Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Health and Safety Tips for Computer Users

With computer use increasing more and more and encompassing our lives from every aspect, it's no wonder the number of headaches, eye strain, and RSI cases caused by computer use are increasing annually. Most people use a computer all day long while at work and the first thing they do when they get home is press that power button on their PC. And then put their eyes on OT for another 4-6 hours. We hardly get outside and focus on objects in the distance. Another problem of focusing on objects for long periods of time is that our muscles get weak to QUICKLY focus on objects. Unless you are an athletic person where you have to focus on moving objects and continually cause your eye muscle to focus and refocus, your eyes probably are not getting the healthy workout they need.
This write-up is to help remind you that your eyes are a precious part of your body and you only get one set of them. But not only does this write-up talk about how to make sure you give your eyes a rest from time to time, but also how to protect yourself from muscle strains in your neck, fingers, and arms. You of course, don't need to treat this guide as the solution for all, but being aware and conscious about what you are doing while using your PC should help to keep you body healthy.

HOW TO REMIND YOURSELF TO TAKE A BREAK
The hardest part is remembering when to take a break, especially when we get consumed by our work and we have deadlines. For IT engineers, we are usually under high levels of stress and have deadlines to meet, which usually leads to not taking breaks. We need to be cautious of this and make sure to take breaks from time to time.

McAfee Antivirus: General Problems


Market is full of Antivirus suites to choose from according to need and choice. McAfee is one of the oldest of them. It is created by McAfee Inc, a leader in the Antivirus market developing and providing antivirus solutions to home computers as well as professional computers. McAfee was earlier known as Network Associates which now has a trail of computer security products developed and released periodically.
Main McAfee features of the McAfee Antivirus are:
• On boot scanner (McAfee OAS)
• Providing Inbound & outbound firewall protection
• Providing Spyware protection
• Self update
• Site adviser providing safety rating of the sites visited
• Active System Guard facility
• Active Protection
Most of these features make McAfee unique from its counterparts. But somewhere these unique features are also responsible for the problems arising to most of the users of this antivirus and creating functional problems with their computers largely because of the lack of knowledge on the part of users. The users try fixing them by their own and end up making the things more complex.
During last few years the popularity and use of McAfee antivirus is largely affected due to the problems associated with this once monarch, of the antivirus market. Of late, online McAfee Technical Support has come up to rescue the users

Monday, 1 April 2013

Closing the Antivirus Protection Gap: A Comparative Study

Corporate economic concerns have put increased pressure on already limited IT resources in recent years as the onslaught of malware and sophistication of cyber attacks continues to grow at exponential rates. As a result, 50% of endpoint operating costs are directly attributable to malware, yet, corporate IT budgets are still focused on maintaining stand alone antivirus as the keystone in endpoint security.

Source: http://www.cio.com/white-paper/731044/Closing_the_Antivirus_Protection_Gap_A_Comparative_Study_on_Effective_Endpoint_Protection_Strategies

Problems And Solutions With Norton Internet Security

The internet is fraught with lot of malicious code. Even a casual internet surfer can very easily lose an expensive hard drive of his unprotected computer. Norton Internet Security software which is made by Symantec Corporation is among the most popular security programs, it defends your computer from any host of internet dangers. However, every program has its own good points and bad points, even with the best program that you trust most for keeping your computer safe. Norton Internet Security comes with a secure firewall but there are some problems that you should watch out for. In this article you will get to know about some common problem that you face with Norton Firewall.

Mac Security Update

Norton's firewall with the Internet Security 3.0 has caused little problems with a specific update to Mac OS X in 2003. When the July 14, 2003, update was actually applied, some computers could not reboot, and thus the only way to salvage all those computers was to boot it from any other another device, such as the other operating system installation disc. Users with old versions of this software should be little cautious while updating their computer system.