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There are several tools and applications available for scanning a web address for malicious activities. The popular security software developer F-Secure has just introduced a new URL scanning service to find suspicious behavior of web sites. This new online tool called Browsing Protection can detect any suspicious behavior of a website quickly. So you can safely visit a site. The importance of this type of tools is that, whatever security precautions you have been taken; still there are chances for an attack just by visiting or clicking a link. So, before visiting a suspicious web site, knowing about its behavior is very important. Just visit at F-Secure Browsing Protection and scan a website that is important for you.

The ThreatFactor NSIA is a website security scanner that can detect most common security risks found on a website. The application does not require any software installation on the server. It uses an advanced analysis engine that is capable of detecting a wide variety of issues. With the free NSIA, it is possible to detect the following security issues commonly found on a website. 1. It detects changes because of website defacements, and checks for users’ privacy such as username and password accessible to outside the site. 2. Detects whether the site infects the visitors, and it detects whether the site has been modified in such a way to send private customer information such as login information to a third party. 3. Sensitive Information Leaks - Websites can leak sensitive information through detailed error messages, files that were not intended to serve to the public and misinformed blogger employees. T4. hreatFactor can also detect website system problems such as broken links, poor...

If for some reasons, you want to uninstall W LM/ MSN Messenger from your computer and find it difficult to remove via Add/Remove program, the freeware utility MSNuisance will help you. This application is similar to WLMUninstall and lets you completely (registry entries, dlls, etc) remove MSN Messenger from your PC. This is a tiny portable application. No installation required. Download and run the program. You can download MSNuisance at the source.

Mac OS X can hide the windows of unused applications with a simple keyboard shortcut. App Hide will implement the same on Windows. It is a tiny application that lets you hide the window of the top most application when you click the hotkey. This means that if Notepad is the program that currently has the focus, hitting the hotkey will hide the Notepad window. When the application is hidden, App Hide will add the name of the application to menu sitting on your tray icon. Right-click the little umbrella icon to see the list of hidden applications. Click on the application name to un-hide it. The program is free and works well on Windows 7, Vista and XP. Download App Hide.

If you don’t have Microsoft word installed or haven’t upgrade to Office 2007 or 2010, you cannot read a document created with Word 2007/2010(docx format) without a proper tool. DocX viewer is such a tool that lets you open and read word documents (docx file). This tiny (300kb), portable utility is much faster than OpenXML Viewer and MS Word Viewer. Besides, you will see much more accurate layout and appearance than Google's view as HTML and OpenXML Viewer. You can download DocX Viewer at developer’s site.

Opera Settings Import & Export Tool helps Opera users to backup and restore Opera profiles- bookmarks, mail, contacts, sessions, preferences, etc. This application is useful either for transferring profiles between Opera installations in different operating systems (Linux or Windows) or restoring lost settings if they disappeared after an Opera upgrade. Following are the key features of Opera Settings Import and Export tool: 1. Lets you preview your settings before importing or exporting 2. Available for both Windows and Linux, and your settings can be transferred between OSes 3. Intelligently locates all the Opera profiles on a typical Windows system, so good for finding "lost" profiles 4. Stores settings files in their original state in an open archive (tar.gz) format, so your exported settings can always be easily restored by hand should the need arise 5. Corrects .ini paths on import so settings imported from a different folder/OS work correctly You can download the ...

There are hundreds of utilities and services available for converting PDF documents into editable Microsoft word documents. PDF Online is an excellent service that allows you to quickly convert any PDF documents into Microsoft Word documents. It accurately re-positions all elements of your documents such as paragraphs, columns and tables. This service is certainly useful when you want to quickly re-purpose your PDF content in Microsoft Word. It is absolutely free and no registration or email is required for the service. Interested readers can visit here for converting PDF documents .

Urlvoid is a new online service by NoVirusThanks that allows users to scan a web address with multiple scanning engines for malicious contents. It uses scanning engines such as Google Diagnostic, McAfee SiteAdvisor, Norton SafeWeb, MyWOT, TrendMicro Web Reputation engine and more for analyzing a web site address to detect any possible dangerous. However, remember that even if a site is listed as clean by all scanning engines, there is no guarantee that the website is harmlessness. At present the analyzed reports are cached for 5 days to avoid the scan of the same website for too many times in the same day and to not stress the engines in use. Before visiting any doubtful site, check its reputation with Urlvoid

