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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Scan And Remove Potentially Dangerous Software

FreeFixer is a free software program for Microsoft Windows that will scan the computer system for potentially dangerous software. The process has been streamlined to be as unobtrusive as possible. A click on Start Scan will initiate the system scan after starting the software program.
Several important locations will be scanned in the process including running [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 5th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Gernova Keylock

Gernova Keylock is a specialized software to detect keyloggers on a system. Keyloggers are used to log user input which includes urls that the user enters as well as usernames, passwords and even information like credit card data or account numbers. The application is portable and can be run from any location.
It’s unfortunately only [...]

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Categories: Security, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 5th, 2007
  • Comments: 3

AVG Anti Rootkit free

Rootkits received a publicity boost with Sony’s rootkit infested CDs that was supposed to be some kind of copy protection. Since then rootkits have become an ever growing threat on the Internet in line with Viruses, Trojans, Phishing and Spam. The major problem with rootkits is that most users think that their virus scanner protects them from rootkits as well which is most of the time not the case. Rootkits are much harder to detect by normal means and software that can scan systems for rootkits should be used by inexperienced users to be able to detect at least the most common ones.

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Categories: Security, Tools

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