Firewalls are used to control inbound and outbound network traffic, i.e. control connections sending information to and from your computer. For example, it helps stops connections sending ‘bad’ information to your pc, and prevent connections going out from your pc.
If you currently do not have a firewall, you should get one now. A free firewall which you can try to download and install is Comodo Firewall.
As of today, the latest version of Comodo Firewall is version 3. However, there have been reports that some people have trouble getting version 3 of Comodo Firewall to work with their pc. In such a case, you should try downloading and installing the slightly older version of Comodo Firewall 2.4 at the FileHippo site.

Besides obvious attacks from computer viruses, computers may also be attacked or have already been invaded by more subtle programs called spyware. Although some antivirus programs can also help remove or prevent spyware infection, most of these will not be as effective as actual antispyware programs.

For this reason, I recommend all users also install a antispyware program (from a trusted source) (please do not just download any old antispyware program) on their computer.

** Many spyware, viruses, trojans and other ‘baddies’ will pop up advertisement or have sites which state that they are antispyware or antivirus program (so please ONLY download programs from trusted or reliable sources, preferably straight from the actual website of the actual software, and preferably only after you read at least a few of reviews from a few trusted sites)

One antispyware program I can recommend is SUPERAntiSpyware.
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I previously thought use of antivirus programs to protect against computer viruses was common knowledge, but as a tech support guy, I’ve now realise there are still many people out there who either don’t have an antivirus program or are not using it properly.
So I’ve posted this for the sake of educating those about antivirus programs and how to use them properly.
Hopefully, with greater knowledge, you’ll be better able to protect your computer and the important project, video, music, and other files.
** First of all, if you do NOT currently have an antivirus program installed on your computer, get one NOW!!! A free and good antivirus program you can download and install is Avira.
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Hi everyone, welcome to today’s tutorial on modeling of a human figure. This is the 3rd part of a multi-part tutorial on modeling a human figure. Specifically, we will be modeling the lower leg today.

This tutorial is based on the excellent modeling tutorial found at http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp

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Hi everyone, welcome to today’s tutorial on modeling of a human figure. This is the 2nd part of a multi-part tutorial on modeling a human figure. Specifically, we will be modeling the foot today.

This tutorial is based on the excellent modeling tutorial found at http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp

You should check out that tutorial for another way to model the human figure. Btw, the reference images are also taken from that site. Hats off to Michel Roger for originally creating that tutorial.

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Hi everyone, welcome to today’s tutorial on modeling of a human figure. This is the 1st part of a multi-part tutorial on modeling a human figure. Specifically, we will be setting up the reference images today.

This tutorial is based on the excellent modeling tutorial found at http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp

You should check out that tutorial for another way to model the human figure. Btw, the reference images are also taken from that site. Hats off to Michel Roger for originally creating that tutorial.

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Hi everyone, today we’ll continue to look at ms office word, and a little bit of excel, to see how you can use mailmerge to quickly print out a list of letters, to be sent to different recipients and corresponding addresses, using a single page as a template and data in an excel file (don’t worry, its not that difficult, once you try it at least once).

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Hi everyone, today we’ll continue to look at powerpoint. However, we’ll be looking at creating a cascading picture effect.

This effect is based on a powerpoint file which I had helped changed, to use for the new slides my boss had wanted to use for a presentation. Essentially, the effect is to create a cascading effect, as pictures ‘drop’ or cascade from different locations, to fall into place besides each other (looks better than it sounds).

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Hi everyone, its been a grueling few weeks, but the multi-part tutorial for modeling a tank is finally complete, so today I decided to do something a little different.

Actually, today’s tutorial is based on the task assigned to me to create a powerpoint presentation. In the end, we did not actually used the motion path animation in the slides, but it was an interesting animation, and because of that I decided that today we’ll be looking at a tutorial on powerpoint, specifically how to use motion path animation in powerpoint, which involves making an object in powerpoint move along a path we have created.

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Hi everyone, welcome to today’s continuation of the multi-part tutorial on modeling of a tank. This is the 11th and last part of a multi-part tutorial on creating a military tank. Today, we look at using tread and treadPath objects (created in previous tutorial) to create tracks for the tank wheels.

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