Scanners

Hello tomshardware community! I am looking to buy a notebook but I realised it comes with a fingerprint reader, and so I´ve been thinking, the fingerprint you put must be stored somewhere in the filesystem (does anyone know where, anyway?) could someone hack the user, and get his/her...

The NeatConnect lets you scan documents of all shapes and sizes directly to the cloud, but its software could be easier to use. NeatConnect Review : Read more

7 out of 52 scanners on www.virustotal.com detect various malware after scanning the SARDU exe. I searched the net trying to find out if the detections are false positives. What I found is that the author sent requests to remove the detections as they are false positives. However, this was...

I was recently given a nice Fujitsu T5010 notebook by my brother. It came from the doctor's office where he works (they upgraded their systems) and their Tech Support people had wiped the harddrive and installed a bare copy of Vista Business (what originally came on it). I took me a while to get...

I'd like to know great applications for firewalls, malware scanner and an antivirus. Pretty much it! Thanks.

Does the Standscan or portable lightbox products like scanjig or modahaus steady stand, really helps you to scan better?

Actually I am not sure if it is malware, a virus, spyware, or what. But something is going with my computer. Sometimes when the computer starts I get a "installing unknown device driver software" messaage. And there are no unknown devices connected to my computer. Then when I task killed (from...

Hey guys. Im not looking for an avg or norton. Im looking for a standalone virus scanner that you only run periodically to check your system to make sure its clean. Almost like a spybot or malwarbytes but for viruses. Thanks.

Win 8.1 host with Win XP3 guest. I used VirtualBox to build the vm. I've got my legacy scanners set up but the printer (Epson Stylus Photo 2200) isn't seen by the vm. Not sure if setting it up as a networked printer to share between host & guest would work and how to do that. Printer is...

I have 2 scanner/printers Epson DX5000 and an HP deskjet 3050A...where can i get scanner software that WORKS for multi page documents?i have tried the drivers from HP, Epson, Scantopdf, Exactscan and the images obtained are not readable, (too grey and hazed & over cropped(i mean its chopping...

what do you guys think is the best scanner. im runnig avast premier already so what would be best to run as a secondary scanner. paid or not just need the best :)

I'm looking to have a QR code direct the user to a file on a cloud server that I have. I am wondering how I should put in the file path for the scanner to pick it up. Thanks in advance!

My mcafee 2012 internet security has spent now over an hour on 78% completed scanning rootkit, is this normal (it certainly is not for me) as I have never seen this before. I am running a twin hard disk, system cdriver 80 gig, F drive 300 gig. Just looking for a little reassurance as to whether...

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this. Anyway I have a Biometric scanner on my laptop and when I try to set it up it takes me to http://webimages.authentec.com. That website does not exist and with some googleing I found out that authentec was bought out by apple. So can I still use my...

3D Systems, the company behind the Cube 3D printer and Cubify 3D-printed community and marketplace, brings an affordable 3D scanner to market. $400 Handheld Sense Camera 3D Scans Giant Objects : Read more

i have an acer chrome laptop and a visioneer 5600 usb scanner I want to connect together. HELP, all of this stuff is new to me. I am an old lady and just trying to keep all documents on file on laptop

Well.... that didnt take long. So much for innovation and futuristic security measures. http://wccftech.com/apples-touch-id-finger-print-scanner-has-been-hacked/

My Canon Rebeil T1i shows 500+ pics on the camera viewer. When I try to down load them from my PNY Profession 32GB memory card to my HP scanner it says "No Pictures Found" ? What could be the problem?

I'm making a jig to photo book pages. I want to give my son my complete library in a box of disks rather than a semi-truck. I need a camera that I can reach under the table, turn the focus and check it on the computer screen, then, lock it in place so it takes pictures without having to focus...

I have a Visioneer OneTouch 7100 USB scanner that I used to use with the bundled software on my Windows XP machine. Now that I've moved on to a new machine with Windows 7 Home Premium x64 the bundled software doesn't work properly. Does anyone know of some cheap or free scanning software that...