Category: Security

When you find about a new website, the first thought that comes to your mind is if that website is safe to visit. Its perfectly normal to be a little careful about unknown websites because some of the websites are used for drive-by-download malware infection. In addition to protecting your PC with a standard anti-virus product, you can check if a website is safe to visit or not, using the free Comodo Web Inspector service.

Bots are malicious software that infect your computer and let it be controlled by cyber-criminals remotely. When a bot malware like SpyEye, Zbot, Zeus etc., infect your computer they take over your PC and allow the cyber-criminals through a command and control center. The free software BotRevolt blocks the known IP addresses used by these bots and thus disrupts the bot activity for an infected Windows machine.

Sality is a family of polymorphic malware that has been around since 2003. It can infect all the executable files on your PC, connect to the internet through P2P mechanism to download more malware, setup malicious proxy servers on your computer, send spam to your contacts and so on. It uses advanced techniques to avoid detection. Fortunately some instances of Sality malware can be cleaned while other infected files which have been damaged beyond repair can be removed.

Virut is a botnet malware family that has been infecting computers since it first appeared in 2006. Through these years it has modified and updated itself with advanced anti-detection techniques so that it does not get caught by regular antivirus products. It uses many polymorphic and encryption techniques that make it so difficult to detect. But by using the right tools, you can detect and remove it from your system very easily.

SecureAge SecureAPlus is a combination of standard antivirus and application blocker. It can not only detect and remove malware, viruses, trojans, rootkits etc. from your computer, but it can also whitelist which applications you want to run on your PC. It uses the free ClamAV antivirus engine and definitions along with its own application whitelisting technology.

RegRun Reanimator is a malware removal tool for removing viruses, trojans, rootkits, malware and other nasty stuff from your PC. The software has a malware removal process that works through a support system. You create a system report, send it to Reanimator support team, and they would send you back a script to remove the detected malware. The word Reanimator implies the generation of a alive registry script that can remove malware from your system.

Its not that it has not happened before, but when you accidentally delete your important files, you really get very much panicked about the lost files. But there is nothing to worry about as their is still some hope left for recovering of your deleted files. When the files are deleted their entries are removed but their contents are still present on your hard disk. You can recover deleted files using a specialized software like Puran File Recovery.

People think that whatever they do online is safe and nobody knows about it. But the truth is that your identity is revealed whenever you go online. Your IP address can reveal your geolocation, your ISP and much more. You can surf the internet anonymously only after hiding your IP address. The freeware application SafeIP allows you to hide your IP address and protects your online identity.

Everyday new types and variants of malware are seen on the internet. Most of these malware rely on fooling the users into believing that they are useful software. Fortunately, there are more than one tools available to fight back and remove such malicious software from your PC. The Panda Cloud Cleaner is such a tool that can detect and remove the malware from your PC. Since it uses cloud based malware definitions, it always stays up-to-date.

There are many programs that allow you to find the license keys of software installed on Windows, but what about Mac users? Fortunately, the developers of Magical Jellybean Software have come with a solution for Mac and its called Mac Product Key Finder. This software does what Windows Product Key Finder does for the Windows PC. It is able to detect and decipher license keys of nearly two hundred different applications.