While you are online , found an interesting webpage and  you want to share with your   friends. And also your friends are facing  problems with  specific websites / web pages ,as they are blocked by authorities in offices, schools and in certain countries.Here is a free online utility Email the Web  which helps you , instead of sending webpage link,  send the whole webpage via email .

There is nothing to download or install. Just copy & paste the full web page address  into the above text box and click email web page.You can enter webpage URL, sign in using Google account, preview the webpage and quickly send it to your friends.If the web page  you are going to send contains any pop-ups  EmailTheWeb will remove all such pop-ups and mail the page without them.

Features

• Immediate - you can email a web page right now. Just copy or type a hyperlink and click Email
• Fast - the entire web page is emailed in a flash
• Frozen - the web page is captured as it is now. Your recipient will see the same exact page as you.
• Safe - the captured web page is stripped of pop-ups and dynamic ads
• No need to register, only requires you to have a GMail account in order to send emails.

Your computer may infected by viruses in many ways: opening suspicious e-mail,visiting doubtful websites and so on. What if you could create a folder that’s shielded from the rest of your computer? Cryptainer LE allows you to do just that.

It's powerful 128 bit encryption, creates multiple 25 MB encrypted containers (vaults) on your hard disk. These encrypted vaults can be loaded and unloaded when needed. You can view, modify and hide all types of files with a single password.It can be installed directly on a USB / removable drive as a "stand alone" install. One can carry this   installation of Cryptainer ('Cryptainer Mobile') to different machines without having to install Cryptainer on the host machine.You can simply drag and drop the files and folders you want to hide.Cryptainer LE allows you to send encrypted email files. The recipient need not even have a copy of Cryptainer LE installed to decrypt the files.

Features

• Creates an encrypted container (vault)
• Encrypt any type of data, even folders
• 128 bit Strong Encryption
• Easy to use, Impossible to break
• Send secure e-mails too
• Encrypt data on any Media (USB, CD etc)
• Never expires, No nag screens
• Works on all 32 bit versions of Windows
• All you need to know is to drag and drop!

SysReq:Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista |3.06MB |Freeware|    Download

Most modern browsers suppress pop-ups automatically, but some pop-ups do get through. To block these, the browser needs to be separately configured which can quickly get to be a pain if multiple browsers are used.

This pop-up stopper is smart and configurable over all your browsers. It doesn’t block ‘New Window’ commands issued by a user, unlike some other pop-up stoppers. Customize pop-up alarms with sound, text-bubbles, or a subtle mouse color change when a pop-up is blocked.Individual pop-up windows can be allowed by holding down the [Ctrl] or [Shift] key. Certain sites need pop-up blockers to be disabled. Therefore, it is  better to shutting any pop-up blockers within the browser as well as any toolbars that do this—such as Google toolbar—and only enable this application.

Unfortunately the pop-up blocker doesn’t allow any white-listing of sites that you want to allow pop-ups from, which ought to be mandatory for a pop-up blocker. Perhaps this exists in the Professional edition.

  Download | 511KB | Freeware | Homepage

Here is a   checklist  which helps in protecting Windows, applications, browser and hardware.

Do you like to share your new Google number with family, friends and co-workers?.Google is giving away 50000 sets of 25 Google voice business cards for free to its users. Share your new Google number with friends using these free Google number printed cards.

To grab this offer, check for an image and link to appear in your Google Voice inbox, on the left side below the account balance.You will be able to customize and order your free cards through iPrint.com

For Google Number and details  , visit .Google Voice invitation request is available here

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NoVirusThanks is new simple  free web service which  allows you to keep your computer virus-free. It scan suspicious files for possible presence of viruses, worms, trojans and any other kind of malware. Scanning is  done  with 25 independent antivirus engines .

It is easy for you to  upload your suspicious  files  and press the Submit File button. The system will then put your file in the queue. Your file will be processed and after about 40 seconds you will see the analysis report.