Windows Media Player 12 comes with Windows 7 has a number of new enhancements and features. One cool feature is its attractive library background image. Normally there are no easy ways to change this background. But, an exciting part about Windows media player 12 is that it has 5 hidden library background images, but you can’t activate it without changing some registry values. [ Default background ] To help you, here is a freeware, portable utility called Windows Media Player 12 Library Background Changer that lets you replace the default library backgrounds with the hidden one. Just download it from here and run the tool. Select an image and apply it. [ Changed background ] Download Windows Media Player Library Background Changer [via]

AquaSnap is a lightweight program for Windows that give Windows 7 Aero Snap and Aero Shake features to Windows XP and Vista. Previously we had published similar tool AeroSnap , AquaSnap will certainly enhances the way you can arrange windows on your Desktop. Simply drag a window to a side of your desktop to snap it or drag it to the top to maximize. If you drag it back to the last position, the last window size will be restored. AquaSnap is works both 32 and 64bit Windows XP and Vista and can be downloaded free at program source.

The recently introduced encrypted Google web search helps people to protect their search terms and search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. Here is a simple tutorial on to make Google encrypted web search as default search engine for Google Chrome. Run Google Chrome and right click in the address bar. Select ‘Edit search engines…’ and click ‘Add’ button. Now enter a name and a keyword to identify your search engine. Now enter https: / / www.google.com/search?hl=en&q =% s (don’t copy paste it) in the URL field. Now select this newly added search engine and click ‘Make Default’ to make it your default search engine. Hope this brief tutorial will be helpful to you.

Windows Media Player Plus is a plug-in for Windows Media Player (WMP11& 12) that will give some new features and enhancements to your player. For example, the Tag Editor Plus, an alternative for WMP’s advanced tag editor gives some more features in WMP11 and attaches the missing tag editor option on Windows Media Player 12. Its advanced title formatting (ATF) option lets you add specific ATF strings to your player (similar to the Winamp and Foobar2000). Key features of Windows Media Player Plus: 1. Tag Editor Plus: an alternative for Windows Media Player's Advanced Tag Editor. 2. Real 'find as you type' in the library. 3. Access the standard Explorer right-click menu of a media file directly from within WMP. 4. Restore last active playlist, media item, and playback position at WMP startup. 5. Show currently playing media in Windows Media Player's title bar 6. Enhanced and configurable replacement of the Windows Live Messenger Music plug-in Windows Media Player Plus...

Wordpress blogging platform has its own spam comment filtering solution called Akismet. It can block most of the spam comments, but at the same time, sometimes this will mark legitimate comments as spam which is also a major issue like spam comments. BitDefender the leading computer security software developer has now started to develop a better anti-spam solution for Wordpress. This is an experimental solution for filtering blog comments for spam. The analysis is made on a remote server where messages are run through a series of filters. Depending on the total score, the comment is categorized as spam or legit. Interested Wordpress blog owners can now try out the Bitdefender Antispam solution from here . [via – Techtrickz ]

If you are an ESET NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security user, you might have noticed a splash screen displaying on your desktop when Windows starts. If for some reasons you don't want to see , here is how to disable this. Open your ESET Smart Security or ESET NOD32 Antivirus and put it into advanced mode by pressing F5 key. From the Advanced Setup tree, click User interface and then deselect the Show splash-screen at start-up option (see screen-shot) Click OK to save the settings. [ Via ]

An official document should be free from grammar or spelling mistakes before presenting it to a higher authority, for example, to your boss. Proof reading can help, but chances are there for missing something. To help you, there is a free add-in for Microsoft Office (2010, 2007, and 2003) that will give a complete report on grammar, spelling, plagiarism and vocabulary mistakes. The very simple to use add-in Grammarly analyze your documents online and instantly give a detailed report on it. However, to solve your problems, you need to subscribe and pay. Even so, you can make sure that your document is free from grammar and spelling mistakes. Grammarly Add-In requires Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 or 2010. Download the add-on at the source.

Doc Translator is a free online Office document (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx,and xml) translator that lets you translate your documents into another language. The process is fast and you don’t even need to open your document to translate (no copy or pasting text in and out of your documents required). Doc Translator uses Google Translate API for translation and required Java 1.5 or higher installed. You can translate your documents into nearly 50 languages.

