Belarc Advisor works like a security consultant that makes detailed profile of a user's hardware and installed software which includes network inventory, status of the currently installed anti-virus and security benchmarks. It conduct assessment on the computer's weak points, checking if Windows security has been patched or if the antivirus installed is up to date. It utilizes the benchmark test of CIS or the Center for Internet Security, to score to computer's overall level of security and generates a report which can be viewed through a Web browser. The comprehensive report contains the assessment of the operating system components and software, gives the location of the problem, the computer's physical components and RAM capacity including which parts of it are occupied. The software does not fix the problems of the computer but instead gives advice on how to solve or correct the issues and problems reported. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and runs on Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, NT 4, Me, Windows 98, and Windows 95 operating system.
Microsoft Internet Explorer or most commonly known as Internet Explorer was developed by Microsoft in 1995. It is a graphical web browser which is included as part of the different versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is one of the commonly used browsers of most Windows users. Since its first release in 1995, different versions have come out, the latest one being the Internet Explorer 10. It was designed in order to give its users the capability of viewing large range of web pages and at the same time be able to give its users features that can be used within the operating system that is installed on their computer which includes Microsoft Update. It uses the same accessibility framework which was also provided in computers that run Windows. It is also known as an interface being used when running FTP.
Google Chrome is a web browser that was developed by Google and is being offered for free. Webkit rendering engine is being used in order to display different web pages. It allows its users to have the capability of creating shortcuts on their desktops which has the ability to launch different web applications using the browser. Users have the ability of installing different themes for Google Chrome which can be done by accessing option. Google Chrome was released in three different channels which are the Beta, Developer and Stable. A beta version was released for Android which allows its users to synchronize this with the ones that they have on their desktop in order for them to have the same browser tabs as well as bookmarks together with hardware acceleration and page pre-rendering. An iOS version was also released for Apple devices.
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source Web browser created for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, harmonized by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox utilizes the Gecko layout engine to provide Web pages, which implements present and projected Web standards. The Multiple Network Graphic is stored in files with MNG format and is attach with MNG file extension and is utilized as format for graphic images animation. These are normally categorized as raster image files that symbolized PNG for Web animation. These files substituted GIF animations and make use of either lousy or lossless data compression, having the basic structure and portion as the PNG format but with a extra compound signature and larger range of portions used for animation. They contain bitmap indexed colors works in animations, slide shows, or complex still frames, composed of multiple PNG or JPEG Network Graphic (JNG) single-image data streams like PNG. The first version MNG 1.0 was introduced on Jan 31, 2001 and some of its known supporters are Gwenview, Mozilla, Netscape, Sony Ericsson and Sphere game engine.
Apple Safari is a type of Web browser that is integrated on most Mac computers, particularly those with operating systems Mac OS X and iOS. However, there is also a version of this Web browser found in later versions of Microsoft Windows, which are Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Many features are found and designed on Safari, which include the following: a resizable Web search box using Yahoo!, Google or Bing, bookmark management and integration with Address book, inbuilt password management using Keychain, bookmark search with history, expandable text boxes, option to save webpage clips that are viewable on Apple Dashboard, auto-fill of Web forms, support for ICC color profile, PDF viewing, integration of iPhoto, private browsing, popup ad blocking tool, Quartz style font smoothing, spelling checker, Web feeds reading and subscription, mail integration, and support for CSS animation and CSS 3 Web fonts. Among the newest and improved features are Smart Search field, iCloud tabs, tab view and sharing of photos or posting of status to Facebook or Mail.