Posts Tagged ‘Security’

Security suite with HDD encryption

August 31st, 2009 Web No Comments
I am well aware that there is millions of folks out there just use windows firewall and antivirus, which comes as a bundle with windows. Well if you want something out of the ordinary and a bit crazy about safety “ZoneAlarm Suite” might be a good candidate to start on. Security software suite are today’s hot business, reason- 75% risk increase on online identity safety and the percentage just keeps going up. Check Point’s Zone Alarm division is refreshing its Zone Alarm Extreme Security Suite. The suite has more than a dozen segments aimed at protecting users from viruses, identity theft, spyware and all sorts of evil (online/offline) things you can think of. ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2010 comes with 256-bit AES hard-drive encryption as an additional protection in addition to other security modules you are familiar with. This time around firewall module offers fewer alerts, meaning to say lesser false alarms. And there is noticeable increase in performance and speed. This new suite will cost $69.95 for a 3-user license, unfortunately which doesn’t cover hard-drive encryption option. Users have to spend another $29.95 for a 3-user license just to get that encryption option. As you can guess Check Point also…
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Rogue Spyware horror: when defender is offender

May 18th, 2009 Software No Comments
Let’s face it; spyware is part of our digital life. No matter how many world class anti-spyware we use, some will always slip through. But that doesn’t mean you should drop all of your guard and let the spyware take over your PC without a fight. That’s the reason we still need, use and trust different kinds of anti-spyware who are our last line of defense against all the badwares. But what will you do when the defender become offender? That means when the anti-spyware itself is working as a spyware. We all have to agree the case is pretty damn code red plus situation when our antispyware goes rogue. So let’s first define what the hack is those thing? In simple word those are just a type of computer malware that deceives or misleads us (the users) into paying for the fake or simulated removal of malware. How they disguise? Mostly these stuffs are Trojan which mislead us into installing, the most common disguise for these rogue spywares are: Browser’s plug-in or extension (mostly media codec type) Image, screensaver or archive file attached to an e-mail message Multimedia codec required to play a certain video clip, very commonly seen…
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Open source at 2009

January 2nd, 2009 Information Technology No Comments
Many Open source entities had an eventful, breakthrough year in 2008. Not all the events were positive, in fact most of them weren’t. Once hacker’s, malware producer’s target was windows but in 2008 we have seen their shift of focus towards open source projects. Without any arguments, the biggest protection against security holes is always keeping up-to-date your software/application. But here is the hiccup; most open source lacks frequent update unlike property software/applications. So no matter how wonderful and creative open source projects are you can’t blame the corporate user’s going after property software/application to keep their pants on. Of course there are exceptions like-Firefox, MySQL (supported by Sun Microsystems), PHP, WordPress (Supported by automatic), Open Office, Fedora, Ubuntu, Android (Supported by Google) etc. More or less these and few other open source projects get frequent security updates than others. Every Open Source got a passionate community behind it, some are huge some are nominal. Nonetheless you cannot blame the whole community that much if it’s lacks frequent security patches, rather the guys on the helm to make management and operation decision are the responsible ones. The argument that “Open source lacks proper/viable business model” shouldn’t be the primary concern…
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Fight spam at server level: GFI MailEssentials

June 9th, 2008 Software 1 Comment
For a person, email spam may be just another day of 21st century where most well known email clients can keep the danger level well under control. But when it comes to server level spam protection, you really have to seat on the edge to keep up with the spammers. With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities to businesses every day, spam protection is a vital component of your network’s security strategy. Spam wastes network users’ time and network resources, and can also be dangerous (especially since now days crooks deliver financial Trojans through mail- which can bring you down to your knees overnight). Most email server products provide limited monitoring, security, and anti-spam functions. In those that do, the feature set tends to be weak and seemingly implemented as an afterthought. However, the new GFI MailEssentials from GFI Software not only provides the most comprehensive anti-spam capabilities currently available, but also industrial-strength mail monitoring, the ability to add disclaimers to all outgoing messages, and more. Impressively, GFI provides many of the product’s best features as freeware, making GFI MailEssentials a must-evaluate product for administrators of both large and small networks alike. GFI MailEssentials managed to…
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Fight back Spyware: CounterSpy

March 3rd, 2008 Software 5 Comments
Spyware sucks! Even the God dam! Spyware makers hate Spyware. You should be aware of that unlike viruses and worms, Spyware does not usually self-replicate. Like many recent viruses; however, Spyware—by design—exploits infected computers for commercial gain. Typical tactics furthering this goal include delivery of unsolicited pop-up advertisements; theft of personal information (including financial information such as credit card numbers); monitoring of Web-browsing activity for marketing purposes; or routing of HTTP requests to advertising sites. Many people have a misconception about Spyware that, since it don’t infect computer and rapidly spread it merely pose threat. Call it adware, Spyware or badware—for general user it’s always harmful, since it does invade his/her privacy none the less. So here are some weapons that you may wish to armed with in order to stay one step ahead of those filthy, slimy Spyware. CounterSpy is first in this series: CounterSpy Current Version: 2.5.1032 OS: Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista Price: $19.95/single user Memory & CPU usage: Minimal   CounterSpy 2.x is a top notch Spyware, adware, rootkits, and other malware killer, but is light on system resources and memory. Not only the attractive interface and usability but as well thorough scan, delete, quarantine and removal of  Spyware…
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