Published on June 30th, 2010 by admin. Filed under AntiSpyware, Antivirus, Antivirus and filtering, Norton, antivirus | No Comments
Norton Antivirus is the most popular antivirus program in the market and has been protecting millions of PCs for over 20 years. It has come under criticism lately for some of its features and capabilities, but overall it’s an effective security product for protecting your PC.
The 2010 version includes some new features like the Proactive Reputation Scanning and Download Insight Ad utility to stop new malware before you download it.
Installation
Installing Norton Antivirus is a simple process and within a minute or two, your software will be fully installed and ready for use. The wizard walks you through the installation process.
One issue to consider, however, is if you choose to uninstall Norton Antivirus, not all registry elements may be completely removed, causing issues later for your PC. LiveUpdate also has to be uninstalled separately and this adds more work and time to removing Norton from your PC.
Ease of use
Norton’s interface isn’t very easy to use and the design can confuse one who is not yet familiar with Norton. The interface is very detailed with navigation links presented on the left hand side of the screen and more navigation links appear at the top of other pages. Then there are multi-layer tree-navigation links on other screens, and then several pop-up screens as well. All this can be confusing and off-putting for a novice user who’s looking for a simplified interface.
For the most experienced user, the user interface can be a pleasant experience because it allows one to tweak the program to personal requirement.
One new feature in the interface is System Insight that allows you to flip the UI (with an impressive visual) to see the performance from the back end. This tool lets you monitor not just Norton’s impact, but your entire computer performance.
Real-time Protection
Norton Antivirus is very effective at protecting your PC from viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, malware and other online threats. It has one of the best real-time protection capabilities, but this year’s version has a heavy footprint, creating a slow PC. This can be annoying when you try to run other programs on your PC because it causes it to be sluggish.
Technical Support
Technical support is an important feature of antivirus programs and there are numerous ways you can access it through Norton Antivirus. It has a solid knowledge base which includes FAQs, tutorials, product comparisons and a professional support centre. There’s also an active community of forums, blogs, and other resources to get help from. Unfortunately, phone support is not free, which is a disappointment, considering that most antivirus programs offer free phone support.
Published on June 30th, 2010 by admin. Filed under Thunderbird | No Comments
A Great Alternative
The new version of this excellent e-mail client carries several innovations. Among them, can be cited message markers (similar to what exists in Gmail) and the possibility to browse through the message history accessed through the “Back” and “Next” buttons on the toolbar, as in a browser.
There is a search tool that will allow you to find emails by just typing a few words and choosing how they should be fetched: recipients, subject, body text or everything. For those who need to perform the same searches regularly, Thunderbird saves them all to be accessed quickly in the future.
Whenever you receive a new message, the program sends a short notice that appears in the corner of the screen informing about the sender, subject and the beginning of the text.
Another interesting feature is its ability to create message templates, ideal for those who need to send the same email several times.
No More Spam
With improved anti-spam tools, Mozilla Thunderbird has everything to send you away from those pesky advertising messages. Besides possessing own mechanisms, the e-mail client can also be used with spam filter of your provider, sending all these unwanted messages to a specific folder.
More Protection
According to developers, in this new version Thunderbird is even safer, with improvements to anti-phishing that will alert you whenever an attempted coup is identified, including advising you of the existence of links that will lead you to destinations other than those indicated in the message.
Keeps Getting Better
Already in version 3.0, a series of new tools had been deployed in Thunderbird. Now these features get more speed and serious issues are now fixed.
Tabs
Similar to Mozilla Firefox browser, Thunderbird also earns tabs by double-clicking or by pressing “enter” on a message will open in another tab.
When you click on the messages, they will open in background tabs. Another innovation is the maintenance of tabs, which are saved and reopened if the program is closed unexpectedly.
Internal Searches
A resource that was very common in recent years is the ability to perform searches for messages stored in your e-mail account from the main interface. E-mail clients followed the same path, but until recently there were no satisfactory results. Now with the update, Thunderbird is the right place and makes the internal search much faster.
Automatic Configuration
If you have no idea what a (or how to configure a) POP3 or SMTP server, the Mozilla Thunderbird becomes perfect so that you can use an e-mail client with any complicated configurations.
Most Dynamic Filters
Another novelty of Mozilla Thunderbird is the presence of new and more dynamic search filters. When you perform a search for messages, you can filter your search by sender, recipient, subject or even by the text of the message. You can also order them by subject, sender and sent date.
New Message Toolbar
The toolbar has been redesigned and now includes reply, forward, archive, junk and delete buttons. It can also be customized to better fit to different user profiles manager.
Add-ons Manager
Through the Add-ons Manager, integrated with Thunderbird, you can find and download add-ons to the software. These add-ons include Extensions, Themes and Plug-ins, everything to let Thunderbird even more personalized.
Contact List
The contacts that are already on the list are marked with stars and can be edited at any time. When a message is received from unknown sender, you can add them to list in a quick and simple way. The new version of Thunderbird brings even the new Birthdays calendar and allows adding photos to users.
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Due to the bad performance of Vista, now many programmers are searching for ways to make Vista boot faster. As an operating system Vista is not so much in demand as compared to the windows XP or Windows 7. People who have used computers for a long time do not want to shift from windows XP to Vista. This is due to the latter’s slow performance.
Due to the small number of options for tools Vista has been facing this problem. Users who are working in Vista find it quite slow. More over there are no sufficient tools to recover it.
Some of the softwares which help to make the software runs faster like tune XP and BootVis don’t work that well in the Vista. So this particular reason is a major disadvantage for the Vista.
So in order to make vista boot run quicker there is one way, that is to defrag your computer. Defragment will help your computer to free your hard disk thus making your computer work faster. As whenever in a Vista you are downloading any type of file it covers a lot of space in your hard disk. This making your system work slowly and this can be avoided only via defragment.
There is another way you can make your Vista work as fast as Windows XP. This is manually operating the defragment system in your computer. The manually operation of this function of defragmenting is very easy and simple. Just write the command “defrag c:-b” and press enter. Your system stars defragmenting. Till your computer gives the command that the defragmenting is over, you have to wait. Once your wait is over your Vista will be as fast as windows XP.
Once you defrag your computer you can make Vista boot run quicker and can work much more efficiently in the Vista. You should also use AutoRuns to check if there are any programs running on startup that you could do without. You’ll likely want to remove most of the programs under the “logon” tab but be certain that you don’t remove anything from Microsoft or your AntiVirus company.