Features:

• Free and independent service
• Use of multiple antivirus engines
• Automatic updates of virus signatures
• Detailed results from each antivirus engine
• Advanced details of file analyzed
• BBCode support
• Binder Detector
• Scan as many files as you like. No registration needed.
• Maximum size limit per file: 20 Mb
• Files are scanned with 25 anti virus engines. These are A-squared, Avira AntiVir, AVG, Avast!, BitDefender, ClamAV, Comodo, Dr.Web, Ewido, F-PROT 6, G DATA, IkarusT3, Kaspersky, McAfee, NOD32, Norman, QuickHeal, Panda, Solo Antivirus, Sophos, TrendMicro, VBA32, and VirusBuster.

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NoVirusThanks Malware Remover Tool V2

NVT Malware Remover Tool V2 is an application designed to detect and remove malware, trojans, keyloggers and other malicious threats from your computer. It has the ability to remove rogue software, spyware and it allows you to do a complete system scan.It is designed to help you eliminate 13 variants of malware from your PC.

Features

Web browsers are  the most common target of an attack.  Malware and Spyware  is get into  the  PC through modified websites which trigger buffer overruns for instance; hackers can thus crash the browser.

Following are  some of the most common ways users are fooled .

• Links can lead you to malicious material such as hidden drive-by downloads that attempt to silently install software onto your computer without you doing anything or knowing about it.
• Links can also lead you to a phishing site designed by scammers to trick a user into revealing confidential information such as account passwords for banking or social networking sites.
• There are downloads that seem perfectly safe, such as a video, screensaver (screensavers are the most notorious) or some even offer to give you security protection, but they are actually malware. 
• A link from a friend might not be safe either.  Your friend’s computer could have been infected and now is part of a botnet being used to send malware and dangerous links. 
• Tweeters often use URL shortening services such as tinyurl.com to obtain a shorter URL that fits within the 140 characters restriction.  This means you don’t know what site your are really going to until you are there.

Here are some utilities to test your browser and other securities

Bcheck-Scanit:Check out the security of your Web browser with the help of Scanit to see whether your browser will be able to withstand such an attack. To run the test, open the website from your preferred browser. With ‘Start the test’, you will expose the browser to an attack that can possibly cause a crash. We subjected our default Web browser , Firefox , to nine different exploits; there were seven in the  case of Internet Explorer. If everything is alright, you will get a confirmation after the test. If the browser crashes, reload it, restore the session and open the site again. You will now see the test result and an explanation of what went wrong.

BrowserCheck is another online  utility  to check  whether your Web browser secured or not.It will tell you the browser's encryption strength.

AuditMYPC-FirewallTest : will check your computer for ports that are commonly left open. Open ports could allow your computer to be compromised. This firewall test will also check for open ports known to be used by Viruses and Trojans.This site also contains Anonymous Test  and InternetSpeedTest

ShieldsUP:This website will help scan the Open Port to test the security of your computer. See if you can clear it.

Symantec Online Security  Check  also  a nice tool to tests your  computer's online threats. It's an effective tool that helps determine your Internet security needs

Popup test is the most complete way for you to test your popup blocking software. Your popup blocker will be given a series of tests that range from your standard popup to very complex popups that will slip by most popular ad blockers

Sometimes you need to collate important fragments of data lying in different parts of your Excel sheet.You can use collate the data and cell referencing , but it  create a  lot of confusion and data redundancy. However, creating dynamic screenshots of particular patches of data can be a very viable option.You can create such screen grabs with the help of the camera tool provided with Excel 2007. The camera takes a picture of a  selected area, and you can then paste that picture wherever you want it. It updates automatically, and because it is a picture rather than a set of links to the original cells, any formatting of the source is automatically reflected in the picture. The picture will also adjust to include any rows or columns inserted within the source area.

To enable the Camera Tool in Excel  do  the following steps:

• Right click the Office Button and enable “Show Quick Access Toolbar Below the Ribbon”

• Click the arrow appearing near the “Quick Access Toolbar”.

• In the drop-down menu, click the “More Commands…” option.
• The “Customize” option is selected by default in the left-side panel.
• In the “Choose commands from:”drop-down menu, select “Commands Not in the Ribbon”.
• Select the “Camera” option, and click the “Add>>” button.

