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 [...]

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 Outdated antivirus programs may overlook new malware threats.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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: MSCONFIG: [...]

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 [...]