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 [...]
Free Returnil Virtual System Premium Edition
Tobey send me an email just a few minutes ago telling me about an interesting free offer at the Giveaway of the Day website. The website is offering a free download of a commercial software each day and you can sometimes get great applications for free this way. Today’s offer is Returnil Virtual System Premium [...]
Microsoft updates two critical security patches
It feels like I’m updating my computer every day in the last weeks. Microsoft issued yet another two security patches for Internet Explorer and the .net framework that can be downloaded from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-040 – Critical and Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-024 – Critical. Both security patches are updated to patches that had been [...]
PayPal to Block Unsafe Browsers
If you run an old version of a browser you will more likely be subject of an attack, that’s a fact I think that we can all agree on. The latest browser versions are not as vulnerable as old versions, especially if you take into consideration that known vulnerabilities are much easier to exploit than [...]
Free Spyware Doctor 5.5 Starter Edition
The security tools developers seem to be in a race currently to throw free versions of their products on the market in an effort to increase market share and brand awareness. The latest product is the Spyware Doctor 5.5. Starter Edition that can be downloaded with or without it’s Antivirus addition. The software can be [...]
Secure your server with htaccess
I apologize if this topic drifts a bit away from the usual ones you find here at ghacks but I thought it would be extremely useful for everyone who has a server or webspace that supports htaccess and htpasswd. Htaccess files can do much more than just secure a directory on your server or website but I want to concentrate on this topic because it is something that I have been using on some of my websites for a very long time to increase security.
Disable Recent Documents Listing in Registry
Windows is keeping track of which programs you opened recently. It is using two locations to store those information. The first are the 15 most recently opened documents that are stored in the user profile and I already wrote an article on how to disable the recent documents listing in Windows.
There is however another place [...]
