How To Block Malicious Website Access by Any Weblock software
May 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under Protection Tools
The free web content control software that block acess to any website on your computer.
Any Weblock is a web content control software that gives you the power to block anywebsite on your local computer. It works with any web browser and displays a fake error page. No network knowledge required to configure. You only need to know the domain/subdomain names of the websites to be blocked.
Possible uses include parental control (porns, online games or chat rooms) and ads or malicious content blocking.
Summary of features
Screenshots
Manange block list
- Add, modify or remove block entries.
- Export or import block list.
Block new website
- Add a website domain for blocking.
- Enter any additional subdomains for blocking.
- Choose to block main domain or only its subdomains.
Import block list
- Append the entries from the imported list to current list.
- Replace the current list entirely with the imported list.
Password protection
- Create a password to prevent unauthorized access.
- Decide a secret question and answer for password reset.
Backup and roll back
- Backups are automatically created.
- Choose a limit for the number of backups.
- Roll back to a previous backup.
HouseCall – Free Online Virus Scan NEW v7.1
April 11, 2010 by admin
Filed under Removal Tips,Tools and Videos
HouseCall is Trend Micro’s highly popular and capable on-demand scanner for identifying and removing viruses, Trojans, worms, unwanted browser plugins, and other malware.
HouseCall 7 features an intuitive interface and the ability to perform fast scans that target critical system areas and active malware. It also leverages the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network™ to help ensure that scans catch the latest threats.
HouseCall 7.1 improves on the recently released HouseCall 7.0 by providing a full system scan option and an option to scan only specific folders. It adds support for 64-bit versions of Windows Vista™ and Windows™ 7.
HouseCall provides a quick and easy check for threats regardless of the protection status of your existing security solution. For more information about HouseCall, please read the Frequently Asked Questions.
AVG Rescue CD A powerful toolset for rescue & repair of infected machines
March 26, 2010 by admin
Filed under Removal Tips,Tools and Videos
The AVG Rescue CD is a powerful must-have toolkit for the rescue and repair of infected machines. It provides essential utilities for system administrators and other IT professionals and includes the following features:
- Comprehensive administration toolkit
- System recovery from virus and spyware infections
- Suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems)
- Ability to perform a clean boot from CD or USB stick
- Free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product
- FAQ and Free Forum self-help support for AVG Free users
Key technologies
- Anti-virus: protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
- Anti-spyware: protection against spyware, adware and identity theft
- Administration toolkit: system recovery tools
The AVG Rescue CD is essentially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution. It can be used in the form of a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive to recover your computer when the system cannot be loaded normally, such as after an extensive or deep-rooted virus infection. In short, the AVG Rescue CD enables you to fully remove infections from an otherwise inoperable PC and render the system bootable again.
Apart from the usual AVG functions (malware detection and removal, updates from internet or external device, etc.), the AVG Rescue CD also contains the following set of administration tools:
- Midnight Commander – a two-panel file manager
- Windows Registry Editor– simple registry editor for more experienced users
- TestDisk – powerful hard drive recovery tool
- Ping – to test the availability of network resources (servers, domains, IP addresses)
- Common Linux programs and services– vi text editor, OpenSSH daemon, ntfsprogs etc.
Free of charge
The AVG Rescue CD is a free-to-use product that anyone can download. This also covers any new program versions and virus database updates. If you have any other paid AVG license, you are also entitled to receive our full technical support.
Download:
Download Rescue CD (for CD creation)
Download Rescue CD (for USB stick)
Free Zemana AntiLogger for EVERYONE By Softpedia.com (Today Only)
March 14, 2010 by admin
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“Zero-Day” (aka “0-day”) is fast becoming the most feared buzzword in the computing world, and detection delays while suspected malicious files are analyzed and “fingerprints” are generated mean that new threats which can attack and compromise your computer even if you have the latest up-to-date anti-malware software installed might be running around the Internet undetected for hours, or even days.
