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Once gaming computers made their way to the forefront in the mid-’90s, it wasn’t long before their gaudy form factors and LED sheen were extended to accompanying peripherals. Among these was the mouse, an accessory the games industry has transformed from a muted rodent to a twentysomething-button behemoth. Albeit in different forms, the mouse has been there with us since John Carmack cracked open his first Diet Coke to start coding Doom. As it’s undergone a bit of a metamorphosis over the years, you can expect the best gaming mouse to exhibit nigh-instantaneous responsiveness, refined customization software and, of course, a whole bunch of pretty lights. How to choose the best gaming mouse So then, what is the best gaming mouse? Ultimately, that answer depends on demands specific to you. Your playing habits, comfort preferences and more all factor equally into earning the title of best gaming mouse. If first-person shooters are your jam, the key is finding a mouse that covers the widest DPI (dots per inch) range possible. Otherwise, you’ll have to consider the difference between wired and wireless polling rates in order to make sure your mouse latency remains relatively subdued. Below, we've chosen the best gaming mouse around and 9 more for safe measures. Though they don’t all have reviews on TechRadar, each mouse featured on the list has undergone extensive testing prior to its inclusion on the list. 1. Razer DeathAdder Elite Razer's most responsive DeathAdder ever DPI: Up to 16,000 | Features: True tracking at 450 Inches Per Second, Resolution Accuracy of 99.4%, Mechanical mouse switches (up to 50 million clicks), Razer Chroma lighting, Up to 450 IPS / 50 g acceleration, Razer Synapse software €79.90 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY £89.99 View at Overclockers UK $68.94 View at Amazon See all prices (12 found) Super-responsiveComfortable gripColorful RGB lightingNo free-spinning scroll wheelOverly familiar design You know what you're getting with a Razer DeathAdder mouse, and this year's Elite model is one of the most responsive yet thanks to a new eSports-grade sensor that makes it easier than ever to keep enemies firmly in the center of your crosshair. Razer's refreshed rodent features the same right-handed ergonomic design as its predecessor that moulds into your hand, all while adding two new buttons beneath the mouse's scroll wheel to change DPI (or dots-per-inch) on-the-fly. While the DeathAdder Elite misses out on more advanced features such as the free-spinning scroll wheel that you'll find on Logitech's Proteus Core, the Razer's pretty RGB lighting (customizable lighting with 16.8 million color options through Razer's synapse software), big and accessible left-mounted buttons and grippable scroll wheel make it the best mice available in the price tier below. 2. SteelSeries Rival 700 A mouse with a side-mounted display DPI: Up to 16,000 | Features: Gamesense support, OLED display, Tactile alerts, SteelSeries Engine 3 support, Programmable buttons, Onboard profile storage €109.99 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY £69.99 View at Amazon £100.42 View at Gameseek See all prices (14 found) Innovative LCD displayModular componentsLimited display supportRight-handed only SteelSeries has ventured where few gaming mouse makers dare by adding a black-and-white OLED display to its Rival 700. It can either be a useful tool for three currently supported games – Dota 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Minecraft – or can instead be used to loop animated GIFs. There's a high level of customization on offer here thanks to the Rival 700's modularity. Users can snap covers on and off and even switch between a three- or six-foot cable. Tactile alerts are also in place, which trigger vibrations to indicate when health, mana and other in-game resources are replenished in the aforementioned games. Overall, a distinct piece of equipment. 3. Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum The ultimate wireless gaming mouse DPI: 12,000 | Interface: Wired/Wireless 2.4GHz | Buttons: 11 | Ergonomic: Ambidextrous | Features: Customizable RGB Lighting, 30 hour battery life, removable side buttons €115.84 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY €118.99 View at Amazon Marketplace Italy £118.98 View at Amazon See all prices (21 found) Ambidextrous designModular side buttonsNo optional weights In recent years, wireless gaming mice have cultivated a rather adverse reputation, mainly in response to their perceptible lag. With the G900 Chaos Spectrum, however, Logitech seeks to change your mind. Using some form of wizardry, the company somehow managed to get its polling rate down to 1 millisecond on a 2.4GHz connection. Accompanied by accelerated coverage of the entire DPI range, zero smoothing and filtering, this gaming mouse is prepared for everything from your next game of Hearthstone to tournament level Heroes of the Storm. That goes without mentioning an ambidextrous design ideal for left-handed players in addition to a modular button layout. 4. Corsair Harpoon A grippable textured budget mouse DPI: 6,000 | Features: Optical gaming sensor with advanced tracking, Contoured design, Textured rubber side grips, Six programmable buttons, Onboard memory to store custom DPI settings €29.49 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY €38.39 View at Amazon Marketplace Italy £24.99 View at Amazon See all prices (13 found) Great gripAffordableRGB lighting Fiddly software Featuring a grippable leather texture down the left-hand side, using the Corsair Harpoon is light slipping into a comfortable car with leather upholstery. Not a very expensive one, mind you, as the Harpoon is a budget offering that looks and feels cheaper than mice twice its price. Which is to be expected, of course, and with a snappy optical sensor and six programmable buttons including a center DPI switch and forward and back buttons on the side of the mouse, you have everything you need to game in any genre. Its average size makes it a good fit for both small and large hands, and Corsair's RGB-lit logo on the back makes it look rather cool when rested on your desk. 5. Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Heavyweight champion of profound customization DPI: 200 - 12,000 | Features: 11 programmable buttons and controls, including DPI shift, Customizable lighting from a palette of 16.8 million colors, Up to five 3.6g weights for personalised mass and balance, Surface-turnable gaming sensor with Delta Zero tech, 5 on-the-fly adjustable DPI settings, 3 on-board profiles €65.99 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY €68.98 View at Amazon Marketplace Italy £54.99 View at Amazon See all prices (27 found) RGB lightingSatisfying scroll wheelWeights can be tricky to remove Logitech's gaming mouse makes heavy-handedness seem like a good thing. Its hexagonal core can be customized with up to six 3.6 gram weights, giving you a lighter or heavier mouse to wield. Adjusting the mass and balance isn't the G502's only trick: its surface-turnable gaming sensor packs Logitech's Delta Zero tech, which lets you use it on a wide variety of surfaces beyond your regular mouse mat. Clicking a middle mouse button lets the G502's scroll wheel spin freely, which helps prevent knuckle strain when navigating long webpages and forms. Add to that 11 customizable buttons including four on the left-hand side, a three-speed DPI shift under the scroll wheel and a logo that lights up 16.8 million colours in the dark using RGB backlighting, and you have one attractive, tech-stuffed gaming mouse. 6. Razer Naga Hex V2 Colorful rodent bears its MOBA teeth DPI: Up to 16,000 | Features: 7-button mechanical thumb wheel, Pre-configured MOBA profiles, 16,000 DPI 5G laser sensor, DPI switch buttons €92.99 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY £64.03 View at Amazon $60.32 View at Amazon See all prices (12 found) Handy side-mounted buttonsCustomizable RGB lightingRequires practiceNo local memory Razer's refreshed Naga Hex gaming mouse has once again been refreshed, this time with MOBA and MMO players in mind. If you need your mouse to do the job when it comes to timely spellcasting, it could be a great addition to your setup. The Naga Hex 2 positions a thumb grip alongside seven quick-access buttons arranged in a circle that, with a bit of muscle memory training, allow you to fire off spells and perform other actions in a snap. There's also two buttons along the top for adjusting dots-per-inch (DPI) sensitivity on-the-fly, accompanied by two rubber plates on the sides help with grip. In addition to offering a wealth of different buttons, the Naga Hex V2 is lightweight and looks great thanks to Chroma RGB lighting that adds a dash of color to the side-mounted buttons, mouse wheel and Razer logo. Lighting behaviour is configured using Razer's Synapse software, and you can jump right into the action by downloading its League of legends and DOTA 2 profiles. 