5 ways to overclock a netbook (really!) – Didn’t think hardware this tiny could be tweaked? We explore five ways to turn netbooks up to 11. How to Turn an Old PC into a Media Centre – Even though PC noise & boot times will be issues, XBMC can be a very capable cross-platform, open source [...] Read Full Story

MozyHome is one of the most popular free Online Backup Services available, and with good reason – it’s a snap to use! MozyHome gives you 2GB of space allowing you to backup your data over the Internet. And when you need to, the backed up files can be restored over the Internet. MozyHome includes a Windows [...] Read Full Story

Privacy is under attack – everywhere. Flash cookies that follow you far and wide as you surf the Net, surveillance cameras (some in the most unlikely places), that record your every movement, and the list goes on. The days of privileged information, and personal privacy, has gone the way of the Dodo bird. Private information [...] Read Full Story

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) – Only suckers pay retail. You don’t have to pay full price for Windows 7. Most people have much better options available. Here are seven of them. All your computer security precautions are worthless - Install your Windows Updates. Update your antivirus software. Scan [...] Read Full Story

The one thing we know for sure about today’s malware is; it’s very smart. It’s so smart that it often recreates its own component parts even if it has been deleted. How smart is that? Today’s malware generally writes itself into multiple parts of the operating system and in many cases it can hide it’s [...] Read Full Story

Courtesy of Panda Security: This week’s PandaLabs report looks at the Banker.LZK banker Trojan, the Volcano Security Suite malware program, and the Koobface.FU worm. Banker.LZK is distributed through emails with several subjects, and a malicious file called “Comprovante” (receipt).  Once it runs on the system, it connects to a Brazilian IP address and downloads another larger file [...] Read Full Story

Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence, has just reported that the Cutwail, Bagle, Grum, and Rustock botnets, have been joined by a new botnet – Festi, which now accounts for 3-6% of the daily global spam. As a percentage this doesn’t sound like an impressive number, but translated into actual spam volume; 1.5 to 3 billion spam e-mails [...] Read Full Story

Walmart unveils 15.6″ HP Pavilion G60 laptop for $298 - To heck with netbooks. Walmart’s got plenty of retail weight to swing around, and that’s manifesting itself in the form of a $298 HP Pavilion G60 laptop. How to record streaming audio - CNET editors give step-by-step instructions on how to record audio being played over [...] Read Full Story

  Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts! – An argument that should have died ages ago has reared its head again. If you purchase a discounted upgrade edition of Windows 7, can you use it to perform a clean installation of the operating system on a PC that doesn’t currently have Windows [...] Read Full Story

Guest writer Rick Robinette explains how you can manage your SkyDrive space smarter, and faster, with SkyDrive Explorer, a free extension for Windows Explorer. If you have a Windows Live account (e.g. Hotmail) I am sure you are taking advantage of the Microsoft’s Windows SkyDrive service, which offers 25 GB’s of FREE password protected online storage [...] Read Full Story