Protect Your PC From USB Threats

Not every body can keep their PC's clean all the time, some have a certain passion for attracting viruses. The major culprit here is the USB drives. The innocent looking USB (armed with viruses obviously) can take down most PC's with ease and can also steal all your private data. But with a few precautions you can protect your system from 99% of all USB attacks.

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Free Opener can open any file for you

It is often annoying to download a new application simply to open an unknown file someone sent you. It is more annoying when the application you download requires you to purchase it inorder to use. In other cases the application you have to download will be enormous in size. Think of the situation where you downloaded a file of a few Kb in size and in order to open it you have download an application which has a file size in the MB range.

Free Opener is a nifty little application that can save you precious time and money. This is a free program that allows users to view, edit and print many different types of files without having to download specialty software. Currently, the software supports over 80 different file formats including Microsoft® Office Files (.doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .msg, .vcf), Adobe® Files (.swf, .flv, .psd, .pdf) and many others.

The most interesting part of Free Opener is that it can open torrent (.torrent) files also.

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Lock Your Windows PC With A Transparent Lock

You can always lock your Windows PC, without turning it off, by using the keyboard shortcut Win Key + L. But if you have programs running which you want others to see you can use a tiny application called ClearLock. This application unlike the regular Lock function in the operating system aims at disabling input to your computer while acting as a transparent layer.

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Don't Read EULA, Just EULAlze it

End User License Agreement or the infamous EULA gets thrown at our face every time we try to install a software. Many of us don't even bother reading the long licence agreement and simply clicks "I Agree" as soon as we see it. But by doing this we also 'Agree' to open our computer to all kinds of applications that the software manufacturer wishes to forward. It can, in some cases, be third party applications to monitor our online or offline activities or even malwares and ad-wares.

So what can we do to avoid this? eh. Read the EULA ofcourse. Or let someone or something read it for you.

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