There are times when you want certain information on your computer protected from prying eyes. One way to protect your information is to encrypt your home directory. However, that does not protect your information when you are logged on to your computer. I’ve shown in the past how you can use Cryptkeeper to create an …
Continue reading Create And Manage Encrypted Folders in Linux With encfsHopefully by now you understand the need to have a strong password for your computer login. Perhaps you selected your password when you first installed GNU/Linux and you’ve never changed it. Maybe you don’t even know how to change it. Today I’ll show you how to change your password from the command line.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Change Your Passwordavast! 5.0 is a free antivirus program available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. It is a fairly full featured virus scanner similar to AVG free. Some of its key features are: Silent/Gaming Mode Anti-rootkit protection Automatic updates Boot time scanning (32 bit only) Scheduled scanning Wake up for scan (wakes up Windows …
Continue reading avast! 5.0 Free Antivirus for WindowsToday I was trying to debug why my Feedburner feed would not display properly in Google’s Chrome browser. What I discovered was that there was some code creating errors in my site’s original RSS feed. After a bit of searching on the offending code, I ran across a post on my hosting provider’s support forum.
Continue reading TuxTweaks Got HackedToday, Microsoft released a new, free (free as in Free Beer) antivirus program called Microsoft Security Essentials. This new program is available for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit operating systems.
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