Wednesday, November 9, 2011

PC Maintenace and Security

I have been looking over tutorials at Atomic Learning (what a great site I never new about!) and have learned some interesting things.
Tutorial #1- Installing RoboForm
  • I learned several things from this.  First I'd never heard of Roboform to help save passwords and usernames for different websites.  I've set up so many accounts recently, this may be a good option for me to remember passwords.  I will definitely have to share this website with m family.  I know they hate remembering passwords as well!
  • I found it surprising that you could password protect your passwords.  You could save a "master password" that needed to be typed in before you used this site.  This would be great to turn on if someone was going to borrow my computer, or if I'd be taking to to a public place.
Tutorial #2-Managing your Web passwords with RoboForm
  • This was a very helpful follow-up video to the previous where I learned about this idea.  It gave me tips and information on using this password tool.  I will have to share many of the features about this site with family (again).  I will have to tell them that it can save, generate and fill out passwords for you.  It also had a nice feature of auto-fill for addresses, information, and phone numbers.  You as the user would type this once into it's save feature, and then anytime you needed to fill out a form (say amazon, or commerce website) you could use this auto-fill button.  Nice!
  • I was surprised that it could generate a secure password for you.  There was a button that you click on and it would generate a very secure password for you.  You could choose how many characters and it would show you a password with letters, capitals and numbers that you could use that would be quite secure.
Tutorial #3-Spybot Search and Destroy
  • I have used this program in the past, and it's been a great tool to get rid of unwanted programs on your computer from websites.  I will have to share with friends/family to download this to our new computers.  It has great features to delete programs that are downloaded unknowingly on your computer from websites and other downloads you may no have known about.
  • I was surprised to know about a feature called Tea Timer that I never knew to use.  It adds an extra layer of intrusion protection on your computer.  I'll have to use this in the future.

1 comment:

  1. I'm going to have to check out RoboForm - it sounds like a real time saver. No more searching for usernames and passwords=8-) Right now I save all my account information in an Excel Workbook. It's convenient because I can carry around with me on my Flash drive. The auto-fill feature is a real time saver, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing!

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