 4.1 – March 2010), is a compilation of freeware, and open source portable applications, offered in three flavors that can be installed on, and run...
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xplorer2 lite Freeware – Does Portable Too
You might think that your stuck with the Windows Explorer version that your particular version of Windows supports – but, your not. While the Windows 7 version of Explorer is an improvement over...
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Comodo Cleaning Essentials – Fast It’s Not – Powerful It Is
Comodo’s recently released portable Comodo Cleaning Essentials (freeware), is an interesting breed of applications within applications – an aggressive on-demand malware scanner (the core application),...
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Comodo Cleaning Essentials – An Aggressive On-Demand Malware Scanner
This past week, Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine’s lead analyst for security, in his article – The Best Free Antivirus for 2012 – included Comodo Cleaning Essentials. Earlier this year, I took this...
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Who’s Phoning Home On Your Internet Connection? Find Out With CurrPorts and,...
There’s not much point (from a cybercriminal’s perspective), in infecting a computer with malware unless the information which it’s been designed to capture, ends up in the nasty hands of the criminal....
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Trap Malware With Toolwiz TimeFreeze
Back in April, I reviewed and highly recommended, a suite of freeware utility applications – Toolwiz Care. Having tested the application extensively, at the end of the day, it was no great leap in...
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The Tool Designed To Fool – We Don’t Want No Stinkin’ Toolbar! (Revisited)
In today’s Tech Thoughts Daily Net News column, you’ll find a link to Ed Bott’s – How Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates. So, what’s new here? Not as much as you might think –...
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Beat Obama’s Bandits With TrueCrypt Free (Open-Source) Encryption
The so called “War on Terror” has long since lost its luster and should be appropriately reclassified as The War of Terror. The U.S. has been singularly impudent in terrorizing the terrorists but...
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When Free Doesn’t Mean Free
This guest post is contributed by my Aussie mate, Jim Hillier. Jim is the resident freeware aficionado at Dave’s Computer Tips. A computer veteran with 30+ years experience who first started writing...
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