Protecting your Wifi

If you’re too lazy password protecting your Wifi, why not play a prank of people who are ‘borrowing’ your wireless internet access.
Here’s what they will see, after you have done the job.
or this
or better yet, this one…
how to do this?
Go to ex-parrot

Secured Airport

sirbrett84’s flickr page

Boycott Trend Micro!

The proprietary software company Trend Micro has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Barracuda Networks. They claim that Barracuda is violating their patent by distributing the free software antivirus program ClamAV.
Free Software Foundation 

Restrictions set by viruses/spywares

When your PC have been infected by a worm/virus/spyware, you will notice that certain restrictions have been set on your PC. Among the restriction commonly set by those malicious programmes are:

Folder option missing ( you can’t view hidden files or folders )
Error when running regedit.
Error when running the Task Manager
Run command not found.
Search option also [...]

Check Your Registry For Malwares

There’s a quick way to check your registry for spywares, adwares and malwares installed on your PC.
RegAuditor tells you by colored icons (green icon–safe, yellow icon–unknown, red icon–harmful) whether specific objects are known to be safe or harmful, also the program searches the registry for entries including filenames that aren’t present on and allows you [...]

Disable Internet Explorer

According to MyDigitalLife, what you can do is “Go to your Control Panel and open Add/Remove Programs. Click on “Set Program Access and Defaults” and chose “Custom”. Uncheck the “Enable Access to this program” in front of Internet Explorer.
As a guide, you can take a look at the picture below:
Uncheck the box Enable access [...]

RegSentry

RegSentry is a registry key monitoring application that sits in your system tray and notifies you of changes to important registry keys that Internet Worms, or Spyware programs may add to the registry database.
Download from Hiren’s & Pankaj’s site

Anti Spywares Comparison Table

Just FYI, Spyware Warrior have made a comparison between 6 popular anti spywares, Ad-Aware SE, Spybot Search & Destroy, Pest Patrol, Spy Sweeper, Windows Defender and Counter Spy.
>> Go to Spyware Warrior for the details and other stuff.

Secure Your PC

According to Lordpegasus more than 80% of computers are infected by spywares and every 1 out of 5 PCs are infected by virus.
According to an online survey,

77% think they are safe from online threats!
67% does not have an anti virus software installed!
49% of broadband users does not have firewalls!
88% are not aware that they have been infected by spywares!

So what you need to do is,

Install anti virus software [...]

Keeping your PC ‘healthy’

Ten tips from Ralph, how to keep your PC safe from viral and spyware infections!

Use an Anti-virus and UPDATE the pattern regularly.
Use an email antivirus service.
Do not install P2P programs.
Do not install “free” stuff like screensavers, cool [...]