Category: Security

The new generation of the cyber criminals fool people into believing that their systems are infected and then offer a costly but fake antivirus software. Unsuspecting people easily fall into their trap and end up not only paying for the rogue fake security software but also expose their financial information to these crooks. A free software called Remove Fake Antivirus can help you get rid of some of these fake antivirus software from your PC.

If your hard disk is corrupted, crashed or damaged then it will not be possible to recover data from it using the normal read functions of Windows operating system. Windows will get stuck while reading the corrupted hard disk and your system would hang. But if you use DataRescue DD program, then it can read and save all possible data from undamaged sectors of the corrupted hard disk or memory cards.

Perhaps you already know that your internet IP address is your identity on the internet. It can be used to identify you and locate you geographically on the world map. Free Hotspot Shield VPN is a free virtual private networking (VPN) service that allows you to hide your IP address, surf the web anonymously and more.

Java has recently been under severe criticism by security experts for many of the vulnerabilities that it exposes your system to. Many of the security companies like ESET are suggesting that you disable the Java plugin in your web browsers to prevent a potential hacker from attacking your system through these known or unknown vulnerabilities. Even though Oracle has patched all the known security holes, some experts are still not sure if you should enable Java soon.

Recent DDoS attack against Spamhaus and later CloudFlare showed everyone the vulnerability present in the DNS system. This is why a new technology called DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) has been developed. Unlike the regular DNS, DNSSEC digitally signs the root of the domain being resolved making it harder to hijack the DNS resolution process. While DNSSEC support is present in browsers like Google Chrome, you can add it to Mozilla Firefox using a free extension called DNSSEC Validator.

Most of the mobile devices today come with one or other type of anti-theft protection. This anti-theft protection allows you various remote actions like locking, sending messages or erasing data in case your mobile device gets stolen or lost. If you have a Windows computer, then you can install free IPFetcher software to get a similar anti-theft functionality in it too.

Often we find ourselves trapped in the net of addictive websites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and many more, instead of finishing our work. If you are finding difficulty in finishing your work due to the addiction of these time wasters, then you can force yourself away from them using free Cold Turkey. Cold Turkey is a freeware for Windows that allows you to block time wasting sites for a specified period of time.

We have covered Panda USB Vaccine in a previous article. Panda USB Vaccine can protect your USB disks against autorun viruses and malware, by creating a un-removable autorun.inf on the root folder of your USB disk. According to Panda Security, this can be removed only by formatting the USB disk. But there is a workaround.

Metascan is an online tool for scanning suspicious files using more than forty different antivirus engines. Now they have released a new tool called Metascan client which can automatically scan all the running processes on your system with Metascan online virus scanner. This is a simple and easy way to find out if your system is infected.