Zemana AntiLogger is designed to protect your computer against such attacks. No matter which anti-malware program you’re currently using, you need the added protection of Zemana AntiLogger!
AntiLogger is dramatically different from traditional products that rely heavily on “fingerprints” created by lab analysts and researchers to detect malware. It doesn’t need “signature updates”. It understands how malware attacks your computer, and its unique technology detects malicious programs when they try to run on your PC and shuts them down BEFORE they can steal your identity or your confidential information.
- Bank online and perform other financial transactions safely and securely.
- Defeat malware programs that seek to capture your sensitive data before it’s encrypted.
- Actively monitor and shut down keyloggers, SSL banker trojans, spyware, and other malware.
- Defend against programs that other antivirus protection apps let through.
- Does not slow down your PC Windows Vista/ XP/ 7 compatible.
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New ClamAV for Windows Powered By ( immunet and sourcefire )
March 7, 2010 by admin
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The new ClamAV for Windows is the result of a partnership between Immunet Corporation (http://www.immunet.com) and Sourcefire, Inc. (http://www.sourcefire.com). It is designed to provide the ClamAV community with a free Windows-specific Anti-Virus (AV) solution using an advanced Cloud-based protection mechanism. You can use ClamAV For Windows as a stand-alone, host-based AV solution, or in conjunction with your pre-installed AV solution to provide enhanced detection for the latest malware threats.
Say goodbye to the days of watching AV software drain your memory and processing speed. Immunet’s unique Cloud-based technologies allow the ClamAV application to leverage the power of the Cloud to drive the AV engine. When you use ClamAV for Windows, you save system resources for the tasks they really want to run, like games and business applications.
ClamAV for Windows utilizes advanced Cloud-based and community-based detection methods. Developed by Immunet, these detection methods leverage the computers of your friends, family and a worldwide global community to harness their collective knowledge for securing your PC. Every time someone in this collective community encounters a threat, everyone else in the community gains protection from that same threat in real time. You no longer have to rely on the isolated security of your current Anti-Virus vendor. You are able to protect your friends and family while being better protected yourself. This is exactly what we designed ClamAV for Windows to do. By providing a fast and light layer of virus detection, and linking everyone in a global community, we harness a security sum that is far greater than its individual parts, we call this Collective Immunity.
Immunet placed ClamAV into their Cloud infrastructure alongside their Ethos detection engine, and several other detection technologies. By combining all these technologies, and utilizing the power of community-based detection, we feel we have the most effective Anti-Virus technology on the market. And it only gets better with every user that installs and utilizes our technology.
Download New ClamAV :
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7
- A working Internet connection
Optional Requirements
- A Facebook account
- A Twitter account
Boost PC Performance with Comodo System Cleaner
January 15, 2010 by admin
Filed under Protection Tools
Picture a messy room. This room may be littered with trash but also contains your valued possessions. The goal is obvious: get rid of the trash without throwing away any valuables. Now imagine an ultra-powerful vacuum that will destroy anything in its path, never to be seen again. You might think twice about where to point this vacuum! Other system cleaners have the same problem as this vacuum: good stuff gets obliterated,the same as bad stuff. In an attempt to perform some much-needed system maintenance, you could wipe out files necessary to your PC’s performance! Comodo System Cleaner has made this problem obsolete. If CSC sucks in a valued possession, you can easily reach in and take it back out again. No harm done, and your computer keeps performing solidly.
Important Features of System Cleaner
Deep cleaning of your PC’s registry
After a deep registry cleaning, Windows will be able to access the information it needs from the registry more quickly, boosting both performance and stability.
Deep cleaning of your PC’s disk drive
Eliminate the clutter inevitably built up over time in your disk drive to free up space and improve performance.
Clean-up scheduling
Enter when you’d like System Cleaner to perform a deep clean so it’s convenient for you.
