Category: Security

Privacyfix is a Firefox extension that can help you lockdown your online privacy settings to keep you safe from the snooping eyes of people. It works inside the Firefox browser and checks your Facebook and Google settings to detect any settings that might expose your personal data to everyone. The Privacyfix extension scans for privacy issues not only for your Facebook and Google profiles but also for the other sites that you visit and the companies tracking you.

Spyware Terminator is a free anti-spyware solution for Windows. If your system is infected then it can help you remove the malware from your PC. If your PC is not infected, then it can protect your PC from malware and keep it protected. Spyware Terminator can search and remove many different types of threats like spyware, adware, home page hijackers and other malware threats.

Using the free avast! antivirus is a great way to keep your Windows PC free of all kinds of malware and other threats. It comes with many components like file shield, web shield, script shield and many others. If you have enabled the web shield component of the avast! antivirus, then it not only blocks the malicious items on a website but also gives you ability to block an entire website through the SiteBlock tool.

Whenever you insert a USB disk drive into your Windows computer, it makes some entries in the Windows registry. These entries can later be used to view which USB disk drives have been used on your PC. This can be a privacy issue for some people, who do not want others to see which USB drives have been in use on their PC. You can use USBOblivion which is a free utility that can be used to erase all the traces of USB disks and CD ROMs from your PC.

We have previously covered an article on how to wipe your hard disk using the Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) CD. This requires burning the downloaded ISO disk image onto a blank CD and booting off this DBAN CD. But many people do not like to boot from the CD, because CDs are slower compared to USB drives. Now you can easily create a bootable DBAN USB thumb drive and boot from this USB drive to wipe your hard disk.

avast! Browser Cleanup tool can be used to remove unwanted toolbars and other add-ons from your installed browsers. avast! Browser Cleanup supports the three most popular web browsers – Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It works by collecting the information about your installed add-ons and then sending it to the avast! servers. Then it displays the add-ons with low rating and offers you to remove them.

The HOSTS file in Windows, Linux and Mac is used to locally map the website addresses to their IP addresses. This feature can be used to block malicious and inappropriate web sites on your computer. The free software Hostsman can automatically download and update your HOSTS file from the well known sources like MVPS Hosts, hpHosts etc. to block known malicious, phishing and attack sites.

Cyber criminals are doing everything to steal your passwords and login information for various sites (including your online banking accounts). They make use of special malware called keyloggers to capture your login credentials. You can protect your passwords from being stolen by using free KeyScrambler Personal. It is a free software that can scramble (or encrypt) your passwords as you enter them on a webpage.

Rootkits are one of the worst kind of malware that are specially crafted to hide their presence from the operating system and usually have the highest level of access to your computer. You cannot detect rootkits using the ordinary methods of detection. You need a special software like Bitdefender Rootkit Remover to detect and remove any rootkits hiding on your system. The Bitdefender Rootkit Remover tool can detect and remove known rootkits quickly and effectively.