Month: September 2009

How Trustworthy is Antivirus Software that is Free

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For the penny-wise PC users, there is a variety of free antivirus software already available on the market. Coming from Panda and Microsoft are the well-known Comodo, PC Tools, AVG, Alwil (Avast) and Avira. These are relatively good security programs that bring the needed protection to your PC at no cost.

The German company, AV-Test.org, tested out a collection of malicious software on this list of free antivirus software and came out with the following ranking: 1 – Avira; 2 – Alwil (Avast); 3 – AVG; 4 – Microsoft Security Essentials; 5 – PC Tools; 6 – Comodo. The method was to test the speed of the scans and the detection rates of each.

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Macs combat with Windows 7 PC

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PCs running on Windows 7 become a big contender for the Mac OSX

Several people have used both Macs and PCs and always have their complaints and satisfactions concerning either in different aspects. However, with the emergence of Windows 7, Mac users are now taking a step back and are beginning to see the strengths in Microsoft Windows as never before. Mac fans used to ridicule the weaknesses of Windows (especially with the disappointing debut of Windows Vista), and now they may have to bite their tongues as Windows 7 begins to show off all its functionalities and features that are starting to make waves in the computing community.

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The Evolution History Further Down of Web Browsers

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Moving further ahead of the year 1992, the web browsers saw progressive changes that made web browsing much more interesting and entertaining. With each passing year the development were noteworthy in the development of web browsers. Here are some of them.

MidasWWW – Released first in 1992

MidasWWW released in November 1992 and developed by Tony Johnson was called Midas. Midas stood for Motif Interactive Data Analysis Shell. This browser was popular among physicists but Johnson didn’t took interest in development of MidasWWW. But one of his colleague translated it to run on VAX computers, thus making it one of the few number of dedicated browsers to be used for VAXes.

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Microsoft’s Changes AutoRun and AutoPlay in Windows Features

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What are AutoRun and AutoPlay?

When Microsoft was coming out with its previous Windows releases before Windows 7 this year, the AutoRun and AutoPlay features were a small but powerful little application that were intended to allow more ease for the user when using optical and external drives. So if you inserted a DVD into your DVD drive, a small window automatically opens up and asks you whether you want to open up the contents on the DVD. It give you options, whether you want to open files using a specific default application for that kind of file; using Windows Explorer to search for files; or if you didn’t want to take any action at all

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