Archive for the 'Security' Category

Spamihilator – Spam Protection for Desktop Email Clients

Webmail clients like Gmail, YahooMail etc. have some of the best-in-industry Spam Filters and protect you fairly well from all sort of spam. But if you prefer to use Desktop Email Clients like Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail etc., then your choices are very limited.
Off-course, you may use features like [...]

Clean / Remove Adware, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, Worms or Potential Unwanted Software using FreeFixer

FreeFixer is a free tool that will scan your computers for Namespace Service Providers, programs, registry, Browser Helper Objects (BHO), Internet Explorer toolbars, registry startups, autostart shortcuts, running processes , services, application modules and Drivers installed on the computer. All the entries that are scanned are listed, the white listed entries are colored in Green [...]

Stop / Prevent Trojans, Virus, Worms and Malware from USB Flash / Pen Drives with USB Firewall

Every one of us now use a flash drive to transfer files across computers, hence the USB flash drive has become a carrier of viruses, trojans, malware and worms. They exploit the computer using the Windows autorun capability that kicks in whenever you plug in a USB flash drive. Earlier this week we saw how [...]

Prevent Spread of Viruses, Trojans and Worms via USB Pen/Flash Drives

USB Pen/Flash drives act as mobile carriers of Viruses, Trojans and worms as they are used across different computers. If you plug in a USB flash drive that is infected to your computer then the virus would automatically get executed and infect your computer using the AutoPlay feature of Windows. One of the best ways [...]

Free Software: PC Tools Firewall Plus 2.0.0.24 (Vista Compatible)

PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful personal firewall for Windows that protects your computer from intruders and controls the network traffic in and out of your PC. This firewall software is compatible with Windows Vista 32-bit, XP, 2000 and Server 2003. This is one of the few firewalls that is compatible with Windows Vista.
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Apple Video iPods Shipped With Trojan

Apple Video iPods which were shipped after September 12, 2006 are found to be infected by a trojan called RavMonE.exe. The number of iPods expected to be infected this trojan is less than 1%. Mac OSX users don’t have to worry because this trojan does not affect Mac OSX, this trojan propagates via mass storage [...]

Yahoo Mail’s New Anti-Phishing Feature

Today when I was logging in to my Yahoo Mail account I noticed the Anti-Phishing feature of Yahoo mail:

On clicking that it takes to a page which says: Protect users on this computer against password theft with a sign-in seal. A sign-in seal is a secret message or photo that Yahoo! will display on this [...]

Don’t Download zCodec, It is a Malware

If you come across zCodec, which claims it is a video codec offering superior video and audio quality then don’t install that codec as it is a malware. The beauty is that this malware is freely available for download in the website zcodec.com. When you visit this site in firefox with google toolbar installed it [...]