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Protect Yourself from Malware by Testing Programs in a Virtual Machine [How To]

Posted by Rich On September - 27 - 2010

If you want to test a downloaded program but don’t want it destroying your data and sending your bank passwords to the other side of the world, you should probably test it in a safe environment that’s not connected to the rest of your home network. You can do this a number of ways; here are two suggestions:

Download the program on a spare computer that’s not connected to the rest of your home network.
Download the program in a virtual machine that’s isolated from your host machine.

If you don’t have a spare computer or want the convenience of testing without using a separate machine, you should use a virtual machine. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up a virtual machine and how to isolate it from your home network so you can test software.

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta now Available

Posted by Stu On September - 15 - 2010

Microsoft’s much anticipated Internet Explorer 9 is now available for public download.

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Check which Sites Have Been Visited (Even if Private Browsing Mode is Used)

Posted by Angel Luis On August - 27 - 2010

Some days ago I wrote a post about Hacking InPrivate Browsing, there you find useful information about how to find traces left by Internet Explorer using InPrivate Browsing.

Incognito Mode in Google Chrome, Private Browsing in Firefox, and InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer are, in essence, the same. This feature restricts the information that browser stores while using the internet. What information are we talking about?

History: If you enter a web page, information about the site, title and URL, as well as when that page was entered is saved.
Cookies: Many sites need to track information about the user, for example a set of books on a library site. One way to achieve this is using cookies that store the information on the user’s computer.
Cache: If you enter more than once on a website, the browser doesn’t need to download all components of that site every time. It’s clear that these programs need storage and a way to organize the files.

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Internet Explorer 9 UI Confirmed

Posted by Stu On August - 25 - 2010

7_9_256x256x32 In three weeks, Microsoft is set to release the first public Beta release of Internet Explorer 9. Details have been kept quite close to their chest but a Russian source has leaked a 100% genuine screenshot of Redmond’s new Web Browser.

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What is New In Google Chrome 6?

Posted by Angel Luis On August - 23 - 2010

The Beta version of Google Chrome 6 was released on August 11, 2010. The browser has several versions as you can read in the post: Google Chrome – Software channel breakdown, since that post was written, Google even created a new version named Canary but that is a topic for another post.

Chrome uses the source code of an open source project named Chrominum. The project is in version 7 at the moment.

At the time this article was written Google Chrome stable version is 5.0.375.127.

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Key Features Of Internet Explorer 9

Posted by Angel Luis On August - 13 - 2010

First of all, it is fair to say, that this article is written by a former Mozilla Firefox user of many years and a current Google Chrome user.

Microsoft is planning to release the beta of Internet Explorer on September 15, 2010. Before the beta arrives, we can see many of the new features in the Internet Explorer Platform Preview.

The most recent Platform 4th was released on august 4.

Since the beginnings of Internet Explorer, it’s had two main problems: support of web standards and poor performance.

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