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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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, [...]

Slow PC?

jgweed posted a checklist on BleepingComputer’s forum page and said that three main causes of a slow PC are:

Malware
Uncontrolled apps
Lack of maintenance

>> GO to BleepingComputer’s Forum page to read the whole post.