Perhaps you are familiar with Comodo Firewall, but there are more free and reliable tools available from the same company. Comodo Memory Firewall, which monitors the memory space and activity of your installed applications to make sure they do not fall prey to buffer-overflow attacks – a favorite and very damaging technique used by hackers […]
Tag: AntiVirus
I mean secure from hackers and viruses, not anonymous browsing. 1. The absolutely first of your tasks when you setup your new computer is to ensure a good virus, spyware and stealing-of-personal-data attacks protection. For this read the 7 Steps to a nice (and free) antivirus solution. 2. Because you now feel safe, don’t forget to backup […]
Spybot – Search & Destroy comes in many languages and removes spyware. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your […]
I like the way Avira Antivir works, but the popup ads it generates are annoying. Here is an efficient way to block those ads. BGPKiller is a free and small application that monitors unwanted Avira processes that generate system tray ads, and silently kills them before they even appear. Recent versions of Avira may be […]
AxCrypt is an encryption tool for Windows, efficient and easy to use. The program has commercial versions, but even the free version requires registration. Here I publish a purely free version, before the program started to require even to sign up for an account; it works on Windows 10. AxCrypt integrates with the Windows shell, […]
Sandboxie is one of the best “sandbox” applications, easy to use and powerful. Sandboxie is free but with nags. The Sandboxie sandbox works like a transparency layer. Programs write on the transparency layer and to them it looks like the real paper. When you delete the sandbox, it’s like removing the transparency layer, the unchanged, […]
McAfee Stinger is a standalone utility that will help you detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but a specialized tool to assist when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes rootkit scanning and scan performance optimizations. It detects and removes threats identified under the “Threat List” option […]
System Care Antivirus is a malware that will close all your running applications and present you messages saying that you are infected and asking for money in order to remove supposed infections. System Care Antivirus won’t let you start any programs that would help you remove it, however you can do it by yourself easily, […]
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper is a free recovery tool created by Microsoft, that will help you start an infected PC and perform an offline scan to identify and remove rootkits and other malware. It can also be used if you cannot install or start an antivirus solution on your PC, or if the installed solution […]
Remove Fake Antivirus is a free program that will help you remove common fake antiviruses. A fake antivirus is a type of virus which disguises itself to be an antivirus. It infects your computer when you accidentally click a link in a website which will download the malware into your computer. It runs automatically when […]