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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

DLL Remover

UnDLL is a specific application for Windows 2000 and Windows XP that can completely remove Dynamic Link Libraries (Dlls) that are currently in use in Windows. This comes in very handy if the computer has been infected by an aggressive virus, trojan or other malicious software but also any other situation where a malicious dll [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Overview of Online Virus Scanners

Scanning the computer from an online location provides several advantages over the classic local scan. The most prominent one is that the risk of a virus infection of the virus scanner is not present and that the engine used by the scanner is usually up to date. A local virus scanner needs to be updated [...]

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Categories: Security, The Web, Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 24

Free McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 retails for $39.99 for a one year license normally but you can get it for free for a limited time. It runs on computers with Windows 2000 or newer Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista and protects your system from various threats such as spyware, viruses, trojans and phishing.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Spyware, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 15

Norton Antibot Free 1 Year License

I did not think that we would see more of offers like the free Kaspersky or AVG on the Internet which were intended for a local audience but spread widely throughout the Internet because of information leaks. It seems that even Symantec is not protected against this kind of leaks.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: None

Say no to Drugs Virus

I received an email today from a reader who told me of a problem that he encountered lately on his computer. The message Say no to drugs appeared whenever he clicked on a shortcut to the My Documents folder. This sounded clearly like a virus and a quick search revealed that it indeed was the I Love Her virus.

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 5th, 2008
  • Comments: 57

Free Kaspersky Anti-Virus for 1 year

I have the feeling that this offer wont last long so you better hurry up. A free registration at the Chinese Kaspersky forum will reward the user with a Kaspersky Anti-Virus key that is valid for one year. The only catch, if you can speak of a catch, is that the website is in Chinese and that users have to navigate and register an account on that website.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

NTFS Alternate Data Streams

This article is going to explain NTFS Alternate Data Streams: what they are, where they are, how you can detect them, create them and how they are used by hackers. In short, NTFS Alternate Data Streams can be used by hackers to fork file data into existing files without altering the existing file’s function or size. You can guess where this is going, right ? They make it relatively easy to hide malicious code inside them which is much harder to detect.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows, software

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