SafeDelete™ and Registry Protection
Use these features to backup all your files before cleaning. When cleaning is complete, you’ll be able to make sure your PC is in perfect condition before deleting for good.
Privacy cleaning
Clear out your digital trail (cookies, cache, browsing history, and more) with the privacy cleaner to keep your private information out of the hands of others.
Extensive Windows customization tool
Alter dozens of obscure and hard-to-find Windows settings easily within Comodo System Cleaner’s interface.
Download the Portable Version:
- Windows 7 / XP / Vista 32 bit (4.96 MB)
- Windows 7 / XP / Vista 64 bit (4.77 MB)
7 Must Have – Free Software To Protect Your Laptop
December 11, 2009 by admin
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Traditional computer security measures are not enough to protect your laptop and netbook. You have to pay attention on various laptop related security risks such as insecure public wireless network, laptop theft, laptop search, about which you don’t worry with your desktop computer.
Whether your laptop is stolen or not, your privacy can still be at risk by simply traveling with your laptop. The Homeland Security Department and other authority can search your laptop to look for evidences on any illegal activity and illicit materials stored on your laptop such as unlicensed songs, movies, software or unlawful images of children. However, good laptop security does not necessarily cost you money.
Here are 7 easy-to-use, useful and free software that can help you protect your laptop, your sensitive data and your privacy.
1. Encryption. TrueCrypt is a trustworthy encryption program that can protect your data against unauthorized access. www.truecrypt.org
2. Backup. Cobian Backup is backup software that can protect your data against loss. www.cobiansoft.com. An alternative is Mozy free edition, which is an online backup software with 2 Gbytes space. www.mozy.com
3. Antivirus. ( AVG – Avira – Avast ) free edition provides protection against viruses, spyware and other malware.
4. Firewall. The built-in Windows firewall protects your laptop against hackers while you’re online. (but make sure you configured it properly)
5. Alarm. LAlarm is like a car alarm for your laptop. The software can help prevent your laptop from theft, and can also recover and destroy your data in the laptop in case of theft. www.lalarm.com
6. Tracking. Prey laptop tracking software that can locate your laptop if it is stolen. www.preyproject.com
7. File shredder. Eraser is a data sanitizing program that can permanently delete sensitive data such as passwords, Internet browse history, personal information from your laptop. www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Eraser
Panda’s Cloud Antivirus leaves beta behind
November 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Security News
First introduced in beta in April, Panda Cloud Antivirus graduates to a stable, public release and signifies a major security vendor taking aim at the freeware competition–instead of the other way around. Cloud Antivirus was notable on its beta release for being one of the few security options available to users that contained most of its protections in the cloud. This allowed it to protect users while consuming significantly fewer resources than many competing programs.
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.0 is notable as a free security solution for two reasons: Panda is a reputable security vendor, and the program achieves its goal of freeing up system resources. In a press release, Panda Security CEO Juan Santana described Cloud Antivirus as a game-changer. It’s not clear quite yet that that’s the case, but at the very least the program looks to fill a niche created by resource-conscious netbooks.
As light on resources as advertised, Cloud Antivirus offers strong reputation-based protection for those who want their security program out of sight and out of mind. A third-party efficacy evaluation wasn’t available at the time of writing, but in empirical testing the program only used 9 MB of RAM while idle, and only 56 MB of RAM when scanning. Many other security programs will run scans at 150 MB of RAM or more.
Despite keeping most of its database in the cloud, Panda Security’s Senior Research Advisor, Pedro Bustamante, noted during an interview in October that Cloud Antivirus isn’t disabled just because the host computer is disconnected from the Internet. “Panda has an offline mode that uses a small cached copy of Collective Intelligence on your local drive, it’s only the most recent threats on a real time wild list.” Collective Intelligence is the name that Panda gave its cloud system when it was introduced in 2007.