7. Cougar Minos X3 Feature-packed and priced just right DPI: Up to 3,200 | Features: RGB backlighting, 6 buttons, OMRON switches, On-the-fly DPI switcher $27.20 VIEW AT AMAZON MARKETPLACE RGB backlightingSmooth and precise operationBuild quality feels a bit cheap Cougar is fast developing a reputation for creating peripherals capable of going toe-to-toe with those from rival brands, but sold at a lower price point. The Minos X3 is one such mouse, one that’s targeted at esports gamers. Featuring a pro-grade optical sensor that makes mousing around the mouse pad smooth and precise, six buttons and on-the-fly DPI switching, it packs all of the essentials you would need under its plastic and rubber shell. That it sports eye-catching RGB backlighting that bleeds around the base of the mouse is the cherry on top. 8. Corsair Sabre A swift, accurate and lightweight weapon DPI: 10,000 | Interface: Wired | Buttons: 8 €45.99 VIEW AT AMAZON MARKETPLACE ITALY €49.90 View at Amazon Germany £44.99 View at Amazon See all prices (23 found) Comfortable gripAccurate sensorAwkward DPI switch button Another impressive mouse from Corsair, the Sabre is comparatively stripped down compared to the M65 Pro leaving just the essentials for a reasonable price. The first thing you notice is how light the mouse is. Its lightweight body combines excellently with its fast and accurate optical sensor to feel like a durable mouse you can wield in your hand for playing games of any genre. Corsair's CUE software is a little fiddly to get to grips with, but once figured out can be programmed to cycle colors around the Sabre's four RGB-lit zones. 9. G.Skill Ripjaws MX780 A comfortable customizable gaming rodent DPI: Up to 16,000 | Features: 8,200dpi Avago laser sensor with on-the-fly dpi switching; Ambidextrous and Height-Adjustable weights; 8 programmable buttons and four-zone RGB lighting; Onboard profile storage (5 configurations); G.SKILL Unified Driver system €52.90 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY €74.40 View at Amazon Marketplace Italy £51.40 View at Amazon See all prices (8 found) ComfortableCustomizableThumb buttons could be more solid Some gaming mice forego comfort in the name of features, which can't be said for the RipJaw MX780. It boast a number of features designed to make your hand grip feel just right, including a height-adjustable palm rest, ambidextrous and interchangeable side grips and adjustable weights. It all adds up to make one of the most comfortable gaming mouses we've tried in some time, and it's responsive to boot thanks to an onboard 8,200 dpi laser sensors that supports on-the-fly DPI switching. 10. SteelSeries Rival 500 A swiss army knife of a gaming mouse DPI: 10,000 - 16,000 | Features: 14 buttons, DPI adjuster, RGB backlighting, SteelSeries 3 Engine software €84.68 VIEW AT AMAZON GERMANY €95.41 View at Amazon Marketplace Italy £74.47 View at Amazon See all prices (10 found) 14 buttonsRGB backlightingComfortable designCan feel overwhelmingNo onboard profiles The SteelSeries Rival 500 is initially overwhelming due to the number of buttons on the left-hand side. However, give it time and this becomes one of the most formidable gaming mice money can buy. This veritable swiss army knife boasts an incredible 14 buttons, making it ideal for everything from MMOs and MOBAs to shooters, strategy and simulation games. And if you don’t need all of them, a switch on the underside of the Rival 500 disables some of the buttons on the left-hand side, turning them into a comfortable thumb rest. The mouse fits nicely in the hand and is super customizable thanks to the SteelSeries Engine 3 software, which is intuitive and helps you make the most of those buttons and its RGB backlighting.2 points
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Hello . By Taking a Destroy You will Automatically get a permanent ban , even if they unban you , the destroy file will enable you to join the server. you unistall and install Cs many times Yet , the Destroy File still there. So, i suggest you to Install a Different version for cs. CSBD VERSION | MY PERSONAL VERSION If you got into trouble , feel free to PM me2 points
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”When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No... It’s when they're forgotten!”2 points
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I forget to edit these post in the past... well... Dude, when you see "Weekly" that mean you just can post 1 time per week, not 1 time each 24 hours, same thing in this section http://csblackdevil.com/forums/index.php?/forum/899-movies-series-programs-weekly/ Suggestion for staff, edit these post and be more specified have a good day2 points
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Most of us know that it is possible to perform folder and file copy or move operations in Windows by either using your mouse to copy and paste, drag and drop or by using a number of keyboard shortcuts. Obviously the single biggest factor affecting the speed of any transfer is what medium you’re copying from or to such as hard drives, SSD’s, USB sticks, network etc. Another factor is how Windows itself deals with these operations, and all versions of Windows have never been quite as efficient at it as they could be. With this in mind, it is entirely possible to shorten the duration of any copying or moving of files if you use a piece of third party software to take over operations instead of relying on the Windows built-in function. Not only can this help the speed of transfers, but you can also get other benefits like better information, queuing copies, pausing, skipping, and dealing with problematic files far better than what Windows does. We were curious to find out just how fast some of these programs actually are when copying and moving files around in Windows, so have gathered together 15 freeware tools to have a closer look. A few simple tests were carried out to try and determine which file copying tools are the fastest at performing file transfers in a few different real world scenarios. To try and cover some common file copy operations, 3 tests were conducted; Test 1: Copy a number of small to medium files from one HDD to another. 4GB totaling 24,185 files / 6193 folders with sizes of a few bytes to 320MB. Test 2: Copy 2 large files using the same source and destination as test 1. 2x Windows 8 ISO’s (x86 and x64) totaling 5.8GB. Test 3: Copy over a 10/100 LAN network to the same destination as tests 1 and 2. 450MB totaling 5665 files / 723 folders with sizes of a few bytes to 320MB. The source drive was a 10,000 RPM WD Raptor and the destination was a standard 7200 RPM SATA drive, both defragged. All the 3rd party software was run using their default transfer settings on a clean and fully updated install of Windows 7 64-bit. Each test was run twice and an average of the times was taken. If you want to jump straight to the results table and a summary of the findings about who performed best and worst, they can be found on page 2. 1. Copy Handler 1.32 Copy Handler is a tool that while it sits in your system tray, can take over the file copying operations from Windows or monitor the clipboard for files. During a copy a small and simple window will appear with basic details, double clicking will give you the full window with a wealth of stats and past / present operations. There’s a number of pause and resume buttons, context menu entries can be added and an options window to configure most areas of the program. 2. ExtremeCopy Standard 2.1.0 There are 2 different version of ExtremeCopy, the standard free one and the full shareware version. Functions such as copy or collision options, window position, failed file recovery and the buffer size are disabled in the free version, but you can still integrate it into Explorer to take over the standard Windows file copy functions. Pause, skip and verify are also present. A small options window pops out from the copy dialog using the arrow in the top left. For the USB stick a slightly older portable version is also available. 3. FastCopy 2.11 FastCopy is a tool that’s been recommended by a lot of people over the years because it’s a simple and yet incredibly fast file copier. There are a number of buffer options to tweak the performance even further, basic or advanced file filters, an NSA method wipe and delete option, verify and copy / sync / differential / overwrite copy modes. It also has several options for adding context menu entries and extensive command line options, although something missing is a pause or skip button. Watch out for the weird uninstaller where you have to rerun the setup exe. 4. FF Copy 1.0 FF Copy is relatively simple copying tool where you select or drag and drop multiple selections of files and folders onto the window and they will be copied or moved to the destination you select from the button or drop down. There are no other options to speak of and this tool probably functions best when you want to quickly send files from multiple locations to several different folders and then let it process them. 5. KillCopy 2.85 KillCopy is a copy tool that doesn’t look too great out of the box and the theme below called “Standart” was about the best built into the program. There are some downloadable themes from the website but they aren’t that great either. The program itself has several useful features such auto resuming after a system crash, parallel copy mode and several boosting and buffer settings to try and eek out that extra few MB/s. KillCopy can place copy and move entries onto the context menu and can also be setup to be the default copy handler replacing Explorer.2 points