• Click “OK” to close the “Excel Options” dialog box.
• The “Camera” icon appears on the “Quick Access Toolbar”.

• To take a snapshot of a cell range,select the cells.

NOTE: The camera tool does not work with charts.

• Click on the “Camera” icon.
• Go to the destination sheet and use the left-click of your mouse to draw the object.
• You can go to the source data by double-clicking on the image.
• You can create as multiple images in succession after selecting a cell range.

'Windows Service' is  to perform specific service which is started automatically when Windows boots and runs as long as System is up and running.Often malware applications use services to monitor and control the target system.Default Windows Service manager will not be able to detect  Malwares running in Windows.AdvancedWinServiceManager a freeware ,which  eliminate such malicious services by separating out third party services from Windows services.

Features

• Detection of hidden Rootkit services
• Enhanced user interface with dynamic resize functionality.
• Arrange the services based on various parameters
• Easier detection of malicious service
• Export the services list to standard html format
• Export to File' option provides easy way to save the displayed service list to html based log file for offline analysis.
• Show services based on status and vendor.
• Option to start, stop, enable or disable services with just a click.
• Displays detailed information for each service

You can view only third party services or all running services. Malicious Rootkit services will be shown in red color to differentiate it from normal services. Third party services are displayed along with detailed information by default  which makes it easy to differentiate between legitimate and malicious services. Its  dynamic resizing capability  makes it to adjust the screen according to the user needs. It comes with sorting functionality to arrange the services based on service name, description, status, user account, company name, binary path, file size etc. This helps in quick searching of the service.

SysReq:Windows 2K, XP, 2003, Vista |   Download | Freeware | 220KB

Boring  with Windows standard icons, blue welcome screen and lackluster choice of display themes?. Seeing the same old blue screen each time you login to Windows XP can get quite boring for you with passing time.Now you can give your PC a digital makeover with your own personal touch with LogonStudio from Stardock.With the freeware LogonStudio, choosing another screen is a matter of two clicks. Alternately, you can design your own with a built-in editor.

This fantastic program comes built with a visual editor to make it easy to create your own logons which can then be uploaded to websites to be used by others - a great creative outlet and marketing tool for freelance graphic designers!.It includes an option to restore your default screens.

Once downloaded, double-click the setup file and install the application to an appropriate location. To create and change the default logon picture using logon studio:

• Click "Create".
• In the resulting window, enter an  appropriate name for the picture and click the "Browse" button to locate it.
• Once done, click "Save".
• Now in the main window, simply select the picture and click "Apply".

NOTE: You can also click the "Download" button to download additional logon backgrounds from the LogonStudio website

SysReq:

• Windows XP/Vista
• Minimum screen resolution: 1024 width and 768 height
• 10MB free drive space
• 512MB RAM

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We always wish our computers to be secure from damages especially from Viruses.We use Anti-virus software for our computer in order to protect it from getting viruses. But none of them can be 100% secure to save our computers from Viruses. However we also may think of installing multiple anti-viruses at a same time on our computer.But installing two or more antivirus is not possible , because antivirus software nowadays are so complex and they may conflict with each other causing crashes and blue screens.It also leads to system resources hog  and slows the computer down.

Recently found a tool called Multi AV Scan developed by Gakh from HackHound that allows you to run on-demand scan using 10 types antivirus on your computer.It is possible  to run two or more antivirus  programs with this third party software. Multi AV Scan is a standalone software and it  does not provide real time protection.It is not required to uninstall your current antivirus to run Multi AV Scan.It currently supports A-Squared, Avira AntiVir, BitDefender, ClamWin, DrWeb, Ikarus, McAfee, Solo, Sophos, VBA32.

