Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden or secured volume. For those folks this softwar is really a treasure. You can password protect your personal data and can access your secret volume by entering a right password back again. Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program.
In a PC network environment we have to access another computer sometimes, which usually requires a password to access its resources like files and printers, we have to give the username and password once and then it remains in the Windows Cache until it is restarted or logged off. And if we check the remember password option, then it remains in even after Windows restart. This can be a security issue. Here is the method to delete all cached Windows Network passwords.
You know, when there are freeware antivirus softwares are available then Y!O!Y there is a need to buy expensive Antiviruses. ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:
- High detection rates for viruses and spyware
- Scanning Scheduler
- Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database
- Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer
- Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.
Privacy Guardian is a safe and easy-to-use privacy protection tool that securely deletes online Internet tracks and program activity records that are stored in your browser and other hidden files on your computer. Privacy Guardian guarantees your privacy by ensuring all traces of your online Internet and computer activities are permanently erased and unrecoverable on your PC. Information from every website you visit is stored on your computer and recorded in hidden Windows locations including temporary files, cookies, system registry and the index.dat file. Web browsers only provide partial privacy protection by allowing some temporary Internet files and cookies to be deleted, but they do not clean data out of all the hidden files nor do they delete the data securely.
After USB Write Protect here is yet another little program which will make your USB or disk drives read only. Best way to protect your USB from being infected. Thumbscrew is USB write blocker. When used it allows you to quickly enable or disable writing to all USB mass storage devices on your Windows system. You can use it to make a USB flash drive, hard drive or IDE/ SATA drive in an enclosure read only. If you want to play around with making forensic images of thumb drives and other USB mass storage devices it may come in handy. You will see one of two icons in your system tray to indicate whether or not USB mass storage devices are set to be read only.
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
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.
PC Fixer is a free robust dynamically growing platform for all of your computer support means. The system provides instant repairs to many of the common ailments that clog your PCs.
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.
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).
