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-Always use an advanced security solution for your PC which must include at least a good AntiVirus, a good firewall and a Spam Filter; -Always update your Operating System, your Antivirus and your browser–very often the updates patch some vulnerabilities. -Never open an email received from an unknown person, or strange emails with strange subjects. Never run executables received by email attachements, even if it’s sent by a friend. His computer can be infected by a virus which read his [...]

TrueCrypt The so called “on-the-fly” encryption, is a method for encrypting and decrypting the files in RAM memory and only when them are used, as a consequence all the files on your encrypted partition or drive are permanently encrypted with an algorithm at your choice : AES-256, Serpent or Twofish. Can be used for any partition on your harddisk or for a storage device like an USB flash drive. It can creates a hidden volume or hidden Operating System that nobody knows it exists on [...]

This little application–Sandboxie–  create a virtual environment(think at virtualization provided by VMware) in your PC, where you can run your browser, install an applications or run an executable without to makes permanent changes on your harddisk. The programs are able to run normally because they have read access to any file in your PC, only writing procedure is intercepted by Sandboxie and redirected in a safe place on harddisk in a sandbox. No real files,  folders or registries [...]

System Restore from Microsoft Windows creates a hidden folder in each partition with the name System Volume Information. There System Restore save all the important registry changes, save some deleted executable or dll files, save the computer settings for a certain moment called Restore Point, so if you want your computer restored to a earlier date in time, the information from System Volume Information folder is used. The big problem resides in fact that the viruses loves to hide themselves in [...]

A simple tip to defeat an eventual keylogger is the next : When you type a password for example begin typing the latest characters, click in front of them and type the rest. For example if password is : 123456, type first 456, right click in front of them and type the rest: 123 The keylogger will record as password: 456123 obviously wrong. You can do this in 3 steps if you want dividing the password in 3 sets of characters. You can download if you want a free small anti-keylogger from here. KeyScrambler [...]

Maybe you will wonder to find out that I recommend you to use as web-browser Opera , Chrome or even Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. The last one, was declared after a study made by NSS Labs, a product analysis company, as the most resistant browser against  social engineering malware. General speaking, a social engineering malware is a Web address appearing as an inoffensive page with,  for example a video embedded, that download and execute a malicious code into your computer automatically when [...]

Viruses, trojans and all kind of Malware loves to disable your Task Manager to hide their presences in processes or to annoy you. There is several methods to enable the Task Manager. You will see this message : “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator “ The simpliest method is to run a registry file with this content : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] “DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\] “DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000 [...]