Category: Security

Sometimes we just pick up very easy or small password out of laziness. But choosing an easy to guess
password may cost you way more than you can think. McAfee is offering a free password analyzer tool
using which you can test if your password is strong enough. This tool is not only checks the strength
of your password but also suggests various means to protect yourself with a strong password which is
not easy to crack.

Facebook has become the largest social networking website in recent years. But with increase in the number of Facebook users, the scam links being posted on Facebook have also increased. The security blog of many security software vendors is full of Facebook scam reports. Now you can block such scam posts and malware links on Facebook with the help of free Using Protection service.

Panda ActiveScan is an advanced free online scanner from Panda Security Labs. It is based on Collective Intelligence (scanning in-the-cloud) that detects malware that traditional security solutions cannot detect. Even though you have an antivirus product installed, yet you can have the benefit of a second opinion using the Panda ActiveScan online scanner. Panda ActiveScan can detect various hidden threats on your PC.

F-Secure Health Check is a free application from F-Secure Corporation (the makers of F-Secure Internet Security), that tells you if your computer is protected and helps you fix possible security issues. It can tell you if your firewall, antivirus, and anti-spyware software is on and up-to-date. It can also tell whether your photographs, text documents, and other irreplaceable files are automatically backed up.

Sometimes some files get locked because they are opened by other programs and become impossible to delete. There are also many cases when some malicious program (malware) puts such files on your system and lock them in such a way that you cannot delete them. If you try to delete them, you get many kinds of errors like the file is in use by another program or user.

Most of the malicious programs (also called malware) make entries in the Windows registry in such a way that you are not able to rid of them easily. These registry keys are crafted using special methods and therefore they cannot be removed or accessed using the software which use the normal Windows API calls. You can remove such obstinate registry keys using a special tool called RegASSASIN from MalwareBytes – the makes of the popular anti-malware software.

If your computer is infected with malware and you do not have an antivirus product installed, then you can use the Windows Live OneCare online safety scanner to get rid of the viruses and spyware. The Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service which allows you to scan and remove viruses and spyware from your computer. It can also help you get rid of junk on your hard disk and improve your computers performance.

If you download a suspicious looking file over the internet, or you suddenly find a strange program on your computer, then you can always scan it using the free avast! online scanner and find out if it is infected. The avast! online scanner lets you upload a single file and gives you the results in few seconds.

The FreeOTFE is an on-the-fly transparent disk encryption open-source program for Windows PC and PDA. Using FreeOTFE, you can create one or more virtual-disks on your computer which act like regular disk drives. Anything copied to these virtual disk drives is automatically and securely encrypted.