Using Hands Off!, you can monitor and control Internet connections from all applications as to expose hidden connections and prevent them from sending data or phoning home without your consent.Īpplications present on your computer can freely read, store or erase information on your computer without your knowledge. When connected to the Internet, applications can send any information stored on your computer to whoever they want without you ever knowing. Being able to monitor the normally unnoticeable activities enables you to make informed decisions regarding the transfer of your private information, hence avoiding confidential information leakage. Hands Off! is an application to monitor and control the access of applications to your network and disks. Notifications with simple keyboard control.via rules for applications communicating through Unix tools.Prevents applications from storing cookies.Prevents applications from reading your files.

Protects from trojans, worms and network parasites.Prevents applications from phoning home.The flexible configuration enables the smooth running of your activities while maintaining top security. Specify which applications should be trusted with specific operations. Prevent viruses and other malware infiltration. Avert permanent changes or data loss by prohibitting disk writing. Manage disk access so dubious programs cannot obtain confidential information. Prevent them from sending data without your consent, hence avoiding information leakage. Keep an eye on Internet connections from all applications as to expose the hidden connections. 1500 as 'with hands clasped ' figurative sense of 'concurrently' recorded from 1570s.Protect your privacy. Hand-to-mouth 'said of a person who spends his money as fast as he gets it, who earns just enough to live on from day to day' is from c. Hand-to-hand 'in close contact,' of fighting, is from c. on the other hand is recorded from 1630s, a figurative use of the physical sense of hand in reference to position on one side or the other side of the body (as in the lefthand side), which goes back to Old English Hands up! as a command from a policeman, robber, etc., is from 1863, from the image of holding up one's hands as a token of submission or non-resistance. Adverbial phrase hand-over-fist (1803) is nautical, suggestive of hauling or climbing by passing the hands one before the other alternately. 1300 as 'within reach.' Out of hand (1590s) is opposite of in hand 'under control' (c. (mid-15c.) are from the notion of something being passed from hand to hand. 1200 specifically 'one's pledge of marriage' by late 14c.įirst hand, second hand, etc. The word in reference to the various uses of hands in making a pledge is by c. also 'one's style of penmanship' (early 15c.). The meaning 'handwriting' is from late 14c. The meaning 'playing cards held in one player's hand' is from 1620s that of 'a round at a card game' is from 1620s. The linear measure of 4 inches (originally 3) is from 1560s, now used only in giving the height of horses. The meaning 'round of applause' is from 1838. The meaning 'agency, part in doing something' is from 1590s. The meaning 'manual worker, person who does something with his hands' is from 1580s, hence 'hired workman' (1630s) and 'sailor in a ship's crew' (1660s). One ancient root ( *man- (2)), represented by Latin manus is the source of Old English mund 'hand,' but more usually meaning 'protection, guardianship a protector, guardian.' Indo-European 'hand' words tend to be from roots meaning 'seize, take, collect' or are extended from words originally meaning only a part of the hand (such as Irish lam, Welsh llaw, cognate with Latin palma and originally meaning 'palm of the hand'). The original Old English plural handa was superseded in Middle English by handen, later hands. Old English hond, hand 'the human hand ' also 'side, part, direction' (in defining position, to either right or left) also 'power, control, possession' (on the notion of the hand's grip or hold), from Proto-Germanic *handuz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch, German hand, Old Norse hönd, Gothic handus), which is of uncertain origin.

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