Traditional antivirus programs useless against new unidentified viruses!

Every now and then you can read about a new virus and the damage it causes. The millions viruses costs companies each time they strike. It is however not only companies that are suffering from the damages caused by viruses. A virus can be just as damaging if not more for a private Internet user by destroying important documents, family pictures and everything else you keep on your computer. Therefore should no home computer be without a good virus protection software. This way you can protect your computer and yourself from loosing data, corrupted hard drives and a number of other problems. There are several anti virus programs available of which some are free and some are not. You should however always remember that you might get what you paying for, meaning that the service and the updates might be better for the paid alternatives and thereby protect your computer better.
When using a virus program you should try to find one that is fast, reliable and able to discover as many viruses as possible. Whether it is fast or not might seem unimportant if you don t use your computer that much, but you will find that an anti virus program that scans your computer faster will be used more frequently and thereby giving you a better protection. If an anti virus program should be effective when protecting your computer it needs to be able to recognise all viruses, and since new viruses are constantly created this means that the database for the program has to be constantly updated. You should therefore consider how often the different anti virus programs update their databases when choosing which antivirus program to get. You should always make sure to keep your virus program up-to-date.
One of the best anti virus programs on the market today is Panda Active Scan Anti Virus Software Online http://www.supportcave.com/antivirus-virus-removal-software.html> which has an unrivalled capacity for detecting viruses and other threats online which is the most common path for viruses to reach our computer. Almost all viruses today are spread through the Internet. Panda Titanium Active Scan Anti Virus 2005 is easy to install and once it is installed it finds and remove viruses automatically. Panda Anti Virus also automatically updates itself if you want it to. In other words: Panda Anti Virus is an anti virus program that manages itself and makes sure that it is up to date and able to keep your computer safe from viruses. Panda Titanium Active Scan Anti Virus 2005 scans your entire computer, including the program itself, to make sure that a virus can t infect any part of the computer. Panda Anti Virus doesn t just search for virus, it also search your computer for a number of other security risks like spy wares and Trojans.
Panda Anti Virus contains TruPrevent Technologies. TruPrevent Technologies is a system designed to help Panda Anti Virus protect your computer against unknown viruses and intruders. The user can choose whether they want to use TruPrevent Technologies or not. The technology has been implemented to allow Panda Anti Virus to protect your computer against new virus since a new virus can spread world wide within a few hours. The TruPrevent Technologies allows Panda Anti Virus to detect and block viruses even if they are not yet included in the virus database. This allows Panda Titanium Active Scan Anti Virus 2005 to keep your computer safe against all viruses and not only the ones that are already identified, since you might encounter a new virus despite the fact that Panda updates their database at least once a day. Old anti virus programs - and most of the modern anti virus programs as well - can only protect you against already identified viruses. The ability to protect against unknown viruses is what Panda Anti Virus a superior choice for an anti virus program.
Panda Titanium Active Scan Anti Virus 2005 does not only offer superior security and very user friendly functionality. It also comes with tech support where experts answer any questions that might arise.
All personal computers should have virus protection since you otherwise risk loosing important document, family pictures etcetera and if you are looking for user friendliness and a superior security Panda Anti Virus is your best choice.
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Document Management Solutions

