Internet Security Blog http://webtoolsandtips.com Internet Security, Spyware Removal, Discount Coupons, Tips and Tricks Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:19:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc webtoolstipshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Review – BullGuard Internet Security 9.0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/webtoolstips/~3/FylccFUXPBw/ http://webtoolsandtips.com/pc-security/anti-virus/review-bullguard-internet-security-9-0/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:05:15 +0000 Silki http://webtoolsandtips.com/?p=4617 The 2011 series of Internet Security Software will be about to be launched by most of the security software vendors. It has become tradition to launch the yearly edition of security suites like clockwork. I am not sure how many functional changes are incorporated in these yearly editions.

At least one vendor has ensured to buck this trend. Bullguard has recently come up with the latest edition of their Internet Security named as Bullguard Internet Security 9.0. It has come after around two years of last major version 8.0 being released. Although in-between, they had also released the minor revision 8.5.

BullGuard Internet Security 9.0 has an impressively simple to use interface. It presents you a simple interface studded with a few icons, which allows you to perform common security tasks like scan, backup and other things with a single click of a mouse button.

Yet another feature, which I liked about BullGuard Internet Security 9.0 is silent-to-perform approach. Many Internet Security Software suites create lot of noise while performing, asking for user intervention at every step. Most of these tasks are trivial, and the user goes by the recommendations provided by the security suite.  It feels annoying being asked every time to instruct the software to do the task, when it can apply its own discretion and wisdom.

BullGuard Internet Security

BullGuard Internet Security 9.0 has also done away with the usual approach of different levels of customized scans; quick scan, complete scan and deep scan. Instead it allows you to customize your scan, which some users may or may not like.

Overall a nice update.

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Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) (previously codenamed Morro) is a free antivirus software created by Microsoft that provides protection against viruses, malware, spyware, adware, scareware, rogue security software, rootkits, keyloggers, dialers, worms and trojans for Windows XP (x86), Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (both x86 and x64).

MSE replaces Windows Live OneCare, a commercial subscription-based antivirus service and the free Windows Defender, which only protected users from adware and spyware. It is geared for consumer use, unlike Microsoft’s upcoming enterprise-oriented product Microsoft Forefront.

(Source: Wiki)

Fine, But Which is the Best Free Internet Security Tool

Independent Security Researcher Team at http://www.av-comparatives.org has been testing and comparing popular Internet Security Software for long. This time they have published a report based upon the testing of popular security suites against new malware and viruses.

They had updated the virus definitions of these software suites with the database updated till February 2010 and tested their efficacy in detecting the malware, which were developed after that. This essentially meant that the definitions didn’t contained the signatures of these malware and these software suites were expected to detect them based upon their heuristic and analytic powers.

The test results show that Microsoft’s Security Essential is rated the best FREE Internet Security Tool in detecting the new malware threats. It is not the absolute best, but Best among the Free Suites.

best free internet security tool

There are lots of other interesting observations as well.

Read the complete report here (pdf).

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Many people get confused with the name because of its similarity with the name of a huge species of lizards, that inhabits the islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang in Indonesia. You can have more information about the Komodo Lizards on the Wiki page here.

But if you are looking for the a review of the Comodo Browser, then I would suggest you to check out the Comodo Browser Review from the PC Security Blog.

It gives a nice review but suggests to prefer the popular and regularly updated web browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome saying that…

Despite these useful features and security enhancements, I would still believe that security update is a very important factor behind the security of a web browser. With a vast pool of resources and information available, browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox, are in a much better position to detect and counter a potential vulnerability as soon as it is exposed. Howsoever efficient Comodo is, they cannot match the huge resources and efforts, Google can put in to immediately detect and plug-in a security hole in its browser through security update..

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remove malware virusNorton Power Eraser, NPE, is a freeware tool, which can attempt to find and remove such deep rooted, hidden and tough-to-detect malware and virus infections. Unlike other security applications, it does not provide you a real time protection, but is developed to be used for cleaning an already infected computer.

NPE is a portable antivirus, meaning that it does not need any installation to run. You can even run it through a USB or CD Drive. At present NPE is in Public beta, you can download it and use it for fee.

Caution: Please note that NPE is meant to be used as aggressive malware removal tool. What this means is that you should use it when most other applications and attempts to clean computer have failed. NPE is designed in such a way that you may get a few false positives while cleaning attempts.