This program is little buggy.It  will continue  Scanning the whole time without progress unless  you have to put the file that you want to scan in the same folder where  MultiScan.exe installed.If you’re using Avira AntiVir, you need to place Avira license key HBEDV.KEY (you can get it for free here) file in \AVs\AntiVir\ folder.It also  consume  more resources during updating and scanning.It works with XP and Vista

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Check out  for Online Multiple  Anti-virus Scanners in SparksSpace: Online Malware Scanners

USB drives are so popular and generally get used to move data between multiple systems frequently. Even though USB drives are very useful , they are potential breeding ground for viruses.When you stick your flash drive the host computer will look for commands in Autorun.inf to be executed automatically.Normally those commands in Autorun.inf are harmless, but if the file was modified, it may call for execution of a Trojan or whatever program in your USB flash drive automatically .

Naevius USB Antivirus  is a free tool which protects your pen drive from autorun viruses.In the root folder of  your pen drive, it create a write-protected dummy  "autorun.inf", which is also  undeletable.It  gives you full freedom for securely using your removable usb drives.

Features

• Protection against any Trojans, spyware, worms via USB storage.
• Compatible with any antivirus resident like for example: BitDefender, Nod32, Kaspersky, AVG, Norton, McAfee, Panda, AVAST etc.
• Protection in real time with.
• 100% protection from outside with write-protected dummy "autorun.inf" file.

Download | Homepage | Freeware | 1MB

Google had introduced an experimental feature dubbed Tasks for Gmail through Gmail Labs six months back. Now, this experimental Task feature has come out of Labs and is available to all Gmail account holders by default.

Tasks is a Gmail feature designed to help you keep track of the things you need to do. You can create lists of items, set due dates and notes, and even add Gmail messages directly to Tasks.

You can access this feature in two ways: either click on the "Tasks" link below "Contacts" to open a Gmail Chat-like dialog or create a task from an email by opening "More Actions" drop-down and selecting "Add to Tasks". When you convert an email to a task, Gmail keeps the message's subject and places a link to the mail.You can also easily convert emails into tasks: select one or more messages and go to More Actions > Add to Tasks

Useful Shortcuts

* Open the tasks box by typing g then k if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled.
* Create a task from an email by pressing Shift+T if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled.
* Navigate between tasks using the arrows.
* Delete a task by deleting the text and hitting backspace.
* Organize your tasks by indenting them — just hit Tab to indent and Shift+Tab to un-indent.
* Ctrl+Up moves a task up the list and Ctrl+Down move it down.
* Hit Shift+Enter when in a task to show its details

   a useful tool for Outlook , which  allows you to look at your inbox from a whole new perspective. The add-on assure better management of messages and contacts, one of Outlook's biggest shortcomings.

Features

Other useful add-ons

•  Gwabbit automatically scans incoming Outlook emails, finds contacts, and instantly transforms them into contact records within your address book with a mouse click.
•  Xiant Filer is an add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook that helps you more efficiently manage your e-mail. Filer simplifies the task of keeping your inbox organized by allowing you to file messages with a single click. Filer also keeps you focused on important topics in your e-mail without being distracted by the contents of your larger mailbox
•  Duplicate Killer for Microsoft Outlook is a powerful plug-in for searching, managing and eliminating any type of duplicates (e-mails, contacts, tasks, calendar items (events, appointments, meetings), notes, journals) across all or chosen Outlook folders (including public folders).
•  Neo Pro is an Outlook add-on that shows you many, many views of
  all your messages - by date, by sender, by attachment – in all the ways you think about email, and it's instantly searchable.
• Taglocity allows you to add in the much needed feature of tagging emails, tasks, contacts and calendar entries.
•   Google Calendar Sync is to to synchronize your calendar between multiple Outlook installations.You can then use your Google account as a central storage for calendar events and keep both your Outlook installations in sync.
• Outlook Connector provides a free solution for managing your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail and contacts from within Outlook. With the new release of the Outlook Connector, you can connect your Windows Live Hotmail account in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 free of charge
• OutSync is a Microsoft Outlook add-in that will automatically sync photos of your friends from your Facebook account with those present in your Outlook contact list.
• Easy2Add software and Gadget for Microsoft® Windows Vista® are free* and fastest way to create Microsoft Outlook events (appointments, meetings, all day events)tasks (to-do), new! contacts and notes from plain English

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