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Children's ideas about what their gender means for their intellectual capacity are formed before they have even turned six. One idea that’s particularly pervasive and dangerous is that, only boys are good at maths and science. Po[CENSORED]r media only exacerbates the problem. Research has shown that girls hardly ever see adult women doing jobs that involve science, technology, engineering and maths on television programmes. Children’s programmes also rarely feature women doing anything scientific. These early stereotypes may lead to young girls developing a “fear” of these subjects throughout their schooling. This ultimately limits their career aspirations. They become afraid to enter into fields that are based on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Statistics compiled by UNESCO reveal that, globally, women make up less than 30% of the people working in STEM careers. The situation is worse in some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Also read: South Africa cannot compete globally without fixing its attitude to maths In South Africa, where I live and work, the problem is worsened by the country’s apartheid history. Today, black women are still struggling to access scientific careers at all. Those who do may fall victim to the “leaky pipeline” syndrome: they start degrees in science, but don’t continue to postgraduate level or go on to work in STEM fields. There are many reasons for this, including gender bias. It’s a complex problem. So, how can it be tackled? For starters, there should be a concerted effort to raise girls in a way that encourages them to ignore stereotypical norms. The country’s basic education system also needs massive improvement when it comes to teaching maths and science so that they become attractive subject choices for more pupils. But it will also require funding for bursaries, improved science communication and, linked to this, boosting scientists’ visibility so that young people – and especially girls – realise that they, too, could become scientists. Interventions with just this aim have been successful elsewhere in the world, and there’s no reason they can’t work in Africa too. History and the present There have been some positive steps towards getting more young people, particularly women, involved in studying STEM subjects. In recent years, South Africa has unveiled a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to encourage women to enrol for STEM subjects. For example, black women held the largest share of National Research Foundation (NRF) bursary support in 2016 overall. In the areas of engineering and computer sciences, NRF funding was increased more for women though men still get the lion’s share of funding in these important subjects. The funders are trying, but because of the leaky pipeline, among other factors, there aren’t always women to take up these opportunities. So while money is important, it’s not enough. Retention levels are low. Almost equal numbers of males to females are entering undergraduate science based degrees. At the postgraduate levels, though, the number of men is higher in many science based degrees, suggesting that their female peers have left the system. Also read: The school science curriculum also needs input from real, working scientists This isn’t a uniquely South African problem, but what drives it is different – the fact that apartheid, for the most part, kept black people out of universities. As elsewhere, patriarchy is a common global factor in holding girls (and especially black girls) back. In many cultures, women are expected to be subservient to “show respect” for men and the idea that a “woman’s place is in the kitchen” persists. Gender imbalances in STEM subjects and careers are a global phenomenon. UNESCO Science Report, Towards 2030 There’s another issue at play: young people in Africa very rarely know any scientists. They don’t see scientists at work, learn about local scientists in school or, often, understand what it is that scientists do. The role of scientists is still a mystery to many even though there have been a number of great initiatives, both global and regional, to improve science communication and engagement. To fix this problem more science communication and public engagement of society in science is needed. Possible solutions All media, whether it’s print, radio, television or social platforms, should be geared towards breaking stereotypes linked to science and technology. With clever campaigns, girls will realise that they can become scientists and work in technology and innovation environments – and thrive. The lack of role models is often a resounding theme for young women entering STEM careers. STEM-based content, whether it’s on TV fiction series or contained in non-fictional journalistic articles, is urgently needed. This can be developed to reach all South Africans, ideally through the SA Broadcasting Corporation’s radio and TV channels because these have incredible reach and represent all 11 of the country’s official languages. Also read: Pressured South African schools had no choice but to relax the maths pass mark Mentorship is another possible approach. Research has shown just how valuable it is for women in STEM to work with mentors. Doing so increases their access to role models, helps them to acquire and refine career development skills, allows them to set goals more effectively and provides a supportive network. All of this wards off women’s feelings of being isolated and under represented in their STEM fields. A word of caution, though: individuals shouldn’t feel forced into mentorship. It must be a matter of personal choice. If universities offer mandatory mentorship programmes, these might do more harm than good by suggesting that women need more help than men to succeed. Finally, society needs more messages that counter stereotypes. Schools, for instance, could teach pupils about the important contributions made by women scientists, especially those in Africa, in all fields. This would improve the visibility of women in STEM – a good way to start untangling age-old stereotypes so that Africa’s future women in science don’t remain forever hidden.1 point
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The Italian team Ferrari unveiled this Friday the car who will drive Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen will compete in the next Formula one world, the "SF70H". This is a racing car in which Ferrari puts all his hopes for the world of 2017 after the results of the past, in which ranked third in the constructors' championship and with Vettel and Raikkonen in the fourth and sixth positions respectively. The Hybrid "SF 70 H" will have a capacity of 1,600 cubic centimeters, an engine to 125,000 revolutions per minute and a weight of 728 kilos, including the pilot and the burden of water and fuel. Highlights a greater presence of the red color in its cover, in honeycomb and carbon fiber, in which white has been considerably reduced, only present in the rear spoiler, adorned with an Italian flag. Among the differences between your vehicle and the chassis of the past, the new presents the morro elongated, the front wing like an arrow, a colorful wing on the hood of the engine and aerodynamic appendages in front of the air intakes for the flanks. At the front has been installed a duct with aerodynamic functions while at the rear, to the back of the pilot, the arch of protection, which includes the engine air intake. The tires of the "SF 70 H", Pirelli, are wider than in the past, six more inches on each wheel and eight inches in the rear, to give the vehicle a better adherence and, therefore, greater speed in curve.1 point
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Biostar announced five new motherboards today that will compose the heart of the company’s AM4 motherboard lineup for upcoming Ryzen CPUs. Biostar’s AM4 flagship is the Biostar Racing X370GT7, which is designed to be the best board for overclocking in Biostar’s AM4 product lineup. The board comes equipped with two large heatsinks that are connected by a liquid-filled heatpipe that’s over the VRMs. It also supports two BIOS chips to guard against mistakes while overclocking that would otherwise leave the system inoperable. The Biostar Racing X370GT7 also features superior audio compared to the other boards announced today. Although all of these new boards feature EMI shielding and use quality audio capacitors, only the X370GT7 features a relatively high-end Realtek ALC1220 audio codec. To give its new AMD boards a touch of color and some extra customization options, Biostar equipped all of them with two 5050 LED headers. All of these boards are also compatible with the company’s Vivid LED DJ technology, which allows you to alter the color and lighting effects of LEDs integrated on the motherboard and attached to the aforementioned headers. Biostar also implemented USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports and M.2 Key M slots across the entire new product lineup. The company also used Realtek’s RTL8118AS on all of these boards, along with Realtek’s Dragon LAN software. This software functions similarly to Killer’s software suite and optimizes network traffic to give your games as much bandwidth as possible. When the Biostar Racing X370GT7 is released, it will be bundled with a Biostar M200 M.2 240GB SSD that will come pre-installed on the board. This bundle will also include a free copy of World of Tanks. There is no word on pricing for any of these motherboards at this time, however, nor do we have release date information.1 point
