Recent content by DELTAprime

I've got to set up a family members new Windows 10 laptop tonight. They are not savvy and phishing and malware are an issue, not to mention the laptop will be on a public University network. Beyond installing better anti-virus than Defender (probably going to go with Kaspersky) and downgrading...

I'm feeling a little vulnerable using just Windows Defender in Windows 10, especially with Sourceforge and others loading crap in free apps. What's a good paid anti virus that won't make my PC run like a sloth? (I have bad memories of Norton slowing down my Pentium 4 back in the day.)

I ordered a BTO Alienware a couple of weeks ago which still hasn't arrived because of the Chinese New Year shutdown. On the Dell invoice it list everything they are including both hardware and software down to the Dell bloatware. Most items of bloatware items are easily googled and I can make a...

OK, so since I just want to make it hard for someone to read my personal data should they steal my PC (which is a possibility since we have had neighbours broken into) and I have offsite backups (which I already do) then I should just go with software and if a drive corrupts just format and...

I want to encrypt the drives on my new Alienware X51 to protect me in the event of theft like I do on all my Mac's using Filevault. I decided not to go with 8.1 Pro for the moment because I'm hoping there might be a deal to get Windows 10 Pro cheaper than 8.1 Pro currently is at the launch of...