When you open Cloud Antivirus, the main window lets you know whether you’re safe or not with a big red or green icon. Cloud Antivirus works as other antivirus solutions do, offering a Quick Scan and a Custom scan for specific folder, files, and drives, but its ancillary features are exceptionally light. The Quick Scan took 13 minutes on my Windows 7 Lenovo T400 laptop.
Dragging an active Cloud Antivirus window, in Windows 7 at least, will turn it translucent.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
You can opt out of contributing anonymous data to the cloud, but that also opts you out of automatic threat management. There’s a network connection proxy option should you need it, and a reporting feature that will show you what kind of threats have been detected and removed from your computer. You can filter the report by All, Last 24 hours, Last Week, or Last Month, and there’s a Recycle Bin pane from which you can recover a false positive, should you need it. Unfortunately, the Recycle Bin is hidden behind an obnoxious “flipping” screen that cheesily rotates when you need to access it.
If you’re familiar with the minimalist Microsoft Security Essentials, Cloud Antivirus is even simpler. I did notice some odd interface rendering around the minimize and close buttons in Windows XP, but not in Windows 7. There are other more serious concerns about the program. Most notably, it lacks a scheduler, and it removes user input from update functions. Scans are also limited: you can tell the program what to scan, but not what to look for, so forget about toggling heuristics or rootkits. Then again, the point of this kind of security is that it’s all wrapped into one.
Keeping in mind its limited feature set, and that we don’t have efficacy numbers at the time of reviewing, Panda Cloud Antivirus makes good security choice for those willing to take the plunge.
by Seth Rosenblatt from Cnet
How to Maximize the Malware Protection of Your Removable Drives (Manually)
September 27, 2009 by admin
Filed under Protection Tools
Removable drives are one of the most common infection vectors for malware today. Worms propagate via these vectors to proliferate their payload and ultimately, infect more users.
Users need to perform some countermeasures to secure their systems. One way of doing this is to protect removable drives against worms using the Autorun feature.
One popular way of protecting removable drives is by creating a folder or file and renaming it as AUTORUN.INF. It could enable the malware to automatically run on the system even without the users executing it. By creating this file beforehand, ideally, worms would not be able to run in this way.
However, this method is not perfect. Worms can delete the existing AUTORUN.INF file or folder, and then replace it with a malicious version. This would negate any protection placed by the user on the said file. However, by using file permissions to restrict changes, the AUTORUN.INF file can be protected more effectively.
Note: Make sure that your external drive is formatted using NTFS, as this procedure uses a specific feature of NTFS. If your removable drive is formatted using either FAT or FAT32, back up any data on the said drive first and reformat using NTFS. This may require Windows Vista or Windows 7.
- Create a new folder in the root directory of the removable disk and rename it as “AUTORUN.INF.”
- Create four more folders in the same location and named it as “recycle,” “recycler,” “recycled,” and “setup” respectively.
Note: The folders recycle, recycler, recycled and setup are optional but it is recommended for users to create these as malware often use these names/titles.
- Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and go to the root directory of your removable drive.
- Set the folder attributes using the following DOS command:
attrib autorun.inf /s /d –a +s +r
Figure 1. Setting the folder attributes
- Set the privilege level of the folder using the following DOS command:
cacls autorun.inf /c /d administrators
Figure 2. Setting the privilege level of the folder
- Select ‘Y’ and press enter when the message, “Are you sure (Y/N)?” is prompted.
- To test it, try to delete, modify, rename, copy, or open the created folder. If you cannot perform any of these functions, then the procedure is successful.
Figure 3. When the user deletes the created folder, the system displays this message prompt.
In addition to the above procedure, users may also choose to use hardware means of protection. Certain removable drives have an external switch that prevents the device from being written to. This would prevent malware from making any modifications to the drive, including the AUTORUN.INF file. However, as this may prove to be somewhat inconvenient, it is still a good idea to use the procedure shown above.
by Christian Potencia (Threat Response Engineer) at trendmicro.com
