Category: Security

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.

Now Avira has also entered this field by launching their new product Avira Protection Cloud. It is a basic cloud antivirus that can scan the files in the cloud and find out if they are infected or not. It can also upload suspicious or unknown files to the Avira labs so they can analyze them. It does not upload all the files, but just generates their hashes and cross-checks the hash values with the Avira cloud to declare if the files are clean or infected.

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.