Monitor TCP, UDP Communication in Windows with PortExpert

PortExpert is a free  application that can give very useful information about all TCP, UDP communications connected to the system and is hence useful to identify potential threats.
These days we are hearing of many hacking stories, where millions of computers are being compromised by malware. Monitoring TCP/UDP traffic can help a user protect their computer from active threats.
They can check all active connection those are trying to connect to internet or sending receiving packets.

PortExpert checks for open TCP or UDP ports that can be used by hackers to perform malicious activity on the system. A computer user must check for threats, virus or open ports, and they should run scans on a timely basis to detect and remove those threats from their computer.

Monitor TCP, UDP Ports

When a user launches PortExpert, they will see list of all TCP or UDP ports which are active and connected with their remote IP address. A user can double-click on any such active connection to dig further and learn more about that connection. The Freeze Time option can be used further to deactivate any connection.
The whois, feature can be used to learn more about the IP address location. It will open whois.domaintools.com website when an IP address is selected from the pool of active connection. By clicking on Search Web feature, a user can learn more about the current process which is currently accessing internet using active TCP/UDP connection.

The Show System Process, is another option using this user can check current active ports used by OS files. Show Local Connection will open current active UDP port connection and a user can select any such running process and read the basic information about the process ID and the Protocol (TCP, UDP) it is using to connect, local address and remote address with port number.

netstat command

Users can also check active connection using Windows in-built command line. To see all active network connection, open a command prompt window, type netstat and hit Enter. This command will show you the active TCP connections and ports with the physical computer name. Type netstat /? to list down all commands along with the task description.
Using netstat -n command will show TCP connections and ports with numerical or IP address instead of computers or services actual name. netstat -a and netstat -b are other few commands that can help user to check various active connections.

PortExpert free download

Go get it from it  home page.
Remember to download the Lite installer or the Portable version as otherwise you may be offered bundled software.

Multi-lingual spell checker for Windows

Get it Right Spell Checker: Multi-lingual spell checker for Windows

If you are a writer and using your Windows computer for writing, you might be using some spell checking software for sure. Spell Checking software reads through your write-up and flags the words that may not be spelled correctly. It compares each word in the document with the words in the dictionary.
There are many different spell checking softwares available and Get in Right spell checker from
SSuite Office is one of such stand-alone multi-lingual spell checker for Windows PC.
Get it Right is a lightweight software and lands on your Windows PC in just a couple of minutes. The program comes in a zipped file and you just need to extract and run on your system.

SSuite Office Get it Right multi-lingual spell checker for Windows

The program has a very simple and user-friendly interface. You just need to paste the word document in the blank window of ‘Get it Right Spell Checker’ and click on Start Checking. The software will scan the entire document and flag the words that are incorrect.
The software also suggests you the correct words for each flagged word in your document. It is featured with a large collection of dictionaries which include English, Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish dictionaries.

Get it Right spell checker also allows you to edit, delete, export or import the dictionaries. Furthermore, you can also create your own dictionary for any particular language or subject.
It is optimized for multi-core processors and lets you verify the spelling of words easily and quickly.



Overall, Get it Right Spell Checker from SSuite Office is a simple and useful software for those who often use their computer for creating documents. Although, it is very similar to the most of the spell checker available online which flag and rectify only the typing errors and not the phonetic or logical errors.
You can download it here.

Remote Mouse: Convert mobile phone into mouse and keyboard

If we want to stop a video or want to move to the next slide, which may be running on our Windows desktop, then we need to go to the desktop to do so manually. Have you ever thought of doing these tasks by just sitting at your place? Using Remote Mouse you can use your mobile phone or tablet as a set of mouse and keyboard to operate your computer. You need to install this app on your mobile and the software on your Desktop.

Remote Mouse review

There are many apps to control your computer remotely, but Remote Mouse has some additional features which makes it acceptable to  everyone. To begin using it, first you need to set it up in both, on you mobile phone as well as your computer.
Here are the steps:
Set Remote Mouse in both mobile and desktop and connect them remotely
First visit your Phone’s Store to install the Remote Mouse app in your device. It supports Windows Phone, Android as well as iPhone.
Next, visit the website of Remote Mouse and install the software on your Windows PC. As of now, you can download and install it for Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP.  Now, open it in your computer and mobile.
In order to connect your computer and mobile, both the devices should be in the same Wi-Fi network.

Now, you can connect the mobile to your computer through the IP Address or QR Scan, which are shown on the desktop, once you open the Remote Mouse on your computer.

Enter that IP Address or QR Scan Code and your mobile and computer got connected.
These are the 3 simple steps to set it up and connect mobile and computer. Now, everything is ready and you will be able to control your computer remotely, using the mobile or tablet, as mouse and keyboard.

Convert mobile phone or tablet into mouse and keyboard

There are many features in Remote Mouse. Apart from using it as mouse and keyboard, you can control playing videos, presentations and many more. We will look at them individually.

