Best Online Virus Scanners

Online virus scanners are handy tools which you can scan suspicious files to detect any threat.
Most of these online security tools works great with continuous update of virus scan engines.
here I have listed some of Online virus scanners.

1. Virus Total
Virus Total is a free service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware.
The Main advantage of Virus Total is it scan a file using multiple virus scan rngines exists. So it can make an effective and thorough scan of files for viruses.

Virus total fetures:
Email Scan (scans your email attachments)
Hash Search (md5/sha1/sha256)
Use of multiple antivirus engines
Real-time automatic updates of virus signatures
Detailed results from each antivirus engine
Real time global statistics

2. Bitdefender Online Scanner
Online PC scanner. It scan the PC for malware, trojans and other threats and cleans PC.

Bitdefender's 60-Second QuickScan has following features
Very fast scanning. Less than 60 seconds
Runs online from any Internet connected PC
Doesn't slow down your PC
Based on award winning BitDefender anti-malware technologies

3. Mcafee Online Scanner
Mcafee online scanner is another online virus scan tool that detects threats on your PC.

4.Trend Micro House Call
To use this online scanner you need to install a small snippet on your browser.

Google Dashboard - a summery look of google products

Google recently introduced their new feature. Google Dash board.
This enables users to snap look at their all Google products within a compact view.

Google Dashboard provides information of Google account, contacts, blogs, Gmail email inbox-sent items list-spam, Picassa albums and other Google products you encountered.

Google blog says "Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings."

However still 19 Google services are not yet available on the Dashboard. These include Analytics, Checkout, AdSense, AdWords, Wave, App Engine, and Mobile, to name a few. These products recently available in the google dash board.

Google Dash Board

Microsoft Live Search turned in to Bing

Microsoft corporation's presence on the search engine arena the 'Live Search Engine' changed it's look and search techniques and brought up as 'Bing Search Engine'. Microsoft claims that Bing is equiped with more functions such as Microsoft's cash-back search rewards program and links to pages for developers and Webmasters.

Microsoft says that the present Online search engine mostly delivers web pages that are not relevant to the content user looking for. (Yes this quote is almost true.)
Here what Microsoft says "Bing organizes search results so you can quickly and easily locate the content that matters most. And Bing helps you harness that information through exclusive tools specific to your key tasks, leading to more-informed decisions. Put simply, Bing is a first-of-its-kind decision engine." Behind Bling

It seems that Microsft's Bing is really attempting to provide the search content to point. Because now when you search for a term on the Bing, It displays the text content of the targeted page when you hover on each search result.

Microsoft targets to attract a good amount of present Google searches with their new technology and this seems Google have to face a some amount of competition in near future.

Bing Search Engine
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Increase Gmail loading time

This is a good news for users who are with slow internet connection or dial up connections. Not only this is a useful feature if you don't want to load everything inside the Gmail and just want check the recent emails.

Gmail lab has developed a new feature that you can just preview latest 10 messages of the inbox.
You can not read the full message by clicking on each of them, it just preview the new messages of the Gmail Inbox.

How to enable the Feature :
Just follow the link to Enable this feature on Gmail lab section under Settings tab.
Then click on Inbox preview section to activate it.

However there are already several other tools which can enabling the quick preview of Gmail Inbox such as the Firefox extension 'Gmail Manager'. Go here for a complete list of Gmail tools and external applications .
You can view new developments of Gmail lab under the settings of Gmail.

Google Chrome 2.0 faster than Firefox ?

Google Chrome officially announced that they have updated to Chrome 2.0 stable version. Google also claims that this version is 30% faster than it's previous version 1.0. Version 2.0 has many improvements and over 300 bug fixes, so users can browse the web with more stability and less crashes.

How to update to Chrome version 2.0 ?
Existing users don't want to download a new version. Instead just open the Chrome and Click on 'Tools' icon in the right side of the window and then click on 'About Google Chrome'. The About window lets you to automatically update to the new version.

Or if you are still not experienced the Chrome yet, Just go and Download it from Google Chrome Download Page.

New Developments in Version 2.0

Increased Stability : As they fixed about 300 bugs in the new version.
Form Autofill : Shows information that previously entered.
More Speed : 30% faster than the previous version. Users can play with Java scripts even with opening more tabs. So in some occasions I have getting faster download of web pages than with Firefox (Only my own experience)
Full Screen Mode: Hide the title bar and the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 key.
New Tab Page: It no more shows most visited web site thumbnails when you open a new tab.

Google Chrome team says they are focusing on much developments in future.

Winguard Pro 2008 - Lock windows applications and programs

Winguard Pro is a program which allows you to lock some programs and features of Windows system like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, other folders and files plus it can disallow installing programs by others. Winguard will locks and disable these features by using a password.

Here are some features of Winguard Pro.

• Lock Programs, Applications, EXE Files with a Password
• Encrypt Files, Folders and Entire Drives
• Disable Zip and Self Extracting Files
• Lock Windows at Boot and the Boot Keys (F8)
• Password Protect Windows Explorer
• Password Protect Web Browsers - Internet Explorer and FireFox.
• Disable Software Installation and Downloads.

Download Winguard Pro from original site

Search the web safely with McAfee Site Advisor

McAfee SiteAdvisor is another handy software to run in your sytem.
It tests Web sites for spyware, spam, viruses and phishing so you can click with confidence.
SiteAdvisor's automated robots tests every Web site, download, and e-mail sign-up form on the Web.Web sites are tested for 'phishing' and other online scams, affiliations with dangerous sites, excessive pop-ups, and browser exploits.

and it tells Us:

• Is it safe to use?
• Is it safe to download?
• Is it safe to submit e-mail or other data ?
• What do others say about the site ?
• and shows the more details.

Download McAfee SiteAdvisor

Export Your Blogspot blog to Wordpress

Google's Blogspot service used by bloggers around the world to share and express their thoughts and events. Google developer team now allows you to export the blog to wordpress, LiveJournal and MovableType.
Now Blogger or Blogspot allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters project. This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.

For more info.
Blog converter Home
Download Google blog converter here.

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