Safe Guard For Your PC From Infected USB Pen Drive Virus Infections

Data transfer from one PC to another has become very common nowadays. Not only for purposes, rather various multimedia clips, songs, personal data, files and other utilities are also shared among friends or from one personal computer to another. One of the major source through which this data is transferred is through USB drives. There are number requirements. But, along with the data transfer you might have noticed that USB drives also becomes a source for virus to get transferred from one PC to another and in this way corrupts files in both the PC. Autorun viruses are some of the special threats which can come in the PC through the use of infected USB drives. So, in order to prevent your PC and your USB drives from such kind of viruses and malwares, one may use the utility which we are discussing today. official of USB drives available in the market nowadays, which a user can purchase and use on the basis of needs and

USB Disk Security is basically a small, easy to use, and a freeware tool which has been specially designed for Windows and it allows the user to protect the PC and USB drive against any kind of malicious programs which may be trying to attack either directly or through USB drive in one form or the other. This tool confirms and provides almost 100% protection against any kind of threats which may enter into your computer via USB drive. Not only this, rather this small and smart app provides you with a graphical interface which you may use to scan your USB drives and check if there are any malwares and viruses present in your USB drive. So, we can say that it may prove to be very beneficial for you as it monitors in real time and detects all the threats and malware.

If you want to try it out or want another step of security for your PC, then you may download it from the link given below and may use the app. You may observe that it runs from the system tray and without disturbing any of your on-going programs and running tools, it simply notifies you of threats, if there are any present in the USB drive. Along with the detection, it also provides you with the set of tools for repairing your PC and this includes other small utilities
like disk clean up, repairing registry, start up items and safe mode. 

So, overall we can say that it is really a useful utility in terms of providing an extra layer of security for your system.

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Get Alert, When A USB Is Plugged In While Shutting Down Your Computer

Sometimes while using the USB drive on your computer or laptop you may forget to remove it before you shutdown your computer.This can lead to a number of issues with your USB drive. You may also forget your USB drive with all your important data at any public place if you are using a computer at a public place. Today I have got an application for you named USB Guard which will notify you before shutting down your system and your USB drive or any external drive is still plugged in.

The application is very small and simple and does an important task to inform you about the USB drive before shutting down the system.The application doesn’t require any installation which means that you can even run it on the public computer. If you will shut down the computer and you get the notification about the USB drive that is plugged in the computer you can remove the USB drive form the computer using Safety Remove hardware option present in the system tray. After removing the USB drive successfully from the system you can use the power options present in the popup window to take the required action with the computer. The software will always be present in the system tray to monitor your USB drives. The software is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The USB Guard is an application which after being installed will sit in the system tray. The application will open the above pop up menu on right clicking the USB Guard icon in the system tray. The pop up menu will have options like Monitor the presence of these drives, Autostart with Windows, Check for updates, Check for updates at startup, Donate, Facebook Page, About and Exit. Out of all these options Autostart with Windows and Check for updates at startup are checked by default. The Monitor the presence of these drives option has options like USB Flash Drives, F: [Flash Drive], Hard Drives(i.e External). Autostart with windows option is checked by default due to which the software will launch every time you will start you system automatically. Check for updates options will check for any updates available for the software. Check for updates at startup option will be used in case you want to update your software to automatically check for updates as your system starts .

 The above window will open as the notification window when you will try to shut down your computer with your USB drive still plugged to it. The window has options like Shutdown, Standby, Hibernate and Restart..

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Save A Webpage AS PDF File On Your Computer For Offline Reading

Many times when we are browsing the internet for some information regarding a topic that we have to sometimes store that information and we may have problems in storing the information by saving the individual webpages. There are a lot of tutorial on various topics available on the internet in the form of webpages and you would like to save these tutorials on your computer or laptop for future references. But you only have the option to save the individual webpages in the form of a HTML page. You must be wondering that it would have been much better if you would be able to convert your webpages into PDF files. But now you can stop wondering and start doing as I have got an application named Joliprint for you.

