Sometimes our computers are left with some unwanted footprints of websites we have been too while surfing the Internet. Some of these traces could leave the system vulnerable to attacks by malware, thereby exposing our privacy. To keep your system safe and free from attacks, you can safely erase traces of your activities with a privacy program like PrivaZer.

What is PrivaZer?

PrivaZer cleans your PC in-depth and removes unwanted traces of your activities at home or at work. You can see what can be recovered of your past activities and securely clean traces to get PC and your external devices free from unwanted vulnerability issues. PrivaZer is a smart cleaning tool that helps you master your security and freedom, free up disk space and keep your PC fit and secure.

PrivaZer is a freeware with a lot of nice features including: allows for in-depth clean-up of your PC and storage devices as it automatically recognizes your storage device type and adapts its overwriting algorithms to the storage medium (magnetic disk, SSD, etc); prevents recovery of your activities; irreversible clean-ups by overwriting techniques; and a couple of other features.

Does it have a downside?

PrivaZer is a good program, but instructions should be followed before deleting anything on the system (and consider making a full backup of the system).

Want to check it out? Visit Privazer.com.

Did you know you can transform your USB drive into a security key for your PC and lock it down by removing the USB device from the port? USB Raptor is an easy to use program that can be configured easily.

What’s the big deal about USB Raptor?

USB Raptor can lock the system once a specific USB drive is removed from the computer and unlock when the drive is plugged in again to any USB port. The utility constantly checks the USB drives for the presence of a specific unlock file with encrypted content. If this specific file is found the computer stays unlocked otherwise the computer locks. To release the system lock user must plug the USB with the file in any USB port. Alternative the user can enable (or disable) two additional ways to unlock the system such is network messaging or password.

USB Raptor is very easy to use, and you can start by assigning a password to the USB device and creating a lock file that will be stored on your removable drive.

Does it have any downside?

USB Raptor does not have any significant downside, and is very easy to configure and use even for the not-so tech savvy.

Want to check it out? Visit: SourceForge.net.

Want to have a quick view of your graphics card? GPU Caps Viewer gives you such opportunity and also allows you to do much more. The software displays the GPU temperature, and offers convenient OpenGL extensions database and OpenGL API support.

What is GPU Caps Viewer?

GPU Caps Viewer is a graphics card utility that allows to quickly see the capabilities of your graphics card / GPU, displays the GPU temperature, offers a convenient OpenGL extensions database and OpenGL API support, provides a GPU-burner facility as well as an online validation.

It also provides you with full report in text and XML format. Such a report is useful for developers who need an outline of the customer graphics system (for support purposes for example). It also helps when it comes to graphics card validation. Your graphics card data is sent to oZone3D.Net server and in return you receive a link on the validation web page. You can use that validation in benchmarks or to help graphics applications developers to solve specific problems.

Does GPU Caps Viewer have any downside?

GPU Caps Viewer is a bit buggy, but still gets the work done especially for those who are used to a program like this.

Want to check it out? Visit Ozone3D.net.

Want a program that can scan your minidump files created during blue screen of death crashes? BlueScreenView has some nice features that will not only scan, but display information about all crashed in a single table.

What’s BlueScreenView?

BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’ crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, the software also displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version). For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane.

BlueScreenView also mark the drivers of the addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.

A couple of changes and fixes have been made to BlueScreenView including adding Drag & Drop support, which means you can now drag a single MiniDump file from Explorer into the main window of BlueScreenView, and fixing of bug where the software failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.

Want to check it out? Visit: Nirsoft.net.