Posts Tagged ‘drawback’

Panda Cloud Antivirus

How does an anti­vi­rus pro­gram that you never have to update sound?  To me it sounds like a win­ner.  That is what Panda is trying with it’s new Cloud Anti­vi­rus.

I have recently ins­ta­lled it and have been pretty happy over all.  I have not noti­ced any per­for­mance hit at all, in fact, since I have remo­ved my other appli­ca­tion, I have found my sys­tem run­ning better.

Since it is a cloud appli­ca­tion, it takes all of the guess work out of what to do, though you can set it to notify you for action ins­tead of auto­ma­ti­cally correc­ting the issue.  Also, the cloud func­tio­na­lity allows it to react quic­ker to new and emer­ging threats.

The only draw­back I have found is there is no option for sche­du­led scan­ning, but it does adver­tise that it runs real time scans on any file you open or run.

Please rea­lize I have this on a machine that I do not keep anything impor­tant on, just for a bit more pro­tec­tion.  Until you are sure something like this does work, keep it as sepa­ra­ted from all impor­tant com­pu­ters you can.

Safely type email on your iPhone

I do not per­so­nally own an iPhone, but I do keep my eye out on some of the inte­res­ting appli­ca­tions from time to time, and this is one that I would love to see on my belo­ved black­berry.  Email n’ Walk.

What does this app do? Well, when it is acti­va­ted, your camera dis­play will be on your screen as you type an email. So you won’t step in that puddle, or run into someone as you are typing that impor­tant message.

The reviews I have seen says this app works as adver­ti­sed with the one draw­back it does not work on Text mes­sa­ges. Still, for 99 cents, you can’t put a price on your safety. Down­load can be found here

If you have used this appli­ca­tion, please let me know how it works. And for Black­berry users, let me know if you find an app like this for that platform.

Single File Encryption

In today’s world, you always need to be wary of file and docu­ment secu­rity. If you are in the office, at home, or on the road, encryp­tion of sen­si­tive files is always recommended.

But what if you have one file that you want to secure and don’t want to do a full encryp­tion on a thumb drive?  Have I found a great FREE uti­lity for you.

It goes by the name of Safe Cal­cu­la­tor and it made by Kril­Soft­ware.  Not only does this appli­ca­tion encrypt your file (admit­tedly pro­bably very light encryp­tion), but it hides it in abso­lu­tely plain sight.

Another advan­tage of this appli­ca­tion is how por­ta­ble it is.  No ins­tall or registry entries requi­red.  You just copy the file to your drive (hard or thumb) and launch the appli­ca­tion.  After typing in the PIN and hit­ting MS (Memory Save) you go into safety mode.  You can then add a sin­gle file, copy, or res­tore the file out of memory as sim­ple as using a cal­cu­la­tor.  I admit it did take a moment or two to unders­tand the func­tions, but the readme file explains it pretty well.

You read that right, a cal­cu­la­tor.  Even under close scru­tiny it has all of the appea­ran­ces of Win­dows Cal­cu­la­tor.  Hiding in plain sight, just in case that thumb disk is mis­pla­ced, sto­len, or left han­ging out of someone’s computer.

The only draw­back I found was that you can only add one file into the pro­tec­tion.  But for what it is desig­ned for and the price, you can’t beat it.

Direct down­load:

  Safe Cal­cu­la­tor (122.4 KiB, 131 hits)