There are several reasons for slow internet connections. Sometimes slow DNS server of your ISPs cause trouble to you. In that case by changing the DNS server may resolve your problem. There are several DNS servers are there for free use such as OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, Ultra DNS, etc, but which one is fastest and secure one? The freeware utility Namebench can help you to find out fastest and more secure DNS Server. This utility carries out benchmark tests on multiple DNS servers and recommends the best one for you. Namebench is a free and portable utility and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX systems. Download it : http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

T-Tools Antiseptic is a free utility, specially designed to completely remove add-on programs or piggyback programs like toolbars that are often comes bundled with freeware programs. Although it is possible to 'uncheck' the option during installation of a freeware, sometimes you could end up with one or more of these unnecessary add-on programs and experience some difficulties removing them. In such a situation the T-Tools' Antiseptic can help you. Currently it can remove every last traces of AOL and AIM Toolbars from your computer. The program is free from viruses and can be downloaded from here. It works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 (required .NET framework 3.5)

The most popular password manager for Mac 1Password is now available for Windows also. This solid application can record your login information and passwords and keep them encrypted. The best part of this application is that you don’t have to manually input anything; it will automatically record information when you login from Firefox or Internet Explorer. However, you can manually add login details and other sensitive information, such as banking, online identities and even notes that requires protection. Moreover, you can manage all your passwords by sorting, editing and filing them with 1Password.The auto-lock feature, automatic back-ups and a search function makes this application a unique one in its category. You can download 1Password (currently beta) at source .

ALZip is a very intuitive, powerful file compression utility for Windows that can unzip 40 different zip archives (v.8.0) including ISO and BIN CD images. It can split large files into smaller sizes, recover lost passwords from zipped files, and create self-extracting archives (SFX). Moreover, the anti-virus integration option and unknown file association defaults let you open any zipped file without any worry. With this powerful utility you can zip files into ZIP, EGG, ALZ, TAR, TBZ, TGZ, LZH and JAR formats. To celebrate the release of ALZip 8.0 beta1, ESTsoft giving away free license to users after the ALZip 8.0 official version is released. Interested readers can visit here for more information and registration. [via -dslr]

ItsHidden is a free VPN service that allows you to surf the internet anonymously. You can setup a free connection very easily in your PC; there is no software required. This service is useful when you want to hide your identity from marketers, corporate or government institutions. ItsHidden encrypts all your information and is not readable by anyone else. You can setup a VPN connection quickly after registering a free account and it works on all Platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, IPhone etc. They have paid accounts also; the FREE accounts are disconnected every 20 minutes. Interested readers can setup a free connection from here .

In certain situations we do not want to activate the screensaver automatically, for instance, if you want to show something on your screen for a longer period. OK you can modify the screen saver setting. But, if you do not want to modify the screensaver settings often or when it's not possible to change the screensaver settings in your Windows environment, here is a simple application to help you. This little program (required below 1Mb of memory only) called Keep Display On prevents the display to go into screensaver mode when it's running. The program does not change anything in Windows, so when the program is closed, the screensaver will work as before. You can download Keep Display On at the source .

Nowadays Smart phones are used not just for calling and messaging but widely for browsing, downloading, socializing, shopping, banking, etc. As these devices are connected to the internet, there are high chances for virus infection. If infected, your passwords, bank details, and other personal information can be stolen. Lookout is a free mobile antivirus software for Smart Phones (Android, Blackberry, Windows mobile) that keep your mobile device safe from viruses, malware and hackers. Besides the antivirus protection, the program has other two features. It can locate missing phone and back up your contacts, photos and other data. More information and download Lookout at source.

Whenever a user makes changes to their computer-installing and removing software, changes in Control Panel settings, File Associations, System Policies, etc - are reflected and stored in the registry. Overtime all these data become fragmented and affects overall system performance and increases the waiting time for loading programs and opening files. To improve your system performance you should reduce the fragmentations and compact registry to a smaller size. There are several utilities for defragging registry; Wondershare Registry Defrag is such a tool that optimizes your registry by removing gaps, fragmented and wasted space in windows registry files. Wondershare Registry Defrag is freeware and supports Windows 7, Vista and XP. You can download it free at source .

Previously we had mentioned about a simple utility which lets us instantly change screen resolutions whenever we need that. Here is another freeware utility called Hotkey Resolution Changer that can be used to change screen resolution with a key press. This application is useful in several situations where people need to quickly check their monitor resolutions. Features of Hotkey resolution changer (HRC) - Starts minimized (add shortcut to StartUp to start with windows) - Sits silently in the tray - Define 2 to 9 shortcuts for different resolutions - Switch resolution with just a keypress! - Resolutions below 800×600 and frequencies above 100 Hertz are excluded. Download Hotkey resolution changer (HRC)at source