What would happen if you accidentally lose your mobile phone or someone steals it? Anybody who lays hands on your mobile can access and misuse all the information stored on your mobile. You cannot always prevent your mobile from being lost or stolen, but you can make sure no one takes advantage of it. With F-Secure Anti-Theft for Mobile you can be sure that your personal and confidential information will not be misused by anyone.
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Scan Your Computer with BitDefender Online Scanner
If your computer is infected with malware and your current antivirus solution is not able to detect or remove it, then you can scan your system with the BitDefender online scanner. The BitDefender online scanner is a free on-demand malware scanner which incorporates the award winning BitDefender scanning engines. Accessible from your browser, it will scan and automatically clean the system memory, in addition to all files and hard drive boot sectors.
Read moreRepair Corrupted Files Using Free File Repair Tool
The most annoying thing that we often come across after malware infection is that some of our files get damaged or become corrupted. If you try to open them in a default program, you get a message that the file is damaged. Fortunately, there is a tool called File Repair which can help you repair such corrupted files. The File Repair tool is a freeware which can repair many different kinds of files.
Read moreRemoving TDSS Rootkit (Google Redirects) Using TDSSKiller
TDSS is a nasty trojan that has both a rootkit component and a bot component. The rootkit is responsible for making the trojan files invisible on disk, and for providing hidden and encrypted storage for the bot component. The bot component connects to remote computers and makes the infected computer part of a botnet. It is also able to update, download and install additional malware.
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How to Restore a USB Flash Drive to Full Capacity
Often malware infects the USB disks in such a way that the capacity of the USB disks is reduced. For example, a 8GB USB flash key may show up only as a 500kb USB key in Windows. Even after you remove the malware or format such a disk, the capacity does not change and you are pretty much stuck. But thanks to a tiny software called BootIce, you can now format such a USB disk and restore them back to their original full capacity.
Read morePassword Protect Your USB Keys with USB Flash Security
Over the last few years USB keys have completely taken over the electronic storage world. They are are very convenient, portable and easy to carry around with oneself. Some of us like to keep our sensitive data stored on them and therefore we want the data on a USB key to be secured. The Kashu Systems of Japan have come up with a solution – USB Flash Security.
Read moreAutomatically Update SysInternals Tools Using Robocopy
The SysInternals tools from Microsoft, like Autoruns, Process Explorer etc., are very popular among Windows system administrators. These tools give you the power to control and manage many different parts of Windows system with ease. The SysInternals tools are updated from time to time in order to fix bugs and introduce new features. The only possible way to update your collection of SysInternal tools is to download them individually and copy them to your folder where you have these tools.
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How to Restore EXE File Association in Windows
The usual problem people report after getting rid of malware is that nothing happens when they start to run a program. Often Windows shows a dialog reporting that no program is associated with it for performing this action. One of the reasons why this problem arises is that the malware has messed with EXE file associations in the Windows registry.
Read moreProtect Your Mac with Free Sophos Antivirus
Many of the Mac lovers seem to believe that viruses can only hit Windows based computers and Mac is virtually safe from any malware infection. Even though security experts had not seen Mac infections earlier but this is not the case anymore. More and more Macs are becoming infected with malware. Seeing this new trend, the leading security vendor Sophos has released an antivirus for Mac called the Sophos Antivirus for Mac. It is free for home use.
Read moreRecover Deleted Files Using Recuva
Have you deleted an important file only to realize it a minute later? Have you emptied your Recycle Bin only to find out that there was some file you wanted? Well, do not sit there biting your finger. Download Recuva – a free software which can help your recover your deleted or lost files and folders from your computer, pen drives, digital camera or MP3 players.
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