Computer security is important for all users, and easily get hack by hacker or infected by malicious software if the computer security is not set properly or not enable. Now all windows users will get the Windows security alert if some of the standard security is not enable on Windows, but is not 100% that all standard Windows security have been enabled and the Windows will not infected by malicious software. For extra safe, users can try install extra security tools that from Norton.

User Account Control (UAC)
User Account Control is security feature from Microsoft Vista. Some user will feel that UAC prompts are annoying, so they will disable UAC just to stop to seeing these prompts. Now users can use Norton UAC tool to replace the Vista security feature. Advantage of the Norton UAC is there have a white-list (as well as black-list) database on various administrative actions, and to enable users to make smart decisions without unnecessary prompts, using prompts only as a last resort.

Norton Security Inspector
Norton Security Inspector is a tool that you can use to check your computer’s security settings and configure them according to your personal preferences.

Norton Security Inspector checks the following:

• Whether your browser settings are set to a secure level
• Whether Norton Internet Security is configured to protect installed IM clients (for example whether IM scanning is on, if you’ve got a relevant IM client installed)
• Whether any attempts have been made to modify your hosts file (for example redirecting your local host entry)
• Whether your computer has insecure shared folder settings (for example if there are global shares – C$ D$ etc, enabled, system folders are shared, hidden shares, etc.) – SI can close undesirable shares
• Displays a list of user accounts that have more rights (admin privileges) than they need
• Checks for windows services that should be configured to start manually rather than automatically, and services that should be configured not to start. The “fix” operation will only allow the user to change each service to start (or not start) according to our recommendation.
• Whether your machine has Windows user accounts with weak passwords.

Norton Security Inspector can only install on computer that have Norton Internet Security 2009 installed.

Norton Safe Web
Norton Safe Web is a new Web safety solution based on Symantec’s automated analysis of Web sites in order to determine their potential impact on user’s computer. It will display the visual site ratings within everyday search results from top search sites like Google, Yahoo! and Live Search. Additionally, due to the nature of security threats on the Web, Norton Safe Web will also warn users before visit a site that contains malicious content.

Same as Norton Security Inspector, Norton Safe Web can only install on computer that have Norton Internet Security 2009 installed. But there is an alternative for users who want this kind of feature, they can install McAfee SiteAdvisor for Firefox browser and IE browser.

For computer that access internet and there is a risk that computer will get infected by viruses, spyware, trojan horses, rootkits and other malware that will infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. For computer that not access to internet, the risk will be lower but there is no way that the computer will not get infected. Users will install some anti-spyware and anti-virus software to prevent and protect their computer, but in case their computer has infected and is troublesome for them to remove or clean the Malicious Software. Now users can try Hitman Pro to remove detected malware if the computer is infected with malicious software.

Hitman Pro is a fast all-in-one tool to find, identify and remove viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, rootkits and other malware. Without installing heavy software and slow down the computer. Just within few minutes, Hitman Pro will revea if your PC is infected with malicious software and this is the faster then the traditional anti-virus.

Below are the advantages of the Hitman Pro 3

• Revolutionary innovation in scan technique to distinct malicious and safe software.
• Short scan time - searches the system within a few minutes.
• No extra system load.
• Impossible to make false positives on important systems files thanks to “profiling”.
• Famous identication partners in our real-time “Confirmation Cloud”.
• Automatically restores common system alterations made by malicious software.
• Creates a check point in System Restore before removing malicious software.
• Removes resistant threats using a native NT boot-time deleter.
• Recognizes and removes not just spyware but also viruses, Trojan horses, rootkits and other malware.
• Also removes references to malicious software (like shortcuts and registry entries).
• English, German and Dutch online support by SurfRight.

Currently users can run the Hitman Pro 3 with unlimited free scanning for the computer. But for removing the malicious software, users need to activate then only can remove threats for free for the first 30 days. Hitman Pro 3 currently supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 2008.

