Much has been written about download sites and their bad practices – forcing adware wrappers, unfettered bundling, not filtering out malicious software, etc. – seems many of these sites are more interested in generating income rather than providing a safe download environment for users. So […]
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DNS, yet another of those infernal acronyms. Domain Name System is an essential component of everyone’s connection to the internet and is used to translate readily identifiable domain names, such as www.davescomputertips.com, into the numerical IP (Internet Protocol) addresses required to access websites – sort
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Links to all articles included in this series: The Beginning: Opening introduction to the series Browsers: What are they? How to make them a safer door to Web. Search Engines: The Good, Bad and Ugly. Understanding search results. Malware and Virus: What is Malware? – What is
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Running from 16 to 18th June, E3 is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center and is the premier showcase for computer and video games. Here are a few games announced already. DOOM Needing very little introduction, Doom was first unleashed by id Software
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I seriously cannot believe some of Microsoft’s recent decisions – removing basic features such as DVD playback from Windows 10, no longer insisting on an option to disable secure boot, compulsory automatic updates – and now the company has revealed its Windows 10 pricing policy
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You’re getting warm, warmer, you’re getting hot, you are sweating … BINGO there it is! I own a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. There have been times when I have set it down for it’s own protection and later when I remembered about it, the phone
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Another day, another massive data breach. I woke up, checked my emails, and saw a message titled: LastPass Security Notice. My first thought was “urgh, another phishing email!”. I was wrong, very wrong. LastPass released an email and published a blog post covering an intrusion
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Which would you choose? Imagine that you’ve decided to trade in your car for a newer and updated version, let’s say the 2015 model/year and the smooth salesman lends you a demo for a few weeks so you can drive it around town, impress your
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As promised, following our great MailWasher Pro giveaway, Firetrust is now offering a huge 50% discount off MailWasher Pro for ALL DCT readers. Yes, the terrific MailWasher Pro software for half price exclusive to DCT readers. NOTE: Get in quick because this offer expires in
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Just had to share this one with you. It’s a little piece courtesy of Bill Mullins’ Tech Thoughts site with “thanks to Joan”. It’s one I hadn’t seen before and I found it not only very funny but also quite true: Presently, I am trying
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Digiarty is running a mid year promo which includes a giveaway of its excellent WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe software… expires 30th June. WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe, all-in-one video software as an 4K Ultra HD video converter for Windows (10), online (YouTube) video downloader,
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Links to all articles included in this series: The Beginning: Opening introduction to the series Browsers: What are they? How to make them a safer door to Web. Search Engines: The Good, Bad and Ugly. Understanding search results. Malware and Virus: What is Malware? – What is
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Security expert and investigative journo Brian Krebs has recently published his thoughts on the seemingly incessant data breaches and what you can do to help avoid becoming a victim of identity theft – including his take on credit monitoring and security/credit freezes. When somebody with
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WonderFox is currently running a giveaway for its very good WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro software… expires 21st June. Rip DVD to AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV, iPad, iPhone, Android with 0-Quality-Loss – Rip a DVD in 5~10 Minutes Rip your extensive DVD collection to virtually any
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