Erik Larkin - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Erik Larkin

Article | 14/04/2009 Password stealers sit on popular download sites

You might already know that it's easy for the bad guys to buy malware kits and ready-made digital nasties on black market Web sites. But some tools a...

Article | 30/03/2009 Search Cloudlet

The free Search Cloudlet add-on for Mozilla Firefox helps deal with that familiar task of wading through thousands of search results to find the one y...

Article | 14/03/2009 Spot the tiny phishing trick

The TinyURL service allows you to enter a long URL, such as one for a particular Google Maps location, and convert it into a short, easy-to-type or e-...

Article | 11/03/2009 Microsoft Fixes Critical Windows Image Flaw

Microsoft Tuesday fixed a hole that could hand over control of your PC to an attacker if you view one poisoned image on a Web site or in an HTML e-mai...

Article | 7/03/2009 Conficker Worm Strikes Back With New Variant

The Conficker/Downadup worm managed to slither onto millions of PCs worldwide at its height, but after it initially infected a computer it only really...

Article | 5/02/2009 McAfee Internet Security Suite 2009

McAfee Internet Security Suite 2009 is the latest iteration of security giant McAfee's internet security suite, featuring Artemis, a new internet-base...

Article | 3/02/2009 Avira Premium Security Suite 8.2

Avira Premium Security Suite 8.2 is an Internet security suite that excels where it counts. This package beat all the 2009 security suites in detectio...

Article | 28/01/2009 Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009 fails at the most basic task of detecting and blocking malicious software. Not recommended.

Article | 17/01/2009 Protecting Against the Rampant Conficker Worm

Businesses worldwide are under attack from a highly infectious computer worm that has infected almost 9 million PCs, according to antivirus company F-...

Article | 15/01/2009 Newzie

Newzie serves up your RSS feeds and more in a good-looking, easy-to-use tabbed interface.

Article | 14/01/2009 Rainmeter

Rainmeter can put system monitors, news displays and other widgets on your desktop.

Article | 13/01/2009 FireDaemon Pro

FireDaemon Pro allows you to take your PC a step closer to a server (or further configure your server) by running programs, scripts or batch files as ...

Article | 6/01/2009 Get the skinny on IP addresses with IPNetInfo

IPNetInfo is a small and focused network tool that can be a big help if you want to get information about an IP address, the string of numbers that co...

Article | 5/09/2008 Zoho adds Google Docs-like file management

Zoho has finally added a central document management page called Zoho Docs to tie together its many useful online apps. The clean-looking, functional ...

Article | 30/08/2008 Quick fix for Firefox 3 bug with Yahoo Mail

If you use Firefox 3 and Yahoo Mail (the nice new interface, not Classic), you might be dealing with a bug I've noticed where the message pane scrollb...