How can we get control all processes or programs on computer is by running the standard task manager on Windows, and the easier way is running third party program to control all running processes. You may refer to the previous post “The Easier Way to Get control All Running Processes in Computer” for more detail. What about for remote computer, how users can know what processes or programs is running on remote computer without users go to the computer physically. Sometime there some network computer that locates far away from the users, and is hard for users to check what programs or processes is running just by walk to that computer. Now users can use Remote Process Explorer to make their life easy.

Remote Process Explorer is a powerful tool for managing, monitoring and analyzing processes on a local or remote computer in real time. User can use Remote Process Explorer to check or kill a process, run a new one or change the priority of a process on a local or remote computer, and switch off a remote computer, restart it or send a message to it. All above actions can be done remotely without additional software need to install on remote computer.

Below are the features of the Remote Processes Explorer.

• Monitoring all running processes on a local and remote computer.
• Showing the parameters of running processes (Process ID, Parent PID, CPU, Memory Usage, Priority, Handles, Threads and much more).
• Showing all parameters in real time.
• Displaying the process tree.
• Killing the selected process at any moment.
• Changing the priority of a process on a remote computer.
• Running new processes on a remote computer.
• Searching the Internet for information about the selected process.
• Saving the list of processes to a file.
• Storing the computer list in the program.
• Add Computers Wizard.
• Groups in the computer list.
• Showing the state of a computer in the list (on/off).
• Automatically refreshing the list of computers.
• Two methods for determining the state of a computer.
• Using different accounts for each computer.
• Switching off and restarting a remote computer.
• Sending messages to a remote computer

Remote Process Explorer can only install on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista. Users can get a free Remote Process Explorer only for personal non-commercial purpose by fill out the registration form.

Windows will display all processes that running in task manager, users can know more detail about the processes and programs in term of the CPU usage, memory usage and etc. But sometime difficult for users to determine what type of processes and programs is running through the task manager. This is due to the name of the processes and programs that display on task manger will confuse users. For users to know exactly what processes and programs is running in Windows and more detail on each process and programs, they can try the Security Processes Explorer.

Security Processes Explorer is an enhanced task manager that provides advanced information about programs and processes running on the Windows. It will display all standard information and additional information such as unique security risk rating, and this will allow user to determine whether to terminate the processes or programs. Beside that users also can simply replace task manger with Security Processes Explorer just with few simple step. Users just have to click on File and then select Replace Task Manager, Security Process Explorer will integrates itself into your system so that users can access the module by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, or by right clicking on an empty part of the taskbar and selecting Task Manager.

Below are the features of the Security Processes Explorer.

• Give you detailed information about each and every process
• Indicate whether a process is safe or not
• Allow you to terminate process with a single click.
• Let you block any unwanted processes or malware
• Simple and User friendly interface

Security Processes Explorer can install on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The 64-bit versions of Windows XP/Vista are not supported. Get the free Security Processes Explorer now to replace the task manager.

From my previous post, I have mention that how to re-partition the hard disk with a free tool that just with few simple steps. Users are able to re-partition their hard disk without losing the data inside the hard disk. Besides using the EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition, users also can use EASEUS Disk Copy for re-partition hard disk, or use to make a copy of their entire hard disk or some partition of the hard disk.

EASEUS Disk Copy is another freeware that providing sector-by-sector disk/partition clone regardless of your operating system, file systems and partition scheme. Users can use it to make a clone of their entire old hard disk to the new hard disk. Besides that, it allows users to make an copy of the hard disk or partition to CD or DVD. Even users can create the bootable CD/DVD while copying from the hard disk.