1] Using your mobile as mouse
After connecting your mobile with your computer remotely, you can use it as mouse by just tapping on the screen. There are some gestures to be followed to use left click, right click, scroll and drag. Here they are,
Left click = Single tap on the screen.
Right Click = Tap the screen with both the fingers.
Scroll = Move two fingers on the screen up and down to perform scroll from top to bottom.

You can even get the buttons and scroll which you see on the mouse on your mobile screen, by just enabling the Mouse option in Panels section which can be accessed through menu.
2] Using your mobile as Keyboard
Just tap on the keyboard icon and start typing it. You can see the text on mobile screen and computer. If you do not want the text to be displayed on the mobile screen, then you can toggle the Show Input Text option in Settings.

3] Open Applications of your desktop through mobile
Remote Mouse also provides you the feature of accessing applications present in computer. Just tap on the respective icon and it lists down all the applications available in your computer. You can open Notepad, word document, audio/video player, folders and many more.

4] Shutdown or hibernate your PC through mobile
You can even Shutdown, Restart, Logoff your Windows PC through your mobile using Remote Mouse. You can even put your PC in sleep mode and controls are displayed by tapping the power icon in the Remote Mouse app.

All these feature are of free of cost for both Android and iPhone users. If you want to use Spotify Remote, Media Control and Functional keyboard you need to pay separately for each of them.

5] Panels and Settings Sections
You can use Panels and Settings Sections from the Menu to toggle some options. You can show mouse keys, hid/show input text, enabling left hand mouse and more.

6] Air Mouse Mode
You can just shake the handheld device to move the mouse cursor on the desktop screen. In order to use this Air Mouse Mode, just press and hold the button on the screen of app and sway or shake mobile to move the cursor.

7] Set up a password for connection
You can even set up a password for connecting your mobile and computer remotely. For this, right click on the Remote Mouse icon (from quick launch) on desktop and click “Preferences”. Then tap on “Settings” tab and create password.

Now the next time, when you try to connect to computer, it asks for password. This is very important from a security point of view.
These are the things which you can do with Remote Mouse. This is really a good app to turn your mobile or tablet in to mouse and keyboard. You can control your PC right from your smart mobile. It is for free of cost and it very simple to set up and use.

Visit the home page and download Remote Mouse software for Windows. Get the app for your Windows Phone from the Windows Phone Store.
This tool is also available for Mac computers, Android Phones and iPhone.
You will be able to get the details on its home page.

How to uninstall and remove Superfish malware completely

The Superfish malware has been in news recently, with Lenovo pre-installing it on all their new computers. This post shows how to find out if your Lenovo computer has Superfish malware installed and offers instructions on how to uninstall it and remove it completely.

The Superfish malware replaces the advertisements on the website which the user visits, and replaces them with new advertisements which possibly benefit Lenovo and Superfish.
This raises security concerns, since, when it intercepts HTTPS encrypted webpage to replace its own ads, it creates a mix of secure and insecure content, laying open the path for other hackers to potentially carry out its own attacks.
If you bought a Lenovo laptop recently, you may want to first check if you have Superfish malware installed on it. If you find out that you do, then here are the steps you need to take to completely remove it from your computer.
After issuing a statement and expressing regret about it, Lenovo has posted instructions on how to go about uninstalling the malware completely.

Remove Superfish malware completely

1] Open Control Panel > Program and Features.



Here you will see an entry Superfish Inc. VisualDiscovery. Select it and click on Uninstall. Once the uninstallation in completed, restart your computer.
2] Now open a command prompt windows and type certmgr.msc and hit Enter, to open the Certificate Manager.

Certificates are digital documents used to manage network authentication and the exchange of information. The Certificate Manager or Certmgr.msc in Windows lets you see details about your certificates, export, import, modify, delete or request new certificates.
3] Under Certificates – Local Computer, expand Trusted Root Certification Authorities. You will see Certificates. Select it.



Now in the right side, you will see Superfish, Inc. Right-click on it and select Delete.
4] Windows will prompt you to confirm deletion. Click Yes and restart your device.

5] If you use Firefox browser, there is one more step you will have to carry out. Open Firefox Options > Advanced > Certificates > View Certificates. If you see a listing for Superfish, click on it and select Delete.




6] Finally to be doubly safe, run a full-scan of your antivirus software and restart your computer. Incidentally, Microsoft has updated Windows Defender. It now removes Superfish along with the root CA certificate.
You will have now completely removed Superfish malware from your computer.

UPDATE: Lenovo has released SuperFish Removal Tool, which makes its removal, a matter of a click.

Stay safe!

Quick Any2Ico: Create icon from image; extract image from icon

Quick Any2Ico is a tiny portable freeware that lets you create ICO icon files for your programs, websites or for any other purposes, as well as extract images from icon resource files. It works very efficiently and is completely customizable. It features both command line as well graphical user interface and it can even automatically set your image according to a square icon file.

Quick Any2Ico Icon creator & converter

There are two options given in the program

1. Convert From Any File or Folder
2. Extract from Any File or Folder

The first one means it will create an icon file from any specified graphic image file. The second option means it will extract images or icons from a given DLL file.

