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Top List of free antivirus, firewalls and security softwares

Kyle — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:06:37 +0000

Here’s a huge list of free antivirus and security materials to protect your pc from viruses and other dark forces of computer ecosystem. The materials are completely free to download so you can start checking them without worrying for paid updates or expiration issues. If you know something that I’ve missed kindly include it in the comment so I can update it in the list

1. Avast – avast! Home Edition – Free Antivirus represents the best FREE antivirus protection currently available on the market. This edition is FREE OF CHARGE for non-commercial & home use only. Both of these conditions should be met! If you are not a home user or if you use your computer for business purposes, we offer a wide range of more suitable products providing higher data security, starting with avast! Professional Edition

2. AVG – Surf, and search with confidence, while LinkScanner® keeps you safe from harmful sites. Get online and offline protection from viruses, spyware, and other nasties. Enjoy consistently high-speed PC performance with our new enhanced virus scanner

3. Avira – Protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers. New: Basic Anti-Spyware

4. Bit Defender – BitDefender Free Edition uses the same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found in other BitDefender products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus protection for no cost at all.

5. ClamWin – ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003.

6. Comodo Firewall – The experts agree—when it comes to threat protection, Comodo’s Firewall software is the choice the pro’s turn to.

7. GMER - is an application that detects and removes rootkits .

8. Spyware Blaster – can help keep your system secure, without interfering with the “good side” of the web. And unlike other programs, SpywareBlaster does not have to remain running in the background. It works alongside the programs you have to help secure your system.

9. Spyware Terminator – Millions of users worldwide rely on Spyware Terminator, winner of many awards and high ratings from industry experts and users. Its free comprehensive protection is comparable to competitors’ paid versions!

10. Sunbelt Personal Firewall – Sunbelt Personal Firewall used to be called the Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF). Kerio was going to discontinue it, but Sunbelt acquired it from Kerio to save the product from “going under”. We needed a new name, and changed ‘KPF’ into the new ‘SPF’ (so much for software geeks being creative…)

11. Super Anti Spyware – Detect and Remove Spyware, Adware and Remove Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats.

12. Threatfire - Will your antivirus software catch the latest malware that just came out today? In most cases, no, because it simply does not know how to detect it yet. But ThreatFire’s ActiveDefense technology does, and has proven to provide up to 243% more protection when combined with traditional AntiVirus products. See the table below.

13. Winpooch – Winpooch is open source protection from spyware and the like. By scanning files in real-time on your computer, it detects any malware and makes sure they do not infiltrate your system. Together with ClamWin anti-virus program it even protects your PC from virus by adding the real-time scanning capability that ClamWin lacks. Winpooch sees and prevents all attacks from viruses, spyware, trojan programs, etc.

14. Zone Alarm – A free firewall which blocks inbound and outbound traffic threats. Makes you invisible to hackers

How to remember super long passwords without breaking a neck

Kyle — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:44:17 +0000

You don’t need to be a genius to remember a super long password like this “aenxeleNNNNslmemwcNNnsllwpemms2242kalskd“. I know it’s absurd to remember super long passwords but you never know when someone hacks your computer and get all your private data stolen right?. Facebook, Twitter and the growth of Social Networks are very common at this age and as time flies security matters most. And this is why you really need super long passwords to protect your identity or your belongings online.

Truth be told, you can easily remember a 100 character password by just using this tool. If you’ve clicked the link I provided you’ll be redirected to a site and a tool that will generate you a super long password by providing a password that is easy to remember. I just stumbled this site and I was amazed by the idea of creating passwords from passwords. I know it’s a bit troublesome since you’ll need to go to this site in order to get your password but I tell you, this will pay off. Password chart is a great way to secure your important accounts which involves cash transactions just use the site and you won’t regret using it with the security it provides. It doesn’t save your password in the internet so you don’t need to worry a thing.

Know if your Content is being Copied and earn traffic if they were stolen.

Kyle — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:46:28 +0000

Content Scrappers are one of the serious problems you’ll deal if you own a blog or a website. I totally hate those jerks who use copy-paste method in filling their own blog and earn traffic from your hard work. For individuals who know how to code, they’ll just sit and relax by making auto-blogs. Autoblogs are automated blogs that gets your content through your RSS feeds. Aside from having duplicate content in google’s cache you’ll be competing with yourself too since your post just belongs to you. Anyway, I’ll show you guys a service which protects your blog from being copied and earn traffic if they were stolen.

The image above is a snapshot of the words that is being stolen in my blog. I made a dummy account in blogspot and tried copying my own content from this blog and posted it on my dummy blog. The site where I got this service is called TYNT. What you just need is to register your domain name to TYNT’s site and attach a script to your blog and you’ll get a free account that reports the content which are stolen from your blog.

What really good about TYNT is that they add an attribution link to the content stolen, so if ever they pasted it in their blog there will be a link back to where the content is stolen hence providing you instant traffic in case they topped the SERPs. They also provide a link to the site who copied your content so contacting the content thieves will be easy in your part.

TYNT is available to popular blogging platforms like WordPress and blogger. The only problem i see in using TYNT’s tracking service is that the script used can easily be removed if you change a theme in WordPress(self hosted). I think they should have a plug-in based tracking service instead of attaching a script. Anyway I shouldn’t complain to this one specially that TYNT’s service is free!. If you’re a blogger I strongly suggest that you use TYNT’s service it’s a 4.5 out 5 stars for me.