In case you didn’t already know Sandboxie is a free application that can automatically launch your web browser in a “Sandboxed Environment”. A sandboxed environment is basically a virtual computer inside your computer. Anything that you accidentally download (like a virus or fake antivirus) is caught inside this virtual computer and cannot harm your real computer. [...]
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Question: Help!!! I can’t load any .exe after I removed a rogue anti-virus. Is there a simple fix for this? Answer: Yes, this is quite a common after effect of removing the latest generation of rogue anti-virus applications. These rogues alter registry entries related to .exe’s. If you would like to easily fix this issue [...]
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Since I’m getting ready to review Comodo 4 Internet Security I thought I’d post what the changes/new features are: Whats New in COMODO Internet Security 4.0.135239.742? NEW! Seamless livePCsupport Integration This version has a built-in Live Support for getting instant help from the experts for any type of problems. NEW! New User Interface Theme A [...]
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Just about everyone uses Twitter (or one of it’s clones) these days and that number is increasing exponentially everyday. Since services like Twitter limit each message to 140 characters, shortening URL’s that sometimes are at least 140 characters is an absolute necessity. Let’s take a look at an example. The url below is 111 characters. [...]
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I get this question almost daily – “What Antivirus should I use if I only have 512 MB of RAM?” Use Avira Anti-Vir. It’s got one of the best detection rates out there and runs really well on older PC’s with RAM in the 512 – 1000 MB range. Tags: detection rates, little ram
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Here are 3 applications that I have personally used this year to add some further protection to PC’s running standard AV without a significant slowdown to the PC: Threatfire – Blocks unknown threats based on their behavior. Sandboxie – Isolates your browser from the rest of your OS. Threats can be automatically deleted every time [...]
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As many of you already know, files that do NOT contain digital signatures are usually suspected pieces of malware. To check your Windows system files for files that are not signed you can run sigverif.exe Click the windows globe in the bottom left. In the search programs and files type “sigverif”. Click Start. Sigverif will [...]
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Every couple of months I like to let people know what I’ve been using for free malware removal , so here’s my current list of software and utilities that remove malware effectively and (more or less) safely: (note: my usual readers and subscribers probably already know about this list, it’s for the new people visiting [...]
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