Category: Security

How many times have we encountered infected USB keys. These USB keys start to infect your computer as soon as you insert them in your computer. Phrozen Soft has come up with a safety plan against such infected USB keys – Phrozen Safe USB which is a simple application that helps you to toggle on or off the USB storage devices on your computer.

RouterPassView is a small Windows application created by Nir Sofer. It can be used to recover your forgotten router passwords. It support a number of different router models and can save the recovered passwords into plain text, CSV or HTML files.

Panda Cloud Antivirus is free cloud based antivirus. This means that it scans your files on the cloud, thus reducing the processing power used from your local computer. Because the scanning is done on the cloud, therefore it is considerably faster. The cloud technology also makes sure that scanning is always performed using the latest virus definitions.

There are several reasons for you to be wanting anonymity on the internet. The Tor Project presents with an easy, secure and safe solution to acquire anonymity. Tor is short for The Onion Router. When you connect through the Tor network, your data is encrypted several times through different nodes and it becomes impossible for anyone to decipher it. The Tor network also assigns you a different IP address and thus hides your real IP address effectively.

An average internet user has to remember dozens of different passwords for various websites. On top of that, all these passwords should be secure. SmartUtils Easy Password has come to your rescue. It is a free tool to generate secure passwords for any site instantly, based on your master password so that you only have to remember one master password.

The makers of the popular free AVG antivirus have come up with another free product – AVG Secure Search. It is a browser plugin for Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox that filters malicious or harmful websites and links from your search results. It can show you ratings for all the links that appear when you search for something using AVG Secure Search.

Named similar to Microsoft’s Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), Comodo Security Essentials (CSE) is a powerful anti-malware tool that can help you detect and remove viruses and malware from an infected Windows computer. It scans various areas of your PC like memory, registry, files, boot sectors etc. and reports if it finds any malware. It supports both the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows.

When you connect to the internet you are given an IP address which can be used to identify you and locate you geographically on the map. Even after you disconnect from the internet, you can be tracked by the data you leave behind linked to that IP address. CyberGhost VPN is a free virtual private networking (VPN) service that allows you to hide your IP address, surf the web anonymously, access the blocked sites in your country, hinder the websites from tracking you and more.

Gauss Malware is the new threat for Windows users. It is a surveillance malware which is designed to steal you bank information from your computer along with as much other information as it can. It is similar to similar surveillance malware like Stuxnet and Flame which have infested Windows users in the recent past. While security companies are still busy analyzing this new malware, they have found a way to check if someone is infected with this Gauss malware.

DiskCryptor is a free Windows application that allows you to encrypt all the partitions including the system partition (on which the Windows operating system is installed). You can use the AES, Twofish and Serpent encryption ciphers and their combinations for encrypting the partitions. It features on-the-fly transparent disk encryption for all the partitions.