This application will not only allow you to convert the webpages into PDF files but it will also allow you to print those files The application is available only for Mozilla’s Firefox browser as an Add-on. With the help of this Firefox Add-on you will be able to easily save and print all the articles that you want online. The Add-on will convert the full webpages into a very good looking PDF file which will include all the things which the webpage has like images, text, author, category, no ads, no navigation menu and only with a single click.

After you will install the Add-On in your Firefox you will see a small icon on the right side of the toolbar which will look like a printer. When you will click on this icon it will generate an article of the webpage that you have selected. You can pick the articles from any source like webpages, Google Reader, ReadItLater or InstaPaper list and click on the Ad-on button. After the PDF will get generated you will get the option to save it in Google Docs.

The best feature about this Add-on is that it will remove all the ads from the webpages and convert them into PDF file.These are all the option that you will get once you will click on the Add-on icon. The options which you will get are Download, Save in Google Docs, Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Email and Copy the link. The Download option will allow you to download the webpage in the form of PDF file. The Save in Google Docs will save the PDF files directly into the Google Docs. Then you have options to share the PDF on Facebook as well as Twitter. You can also email the PDF using the Email option. Copy the link option allows you to keep the link handy and read or download the PDF whenever you want.
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How to Block Unwanted Emails

Do you want to  block emails that reach your inbox?Here are the step-by-step instructions to do this....

For Gmail 

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Settings

3. Under Settings, click on Filters

4. You’ll now see an option “Create a new filter“, click on it

5. Now in the From field enter the email address from which you do not want to receive the emails

For ex. you may enter john@gmail .com in the From field to block all incoming emails from this address. However if you want to block the whole domain then use the following syntax: *@xyz.com. Now all the incoming emails from the domain xyz.com will be blocked.

6. Click on Next Step, select the action you’d like to take on the blocked emails. You may select the option Delete it so that the blocked email is moved to trash. To unblock the email, all you need to do is just delete the filter that you’ve created.

For Yahoo 

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Options

3. A drop down menu appears, now click on More options

4. In the left panel select the option Filters and click on create or edit filters

5. Now click on Add

6. In the next screen, give a name to your filter and in the From header field enter the email address that you want to block.

Fox ex. john@gmail.com or if you want to block an entire domain then just enter @xyz.com. Dont enter *@xyz.com. Select the option Move the message to: Trash and click on Save Changes.

For Hotmail 

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Options

3. A drop down menu appears, now click on More options

4. Click on Safe and blocked senders link under Junk e-mail

5. Now click on Blocked senders

6. Type in the email address that you want to block under blocked e-mail address or domain field.

For ex. Enter john@yahoo.com to block the individual email address or just enter xyz.com to block the entire domain.

Full Screen Mode for Turbo c on Windows 7

Step 1: Open TC++ (normally C:\TC\BIN\TC.EXE). In the startup it will show a dialogue box that it doesn’t support full screen mode as seen in the picture below. Just select ignore option. Then it will open the small screen mode.

Step 2: Go to the top left of the window and click. It will show a menu as shown in the figure. Then select properties from the menu.

Step 3: Now it will show the properties window, in which you select the Font tab. There you can see two font options as Raster and Lucida Console. The default will be Raster. You select Lucida Console and select the size from the size list as 28.

Step 4: After selecting the fonts, now you have to select the layout tab where you can see screen buffer size, window size, and window position options. First unselect the “Let system position window” option from window position options. Now make the following changes:

    * <!–[if !supportLists]–> <!–[endif]–>Screen Buffer Size: Width: 82 Height: 28

    * <!–[if !supportLists]–> <!–[endif]–>Window Size: Width: 80 Height: 26

    * <!–[if !supportLists]–><!–[endif]–>Window Position: Left: -4 Top: -4.

After making the changes select OK.

Now you will see a larger window and very crisp font size in which you can work perfectly fine. This technique actually doesn’t provide full screen in windows 7, but you will find it much better.

NB: The given sizes will work fine for 1280 by 800 screens, but there is no compulsion that you have to use them as specified. You can always use your own options according to your need.