Monday 23 March 2009

The range of utility software

C) As additional information, you will describe the range of utility software currently available. You will include this in tabular form on your blog, containing utility type and detailed descriptions of the use and purpose of the utility.



Utility Sofware
Description
Purpose


Firewalls

Is a software program and is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. The reason to update your PC every day or week is because the new viruses out there developed every day or every five minutes around the world so in order to detect the latest malicious programs for example worms or viruses
The effect of a Anti-virus is to detect and respond to malicious software such as worms or viruses some time the anti-virus software does not recognize the latest virus program. So to secure the computer anti-virus you must needs to update you PC every day or ones a week.


Disk defragmenters
Disk defragmenters it can detect computer files whose contents are stored on the hard disk in disjointed fragments, and move the fragments together to increase efficiency.
The purpose of the disk defragmenters is to detect computer files and to move then fragment files.


Backup
It can transfer data from one computer to another from the web server. It can transfer anything for example text, images, music video, file.
The purpose is to help recover and back up files. It checks your network and the amount of data that has been transferred.


Virus Scanner

Virus Scanner is a program that checks if there are any viruses in the computer. For example a Virus Scanner has to be up-to-date, because the viruses can change continuously and the are new viruses every five minutes around the world. It Also can be implemented in both hardware and software, and helps to limit online access to only those with proper authorization.
To provides additional security against hackers To install the security again hackers you will have to check your installation for security risks and provide with the corrective tools, such as the one for renaming your table prefix if it’s currently the default wp and the one that hides your Word press version mentioned above.

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