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These days, one of the most important tasks you perform on your computer is making sure your personal information and data is as secure as possible. You don’t have to go far around the web to hear horror stories of users not taking the necessary precautions and living to regret it. Whether it’s financial, personal or just important to you, keeping your electronic data safe is essential these days. eing secure is not just about protecting your files either. Keeping important files protected while on your PC is just one area which needs to be addressed. But backing up your precious files is something else that is often overlooked by some people because of the “it won’t happen to me” attitude some of them unfortunately have. Also, not to be forgotten about is making sure certain data that has actually been deleted is not recoverable. As many of you know, when a file is emptied from the recycle bin there is still a window of opportunity for it to be undeleted using something like Recuva or Wise Data Recovery. Here on Raymond’s we cover a lot of utilities in these areas because of their importance in keeping users safe from the pitfalls of storing personal or important data digitally. Usually though, when you mention file backup, file encryption and secure file erasing, you would be looking at two or three different utilities to get the job done. File Secure Free is a piece of software that aims to be an all in one security tool to let you perform all those tasks from the relative comfort of one simple to use interface. It actually boasts four different primary functions; simple file and folder backup to keep a secure copy of important data, encrypt or decrypt selected local files, secure file shredding, and also a function to lock your USB stick or external storage device with a password. File Secure Free is only a couple of Megs download and installs without pushing any adware on you. Portable application fans needn’t feel left out here because you can simply extract the installer with 7Zip and then delete the $COMMONFILES and $PLUGINSDIR folders to turn it into a portable program. The program certainly can’t be accused of being difficult to use or confusing, everything is there in a straight forward and simple to understand interface. The first option is the file backup option, and while it’s not designed to be some sort of Acronis TrueImage alternative, it can backup files and folders and encrypt them with a password. Select what you want to backup using the Add Files/Folders buttons, highlight what to backup and then click Backup. The output will be a .dfi file and will be encrypted using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. A dialog box will ask for a password to use for the encryption, a minimum of six characters will be required. Recovery is easy enough, Browse for the dfi file and Browse for the destination folder to put the files. Then click Recover. File Encryption works in a not too dissimilar way to backup. Select the file to encrypt (any type of file is accepted) or selecting the folder option will process all the files in the folder, not the folder itself. You will instantly be asked to choose a password and the items will show in the program window as ‘Encrypted‘. Each file will have the extension of .dfc and has to be decrypted again with File Secure Free. You probably don’t need me to tell you that as with file encryption, file shredding needs to be used with care. It’s pretty obvious that erase the wrong file and you won’t get it back again. The algorithms listed in the dropdown box are a bit vague in the number of passes they use. For instance, the ‘Gutman algorithm’ I believe will likely be the full 35 pass erase and Erase and write random data could be a single pass, enough for most mechanical HDD’s. The other three methods I suspect will be somewhere between 3 and 7 passes. Simply select your files or folder the same way as Backup and Encrypt. The last option is to lock an external USB stick, memory card or hard drive. Insert the drive, select it from the dropdown and click the Lock button. After entering the password the drive will need to be removed and reinserted. It will then show as ‘Unformatted’ or ‘Unreadable’ by the computer and will remain that way until you unlock it again. Although not loaded with options, File Secure Free is definitely a useful toolbox for performing four security related tasks from a single utility and can backup, erase and encrypt files with ease. Compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7 32bit and 64bit1 point
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In addition to brushing and flossing, a healthful diet (with natural or added fluoride) protects teeth from decay and keeps the gums healthy. Read on to discover how to keep your smile safe and strong. Tooth decay (cavities and dental caries) and gum disease are caused by colonies of bacteria that constantly coat the teeth with a sticky film called plaque. If plaque is not brushed away, these bacteria break down the sugars and starches in foods to produce acids that wear away the tooth enamel. The plaque also hardens into tartar, which can lead to gum inflammation, or gingivitis. A well-balanced diet provides the minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients essential for healthy teeth and gums. Fluoride, occurring naturally in foods and water, or added to the water supply, can be a powerful tool in fighting decay. It can reduce the rate of cavities by as much as 60 percent. Dental Health Guidelines Start right by eating right during pregnancy. Make sure that your children’s teeth get off to a good start by eating sensibly during pregnancy. Particularly important is calcium, which helps to form strong teeth and bones, and vitamin D, which the body needs to absorb calcium. You need lots of calcium for healthy teeth and gums. Low-fat dairy products, fortified soy and rice beverages, canned salmon or sardines (with bones), almonds, and dark green leafy vegetables are excellent sources of calcium. You need vitamin D to help absorb the calcium. Vitamin D is obtained from fluid milk, fortified soy and rice beverages, margarine, fatty fish such as salmon, and moderate exposure to the sun. Fluoride is key. To a large extent, cavities can be prevented by giving children fluoride in the first few years of life. Fluoride is supplied through fluoridated water (not all municipalities fluoridate their water supply, however), beverages made with fluoridated water, tea, and some fish, as well as many brands of toothpaste and some mouthwash. Fluoride supplements are available for children who don’t have access to fluoridated drinking water. It is wise to check to see if the water supply in your area is fluoridated. Excess consumption of fluoride can cause mottling of the teeth. Also needed are phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin A, and beta carotene. In addition to calcium and fluoride, minerals needed for the formation of tooth enamel include phosphorus (richly supplied in meat, fish, and eggs) and magnesium (found in whole grains, spinach, and bananas). Vitamin A also helps build strong bones and teeth. Good sources of beta carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, include orange-colored fruits and vegetables and the dark green leafy vegetables. Children are particularly vulnerable to tooth decay; parents should: 1. Provide a good diet throughout childhood 2. Brush children’s teeth until they’re mature enough to do a thorough job by themselves (usually by 6 or 7 years old) 3. Supervise twice-daily brushing and flossing thereafter 4. Never put babies or toddlers to bed accompanied by a bottle of milk (which contains the natural sugar lactose), juice, or other sweet drink 5. Never dip pacifiers in honey or syrup 1. The sugar factor. Sucrose, most familiar to us as granulated sugar, is the leading cause of tooth decay, but it is far from the only culprit. Although sugary foods, including cookies, candies, and sodas, are major offenders, starchy foods (such as breads and cereals) also play an important part in tooth decay. When starches mix with amylase, an enzyme in saliva, the result is an acid bath that erodes the enamel and makes teeth more susceptible to decay. If starchy foods linger in the mouth, the acid bath is prolonged, and the potential for damage is all the greater. Be careful when eating dried fruits. Dried fruits can have an adverse effect on teeth, because they are high in sugar and cling to the teeth. Even unsweetened fruit juices can contribute to tooth decay — they are acidic and contain relatively high levels of simple sugars. Fresh fruits, especially apples, are better choices. Fresh fruit, although both sweet and acidic, is much less likely to cause a problem, because chewing stimulates the saliva flow. Saliva decreases mouth acidity and washes away food particles. Apples, for example, have been called nature’s toothbrush because they stimulate the gums, increase saliva flow and reduce the build-up of cavity-causing bacteria. A chronically dry mouth also contributes to decay. Saliva flow slows during sleep; going to bed without brushing the teeth is especially harmful. Certain drugs, including those used for high blood pressure, also cut down saliva flow. 2. Gum disease. More teeth are lost through gum disease than through tooth decay. Gum disease is likely to strike anyone who neglects oral hygiene or eats a poor diet. Particularly at risk are people with alcoholism, malnutrition, or AIDS/HIV infection or who are being treated with steroid drugs or certain cancer chemotherapies. Regular brushing and flossing help to prevent puffy, sore, and inflamed gums. 3. Helpful foods. You can protect your teeth by concluding meals with foods that do not promote cavities and may even prevent them. For instance, aged cheeses help prevent cavities if consumed at the end of a meal. Chewing sugarless gum stimulates the flow of saliva, which decreases acid and flushes out food particles. Rinsing your mouth and brushing your teeth after eating are important strategies to prevent cavities. Here are some tips: Consume Plenty Of 1. Calcium-rich foods, such as low-fat milk, yogurt, and cheese. 