Windows Firewall is a built-in protection tool that safeguards inbound and outbound traffic on a network. Depending on computer’s configuration, Windows Firewall may block or let pass any information. Firewall is very essential to prevent malicious software, Trojans and viruses from gaining access to your system whether the request originates from local network or the Internet. Preventing hacker’s attack from stealing sensitive data from your computer is also feasible with the proper implementation of Windows Firewall. It stops the system from sending confidential data and other sensitive information to a remote computer.

Viruses so as malware intentionally blocks infected computer’s Internet access. The main reason is to avoid downloads of any security programs necessary to disinfect the system. Blocking Internet access also prevents updating of installed security application. Outdated antivirus programs may overlook new malware threats. Thus, updating database gives security product new signature files to identify recent threats.

Just like old version of Windows, recent one’s are also having the tool System Restore. This tool is very useful when experiencing system crashes due to corrupted files. Incomplete installation of programs or drivers, also virus infection causing troubles can be resolve with this tool. System Restore for Windows Vista or Windows 7 can overwrite damaged configuration, files and programs with an unspoiled version provided that System Restore for Windows Vista or 7  is operational and there is an existing restore point.

A built-in Windows tool called System Restore can bring back computer to its previous state. If the system is not functioning correctly or some files were infected, it can be replaced with the undamaged one provided that Windows XP System Restore is enabled and a restore point was created. Please take note that System Restore will not be able to bring back personal files like documents, images, photos and videos. This tool was intended for Windows system files and configuration only.

System Restore is one of the most important feature of Windows operating system that started to roll in Windows ME. It was still included in other versions since then like Windows 98, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The purpose of this system restore was simply to maually record a point where computer is performing at its best.

You may encounter an error “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site  - Operation aborted” when trying to open a website that is running a Google API script or a Java Script. This may occur on lower versions of Internet Explorer and to the newly updated ones. This may be a server side or client side issue. So we are attaching here various solutions to solve “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.”

Norton Power Eraser is a free removal tool that was developed primarily to remove adware, malware and rogue security applications that tries to mimic legitimate programs.  It utilizes a more aggressive type of scanner and uses non-traditional anti-virus pattern files and database. Norton Power Eraser is a program to-go-to if any of the installed anti-virus programs are not finding the malware. It will help you detect and remove threats that standard antivirus fails to spot.

Windows Error code 10 is presented when any connected external device has no driver installed or not supported by the Operating System. Not all devices and gadgets are correctly enumerated by Windows when it get connected to the computer. Some device drivers are also treated by Windows as a service that need to run prior to connecting a device. When Error (Code 10) occurs, it means that a bus reset is ongoing and Windows tries to initialize and re-enumerate the bus. To solve this issue you may take these steps:

Windows start-up is a primary target of Trojan, virus, spyware and malware to load themselves during boot-up. So it is important for us to know how to remove unwanted executable and programs from Windows start-up. There are various possible ways to load a program and run them automatically and here are some of them:

Kaspersky Antivirus normally catch virus that were undetected by some anti-virus application. This is why I often use their web-based scanner. But since the release of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10, doing virus scan offline is very much possible. This tool was created to scan computer infected with a virus and was not able to remove by a locally installed security application. To have the Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 to your bootable USB flash drives, just follow these simple steps.