Category: Security

Every year millions of dollars are siphoned by the cyber criminals from the bank accounts of ordinary users. This is done by injecting malware into your web browser and monitoring your financial activity. This can be avoided by using the free HitmanPro Alert software that warns you if a program is trying to compromise the critical functions of your web browser. It can successfully thwart the attempts of well known trojans like Zeus, SpyEye, Shylock and more.

HitmanPro is a second opinion malware detection and removal tool. It gives you a second opinion about the possible infections on your PC that your regular antivirus is not able to detect. You can use it alongside your regular antivirus software. It uses the cloud based malware detection technology from the antivirus software leaders like Kaspersky, Bitdefender and Emsisoft.

Sometimes when you try to delete a file in Windows, it fails to be deleted no matter how many times you try. The basic reason for such deletion problems is that the file is in used by the Windows system or some other program and cannot be deleted. Such files can be deleted easily upon reboot if you set them to be deleted automatically upon restart using the freeware tool BootDeleter. This freeware tool can set any locked file to be deleted on Windows restart.

Suspicious programs running on your computer, strange popup windows and unusual hard disk activity are some of the telltale signs of malware infection in Windows. But if you want to be sure, then you can use the free SanityCheck software to analyze your computer and see if some of the programs running on your PC are really questionable and whether they should be further investigated.

After a few months of PC use, it starts to become sluggish and takes longer time in finishing the usual tasks. This may be due to many factors including hardware problem, operating system settings and incompatible software installed on your PC. The free McAfee TechCheck utility can test your PC against any possible software and hardware issues.

Encrypting your files or folders becomes necessary if you want to hide some of your secret documents from the eyes of strangers. If you have your files encrypted and some hackers break into your computer, even then they will not be able to get any information because its all encrypted. The free Challenger program can help you encrypt files and folders easily. It has a drag-n-drop interface that makes encrypting files a piece of cake.

A strong password is a password that is not easy to be guessed, is very tough to be cracked using brute force techniques and gives a hacker a very hard time trying to break into your online accounts. Although you can manually create strong passwords by following some basic rules, it is always better to let a program like Awesome Password Generator generate random strong password for you. The Awesome Password Generator is a free program that can create very strong passwords in bulk.

My friend contacted me with a problem – her employees were using the Tor browser to visit some objectionable websites. I came up with a simple solution – blocking the Tor related applications from being run. This can be done easily using a freeware application called Process Blocker. The Process Blocker software monitors your system for specific programs and blocks them from being run even when you rename them or change their file path.

The svchost.exe program is a genuine Microsoft program that helps run various system services like Windows Updates, Network Connections and more, only and only if it is located in the C:\Windows\System32 folder (or whatever folder your %windir%\System32 points to). If this file is located in a folder different from this, then most probably it is a virus, trojan or some other malicious object.

Everyone has some secret documents, if not from their secret love life then from their financial life. You can use all sorts of programs from encryption software to folder hiders to keep your secret documents safe, but the subtlest way is to use steganography techniques provided by freeware called DeepSound and hide your secret documents inside another audio file. Nobody would suspect that your MP3 files are actually a shelter for your private documents.