Below are the features that offer by EASEUS Disk Copy

• Copy all of your hard drive: Creating a bootable CD/DVD, it allows you to copy entire disk in case of unknown/proprietary file systems.
• Partition copy: Enables you to copy one partition to another partition you want.
• Disk copy: Enables you to clone one disk to another sector by sector.
• Sector by sector copy: Makes physical 1:1 copies (clones) of hard disks and partitions. This ensures 100% identity to the original.
• Safe, simple and fast: It is a very fast and easy way to copy all or part of a hard drive to another hard drive with Disk Copy.
• Supports inaccessible disk copy
• Supports booting from CD/DVD
• Friendly graphical user interface
• Relay disk space for insufficient destination
• Support hard disks up to 1 TB

EASEUS Disk Copy can be run with all operating system and with minimum 128Mb of memory and 40Mb of free space. Download this freeware and start using for re-partition your hard disk or use to clone the hard disk.

Hard disk is place where to keep all data and information within the computer, it’s good to separate and keep the data in hard disk by partition. Normally most of the users will partition their hair disk to two partitions (OS and Data), this is to ensure all their data still remain in the hard disk while their operating system partition corrupted. For those hard disk where no have partition, all the data are keep together with the operating system, and there is a risk hard to recover their data when operating system was corrupted and cannot boot-in to the windows. To prevent this happen, now users can use EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition.

EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is free comprehensive hard disk partition management software to let you enjoy free with all the powerful functions: Resize and Move partitions, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions and much more. What’s more, the freeware works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows 2000/XP/Vista Operating Systems. Your data is completely protected during all operations. Its great free tool that users can use to re-partition hard disk rather use other partition software where need pay for the license.

Below are the features of EASEUS Partition Manager

• Support hardware RAID.
• Resize and move partitions without losing data.
• Create, delete and format partitions with simple step.
• Label partitions - assigned to a partition for easier recognition.
• View Disk/Partition property of each partition.
• Hide and unhide partitions - protect important data from unauthorized or casual access.
• Set an active partition - specify one partition to be the boot partition.
• Powerful safety features protect you against system failures while partitioning.
• Step-by-step wizard walks you through partitioning process.
• Preview any partitioning tasks before completing it.
• Change cluster size automatically and manually.
• Undo feature any partition step.
• Support hard disks from 2 GB to 1 TB.
• User-friendly interface.

Download the free EASEUS Partition Manager now and start re-partition hard disk without losing any data. Although is good to have partition to separate operating system and data in hard disk, but is better keep another copy of data within another hard disk.

Password is required when user logon to Windows and each user’s account have certain privilege when logon to Windows. For a limited users account, they only manage logon to Windows and use most of the capabilities of the computer, but only an administrator can make changes that affect other users of the computer. Administrator account is the master account in Windows. When users logon to Windows with administrator account, they may do whatever in Windows and even can use to create additional user’s account in Windows. Since administrator account having the full access right at Windows, therefore administrator’s password must remember else is hard for user logon back to Windows for some case. If limited users account cannot logon to Windows, users still can use administrator account logon to Windows and change the password for limited user account. If both accounts also cannot logon to Windows, worst case is re-installed Windows and is not recommended.

If users forgot their Windows password and cannot logon to Windows, they no need re-install their Windows again and can use Windows password recovery tool (PC Login Now) to recover their Windows password. PC Login Now is free tool to reset local administrator and other accounts passwords on Windows system. Users just have to boot with PC Login Now CD and start to recover the password, users not only can reset the password for each account but also can maintain, change accounts policy setting, change properties and change user’s account level (from limited to administrator account or vice-versa).

Below are the lists of features that offer by PC Login Now.

• Resets any passwords on ANY Windows with 100% successful rate.
• Can easily bypass Syskey mechanism and reset the Windows passwords.
• Offline running PCLoginNow runs on Linux Live CD.
• Uses the securest way to reset passwords and other settings. Don’t have to worry about System corruption after using PCLoginNow.
• Supports all Windows filesystems including NTFS, FAT16, FAT32.
• Supported Operating Systems including Windows Vista, Windows XP/XP with SP2, Windows 2003 server, Windows 2000/NT.
• Supported Hardwares computers with IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB or Firewire(IEEE 1394) Hard Disks as well as a wide range of PCI PCI-EX card are completely supported.
• Easy to Use. PCLoginNow is designed for non-professionals, which means everyone can access their computer in no more than 5 minutes.

