Category: Security

Webroot System Analyzer is a free application for Windows that helps you detect risky security problems on your computer. Some of these problems can easily be overlooked by an ordinary user but can later pause a big threat to your system security. Webroot System Analyzer enlists all these problems so that you an take an appropriate action for all those problems.

Have you deleted an important file by accident and want it back desperately? Do not worry, FreeRecover is here to rescue. FreeRecover is a free and open source software that can help you recover your deleted files back. FreeRecover allows you to search though and preview deleted files to find lost data. It also gives you an estimate of the integrity of the deleted files – indicating the probability of recovering the data from a file.

Often people ask how they can increase their overall system security in order to prevent any possible malware infection. The usual response to this sort of question is a big list of do’s and don’ts and various software applications to be installed so that your system stays safe. Now Microsoft has stepped up and created a program called Microsoft Malware Prevention Troubleshooter which checks your system settings and adjusts them to boost your system security.

Often we send and receive sensitive and personal information through email messages. This sensitive information would be visible to any hacker or a snoopy colleague. To prevent hackers from reading these sensitive email, you can encrypt the email messages that you send or receive. This is where Enlocked comes in – it can encrypt the email messages in transit, rendering them unreadable except by the intended recipient from their email client

It is now well established that the Mac users are vulnerable to the malware attacks to the same extent as the Windows users are. So if you think that you, being a Mac user, are invincible from malware, then you are putting your financial and personal information stored in your computer at risk. If you do not want to pay for a commercial anti-virus product, then you can use free Dr.Web Light Scanner – a free anti-virus application for Mac OS.

You can check that unknown program using online services like VirusScan or Jotti and see if they are malicious in nature. But its tedious to manually check each and every application against these online services to verify if they are okay or may cause harm. Now you can use freeware System Security Guard to automatically scan all the running programs against such services and verify them if they are malware.

Contents of files are not destroyed when you delete them in Windows. It just removes their entries from the file table of your filesystem – making the space used by them available for other files. This makes it possible for you to recover the deleted files using appropriate tools. Wise Data Recovery is a free tool for Windows that helps you recover your deleted files.

Metascan is an online service similar to VirusTotal that helps you scan a file using multiple antivirus engines. According to Metascan – no single antivirus solution is perfect and may omit detection of some of the malware. The same malware can be detected by some other antivirus which itself may overlook another kind of virus. But when you scan a file with multiple antivirus engines, the probability of detection failures or false detection is reduced drastically.

Predator is a very secure and fast way to lock down your Windows PC. It turns your simple USB flash drive into a locking and unlocking device. What can be a faster and simpler way, than to just remove the USB key and walk away? If you find your colleagues routinely try to snoop into your PC when you are away, then Predator is the solution to your troubles.