2. Fresh fruits and vegetables for vitamins A and C, and for chewing in order to promote healthy gums. 3. Tea, which is a good source of fluoride. Limit 1. Dried fruits and other sticky foods that lodge between the teeth. Avoid 1. 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Billions of dollars are spent every year on antivirus software alone by enterprise because they know that computer virus can cause a lot of down time and making the company lose money. A computer virus can be programmed to do anything such as stealing sensitive information, locking up or slowing down the computer, data loss through corruption or deletion, and etc. With so many brands around and they all claim to be have the best detection and lightest in system resource, it is certainly not easy determining which is really the best. As for home users, most antivirus companies also offers a cheaper version that works on Windows operating system and requires an annual subscription. However, there is also a wealth of anti-virus software offered for free with the catch of disabling some of the extra defense system such as firewall, behavior blocking and also only allowing you to use it for personal home use only. After extensive research, we have come up with an up-to-date comprehensive list of free anti-virus programs for your convenience. 1. avast! Free Antivirus Recently avast! Free Antivirus has gained a lot of po[CENSORED]rity and has even taken the first spot in CNET’s Download.com overtaking AVG and Avira. After installing avast! Free Antivirus on our test computer, it didn’t even feel like running a crippled slim down version of an antivirus program because it has all the features from the paid version except SafeZone, Firewall and Anti-spam. The comparison chart displayed on their website says that the sandbox feature is unavailable on the free version but in fact it’s actually still there. Other than blocking virus and spyware, what we really liked about avast! Free Antivirus is it takes up very little memory usage and comes with extra features such as auto sandbox, boot-time scan, remote assistance, non-annoying browser protection plugins, 8 different real-time shields and cloud reputation service. 2. AVG AntiVirus Free The free version of AVG AntiVirus used to be the most po[CENSORED]r and well known free antivirus software and they are currently at the second spot after avast! Free Antivirus. AVG has an updated graphical user interface to match the Windows 8 modern UI. It helps protect your computer from viruses, malicious emails, web-based attacks, and identity theft. The anti-spam, firewall and performance fix functions are excluded from the free version. Surprisingly phone support is available to free users but only for certain countries such as US and UK. We were quite annoyed by the whole installation process because it takes 3 steps to get it completely installed and updated. Firstly we need to download a small 4MB web installer to download the full installation file. After installation, there’s another 60MB of definition file to download. They do have the full distributable setup file buried somewhere deep in their website. Pay attention during install as the AVG Security Toolbar will install by default. 3. Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ We were eager to test Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ because it used to be a very good anti-spyware program that in recent years has turned into a full fledged antivirus program and taking the third spot. The free version of Ad-Aware uses the Vipre engine but weirdly Ad-Aware Total Security uses G Data’s engine. The user interface looks a bit dated and not very user friendly at first as we had to look a bit harder to find the button to manually check for definition updates. Most of the advanced protection features that is taking most of the space on the GUI are unavailable in the free version. The installation process wasn’t that bad as the 6MB installer automatically downloads and installs the latest version of program and definition on your computer. There is a gaming mode where you can turn off all notification to prevent you from being kicked out while you are playing a full screen game. 4. Avira Free Antivirus Avira is well known for its superior detection where it tags everything that moves silently in the Windows operating system. After installing Avira, you should see that most of the features are grayed out and only the button to enable/disable the real time protection against virus, trojan, spyware and malware is accessible. Avira Free Antivirus used to rank number 1 but has dropped to 4 probably due to them embedding a toolbar and changing the web browser’s default search provider to ASK.com. Although the SearchFree toolbar by ASK.com can be opted out of during installation, it is with a cost of disabling the web protection feature. Moreover the daily notifier popups of recommending you to upgrade is a bit annoying as well. 5. ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall ZoneAlarm (now owned by Check Point), well known for their firewall applications has added an award winning antivirus engine by Kaspersky. If you didn’t know, Kaspersky has always been a shareware that is at the top spots for independent detection rate tests even if they do not take the first place. Thanks to ZoneAlarm, they made it possible for anyone to use the excellent Kaspersky engine from their ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall product. Most free antivirus software offers very minimal functionality other than the real time virus detection and protection but ZoneAlarm wins in this area by offering a really good antivirus engine, identity protection and a firewall if you need protection against hackers getting in to your computer. Both the user interface and settings are straight forward and not confusing. The game mode can be enabled from the Tools menu and you can even password protect the application to prevent against unauthorized access to the program.1 point
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If you’re a computer technician, the computer geek in your street or just a user who likes to play around with Windows, something you’ll face quite often is re-installing the operating system. Assuming installing Windows itself goes without any problems, the nightmares can really start when Windows doesn’t have generic device drivers for some of the hardware components. You need to identify the brand and model of the hardware and sometimes you even need to look for drivers using another computer when there aren’t any driver CD’s to hand. When using a slow Internet connection it can take ages to even find a driver for a specific hardware component never mind downloading it, which could be in the hundreds of Megabytes. A simple solution is having a program to make installing Windows drivers an automated process which can be done from the local computer without having to use to the internet if you can help it. If you already have just about all drivers that would be needed for almost any machine stored on a CD/DVD or USB flash drive, it would take the hassle out of you finding, downloading and then installing them yourself. Here are 3 solutions for installing device drivers in Windows from a local source. 1. DriverPack Solution DriverPack Solution is a po[CENSORED]r Russian program to automatically install drivers for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 for both 32-bit and 64-bit. It greatly simplifies the process of updating your system drivers or any other computer that needs new drivers installed. The program bases itself around the po[CENSORED]r DriverPacks set of compressed drivers which are packed with 7-Zip and contain thousands of different drivers for just about any piece of hardware. DriverPack Solution comes in two flavors, a Lite version and a DVD version. The Lite version is only around 10MB and doesn’t include any driverpacks, you select which packs you want from the program and they download via bittorrent. The DVD version comes as a 4GB+ pre-built ISO image with all the driverpacks included which you download also via BitTorrent and burn to a DVD disc. The major problem we encountered was the full DVD version was extremely poorly seeded, never having more than 1 during testing. The Lite version is much quicker because it uses the official DriverPacks torrents which have more seeds and will download far faster. The program will automatically scan for any drivers that need to be installed or can be updated. If missing drivers are found, simply click Update All, or if you want to see and control what’s installed, tick the Settings box, then tick Expert Mode. If you downloaded the Lite version the required driverpacks will need downloading. Do note that even if you choose to download no drivers at all, there’s still 700MB+ of updates, 3rd party programs and touchpad drivers which download by default and can’t be disabled. Once you have downloaded the driverpacks they will be stored in the default location of “C:\DriverPack Solution” and the contents of the folder can be copied to USB flash drive or burned to a CD/DVD. There is also a diagnostics option in the DriverPack Solution window which provides some basic information about your computer, a CPU temperature monitor, hard drive low space warning, a memory test and disk defrag. The system cleanup and antivirus options are really nothing more than affiliate links to other 3rd party software. A few other features on offer are a backup tab that can backup all the drivers in use to an executable file for restoring again later, and a Programs tab which offers to install a few Windows and 3rd party utilities. 