Now with PC Login Now, users can recover their password just with few simple steps and the minimum system required to run the PC Login Now is computer with minimum of 64MB memory and with the bootable CD drive.

With rapid grow of internet technology, everyone can access to internet search for any information they want. At the same time, computer may easily get attack and affected by spyware or adware when users access to internet while searching for information or data. When the computer get attack and affected by spyware or adware, the computer’s performance will drop and some of the spyware will steal information from the computer and send to others. Beside that, the computer that affected by spyware or adware will be the host and spread to other computers if the affected computer connected to the network within the company or home. It’s troublesome to remove and clean up all the spyware and adware, this is because users have to know what tools or utility can be use to scan and effectively to remove those spyware and adware.

Now they a lots spyware and adware remove utility in market, but users have to know which spyware and adware remover will effectively remove spyware and aware from the computer. Most of the spyware and adware are free for users to download and scan, but not all can detect and remove the spyware and adware.

For users to get the correct and free spyware and adware utility to scan and remove or clean up their computer from spyware or adware, below are the spyware and adware utility may consider to download and start scanning.

SpywareBlaster 4.1
Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software!
Size: 2.74MB
Source: www.javacoolsoftware.com

McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0
McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0 is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.
Size: 1.45MB
Source: www.mcafee.com/us

Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.2
Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan.
Size: 794KB
Source: us.trendmicro.com/us/home/home-user/

Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.6.0.30
Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
Size: 14.38MB
Source: www.safer-networking.org

SpyCatcher Express 2007 4.5.2 build 51
SpyCatcher Express protects all Web surfers by providing a safe and advanced antispyware solution.
Size: 11.79MB
Source: www.tenebril.com

SpywareGuard 2.2
SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster’s protection method.
Size: 1.97MB
Source: www.javacoolsoftware.com

Ad-Aware 2008 7.1.0.8
Ad-Aware 2008 Free continues the Lavasoft tradition and spirit by providing a no-strings-attached, full powered free anti-spyware product that is safe, thorough, and easy to use.
Size: 18.27MB
Source: www.lavasoft.com

Advanced Spyware Remover 1.98
Advanced Spyware Remover is an advanced but easy-to-use anti spyware tool that removes spyware, adware, malware, hijacker programs and immunizes them to block future spyware threats that may invade your privacy and even steal your credit card numbers or personal information.
Size: 3.08MB
Source: www.evonsoft.com

A-squared 3.5.0.25
A-squared Free is specialized in finding and removing them securely. The disk scan checks all files on your system disks for Malware. The scanner scans for Spyware Traces.
Size: 2.8MB
Source: www.emsisoft.com

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.13.03
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner detects a multitude of spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger, foistware and trackware components; sources of irritation that antivirus software does not deal with.
Size: 727KB
Source: www.kephyr.com

RemoveAny 2.1.3
RemoveAny is an anti-spyware software that helps to remove any application from your computer. It starts at system startup and monitors all drivers and processes run.
Size: 296KB
Source: heavenward.ru

RogueRemover 1.24
RogueRemover is an application that can remove rogue antispyware, antivirus, and hard drive cleaning applications with ease. It removes rogue applications such as WinAntiSpyware, AVSystemCare, and SpySheriff.
Size: 675KB
Source: www.malwarebytes.org

SUPERAntiSpyware 4.20.1046
Easily remove pests such as WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, and thousands more!
Size: 6.33MB
Source: www.superantispyware.com

It is better to prevent and protect rather then remove, users now may download any of the spyware and adware utilities above start to scan and remove spyware and adware. Some of the utilities may require updating before start scanning, and it’s good to scan on every week to maintain the computer performance if you suspect the computer’s performance become slowly or they have some weird activity or service running when logon to Windows.

