Category: Security

If you share your computer with your family, relatives or friends, then you know that how carelessly they mess around with your PC. You sometimes wonder – what is going on this computer! Well, you do not have to wonder any longer. Now you can use free History Viewer to find out what has been recently happening on your computer. It can show you the Windows history and browser history for multiple web browsers.

We have previously covered MyLockbox which is a free software to password protect your private folders. There is another similar folder locking tool called HiddenDIR. HIddenDIR is a small free tool that helps you protect your privacy by hiding in a few moves your private folders, invisible to anyone who has access to your PC, hidden folders visible only if you have access to the program that you can save in any directory or USB device.

Often it happens that you try a new software on your Windows system and it installs toolbars and makes other changes that you never wanted in the first place. And if you are hit with a nasty malware, then that malware can make many unknown and undesirable changes in your Windows settings. But thanks to ToolWiz Time Freeze, now you can revert all the changes made to your Windows system easily.

If your computer has become infected with malware, then you may use the free Emsisoft Emergency Kit to repair and clean your PC from malware infection. The Emsisoft Emergency Kit contains a collection of programs that can be used without a software installation to scan and clean infected computers for malware. The kit includes the Emsisoft emergency scanner and the command line scanner to remove all the traces of malware found on your PC.

One of the common symptoms of your system getting infected with malware is browser hijacking – your browser is taken over by the malware to redirect you to malicious sites in such a way that you cannot alter the browser settings. But now you can avoid browser hijacking problems using the free Browser Protect tool available for the three major web browsers – Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Everyone carries a USB pen disks or SD card with them these days. These storage devices are vulnerable to malware infection and can also cause malware to spread from one computer to another. Often these storage devices are used on multiple computers which increases the risk further. The best practice to follow is to immunize your USB keys, micro SD cards etc. against such malware. The free Bitdefender USB Immunizer tool can help you protect your removable drives against such threats.

Though all kinds of malware are bad, but the nastiest of all are the banking trojans like SpyEye, Zeus etc. They infect your system and steal your banking account information when you try to carry out banking transactions online. FitSec has developed a tool called DeBank using which you can find out if your system is infected with five major banking trojans – Zeus, SpyEye, Carberp, Gozi and Patcher and all their variants.

It is no secret that the files you download from the internet may possibly be infected with a malware. If you try to open those infected files on your computer, then your system might also get infected. But you can choose a safe practice of scanning each downloaded file before you open them. Your installed antivirus works well for this, but you can use JottiQ for enhanced scanning with multiple anti-virus engines.

If you use the internet regularly, then you are exposed to the threat of the malware everyday. It is always better to protect yourself from getting infected in the first place, but even if you get infected with some malware, you can use the free IObit Malware Fighter to scan and remove the malware from your computer. The free edition of the IObit Malware Fighter not only allows you to scan and remove malware on your computer, but also provides the realtime protection.

If you have to send some private or secret message (for example, an email message) to someone, then you would want to encrypt that message with a strong encryption cipher. The open source Scrambled Egg program helps you do just that. It supports three step encryption – yes, it can encrypt your message three times – making the cracking of the message completely impossible. In the first step, it uses basic methods like ROT13, BZ2 or ZLIB. In the second step, it uses powerful ciphers like Blowfish, AES and RSA