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Am I correct that WOT, IE8's SmartScreen, and OpenDNS checks the URLs of websites online against their own databases, while SpywareBlaster checks URLs against IE’s resident list of Restricted Sites? And that in addition, SpywareBlaster also changes Windows and browser settings to block bad sites?

IE8’s Protected Mode can run at low integrity, under which applications can't be launched without the user's permission. Am I right that there’s no point in enabling this, since PC Tools Firewall is already prompting me as to whether I want to allow applications to be launched? Or does IE8’s Protected Mode also offer other protection as well?

Can anybody tell me where to find comparative software reviews that would indicate the most secure OS, antivirus, antispyware / antimalware, firewall, clean-up utility, browser, malicious website warning, etc.?

I've repeatedly tried to change my logon screen saver timeout time via Start | Run regedt32 | HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaveTimeOut but although it faithfully stores the number of seconds I want, it keeps actually timing out after 10 minutes no matter what. It wouldn't matter otherwise, but having more than one user...

Trying to open"Remote desktop connection", windows says"choose program you want to use to open this file". earlier it used to work, something happened, not sure something te deleted form my Windows machine. any idea?

I have 2 computers on a linksys router. One is a Dell Insperon 1525 laptop running Win Home Vista Premium and the other is an Acer Aspire REVO R1600 nettop running Win XP Home. I have setup both my comps so that they both have the same workgroup name. I can see each off my computers in the "View Worgroup Computers" section of my network. The...

Hello charitable, I have a repetitive task that requires the user to go to a command prompt, navigate to a folder (usually deep in the system), and perform a syntax scan on a file (with an in-house program), and this occurs thousands of times a year across a few users. In order to simplify this task, I have gone into the registry and created a...

Recently my browser started to repeatedly lose the ability to support multiple tabs. In Internet Explorer 8, I click on the drop-down menu arrow on the right side of the Command Bar's Home button, select Add or Change Home Page from that drop-down menu, and then select "Use the current tab set as your home page" in the Add or Change Home Page...

We currently run D2D2T for backups, but we are reaching our capacity for both disc space as well as space in our tape auto loader. I was originally looking to replacing out current auto loader (AIT) with a newer auto loader (LTO3/LTO4) for added capacity as well as the speed increase. The issue here is that we use BE 9.1, and we do not have a...

can you guys get me all the special characters? even the chinese?

Export Speech Recognition Data on Windows 7 That question relates on the adaptation the engine has made (correction using voice which modify the original audio language model), the dictionnary (new words and their recorded adaptation). The objective then is to have a format exported that can be archived as backup and as a restore source to...

Can anybody recommend an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program that can do what I need it to do? Here's the situation: Over a period of time, I figured out the chords to about 280 songs. Yeah, I know you can get the chord progressions to songs online, but they tend to be very inaccurate. I worked on each song until I was positive it was...

How do you create a Windows user account with system-level priveleges (above administrator-level), and why would you want to? I'm running Windows XP Pro.

I am getting following message while trying to install active directory. "the wizard has detected there are no valid ip addresses assigned to any of the network adapters for this computer" Do I need to be connected to internet to install active directory ? I dont have internet connection for this computer. When I use "ipconfig" command on...

Hi, I need a batch file to delete all PDF files in a folder and it's subfolders. I will be giving the folder path and number of old days to delete as static values.. Please it's very urgent. Also I have a VBScript file which works fine for the same. Option Explicit Dim FSO, WshShell, Then_Date, WSHShellENV, TempFolder, Recycled '...

Hi can someone please help me. i have an assignment due and i need to use DOS on windows xp and-take a screen capture of ( i can do a screen capture its the following that is the problem) directory listing sorted by descending date modified (oldest at the top) of the progrom files directory. Any help available would be greatly appreciated

I was using hotmail using web right now, if I install Mozilla thunderbird e-mail client, can I download hotmail mails into this?. this way I can organize much better. thanks

I'm trying to print from java (as in for paypal) and it works when I do domestic shipping, but not when I do international shipping. The format of the labels are different, but for some reason, for international, it goes in queue for the printer and never starts..

I used the Configuration and Analysis Tool to configure my Windows 2000 File system. Specifically I set the ACLs for the AppEvent.evt, SecEvent.evt, and SysEvent.evt in c:\winnt\config to: Administrators - Read & Execute Aduitors - Full control System - Full Control The security gets configured but if you use the Event Viewer to clear any...

Hi All, Could please any one conform me about my understanding about KMS server. KMS server is some set of server, it will periodically activate and deactivate the license of network connected machine. Sridhar.D

I have a COMBOBOX of style CBS_DROPDOWN .. i.e. the edit area is supposed to be editable. What I've noticed is that I can control the text shown in the edit area when I first create the COMBOBOX with SetWindowText (hwnd, "Hello There"). However, after the user has selected an item from the drop down list, I can no longer do SetWindowText()...

first of all, i wanna inform all that i m very poor with networking concept. So, a bit of help from experts would be great. Well, i have Windows Server 2003 configured with Active Directory. Till now my client machine were in workgroup. Now i feel i need to switch to domain instead so that i have more control over the network. In this case, i...

Hey everyone, We're looking to purchase some licenses (between 5 and 30) of Office 2007 Pro Plus for our users in the office here. We have the option to purchase it with Software Assurance for $705/seat but I'm not sure if it is worth it. Without SA it looks like it will be about $420/seat (I'm waiting on this quote). We're running...

I accidently uninstalled office services as i didn't relise that sharepoint had installed it to sotre it's content in i couldn't get sharepoint to just reinstall the office services so i had to uninstall and reinstall sharepoint. My question is is there away to get documents out of the old database which i belive i managed to make a copy off...

I have a Dell running Vista and Explorer doesn't show up at boot and when i press ctl-alt-del the task manager doesn't show up either so I'm not sure how to fix the problem...? Help please..