Copy files from one source to anther source are easy and very stretch forward. Users manage to copy all files together from source to target directories just with few simply steps. But when there is multiple source and users would like to copy all data from those multiple source to one target or multiple target directories, it not as easy as copy from one source to one target directories. When users want to copy from multiple source directories to multiple target directories or multiple remote directories, users have to spend some time to configure what files should copy, target directories, source directories and many more. Beside that, if anything happen halfway that some files cannot copy over, users have to check and need to recopy again. Now by using the Remote Batch Copy, users can make their life easy when come to copy multiple files to multiple remote directories.

Remote Batch Copy is a utility that lets users copy multiple files to multiple remote directories. Each source file is copied in turn to a corresponding directory on each destination node. With friendly interface, users just have to specify files on source and target directory within the utilities and all files will copy over. Users can also use to copy from network nodes to other nodes, users just have to specify the network nodes and what files to copy over. At the mean time, users also can configure unattended batch copies and set it run with specify time by configure with the scheduled tasks in Windows.

Beside that, Remote Batch Copy not only use for copy files. It also comes with some additional features as below.

• Remote File Gathering/Scattering
• Remote Node Info and Management
• Local IP Port Monitoring
• Real Time Log Monitoring
• Remote Node Queries by Domain
• Saved Configurations
• Unattended Batch Copies
• Site Customizations

Now with Remote Batch Copy utility, users can configure on what files need to copy in their network and everything configure just within the few simple steps.

When the computer has power on and boot into the Windows or when users launch any program, some of the processes will be loaded and it can be check with the Task Manager with some useful information (CPU Time, Memory Usage and etc). Even users know which program or processes are running by checking with the task manager, but not all processes listed in task manager will be display with the meaningful name. Like when users launch the Trend Micro Anti-Virus, the processes that will be display as “ntrtscan.exe” in task manager. Is difficult for users to know which program or which handles DLLs processes loaded in task manager.

When users copy some file from folder to folder and sometime will encounter and error that some file cannot copy over due to the file used by another process. Even close all the program or process from task manager, still encounter the same error when copy the file. The actual process can be found and stop it by using the Process Explorer.

Process Explorer is a free system monitoring and examination utility and can be used as the first step in debugging software or system problems. Process Explorer is created by Sysinternals purposely use in Microsoft Windows. It not only can use to monitoring and check the processes, users may also use to find which processes is running and what file was used by another processes. On the above scenario, users can use Process Explorer to find on what processes is using the file that cause that the file cannot copy over. Therefore, users can just kill or stop the processes so that the file can copy over.

Here are some key features of “Process Explorer”:

• Support for full handle viewing on Win9x/Me (with the exception of Registry key handles)
• Process icons
• Service process highlighting
• Process tree display
• Configurable refresh rate
• Refresh highlighting: new entries in the process, handle and DLL views are green, and deleted ones red
• Listview tooltips
• DLL descriptions in the DLL view
• Highlights relocated DLLs
• Jump-to-entry in the find dialog
• Efficient refresh
• Lists all process owners, even on Terminal Server systems
• Moveable columns
• Column selection and a wide variety of configurable process, DLL and handle columns
• Asynchronous updates of all views
• Configurable refresh highlighting effects
• Save function saves process view and current bottom view (handle or DLL)
• Minimize-to-tray option
• Process suspend/resume
• Thread details including stacks
• Fractional CPU usage
• Job object information
• Right-justified numeric columns with numeric formatting
• Mutex properties shows owning thread if mutex is owned
• More information in process properties
• Start time and CPU time process columns
• Option to hide the lower pane
• Kill process tree
• More accurate Registry key names for profile unload debugging
• Extensive help file
• Service descriptions on services tab of service process properties dialog

Process Explorer works only on Windows 2000 SP4 or above. Download this free utilities and start monitor your Windows system.