One piece of software that recently caught my attention is an Internet monitoring software. The program is called GFI WebMonitor and it is a complete web platform for securing your enterprise. The risks the Internet poses to businesses are numerous and it is nothing but common sense that you need reliable and robust software to defend yourself against the dangers of the Net. (more…)
Enterprise security is hard to achieve without the proper tools. While certainly there is no shortage of antimalware products for the enterprise, picking a really good one isn’t that easy. If you are looking for a good enterprise antimalware product, GFI Vipre Antivirus Business might be exactly what you need. (more…)
Securing a network isn’t fun but if you fail to do it, the outcome could be disastrous. For small and midsized enterprises, the challenges can be really significant because you have a relatively large number of machines to monitor and you don’t have the lavish budget of large companies. Still, there are many affordable tools you can use to protect your network and GFI LANguard is one of your best choices. (more…)
Have you ever asked yourself how many steps does your computer perform from the moment you press the power switch to turn it on till the moment your favorite desktop wallpaper shines it its full glory in front of you? Well, there are many steps that the computer performs in order you to be able to enjoy your powerful hardware and your slick software but when a step or two fails to execute and you can’t access the contents of your computer, you become more and more interested to know what exactly happens when you boot your computer and what could have potentially gone wrong that turns your ultra high-tech computer into a useless piece of metal (and some plastic, to be more precise). (more…)
Process is one of the core terms in operating systems. The simplest but very precise explanation is that a process is a program in execution, a running instance of a program. In the theory of operating system there are several states of a process, like running, blocked, terminated etc. but this is too much detail for somebody who is just eager to be able to monitor what is going on on his or her computer. (For those, who are interested in more detail, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum are an excellent source of indepth information about processes and operating systems as a whole.) (more…)
If blue is your favorite color, maybe there is a guaranteed way to start hating it – by seeing it five times a day, accompanies by really charming messages that gently inform you that any unsaved information might be loss or that there was a hardware failure and so on. You guess what I am talking about? Blue Screens of Death, of course. The effects of Blue Screens can vary from causing slight irritation for the user, to real disaster for the data on the computer, to rushing to the computer shop for buying new hardware, etc. I was joking about the negative feelings towards the blue color because of frequent Blue Screens but if you really want (or have reasons – for instance if you are color blind), you can open the system.ini file and change the Screen of Death to be in a different color. More information about what to do after you open the system.ini can be found here. (more…)
Mini PCs are one of the many examples of great technological products, which don’t have the popularity they deserve. This does not mean that Mini PCs are extremely rare because among technology enthusiasts they have always been popular and are often chosen as a second (or third) computer. I myself have a Mini PC as my main machine and a laptop, which I use mainly for Internet access and I can tell from experience that Mini PCs are really cute and they are as powerful as any other machine with comparable parameters. (more…)
Gadgets are those small and not so small things that make us feel the advances of technology in our daily life. It is true that technology advances very quickly and many items that we have seen in science fiction movies are now a reality. Here are some cool gadgets, which might not belong to science fiction movies but are certainly untraditional: (more…)
Rootkits can be named the most technically sophisticated form of malicious code (malware) and one of the most difficult to discover and eliminate. Of all types of malware, probably viruses and worms get the most publicity because generally they are wide-spread and many people know to have been affected by a virus or a worm, but this definitely does not mean that viruses and worms are the most destructive malware variety. There are more dangerous types of malware, because as a rule they operate in stealth mode, are difficult to detect and remove and can go unnoticed for very long periods of time, silently stealing data and modifying the files on the victim’s machine. (more…)
The daily problems an IT manager has to solve are so diverse that it is hardly possible to classify them in order of importance or difficulty. But one of the recurring problems that managers in many companies face is turnover of people. For some companies turnover of staff is a chronic disease that causes more trouble and leads to more problems than any other issue, including competition or market changes. (more…)