The idea behind Cloak 8.0, a small utility that amounts to a download of under 6MB, is that it will secure your personal information and documents from those who should be pointing their unwelcome eyeballs elsewhere. ...

Complete the following sentence: "Internet radio is the best thing to happen to music since..." (a) Jimi Hendrix got an itch on the back of his neck and decided to scratch it with his guitar. (b) ...

If you are a keen Web user and have not heard of Firefox by now then surely you must be living in some sort of vacuum. Firefox is not the only free Web browser available, but ...

We immediately warmed to Steganos Internet Security 2006. It has manners. Whereas some products of its ilk would instantly have you installing every tool they had to offer in one go, Steganos doesn't work like that. ...

Dreamweaver is the market leading professional Web design and development tool. It can be bought as a standalone product, or as part of Macromedia's Studio suite, along with Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper. Now in ...

The latest in security applications from McAfee comes in a big red box. There's absolutely no need for the box to be as large as it is, with just a disc and a tiny leaflet rattling ...

At first we were impressed with GData's AntiVirus Kit Internet Security 2005. It installed with minimum fuss, went about its business pretty much straight away and gave us little in the way of headaches. But that's ...

These days, even a novice PC user is aware that a simple virus protection program isn't enough for a computer that's hooked up to the Internet. Gone are the days when a firewall was something that ...

You'd have thought that putting anything 'Harry Potter'-related on eBay would be a blatant licence to print money. Sadly, for this reviewer, that's not the case. A lavishly-styled Harry Potter ornament, which admittedly looks as if ...

GURL Watcher is one of those small, simple but effective utilities that deserves to do well. It provides anyone concerned about the Internet habits of their family or staff with the means to unobtrusively monitor browsing, ...

If you want to build a small, or even medium sized, Web site then NetObjects Fusion version 8.0 could be the tool for you, especially if you have no interest in getting involved in HTML. Fusion ...

If you're suffering an endless stream of pop-up ads or continual redirections to "adult" sites when surfing the Net, your PC is probably infected by spyware. Unlike viruses, such pests rarely cause immediate damage but can ...

Viruses, worms, trojans, spam, spyware - the number of Internet threats gets larger every day. As, too, does the armoury of tools needed to protect against them. Hence the rise of integrated solutions, such as Astaro ...

When it comes to avoiding life's little pitfalls, received wisdom is hard to beat. My mum, for example, always warned against keeping my coat on indoors, otherwise I "wouldn't feel the benefit", and it's true. Likewise, ...

Given the steady stream of security alerts associated with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it should come as no surprise that many organisations and end users are actively looking at alternative browsers. However, for many users Internet Explorer ...

Think e-mail software and the chances are you think Outlook, or Outlook Express, either of which you might have obtained for free in various ways. Getting software for free is not the only reason to use ...

It's always fascinating to see the way that applications such as this are marketed. In the same way as the raft of DVD 'backup' utilities that came to market recently, Steganos Secure Filesharing 6 has some ...

To be safe and work responsibly on the Internet, you need a firewall. It protects your PC from unwanted attacks by miscreant hackers and can keep you 'invisible' when you're surfing the Web. ZoneAlarm Pro is ...

It's not like the old days. In much the same way that front doors now need locks, cars now need alarms and the stereotypical university student needs shares in Durex, it's simply asking for trouble to ...

The Studio MX 2004 package includes new "2004" versions of Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX Web page editor, Fireworks MX Web graphics editor and Flash MX interactive animated graphics creator. Between them they provide you with everything you ...