You should use Norton Power Eraser tool when nothing else will remove an annoying program and you are willing to accept a higher risk that the scanner may quarantine a legitimate program. Because the Norton Power Eraser uses aggressive methods to detect these threats, there is a risk that it can select some legitimate programs for removal. You should use this tool very carefully, and only after you have exhausted other options.

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In a recent report, top security vendor Symantec had studied this underground economy and listed the top selling and advertised products. The report has some very interesting observations and it is surprising to know that sensitive data like Credit Card information is available for as low as $0.85.

The underground economy is an evolving and self-sustaining black market where underground economy servers, or black market forums, are used for the promotion and trade of stolen information and services. This information can include government-issued identification numbers such as Social Security numbers (SSNs), credit card numbers, debit card information, user accounts, email address lists, and bank accounts. Services include cashiers, scam page hosting, and job advertisements such as for scam developers or phishing partners.

Following are the top selling products and services in malware infection economy.

malware infection economy

Bank account credentials—may consist of name, bank account number (including transit andbranch number), address, and phone number. Online banking logins and passwords are often soldas a separate item.• Cash out—a withdrawal service where purchases are converted into true currency. This could be in theform of online currency accounts or through money transfer systems and typically, the requester ischarged a percentage of the cashout value as a fee.

Cash out—a withdrawal service where purchases are converted into true currency. This could be in the form of online currency accounts or through money transfer systems and typically, the requester is charged a percentage of the cashout value as a fee.

Bank account credentials—may consist of name, bank account number (including transit andbranch number), address, and phone number. Online banking logins and passwords are often soldas a separate item.• Cash out—a withdrawal service where purchases are converted into true currency. This could be in theform of online currency accounts or through money transfer systems and typically, the requester ischarged a percentage of the cashout value as a fee.

Credit card information—includes credit card number and expiry date. It may also contain the cardholder name, Credit Verification Value 2 (CVV2) number, PIN, billing address, phone number, and company name (for a corporate card). CVV2 is a three or four-digit number on the credit card and used for card-not-present transactions such as Internet or phone purchases. This was created to add an extra layer of security for credit cards and to verify that the person completing the transaction was in fact, in possession of the card.

Email accounts—includes user ID, email address, password. In addition, the account may contain personal information such as addresses, other account information, and email addresses in the contact list.

Email addresses—consists of lists of email addresses used for spam or phishing activities. The email addresses can be harvested from hacking databases, public sites on the Internet, or from stolen email accounts. The sizes of lists sold can range from 1 MB to 150 MB.

Full identities—may consist of name, address, date of birth, phone number, and government-issued number. It may also include extras such as driver’s license number, mother’s maiden name, email address, or “secret” questions/answers for password recovery.

Mailers—an application that is used to send out mass emails (spam) for phishing attacks. Examples of this are worms and viruses.

Proxies—Proxy services provide access to a software agent, often a firewall mechanism, which performs a function or operation on behalf of another application or system while hiding the details involved, allowing attackers to obscure their path and make tracing back to the source difficult or impossible. This can involve sending email from the proxy, or connecting to the proxy and then out to an underground IRC server to sell credit cards or other stolen goods.

Shell scripts—used to perform operations such as file manipulation and program execution. They can also be used as a command line interface for various operating systems.

Complete Report-pdf, 4MB]

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Repeated Switching ON / OFF the printer is of no use and the only option looks to reboot the computer and do it again.

How to Forcefully Cancel the Print Jobs

Luckily, there is a freeware software, which can do the job easily. Stalled Printer Repair, from Fantastic Software can detect the stuck up print jobs and allows you to cancel them easily.

The features of this useful utility are as follows.

  • Detect the existence of Stalled Print Jobs.
  • Purge all Stalled Print Jobs on the Printer.
  • Portable Application: does not need to be installed and does not write to the registry.
  • Replaces the Manual Process and even dos batch scripts, which cannot be emailed through most email service providers.

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But there is one important device, which often gets overlooked. This is your photocopier.

Yes, that innocent dumb looking machine, which contains often enough intelligence to store the images of whatever has been copied and stored through them. Many people do not know that most of the photocopiers sold in the last 5-6 years have a built in hard disk, which gradually collects lots of private data about you and your company. The purpose of using a hard disk is clear, when you think how a photocopier would be making say 100 copies of a document after scanning the same for one a single time.

