F-Secure Health Check

F-Secure Health Check

Keeping your Windows OS updated has become relatively simple with Microsoft Updates. Web browsers such as Firefox also regularly prompt for updates.

But what about the rest of your applications? F-Secure Health Check will tell you if your computer is protected. It checks that you have up to date security applications and finds vulnerabilities in your installed software. It then guides you to a solution when issues are discovered.

F-Secure Health Check is an online service which

• Checks whether you have an Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti-Spyware software installed on your computer
• Checks whether you have known vulnerabilities in your applications
• Checks whether you have applications that are no longer supported by the vendor
• Helps you fix the vulnerabilities found.

See the full: Health Check FAQ

Health Check currently requires Internet Explorer. Additional browser support will be added in the future but you can use Firefox with the IE Tab add-on.

The official Health Check launch page: http://www.f-secure.com/healthcheck/

Click here to launch Health Check directly.

Watermark Software to Protect Your Photos & Digital Images

Have you ever wanted to place a Watermark on your image to ensure nobody uses it without giving you credit? Well now you can for FREE with WatermarkLib.

WatermarkLib software is a professional digital photo watermark creator. You may easily add text and image to your pictures to protect your copyrights, only watermarking software can stop your pictures from unauthorized use. This photo watermark software places very strong watermarks that no one can remove.

• Batch mode: protect a photo group of any size at a time.
• Edit watermarks in a convenient interface.
• Create watermarks out of graphics and text.
• Make watermarks more detailed for better protection .
• Customize font type, size, color and opacity of your watermark text
• Support all popular image formats, including JPEG, JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TGA, TIFF.

WatermarkLib.com

Use Revo Uninstaller to terminate unresponsive processes

Using Revo Uninstaller you can easily terminate a hard to find running program/process that has become unresponsive by using Revo’s built in Hunter Mode.

At times CTRL+ALT+DELETE can take a long time to open or depending on the situation might not open at all. Then when it finally does open you discover that the program you want to close is a process and not an application.

Step 1

Launch Revo Uninstaller and click on Hunter Mode.

Step 2

Find the Hunter Mode floating icon on your desktop and drag it onto the window you would like to terminate.

Step 3

Select Kill Process from the context menu and that’s it.

Koobface is back….on Twitter

Posted on the Sunbelt Blog.

The Koobface worm is back. This time it’s on Twitter.

Here’s how it works:

1. You get a tweet from a friend with the text:

• My home video ;
• Michael Jackson’ testament on youtube, or
• Watch my new private video! LOL .

2. You click the link and go to a Facebook page with a video.

3. You run the video.

4. You get infected. Then every time you log into Twitter, Koobface sends similar tweets to all your friends to infect them.

Story on Zdnet.com

If you think you are infected with Koobface download, install and update SUPERAntiSpyware Free then run a full system scan and remove anything found.

If you need help then visit the Computer-Juice Malware Removal Forum and ask for free help.

Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

From the Official Google Blog. 7/07/2009 08:02:00 AM

We’re often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of “beta” software as not being yet ready for prime time.

Ever since we launched the Google Apps suite for businesses two years ago, it’s had a service level agreement, 24/7 support, and has met or exceeded all the other standards of non-beta software. More than 1.75 million companies around the world run their business on Google Apps, including Google. We’ve come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn’t fit for large enterprises that aren’t keen to run their business on software that sounds like it’s still in the trial phase. So we’ve focused our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark.

Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta. “Beta” will be removed from the product logos today, but we’ll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not there’s a small “beta” beneath the logo. Indeed, today we’re also announcing some other Google Apps features that we think will appeal to large enterprises: mail delegation, mail retention and ongoing enhancements to Apps reliability.

We have much more in store, and IT managers can read more about how to make the switch to Apps in our Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes resource centers. One more thing — for those who still like the look of “beta”, we’ve made it easy to re-enable the beta label for Gmail from the Labs tab under Settings.

Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Director, Product Management, Google Enterprise

Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

Fileinspect.com beta

New from Auslogics.

File Inspect Library beta is a comprehensive list of Windows files commonly found when you look at the Windows Task Manager. Normally you need to use a service such as Google to find out what these sometimes strange looking tasks are for and if they can be safely stopped and/or removed. The Google method is reliable but to an average or new computer user it can be a daunting and downright confusing process.

The File Inspect Library developers try to not only provide general process descriptions, but also offer tips and fixes for possible problems. You can simply just browse the file database or for example, go to www.fileinspect.com and do a search for svchost.exe you will find an article that explains what svchost.exe is, what it does, and how to fix svchost issues.

Users can contribute to the website by rating processes either safe, unsafe or dangerous and by leaving comments, asking questions, and suggesting possible fixes for process-related errors.

Remember that the File Inspect Library is still in Beta and processes descriptions are still being added. Also not all processes yet have a detailed article describing them. At this time some of the descriptions are still very vague but it’s clear that the File Inspect Library developers are working to make this a very useful web site.

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