If you ever find yourself downloading potentially harmful files, or if you just want an extra layer of protection against suspicious downloads, you owe it to yourself to check out Link Checker, a free browser add-on by Dr.Web. Dr.Web Link Checker is a browser extension that allows you to scan files before you download by integrating itself into the right-click menu. (more…)

If you’ve got two or three browsers installed in your computer for whatever reason, chances are only your primary browser has got all your bookmarks. You might be feeling out of place when you work on other browsers because your bookmarks may be missing. (more…)

Sometimes you might be worried or concerned that you accidentally go to poisoned web sites or those websites hosting malicious codes. If this happens, you might innocently click on some links or execute some programs which might cause damage to your computer. Malicious code is quite a tricky threat which might not be efficiently detected by some conventional antivirus applications. If you’re looking for an extra layer of protection against them, free AVG LinkScanner is a browser plugin which allows you to check and filter those suspicious sites before entering them via external links. (more…)

Microsoft made the release candidate of Internet Explorer 8, the next version of its popular web browser, available for download. This is the last stage for the browser before it’s finalized, and few significant changes have been made since its last release.

Release Candidate is the last test the browser before the final release version. If the developers and the browser beta testers won’t find serious errors, this will be the final version. A public release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 was released in January 26, 2009. (more…)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to my last post "10 Useful Tips". Here I have listed 20 useful tips that work on Windows XP which may be helpful to you. (more…)