Automating Document Management
As in every other area, computers and software have also impacted document management practices.
Instead of paper documents, you store information in a digital form in computer files .
Instead of unwieldy paperboard folders, you have digital folders on the computer disk in which the digital files can be stored.
Instead of heavy filing cabinets occupying valuable floor space, you have compact computer disks the size of a book or less on which incomparably greater numbers of digital folders can be stored.
Instead of locking up sensitive documents in safes, you could just restrict access to sensitive digital data by means of passwords.
Document management has indeed come a long way. Younger staff members might not even have come across rolodexes, segmented folders and such archaic document management solutions.
Computerized Document Management: Pros and Cons The discussion in the previous section might have painted too rosy a picture of digitized document management. Actually, this option brings its own dangers.
Data Corruption: Digital data could get corrupted and become unreadable more easily than paper documents. System crashes, application malfunctions, erroneous operations and malicious viruses are common causes for data corruption. Recovering corrupted data is a time consuming, unreliable and costly process. You try to guard against this danger by backing up all data in a different location.
Virus Attacks: Even before the spread of the Internet, standalone systems were open to virus attacks through removable media such as floppy disks. With Internet connectivity, the danger has become manifold. Computer viruses could be harmless irritations at best or extremely dangerous entities capable of destroying all your data. You guard against viruses by using anti virus software
Spy Ware: Whereas viruses seek to damage your data, spy ware seeks to steal it. They try to collect such sensitive data as your credit card & bank account numbers, passwords and confidential business information. A number of spy ware detection and removal programs have come into the market to protect you against these attacks.
Hacker Attacks: Even without knowing your passwords, expert computer professionals could hack into your sensitive data and either steal or damage your data. Firewalls and other kinds of software seek to block such intruders into your system.
Spam: If you use email, you know what spam is. It has become such a widespread menace that practically every Internet user is aware of it. Spam wastes your time, while anti spam software could block even legitimate, friendly mail. As yet, there is no real solution that prevents spam while letting in all legitimate mail.
You might have begun to wonder why, with all the above threats, anyone would choose a computer-based document management system.
The answer is rather simple. Despite all its drawbacks, automated document management systems offer overwhelming benefits. Few are willing to forego these benefits and go back to the days of paper documents filed in paperboard folders stored in bulky filing cabinets.
Computerized Document Management Systems In the beginning, these DMS consisted of independent software tools like word processors, spreadsheets and presentation aids. And computer operating systems like Windows or even DOS.
With the help of these tools, you created digital documents and arranged them in meaningful categories using the facilities for creating folders, subfolders and sub subfolders.
Often, these tools came in suites that allowed interoperability.
Networked systems brought a new dimension to collaborative document management. These networks also improved security using password-protected access to documents and different levels of permissions for working with documents.
With the spread of Internet and Web protocols, it became possible to put the Document Management task on the Web, and access it from anywhere. For example, you could now go out into the field and yet access the documents that are stored at your headquarters, using a laptop or public computer.
What Do Modern DMS Do?
Modern Document Management Systems make all documents related tasks far easier. They also attend to the issues of authorized access and data security. Below, we look at the essential tasks that the DMS manage.
Capture, Maintain and Retrieve: In a modern DMS, even data on paper documents can be captured through scanning and OCR. The image then becomes an editable document that can then be edited, or searched by word content or otherwise. Documents created using your word processors, spreadsheets and other applications could all become part of the DMS document repository, facilitating retrieval, review and editing.
Speedy Access and Secure Storage: These Document Management Systems allow far speedier access to any document you want, from a single interface that could access the entire corporate information store. And they protect the corporate database from unauthorized access and malicious intrusions.
Remote Access From the Field: These days, Document Management Systems tend to be Web browser based. That means you could access your company data from across the globe during a business trip, provided you enable Internet access.
Search, Not Browse: Instead of browsing through all the directories and folders, you could simply search for documents by the unique words they contain, or by such key fields as addressee name, invoice number or document type and date range.
Work With the Documents: Print, email, add or change the documents, all from somewhere far from your office.
Work Collaboratively: Collaborative work on the same document is facilitated by the Document Management Systems, which also protect data integrity by such features as Check Out and Check In. This means that if more than one person accesses the same document at the same time, only one of them can change the document. Until that person is finished, the others can only read the document. Otherwise, the changes made by one person could be lost when another person simultaneously makes other changes.
Modern Document Management Systems do indeed transform your work environment.
Author About Dustin Baker of Ademero, Inc. invites you to learn more by visiting his Document Management Software site. Browse the Ademero resource section which includes the largest collection of posts from real users reviewing ALL of the most popular DMS systems available, free and commercial. Sign up for a live demo of Ademero s Document Management System now! genny gertrudis



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Hire a Big Brother to Discipline Employees