Yes, the document is scanned and the image is stored in the hard disk to make the multiple copies.

And here lies the problem.

Over a period of time, this dumb looking machine collects enough data, which can potentially tell your competitors a lot about your secrets. So next time, when you are trying to sell your old photocopier, just remember this aspect and take action accordingly.

CBSNews recently carried an interesting story on this issue. Worth reading.

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A DVD ripper is a software program that facilitates copying the content of a DVD to a hard disk drive. They are mainly used to transfer video on DVDs to different formats, to edit or back up DVD content, and for converting DVD video for playback on media players and mobile devices. Some DVD rippers include additional features, such as the ability to decrypt DVDs, remove copy preventions and make disks unrestricted and region-free.

Here we are introducing WinX DVD Ripper Giveaway, where the visitors of Internet Security Blog can get this useful utility worth $29.95 absolutely FREE. Yes totally FREE.

We are having total 20 complimentary License Keys for our readers, which will be distributed on First-come-first-served basis. If you want to have it, just download the software from their website and ask me for the license keys here in your comments. If you could tweet about this giveaway, we will thank you for making this giveaway successful.

Update 10th May, 2010:

The Giveaway has ended, as I have distributed all the 20 keys available. Thank you all for making it a success.

About WinX DVD Ripper

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can rip the content of DVDs to all popular video formats such as AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, etc. What’s more, it also owns the ability of ripping different DVDs (including encrypted DVDs) to Sony PSP, Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTouch, Apple TV, Zune, Mobile phone, etc.

winx dvd ripper free license keys

This DVD ripper software supports multi-core CPU and is fully compatible with Windows 7. We promise WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is the fastest DVD ripping solution in the market. Besides converting DVD to regular video formats, 1:1 DVD copy enables you to backup your DVD with original video, audio and subtitles within only 5 minutes(the processing time also depends on your CPU and DVD driver speed).

Features of WinX DVD Ripper

  • 1:1 DVD Copy without Quality Loss: Decrypt & copy DVD to PC with 100% original video, audio and subtitles within only 5 minutes – new!
  • If your original DVD’s audio is out of sync with movie, the Intelligent A/V Synchronizer can help you solve the problem – new!
  • To avoid any kind of problems during conversion process, we offer you safe mode which can skip the problems and finish the whole conversion process more smoothly – new!
  • Enable to change interlaced scanning DVD movie to progressive scanning, make converted video with clearer image – new!
  • Multi-core CPU supported, which makes your conversion process much faster – new!
  • Batch rename all clips easily with “Renaming Template” before converting – new!
  • Ripping features:
  • Rip DVD to popular video formats, e.g. DVD to MOV, DVD to AVI, DVD to FLV, DVD to WMV, DVD to MPEG, DVD to MP4, etc
  • Rip DVD to popular portable devices including DVD to iPhone, DVD to iPod, DVD to iPad, DVD to PSP, DVD to Zune, DVD to Mobile phone, etc
  • Rip DVD audio into MP3 music file
  • Support grabbing screenshot from DVD video to JPG & BMP
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VirusBarrier x6 – First iPad Antivirus as Claimed by Them

Although there is no virus at present for iPad as stated on the website of Intego, the company behind VirusBarrier x6, but still they are pretty confident that VirusBarrier x6 will be able to thwart attempts to any potential security threat to iPads and other Mac products.

[VirusBarrier x6]

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What if, you are able to simple hide the files so that other people do not even know that they even exist on your computer. Will not it be better.

MyLockBox, is a freeware utility, which allows you to password protect any file or folder, and the password protected folders are hidden from other people accessing your computer, even the administrators and the system itself. You can use a simple hotkey to bring your files back to action.

Features of LockBox

  • Very easy in use
  • Almost any folder on your computer can be password protected
  • Instant protection – no file scrambling or moving to another place
  • Lockbox folder is inaccessible even by the system administrators
  • Lockbox folder is inaccessible both locally and remotely.
  • Lockbox folder can be protected in Windows safe mode
  • Windows XP x64 support
  • Hotkeys support – you can popup Control Panel with a simple keystroke.
  • Skinned user interface
  • Freeware

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