Category: Security

When you connect to a secure Wi-Fi network for the Internet access, you have to supply a username and password. Usually this password is given to you by your office, university, school, hotel or some other organization. But if you forget your Wi-Fi password in the middle of the night, you cannot connect to the Internet. Thanks to the freeware Wi-Fi Password Revealer, now you can find out your forgotten wireless network passwords easily, all by yourself.

There are so many tools for encryption in Windows that can easily encrypt your files at the click of a button. For example, tools like AXCrypt can make encryption of files as easy as right-clicking on them in Windows. But what about Mac? If you want to encrypt files in Mac, then you can use the free Cryptor tool for Mac. It can encrypt your files using many of the well known ciphers like DES and Blowfish.

When a malware infects your PC, it makes many changes to your computer. For example, it can change the proxy settings to redirect your browsing traffic to malicious servers, it can turn off your Windows firewall so that all programs have unchecked access to the Internet and so on. Even after you have cleaned the malware some of these settings remain on your PC. You can use freeware Rizone Security Restore to restore the default Windows security settings back in your PC.

Even if you have installed an antivirus product, some new unknown malware can still slip through its defenses and infect your computer. This is why you should use a second anti-malware product on your PC as second layer of defense. For finding out whether some malware has slipped into your system, you can use the free Trend Micro HouseCall. It is an online virus scanner that can scan through your PC and fix a great number of threats like viruses, trojans, worms, spyware and more.

Browser helping objects (BHO) are third party add-ons in Internet Explorer which are supposed to add new features and functions in Internet Explorer web browser. For example, the Adobe PDF Reader adds a BHO that helps you open PDF files right inside the Internet Explorer window. While there are some useful and good BHOs, there are some malicious BHOs too which hijack your web browser to carry out unwanted actions. You can remove these malicious BHOs with the help of freeware SpyBHORemover tool.

The password protected PDF files are becoming a new trend. They are great if you do not want anyone else other than the intended recipient to view the contents. But if you forget the password to open the PDF file, then there is nothing much to do but to ask the sender for the password. In case you have forgotten the password to a locked PDF file, then you can use the Free PDF Unlocker software to find the password and unlock it.

Malwarebytes, popular for their anti-malware product, has now acquired the Anti-Exploit software from the Zero Vulnerability Labs team. This software is capable of protecting you against 0-day vulnerabilities, web based exploits and other exploits that cannot be handled by your regular antivirus products. It can protect more than a dozen of various Windows applications including your web browsers and email client apps.

The importance of using secure and not-easy-to-guess passwords becomes evident with the latest news of hacking done by the security agencies of some countries. The first step of staying secure online is to use very obscure, lengthy and random passwords so that nobody can guess them or use dictionary attack methods of hacking. If you cannot think of a secure password, then the freeware program RandPass can help you generate secure random passwords.