Anti Virus for your USB drive

I’ve been searching for an anti virus that offers live protections ( stopping viruses from infecting your USB drive! ) and Mx One maybe the solution I’ve been looking for.
The freeware portable AV features includes the ability to scan a device’s boot sector for viruses, ability to send samples of detected viruses, quarantine and of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Another way to protect your e-mail

If you have to put your e-mail address on your website but wish to avoid spamers and phishers from grabbing it, try encoding your e-mail address before putting it on your site.
RalphTheGeek have just the tool to encode your e-mail for you.
Go to RalphTheGeek’s site and encode your e-mail now!

How you can help prevent spyware occurring?

Peter Bowey of pbcomp.com.au, has this advice for us all…
” Follow these wise Internet security practices:

Don’t click on links within pop-up windows - Because pop-up windows are often a product of spyware, clicking on the window [...]

Troubleshooting Windows Explorer Errors

Have you even come across this message , “Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.”
According to HelpWithWindows.com, Windows Explorer crashes due to two main reasons :

3rd party shell extensions that are not functioning properly.

Existence of viruses or spyware on the machine.

3rd party applications will add their own “action” to this menu, [...]