Archive : General Tips

In the multitude of trojans spreaded in the wild these days, a special category named banking trojans as Zeus, Bzub or Torpig deserves the name of the most dangerous trojans for online banking transactions. The most known and scaring is Zeus and his features  include a Polymorphic Engine which make it able to re-encrypt itself each time he infects a computer, as a consequence the common detection methods based on virus binary signature are not for any help–each time the trojan has another [...]

-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 [...]

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 [...]

When we download and run programs from trusted sources like products official sites or trusted sites like softpedia.com or download.com there is not an infecting danger(–maybe sometimes like in that famous Sony rootkit), but when we are downloading software from blogs or forums so called warez ? The chances to get infected with trojans, backdoors are massive. In our example we have for example an installer(setup) and a keygen(serial code generator) or a  so called crack. -It’s always [...]

There is “free solutions” for fixing, maintaining or disinfect your computer worse than paid solutions? I name them solutions because there is not about a certain AntiVirus or AntiMalware, instead is about of a set of combined methods to avoid computer infections, methods which can give you the best protection, much better than a single paid AntiVirus or AntiMalware program. A paid solution is when you purchase a program for maintaining your computer like a Registry Cleaner, a Disk Cleaner [...]