Email link encoder for webmaster and website developers is an easy to use portable free software which allows you to convert Email Link into HTML, Javascript and Image formats. Even for an average internet user who does not want to get his/her inbox filled with spam, this little utility is a bliss. Spammers use automated bots and crawlers to collect email addresses from different locations or many online websites collect emails and sell these later on to third parties so called as SEO companies who then fill your inbox with garbage and useless stuff. Everybody uses his/her email address anywhere (lets say during signup process or in blogs, forums, chat rooms while posting something) over the internet atleast once in life that appears as cup of tea for spammers. The trick is to hide/mask/transform/shape your Email Address into HTML code, Javascript code or in an image form so that spammers can not collect your email address using automated bots and crawlers from other websites/blog/forums. Email Address appears visually but behind the scenes (code level) it is encoded and encrypted so that crawlers can not detect it as an email address. This is the most powerful utility I came across which is flexible enough to ask user in which way it should encode the link.

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ICLOSE.EXE is a cloaked Malware and Mscup2.exe is Trojan/Backdoor. iclose.exe performs the following behaviors:

• The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
• Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products

iclose.exe File Name Aliases

iclose.exe can also use the following file names:

• MSCUP2.EXE
• BV2.EXE
• ICLOS[1].R
• MSCUPDATE.EXE
• DC2.EXE
• 56392955.DAT
• 14844564.EXE

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USB is the major source of propagation of viruses and malwares now a days. When a USB is plugged in to a system, it tries to open up immediately and malwares or viruses present in PC make their way into USB. This way malwares spread quickly and easily. In this case to protect your computer by opening USB drive to propagate malware/viruses automatically into it, you can use this software to enable or disable write protection for USB. When the write protection is enabled no virus of any file can be copied automatically or intentionally into your USB drive. You can choose to decide what to do after you plug in your USB drive. You can copy its contents into the system, but can not copy anything form PC to USB drive

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If you have been using Microsoft Powerpoint software to view tutorials, slide shows, presentations and more then it is time to watch out. Because some PC threats and infections are causing virus to spread via MS powerpoint. Attackers are using rigged PowerPoint files to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft’s presentation software. According to Microsoft the attacks are limited and targeted. The malware associated with the attack is a Trojan dropper embedded within an exploit in .ppt or .pps data files.

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If your my computer icon has changed to "Ahsan's Computer" and recycle bin icon to G.W.Bush. That's the Ahsan's Computer Virus. What more? All executable files fail to run. It continually checks floppies, You can not install antivirus, Current antivirus gets corrupted and if you type antivirus in internet explorer, it gets closed. You can't do anything, it irritates you in every 5 seconds. If you will reinstall the operating system and when you will open your hard disk drives, you will get infected again. No antivirus runs for it, no new installation works. Everything turns to Ahsan's name and you can not do anything. Computer programs just become a mess. Disables registry editor or the Run command, The virus creates a file named "HOMEVIDEO.AVI.EXE" and "CSRSS.EXE" on all the available drives. CSRSS.EXE is basically a worm called AHLEM.A. There has been funny names in the background of this problem as well e.g. ahsan manan khan butta virus, ASHAN & KABIRWALA VIRUS along with ahsan virus or Ahsan Computer Worm etc. Lets find out some solution.

How to get rid of Ahsan's Computer Virus

There are many solutions out there. You will have to delete registry keys associated with the name ahsan, delete some hidden files from every drive of your PC, delete running processes related to Ahsan from task manager being in safe mode. You can do it manually or you can just download some softwares to do that.

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The malicious worm "Mikeyy" or "Stalkdaily" (similar to the Samy worm that infected MySpace in 2007) affecting Twitter is active again. Twitter is taking action against the problem but it seems like the problem will remain further over the network for one more week. This is the fourth attack so far. The worm, "Mikeyy" or "StalkDaily", was created by a 17-year-old Mike Mooney which generates thousands of spam messages containing the word "Mikeyy." The messages are sent from infected accounts, without the owners' knowledge.

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WordPress Plugin WordSpew will create a shoutbox on your wordpress blog. It uses AJAX, a technology that allows information to be transmitted to the server without the user refreshing the page. So what makes this special is that your users can carry out live chats from your blog without having to refresh the page. It's kind of like instant messaging! SQL Injection related Vulnerability has been found in this plugin. You blog can be Vulnerable to the SQL Injection if you are using this plugin, until unless the developer who created this plugin solves the problem and write a fix for that.

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I had used AVG Antivirus free long time ago for a long period before USB infections started to propagate. Then I switched to Kaspersky Antivirus and then Kaspersky Internet security. Now I am back at AVG Internet security. Now The Internet Security is a whole package including Antivirus also, but Antivirus is just Antivirus with less features which might not protect you from malwares or spywares fully.

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System Shield provides everything you need to completely protect your PC. System Shield comes with a number of tools as following:

iolo AntiVirus Which detects, blocks, and removes viruses, rootkits, worms, trojans, and other dangerous programs with always-on protection.

iolo Personal Firewall blocks unwanted communication to and from your PC, keeping your private information safe from hackers and identity thieves.

Spython™ AntiSpyware removes spyware parasites to protect your privacy and prevent system crashes and slow-downs.

Security Optimizer repairs dangerous security vulnerabilities that would otherwise leave your system open to attacks by intruders and data thieves.

SystemGuard locks down your system configuration to prevent unauthorized changes by spyware, viruses, malicious Web sites, and remote attackers.

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Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, ( some people write it confickr ) is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system. It propagated through the Internet by exploiting a vulnerability in the network stack of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 Beta, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. The worm has been unusually difficult for network operators and law enforcement to counter because of its combined use of advanced malware techniques.

Conficker is the most widespread computer worm infection since SQL Slammer. The initial rapid spread of the worm has been attributed to the number of Windows PCs (estimated at 30%) which have yet to apply the Microsoft patch for the MS08-067 vulnerability. By January 2009, the estimated number of infected computers ranged from almost 9 million to 15 million. Antivirus software vendor Panda Security reported that of the 2 million computers analyzed through ActiveScan, around 115,000 (6%) were infected with Conficker.

Confickr worm Blocks DNS lookups, does an in-memory patch of DNSAPI.DLL to block lookups of anti-malware related web sites, disables AutoUpdate, Kills anti-malware, scans for and terminates processes with names of anti-malware, patch or diagnostic utilities at one-second intervals and more. Find symptoms of conficker and download confickr scanners (4) as well as removal tools (11 tools).

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