2. DriverPacks Script File Although the DriverPacks driver archives are still the standard way to get hold of Windows drivers in compressed form, their DP Base utility is all but useless for this task now because it only supports creating a driver disc for XP, and then hasn’t been updated since 2010 to reflect newer updated packs. In their forums, a developer and forum member have created a batch script that works on Window XP, Vista and 7 (and 8 if you can find some DriverPacks) which will auto install the correct drivers from the DriverPack archives for your system. All you need is to download the packs you want and place them in the correct location. Here’s how to do it. 1. Download and extract the Stand Alone Driverpack utility (SAD 2.5) from the DriverPacks forum thread. The file is a 7-Zip archive so you need a compatible archiver to extract it. 2. Go to the DriverPacks website and download the packs you want. All DriverPacks are only available as torrent files these days, so you will need a torrent client to get them or use an online service such as BitLet. 3. Once you have all the needed DriverPacks, they need to be copied into the correct folders inside the SAD folder. XP DriverPacks – go in the NT5\x86 folder. Vista/7 32-bit DriverPacks – go in the NT6\x86 folder. Vista/7 64-bit DriverPacks – go in the NT6\x64 folder. There will be an example dummy 7z file in each folder. 4. After this, the contents of the whole SAD folder can be copied to hard drive, USB flash drive or burned onto a CD/DVD. When you want to install drivers simply run the DP_Install_Tool.cmd. You MUST run the tool as administrator. 5. The tool will ask you a few questions before extracting and installing the drivers. First it will ask if you want to keep the drivers after install. Yes is useful to keep the drivers for future reference. The next question will ask if you want to create a restore point. 6. Next you will be asked of you want the drivers not required by the system to be removed, press Y so it doesn’t extract non related driver archives. The tool then extracts the needed DriverPacks to C:\D\ and then installs the needed drivers. This may take a few minutes and you will be asked to restart the system afterwards. 3. DriverForge (XP only) DriverForge is a program that will automatically install all drivers from a specified location onto your Windows XP install. The tool actually works in quite a similar way to the DriverPacks script above and extracts the drivers from the DriverPacks archives and then installs them, but does it from the comfort of a graphical interface. It’s known not to be compatible with Windows Vista or 7. Here are the steps to do it. 1. Download DriverForge and place it in an empty folder. 2. Go to the DriverPacks page and download the packs you want. It can be anything in the Windows 2000/XP/2003 (x86) DriverPacks section but remember the files need to be downloaded using bittorrent so could take a while. Copy the downloaded .7z packs to the same folder where you put the DriverForge program. 3. You can then either burn the whole DriverForge folder to a CD or copy it to a USB flash drive. When you want to install drivers on a system, run the DriverForge tool. 4. Check “Restart when completed” as Windows usually requires a restart after installing drivers, and “Delete uncompressed drivers when completed” if you want to save some hard disk space. In the “Path to Compressed Driver Files Location” box, browse for the folder where DriverForge and the DriverPack files are located. 5. Click the Start button and it’ll automatically extract the drivers to install and then install them.1 point
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Most computer users like to make things easier for themselves because there can be a lot of pointing and clicking while using your PC. Although keyboard shortcuts are a big time saver, many people are not proficient enough using just a keyboard and prefer to use a mouse to perform tasks. One thing you can do is use gestures and they are more common than you might think. Phones, tablets and touch screen computers use gestures all the time. Actions like swiping from side to side, pinch zoom or even sliding down to scroll are all types of gestures. For a traditional keyboard and mouse things are a bit different. A mouse gesture is simply pressing a mouse button and dragging the mouse in a specified direction or pattern. Windows has no built in method to use an ordinary mouse gesture to do things like open programs or execute keyboard shortcuts. They are quite common in web browsers though, with Opera, Vivaldi, Cent Browser, Slimjet and others having the feature built in. Failing that, Firefox and Chrome extensions for mouse gesture are available. Having mouse gestures in a supported web browser is one thing but if you want to use them within Windows itself, Internet Explorer/Edge or your favorite software, a third party solution is needed. Here we show you 5 mouse gesture programs to make your computing tasks a bit easier. All were tested in Windows 7 and 10. While StrokesPlus is free and reasonably up to date, the developer is working on a new version. That will be shareware though and means development of the free version will likely be just the odd minor update. This program is feature rich but it comes at a cost, StrokesPlus is not very user friendly and requires scripting to get it working. There is ample online help available , which is needed as you will be referring to it a lot getting your gestures to work. There are around 35 already configured gestures which cover global actions in all programs, Windows Explorer and Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Adding a new program to the list is quite easy and you only have to click the Add App button, give it a name and drag the find window target icon over an open window of your program. Then click Apply. To add a gesture select the application and click Add Action, then you can choose from one of the known drag gestures or create your own. This part is quite powerful because it can also use the scroll wheel and rocker gestures. Adding an action is the difficult part and where Strokes Plus becomes problematic because it relies on small pieces of Lua Script and you have to know the right commands and syntax to get the action to work with the gesture. For instance, the hotkey for our screenshot software would be Ctrl+Shift+A, but in Lua Script the command would be “acSendKeys(“^+a”)”. It will take time and effort to get all the gestures you want. Strokes Plus also has an exclusion list, the option to use left/right/middle buttons as the trigger, custom hotkeys and a useful right click tray menu. It also has a portable version and amazingly only consumes around 300KB of RAM in the background. If you have patience and can persevere, Strokes Plus is a very good and powerful tool. 2. gMote The gMote software has not been updated since 2008 but it’s still a potentially useful tool. What might make it appealing is it’s a relatively good blend of being easy enough to use while still having enough features and functions for most users. Another plus is gMote comes as a portable program so no installation required. Adding a gesture to the program is quite simple, click on Create Gesture and draw a pattern in the window you wish to associate with that gesture. If you are not happy with it press Record again. Click the new gesture on the left and use the default action drop down to select what you want the gesture to do. The options are do nothing, open a program, open a folder, open a website, use a key combination or one of the predefined options for browser, media player or Windows (Explorer). 