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 …
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 …
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, …
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). …
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 …