Create icon from image file

First of all, you need to select the source image, you can either choose it from your computer or extract it from some binary resource. Remember if you are extracting from a binary source, you need to enter the icon index.
The second step is about choosing the destination file and format. You can save the file in ICO as well as PNG format. Both the formats are converted very efficiently and properly.
In the third step, you need to choose the size and some other options. You can save the ICO file in following different sizes:

• 16×16
• 24×24
• 32×32
• 48×48
• 64×64
• 72×72
• 96×96
• 128×128
• 256×256
• 512×512

But if you are saving it as PNG, then the largest size will  automatically be saved. Quick Any2Ico offers PNG compression of larger formats in order to decrease the size of the ICO files. You can enable this option while conversion in order to generate ICO files of least possible size.

Then comes the basic automatic editing done by the program. If your selected image is not properly squared (icons are always square), the program can automatically square them before conversion.
Under this feature you get three options:

1. Centre: The selected file would be centred and then converted.
2. Crop: Selected file would be cropped to a square and there is a tendency that you may lose some part of the image.
3. Stretch: The image would be stretched to a square without losing any part of it.

Once you’ve chosen all these settings, you need to hit the ‘Convert It’ button and in a fraction of second the ICO file will be saved to the chosen location. The program is very easy to use and operate. The UI is very simple to understand and all the features are placed perfectly into it. You can even use the program from command line, you can know the commands from the program website.

Extract images or icons from DLL file

As mentioned earlier, his tool can help you in extracting icons from a DLL file. You can do one of the two following things:

1. Create individual icon files for all files contained in a DLL file (this would be a waste of time as you can select the icon by right clicking a folder whose icon you want to change, selecting properties, and then selecting Change Icon.)
2. Create image files in PNG format for the icon you select in the DLL file.

Overall, the software is useful and it was more than I expected in 230 KBs. The minor automation feature makes the process of making icons a breeze.

Click here to download Quick Any2Ico.

Kaspersky Software Updater helps keep your software up-to-date

It is important, not just to keep your Windows operating system and your security software fully updated,
but equally important that you keep your installed software fully up-to-date.
That is where software update checkers can help you.
New on the block is Kaspersky Software Updater, which also helps keep your software up-to-date.

Kaspersky Software Updater

Kaspersky Software Updater will perform a swift scan of your Windows PC to check for out-dated security-critical software. If any updates are available, it will let you update your PC software in just a few clicks.
The download is a 360KB web installer.Once you download it and run it the web installer will download the requite files required for installation. Once the files download is complete, the setup will begin. Once installed, you will be able to click on its desktop icon to start the scan.

The scan is quick. If any of your installed software need to be updated, you will be according informed and you can decide to update them. Of no updates are found, you will see a message Software is up to date. For details you can click on the Report link. Using its Settings, you will be able to schedule its scans.
This tool will add an entry to the start up list and want to run every time Windows starts.
You may take a call on this, and decide whether you want this to happen or you want to run it on-demand.

This free tools currently scan for updates available for Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash Player – Plugin & ActiveX, Adobe Reader, Adobe Shockwave Player, Sun Java, Oracle Java, Google Chrome, SeaMonkey, Opera, Firefox,  Thunderbird and a few other applications, but it is expected that this list will grow soon.
It is currently in Beta, but you can download it from the Kaspersky website.

It is quite possible that Kaspersky may decide to integrate this tool into your Internet security suites, which offers good protection. As mentioned, keeping installed programs fully updated is as important as updating your Windows and your security software. That is where this module will be helpful if it is included with Kaspersky Antivirus software.

How to Change Colors of Folder in Windows

Creating Folders with Different Colors in Windows

Microsoft’s Windows operating system have completed almost 30 years of successful run, with more and more features and user friendly user interface being added one after another
However Windows users still lack few of the features which they think should be enabled with their Windows OS. One of which is, feature which can enabled is to add “colors to folders” or to add different colors to different folders in Windows run PC.
You may think what is the use of “adding colors to Folder in Windows”, well colored folders looks more attractive and are easier to navigate.
While Microsoft does not provide any option to change colors of the folders in windows. few softwares available online may help you change colors of the folder as of your choice.
Here, in this article I will explain you a similar method which will help you to add different colors to folder in your Windows run PC.

How to Customize folders with different colors in Windows?
Tools Required : Folder Colorizer (Download for free from here)
Supported Operating System : Windows 8/7/Vista/XP
Download the Folder Colorizer software from the above provided link, the product provides options to add colors to folders and comes from a trusted vendor so it will not harm your PC.

• Download and install Folder Colorizer, if it asks to install Microsoft .Net 3.0 Framework, install it too.
• While installing the software be cautious as it may ask to install several other tools too, disable those installs
• After complete installation you may proceed with adding color to folders on your PC.
• Right click any folder to which you want to add color.
• After Right click select Colorizer Option from the menu.
• Next select the color which you want to add to the folder.
• the Color of the Folder will instantly change to selected color.

What if you want to change the color of the folder again? Just follow the same steps, select the folder–> Right Click–> Choose colorizer from menu–>click on the color which you want the folder to display.