3. High Sign High Sign is open source and a bit old dating from 2009. The author of Strokes Plus is a former developer and pays credit to High Sign for making his program possible. It’s one of the easiest and cleanest mouse gesture programs to use but it lacks more advanced features. For instance, there is no exclusion list and the option to use another mouse button other than right was never finished. After install, High Sign starts in training mode which records any gesture you perform with the right mouse button held down. Double click the tray icon to turn training mode off or on. If you’re happy with the gesture, click Next and decide whether to apply it to all applications, a currently running application or one of four that are already defined. The number of available actions are slightly limited but should be adequate for many users. From the drop down you can select opening the default browser, send a hotkey combination, send keystrokes, run a command or program or mani[CENSORED]te an open window. The send keystrokes option is useful because you can send blocks of text to Word, Notepad or even online forms. Right clicking the tray icon allows you to view all entered gestures or view and edit the actions that have been applied to the gestures. By default the program comes with around 30 preset gestures for Explorer, Firefox, Internet Explorer and a general set for all applications. Go to Preferences to start High Sign in Gesture mode once you have finished training. The program uses about 15-20MB of memory while in use. Although High Sign works in Windows 10 it is a little inconsistent, working fine on some occasions and not others. 4. Just Gestures The author of Just Gestures released what he called probably the last version of the program in 2015, version 1.5. It was also made open source on Github so anyone else can continue the project if they want. Just Gestures has a reasonable combination of features and usability including whitelisting, blacklisting and an auto enable mode. A post install a wizard will popup asking which gestures to enable and which mouse button to hold down. Curve Gesture is the normal hold down and drag method, Double Button Combination is commonly known as rocker gestures while Wheel Button Combination can perform tasks by using the scroll wheel. 13 global gestures are already configured and another 6 are for the system’s default web browser. To create a gesture click the far left button in the toolbar, choose a gesture type from the category and whether the gesture will be global or applied to specific application. Gesture types are split into categories of window options, Windows shell, audio volume, media, internet, send keystrokes and wheel button actions. When using custom keystrokes make sure to use modifier key down first, then the shortcut key, then modifier key up. To finalize creating the gesture you need to supply the mouse drag movement. Hold the left mouse button and draw the shape in the box, and optionally give the curve a name at the bottom. Finally give the gesture itself a name and it will be created ready to use. Note that if you create two actions for the same gesture you may be presented with a small context menu asking which action to use. Just Gestures used around 20MB in the background. In Windows 10 use the 32-bit version even if you are using Windows 10 64-bit, or the gestures won’t work. 5. StrokeIt StrokeIt is another tool that unfortunately has not been updated recently, the last release was in 2010. What makes this program useful is it’s extremely light on system resources so is ideal for old or low power computers. The downside is the lack of help or documentation which it clearly needs because StrokeIt isn’t novice friendly. Although not perfect, we did find an old StrokeIt Wiki page at the Internet Archive which can help with how the built in gestures work. StrokeIt gives you a head start in terms of gestures because around 80 are preconfigured already. These include mIRC/AIM, Chrome, IE, Firefox, WMP, Photoshop and Winamp. Others like Outlook Express and Safari are probably of no use anymore. Some applications require updating though, for instance, Chrome needs a new application identifier. Click Add and drag the finder onto the Chrome window. This will add the Chrome_WidgetWin_1 class and make the gestures work on Chrome. Creating gestures is possibly a three step process. Optionally right click > New application to create a new program to use gestures in, then add an identifier dragging the finder tool onto the program’s window. Secondly, right click on the app > New Action and pick a gesture from the drop down list or create your own by dragging an unknown gesture. Click Add Gesture to add it to the action. Lastly right click on the new action > New Command. There’s a ton of commands to choose from, including internet options, monitor options, mani[CENSORED]ting windows, sending hotkeys or keystrokes, opening programs, an on screen display, even sounds or simple message boxes. Note that you can use the right, left or middle button to trigger the gestures, change it from the Prefs window. StrokeIt has minuscule memory usage of around 300KB while sitting in the tray.1 point
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Security experts consider keylogging as the most dangerous threat because it allows cyber criminals to capture everything you type on your keyboard. This includes passwords so that they can gain access to your online accounts such as your email, banking, forums, websites and etc to steal valuable information. If keystroke logging is not damaging enough, your webcam, screen, clipboard and microphone can also be secretly captured and logged without your knowledge. There are a couple of different methods to protect yourself against keyloggers. First you can use an on-screen virtual keyboard where your mouse will be used to select the keys when entering your password instead of typing it from the physical keyboard that is logged. A good antivirus can also recognize some of the known and unknown keyloggers through virus definition or heuristic analysis. Finally, a dedicated anti keylogging tool that constantly monitors the behavior of running applications and notifies you if it detects any potential keylogging activity. In this article we’ll be putting 3 anti keylogging programs named Zemana AntiLogger, SpyShelter Premium and DataGuard AntiKeylogger to the test with real keylogging tools that are po[CENSORED]r and widely being used to determine the effectiveness of each program. 1. Zemana AntiLogger Zemana AntiLogger is a program we’ve mentioned a lot over the years because it’s been one of the leading tools to block several different types of hack methods. The shareware version of AntiLogger costs $29.95+taxes although they sometimes have giveaways for a free 1 year license, worth keeping an eye out for. Zemana also claims to be fully compatible with nearly every antivirus/security package available, there is a compatibility chart on their website so you can check beforehand. Zemana AntiLogger Apart from the basic keystroke protect which is what the free version of Zemana features, the full version also offers Anti-SSL logging protection against banking trojans and SSL sniffers, a screen capture prevention module to block image grabs of your desktop activity, protection against copying Clipboard data, and a module to stop hijacking of connected webcams and microphones. The System Defense feature blocks against several types of attack that try to inject DLL code, load low level kernel drivers, or modify the system registry/memory. Zemana AntiLogger is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (32-bit and 64-bit). Note: The “Free” version of Zemana AntiLogger only encrypt keystrokes and does not notify nor block any detected keylogging activity. It’s a very different method to protecting against keyloggers and you can read more about the keystroke encryption test that we’ve done. 2. SpyShelter Premium While SpyShelter also offers a cut down free personal version of it’s Stop-Logger application, one of the crucial advantages the premium version offers is full support for 64-bit systems, the free version is 32-bit only. Note the keystroke encryption driver for SpyShelter does not work on Windows XP systems. SpyShelter Premium is available in single or 5 user packs starting from €20 for a years protection for 1 user. Windows XP up to Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) is supported. SpyShelter Premium SpyShelter Premium has a number of defense modules including kernel mode keylogger protection with keystroke encryption, webcam and VOIP audio hacking protection, clipboard data hacking prevention, an anti-screen capture module, and also a System Defense guard that acts as a Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) to protect critical areas from code injection such as memory and the registry. An Internet Security module blocks trojans and hack attempts through SSL, HTTPS, POP, SMTP and FTP. Suspicious files can be sent to the Virus Total online scanner with a click of the mouse. 3. DataGuard AntiKeylogger DataGuard AntiKeylogger is at a disadvantage from the outset because none of its product line has been updated for a few years, that also includes their more user friendly NextGen AntiKeylogger products. As a consequence, DataGuard AntiKeylogger does not work on Windows 8 and supports Windows 2000 SP4 to Windows 7 32-bit versions only. Prices range from the Free basic version up to the Ultimate version we’re looking at here, priced at $59. DataGuard AntiKeylogger Ultimate DataGuard AntiKeylogger Ultimate offers protection against several different methods of keylogging, Windows clipboard monitoring, protection against capturing screenshots, and text blocking to prevent capturing text from opened documents and windows. Keyboard filters, DirectX based and kernel level keyloggers can also be blocked. The kernel level message filters will only work on Windows 2000 and XP.1 point