If you are managing a team of IT workers or just have a secretary sitting in front of a computer, chances are that they don t spend all of their paid work time doing their assigned jobs. Instead, they might be doing all sorts of stuff: reading news, watching YouTube flicks, or even playing computer games. As obvious as it sounds, it is not easy to catch them playing an office-killer game, as these games often come with the boss key feature, which makes the game disappear quickly when they press a single button.
What can you do to make your employees more productive, and to stop them from chatting or playing games at the workplace?
The first and obvious choice, at least for IT related industries, is using Windows built-in user account control and security policies to prevent running any applications that are not explicitly permitted. For example, this would limit the download and use of any chat and instant messenger programs. Unfortunately, too tight a policy can severely limit their working performance should they need to do something that was not initially permitted. On the other hand, a too loose policy may open doors to Flash-based games, Java or even Web-based chats. Finding the right balance between security and productivity is a complex and time consuming task.
The second obvious choice, especially for non-IT professions, is putting a video surveillance system in place. Video cameras, even if they aren t actually recording, are great psychological stimuli that help employees concentrate on work instead of entertainment. On the other hand, video surveillance is often perceived as a major drawback by employees, and may even be criticized and opposed by the unions. For a small company, video surveillance may be too much of a commitment.
Installing software that will monitor your employee s use of their computers does not have the drawbacks of overly tight security policies or the opposition associated with video surveillance. Unlike security policies and user account control, logging software does not prevent users from doing things that are part of their job. It also does not stick on the wall to scare employees, and under no circumstances does it interfere with their private lives.
KGB Keylogger by Refog is a keyboard logging and monitoring product that perfectly complements a reasonable Windows security policy, and completely replaces obtrusive video surveillance at a fraction of the price. KGB Keylogger has a special feature set that is designed specifically for small companies. While completely invisible and unobtrusive to the employees, the product saves all key presses into a log file, registers all Web sites they visit, and makes periodic screen shots of their work PC. You can easily access these logs from a central FTP server, or have KGB Keylogger email them to you periodically. If they do a lot of typing, you can filter out Office applications to make the logs easier to read.
Complement your security policy and replace obtrusive video surveillance with KGB Keylogger at a fraction of the price. Download your free evaluation copy at: http://www.refog.com/
About the Author: Professional IT security consultant. During my career I have worked on engagements at clients in a wide range of industry sectors, from a variety of financial institutions, to entertainment and media organisations. janet gita



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Recover Lost Data from CD and DVD Media

Did you just put a perfectly fine looking CD or DVD into your computer, only to find that your PC does not see any files on it? Does your computer fail to read an important file from a recordable media?
CDRoller by Digital Atlantic Corp. (http://www.cdroller.com/) will read the unreadable media, and gain access to inaccessible or damaged files.
Sometimes you scratch a disk, and sometimes they go bad because of the storage conditions, or even their age. You might get a disk recorded with a faulty CD or DVD burner, or created with non-standard or badly configured CD/DVD mastering software. Low quality media is also common. The disks may be cheap, but they make data reads unsure even on the CD/DVD burner with which they were recorded, and even worse on different drives.
If you try to copy damaged files from such disks by using Windows Explorer, you most likely won t get anything. Your PC may even freeze for a moment trying to access unreadable data. Recovering files with an expensive dedicated data recovery service was the only option available until very recently.
CDRoller does not use standard methods to access damaged media. Instead, it accesses CD and DVD disks directly, scanning the surface track by track and searching for lost data and deleted files. CDRoller recognizes most popular CD and DVD authoring software such as Roxio, Ahead Nero Burning Rom, and Sonic, and accesses data directly, bypassing Windows default routines.
Even if your disk is scratched or physically damaged, CDRoller may still be able to rescue your important files. It scans the disk surface thoroughly and re-creates its file and directory structure, allowing you to recover files that you thought were lost forever.
Every now and then you might even encounter a disk that is not recognized by your PC at all. This might be due to extreme data corruption, but there also might actually be nothing wrong with the disk itself. Maybe that CD or DVD is just not intended for being viewed on a PC. It may be a movie recorded with a DVD camcorder, or a TV capture made with a standalone DVD recorder, or even a photo CD created with a Sony Mavica CD digital camera. Generally, you won t be able to play such disks on your PC. But what if you still want that movie or those pictures on your computer?
CDRoller recognizes most stand-alone DVD recorders, video camcorders and digital photo cameras. You will be able to recover DVD video into standard MPEG files that are ready to play back with Windows Media Player, and copy digital pictures from your photo albums to your PC.
Even if none of your disks are bad at the moment, it still makes sense to ensure that they are not developing problems, and that you will be able to read your important data tomorrow as successfully as you can today. Sometimes you can open a file with no visible problem, but in fact Windows is trying hard to read that particular disk by slowing down the reader or re-reading the same file several times until it gets the data correctly.
CDRoller includes an extensive CD/DVD integrity tester that scans your media and reports any potential problems such as unsure reads or multiple attempts to read a file. And just in case you need to burn a disk or erase a re-writable one, CDRoller also comes with a built-in CD/DVD data burner and eraser.
CDRoller is available as a free evaluation download. Get your copy now at http://www.cdroller.com/ or read what others have to say on how it saved their important data by visiting http://www.cdroller.com/htm/success.html
About the Author: Paul Goldenberg. 43 years. Director of Technical Services in Digital Atlantic Corp. 20-year experience in programming computers of all types, producing commercial products for embedded systems and PC s.



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