The Internet can be a dangerous place. Especially for those users who do not care but simply use the computer. A click on the wrong website and the computer can be infected with malicious software. Security Software tries to turn the tide in the favor of the user by blocking malicious content automatically. This works [...]
Kaspersky Rescue Disk
Malicious software, like viruses or trojans, can damage a system in a way that it becomes impossible to boot into the operating system that was infected by the software. The Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a standalone bootable CD that can be used to scan the system for malicious software without having to boot into the [...]
Autorun Eater
One common strategy to infect a computer is to use the autorun information of a removable drive, most likely an USB device, to infect the computer as soon as the user double-clicks the drive. If the computer is protected by antivirus software the attack will most likely be stopped in its tracks but the manipulated [...]
Encrypt your instant messages with Pidgin
Pidgin is an Open Source multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that was formerly known as Prince Gaim. It works with many popular Instant Messaging clients like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!. Normal conversations with Pidgin, or most other Instant Messaging clients are not encrypted which means that the text is transferred in plain text which means [...]
Select a country for your proxy
Finally a innovative proxy website. Web Proxies are all alike, mostly. They use the same four of five proxy scripts that are available, may have a different design and tend to disappear after 1-12 months. Worldproxy added an interesting new feature to it’s proxy: Country selection. Many multimedia services, like streaming Internet radio or video, [...]
DP Secure Wiper removes files securely from your system
If you are like us you have a healthy dose of paranoia in your blood and if that means going the extra mile we know that you will walk by our sides to get there. Deleting files in Windows does not remove the file from the hard drive, it simply removes the pointer to the [...]
Yahoo marks dangerous search results
Yahoo started to add a new feature to their search results pages called Searchscan which basically informs the user when a website is listed in the search results that has potentially dangerous content. According to Cybernet News three different warning messages are displayed in the search results depending on the dangers that await the user [...]
