Public Computers Made Safe – Security Tools and Tips

Chances are you are receiving too many. Hopefully you’re receiving little spam, but certainly you have a lot of mail hitting your inbox that doesn’t need your immediate attention. Maybe you even receive private stuff at work that you should rather not attend to at all until you’re h

Internet Explorer 7 – Click Tools and then Delete Browsing History >Delete All

Internet Explorer (Older versions) – Click Tools and then Internet Options. On the General tab, under Temporary Internet files, click Delete Files, and then click Delete Cookies. Under History, click Clear History. Delete all the files in the temporary folder of your user account which you can find by browsing to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\T

The best choice is to use Firefox, because Firefox allows you to configure the browser to also send DNS requests through the proxy. If you use Internet Explorer, your DNS requests are still made via the local network you connect from and thus can still be monitored. So Firefox would be the preferred browser if you wish to maintain privacy on the network you are connecting f

Step 3: Change the following values to whatever you like: TITLE HERE – Add the text that you want to be shows, ex. John’s PC ICON HERE – The image that is used as a brand logo. It must be a .ico and 24×24. ( E.g. C:\mylogo.ico. The has to be replaced by two \’s. ) FUNCTION HERE – This should be replaced with the function that will be used when clicked. ( E.g. A website, a Windows multiplayer setup|https://windowsmastery.com/ executable, etc. http://google.com will redirect to Google when clicked. )Step 4: Save the file as brand.reg and double-click it. Now, simply log off and back on and you should have your own branded version of Wind

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Portable Firefox – The Web Browser is your door to the Internet, so first and foremost secure it. Use the portable version of Firefox from you USB drive as opposed to the browser on the public compu

Windows Vista has a large amount of options when it comes to customization, as do nearly all Windows operating systems. Fortunately, Vista makes it even easier then you may believe to tweak your operating sys

It is also useful if you are surfing on a network where you may be concerned about others observing your traffic. Perhaps you are connecting from a hotel, a client site, or from work (you didn’t learn that from me) and you do not want others monitoring your traf

I have been saying repetitively how wonderful Windows is. The registry particularly can make customization easy and definitely fun. Today, we will be looking at just a few registry tweaks that can increase your ability to customize Windows to an extreme le

Vista is riddled with an extremely large amount of “security” measures that may, or may not, be helpful. Running Vista as an Administrator may help, but did you know there is an even higher Administrator? Well, there is! All you need to do to unlock it is the follow

Of course you cannot just sort mails into folders. You can have the message filters perform several other actions as seen in the menu pictured above. For example, automatically “Mark As Read”, “Tag Message” or (the coolest) reply with a template. If required you can have the message filter carry out multiple actions on the same eM

An extra feature that plays no part in the mathematical calculations, but is still useful, is the language localization. In fact, SpeedCrunch supports 22 languages and you can switch to your favorite language eas

The source port you use for setting up the tunnels is arbitrary. We could have used 1234 instead of 3390 if we wanted to, as long as nothing is running on the local machine at port 1234. What is not arbitrary is what you use on the destination IP and port. For that you will need to use the proper IP address and port for the service you wish to connect

In addition, SpeedCrunch records all your calculations and place them in its history. Whenever you need to re-enter the same expression, simply load up the history panel and select the one that you entered previously. If you are doing a lot of intense calculations, this is going to be very help

If, for some reason, you want your start menu to delay for 900 milli-seconds, then you do not need to mess with this at all. If you do, though, want to speed up your computer just a little more then here is how you lower the menu de

Remote – As the name somewhat implies, this is the reverse of a local tunnel. You are probably less likely to use this, but it would allow machines on the SSH server network to access a machine and port on the network where your SSH client resides. I won’t go through any examples on setting up a remote port in this arti

Enter socks_remote_dns for the Filter and press enter. You should see a single option that says network.proxy.socks_remote_dns. If it says false for the Value , double-click on it so that it says true. You’re now all set. You should be able to surf the web through your new secure dynamic tun

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