Enable a disabled Task Manager, Registry Editor and more…
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 Copy-Paste it in a text(Notepad) file and save it with the extension .reg and whatever name, it should looks like this : xxx.reg Run this file(double click), reboot your computer and in the best scenario Task Manager is at place. If …
Prevent computer infections : Checking files tips
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 a good idea to submit suspect programs to Anubis up to 8 MB size limit. Anubis is a service for analyzing malware, and you will receive a report with what your application …
"Must Have Tools" Series–sysinternals.com
Autoruns Always the malware, trojans, spyware, adware try to add an entry to run at system bootup, and all the malware are programmed to do so. There is a lot of ways to run an application at boot time and even if some AntiViruses claims to control 100% programs autostart, very often they miss some places. The most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations are shown by Autoruns by Sysinternals.com. This little utility is far better than MsConfig utility or any other system tool. Autostart locations displayed by Autoruns include logon entries, Explorer add-ons, Internet Explorer add-ons including Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), Appinit DLLs, image hijacks, boot execute images, Winlogon notification …
Free defending solutions, worse than paid ones ? No !
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 or an AntiVirus for protecting or disinfect the computer, or when you pay an “expert” for doing these but they using the same programs. Almost all the System Utilities are …