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Drivers are very critical in Windows because a badly coded driver will make the Windows unstable and causing crashes with blue screen of death. Most of the time a driver file has a .sys extension. When someone uses the word “low-level”, “kernel” or “ring0” in Windows, it also actually means driver. For example, a low-level keylogger such as Elite Keylogger by Widestep uses a signed driver to capture the keystrokes on your keyboard. Royal Hack, a famous cheating tool for CounterStrike uses ring0 driver to avoid Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) detection. Rootkits is a type of malware that uses driver to hide its existence and preventing it from easily being detected. A lot of security software such as antivirus, Zemana Anti-Logger, KeyScrambler Premium are also using drivers. As you can see, drivers are very powerful and fortunately it is not something that any programmer can code. There are quite a few really powerful tools such as GMER that can be used to check for rootkits but they can be a bit too confusing for normal or inexperienced computer users. One tool that I can suggest you to try out is DriverView created Nir Sopher who is famous for releasing useful tools that are free and portable. Basically DriverView is a very small tool at only 33KB in size that lists all the drivers currently loaded in your Windows operating system. It shows a lot of useful information about the drivers such as the file name, company, product name, description, version, created and modified date, path, file type, service and display name. Most of the loaded drivers are by Microsoft and generally they are stable and safe. You can easily shorten the list by clicking on the View from the menubar and select Hide Microsoft Drivers where only third party drivers will be displayed. Now you can investigate the non-Microsoft drivers to see if you have any possible malicious drivers by searching for the file name in Google and uploading it to VirusTotal to have it scanned with 42 different antiviruses. Do take note that DriverView don’t have the ability to remove or delete the driver. You should notice that there are 3 unknown drivers which are dump_dumpata.sys, dump_dumpfve.sys and dump_msahci.sys listed in DriverView on Windows 7. If you right click on any of the 3 drivers from DriverView and select File Properties, you will get the error popup saying “Windows cannot find C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\dump_msahci.sys. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again“. This 3 files are not rootkits or anything dangerous but are related to creating memory dumps when Windows 7 crashes. You can easily disable the 3 unknown dump_dumpata.sys, dump_dumpfve.sys and dump_msahci.sys drivers from being loaded by going to Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > click the Settings button for Startup and Recovery > click on the drop down menu from the Write debugging information and select (none). Click OK to close all the Windows, restart your computer and the 3 drivers will no longer appear in DriverView. As useful as DriverView is, after further testing I discovered that DriverView reads only the VERSIONINFO resource which can be found in the Details tab when you right click on the a file and select Properties. It lacks of the capability to read the name of signer for the Digital Signature. One can easily edit a malicious rootkit driver file properties using a resource editor or a crypter and DriverView will think that it belongs to Microsoft and even possibly hiding it from being displayed when the “Hide Microsoft Drivers” option is enabled. However, getting a digital code signing certificate is not easy. The animated screenshot below is a proof that DriverView reads the VERSIONINFO but not the digital signature. Please refer back to the first screenshot to see the information displayed by DriverView for the RDPCDD2k.sys file. DriverView is free, portable and works on Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2003/2008, both 32-bit and 64-bit.1 point
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It is possible to control computers in another remote location even if it is located at the opposite side of the world by using a PC that is equipped with the software and an Internet connection. Fortunately the software to access a remote computer has been greatly simplified over the years solving many common problems such setting up dynamic DNS service to automatically point to your changing IP address, port forwarding, firewall configuration and etc. Remote access software can be installed for long term usage which administrators do to access their servers from home or another location to perform maintenance or troubleshooting. However, if you need to temporarily and quickly access your friend or relative’s computer to help configure a software or fix a minor problem, it doesn’t make sense to go through all the trouble in installing and configuring a full blown remote access software. A much easier way around this is to use the dedicated remote access software applications that are made to quickly and easily provide short term online support. Here are our top 8 picks that are free to use. 4. avast! Remote Assistance Since avast! version 7, a new feature called “Remote Assistance” has been included in their software which means this feature is only exclusively available to users who have avast! antivirus or Internet Security programs installed. To access this feature from avast! 8, go to the maintenance tab and click on Remote Assistance found on the menu at the left hand side. There are 2 huge buttons either to allow remote control or control remote computer. Clicking the Allow Remote Control button will generate an 8 character code which is to be given to the controller. The controller will then click on the Control Remote Computer button, enter the code to the textbox and click Connect. At the bottom of the viewer you will find 3 buttons which is to send the Ctrl+Alt+Del combination key, launch file transfer window and view in full screen. Although not mentioned anywhere, we think that avast! Remote Assistance is using TightVNC because the File Transfer window looks exactly the same. After testing avast! Remote Assistance , we found that the transfer and refresh rate is quite slow. 3. Chrome Remote Desktop Chrome Remote Desktop by Google is a free app that allows remote control right from the Chrome web browser or Chromebook. Although it is useful, there are some requirements such as both users required to have the Chrome browser installed, signed in to their Google account to download and install the 22.6MB app, and finally grant the Remote Desktop app permission to know who you are on Google which some users who are concerned about their privacy may not be comfortable with. Once Chrome Remote Desktop is installed, the usage is pretty easy. The computer that will be remotely controlled will need to click on the red colored Share button to obtain the 12 digit access code and give it to the person who will be controlling the computer. As for the controller, click on the Access button and enter the code followed by clicking Connect. Chrome Remote Desktop Connected Chrome Remote Desktop is only capable of controlling the computer remotely but without any fancy features such as file transfer, VOIP and etc. 2. CrossLoop CrossLoop’s software works just about the same as the rest on this page but one thing that made it stand out is the marketplace where one can provide and receive computer remote online support for a fee using CrossLoop. To connect, both users who want to access and share will have to download and install CrossLoop. The computer that will be controlled will have to go to the Share tab to get the 12 digit code from the Access Code textbox and give it to the controller. CrossLoop Share The controller will then enter the given Access Code in the Access tab and click connect. Once the connection has been initiated, the shared computer will also need to manually approve the remote access before the connection is established. CrossLoop uses TightVNC Server 2.0.2.0 to share and UltraVNC Viewer 1.0.8.2 to access. CrossLoop File Transfer CrossLoop is placed at the 6th spot because it requires installation when most people doesn’t like to install additional software that is only being used temporarily. The 2 minutes share timeout is sometimes not enough to get connected especially for someone who doesn’t know anything about the computer. During testing we also experienced intermittent connectivity problems to their relay servers. File manager is also not available on the free version. 1. Firnass Although Firnass is still in Alpha/Beta status, we will still include it on our top 5 tools to provide remote assistance because it is very small at only 668KB in size, free, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux because of Java, uses their own screen sharing protocols unlike most that uses VNC or RDP, chat and VOIP support, file transfer, run a remote command, session recording and many more to come on future version. The steps to connect is slightly different from the rest. Firstly a connection will have to be made from either party by providing the 6 digit ID and clicking the Connect button. Firnass A new window will open on both parties upon successful connection. The computer that wants to be controlled with have to click on the play button which will only appear upon moving the mouse cursor to the small black screen. Firnass Session Once the screen is shared, the viewer will have remote access to the computer. 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