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Identity Finder - Free Protection Against Identity Theft
Protection against the cases of identity theft is an issue, which is gaining huge importance in this Internet era. With the ever increasing number of cases of identity theft and newer methods being devised, this issue becomes extremely important. And...
Lame and Lazy - BitDefender Free Spyware Checker works only with IE
Free Spyware Checkers and Online Malware Scanners will always have their place in a robust Internet security plan for any computer. It is fact that every security software, howsoever efficient and effective, can never be complete and detect all types...
Gmail BackUp - Do You Really Need Services Like It
A few days back, most of the Google applications were down for several hours in several parts of the globe. Google had officially issued clarification about it. But such incidences, although rare in frequency, raise an important issue of Backup. Goog...
Uninstall Antivirus to Speed Up your PC - Paul, Are You Kidding?
Paul Boutin at a Tech Blog on New York Times has carried a controversial post Five Controversial Ways to Speed Your PC. Paul has apparently been using Norton 360 for protecting his systems from Online Security threats and has experienced a lot of slo...
Form Armor - Stop Spam With This CAPTCHA Alternative
CAPTCHA (an acronym for Completely Automated Public Test to distinguish Computers and Humans Apart) is the de-facto standard for websites to stop spam. Every form, where users like me and you can input their details, are littered with the these dirty...
AVG LinkScanner | A Free Online Security Tool
With the advancement of technology, malware writers are inventing newer threats to your online security. Poisioning of Search Results is now becoming more and more common and I daily observe rogue websites in the search results of all the popular Sea...
Online Security Threats - Trends in 2009
This month, McAfee have come out with an interesting report on the Online Security Threats. It is an interesting read for anybody interested in the security aspects. There seems to be nothing exceptionally different from popular wisdom, but there are...
Twitter - A Goldmine for Email Address Harvesting
E-mail Address Harvesting is the process of obtaining lists of e-mail addresses using various methods for use in bulk e-mail or spamming. There is no need fo rus to emphasize on the growing menace of spamming and how they can threaten your Online Sec...
GFI LANGuard | Free Security for Your Small LAN
If you are a LAN administrator, you have to deal with lots of vulnerability issues of different machines, update them with the latest patches and ensure their upgradation to safeguard against all security threats. You cannot leave the task to the ind...
Facebook - Most Phished Non-Finance Related Site
Do you know which is the most phished site in the world? It is Paypal. Actually it is an easy guess for anybody, which knows what is phishing, and are the purposes of phishing. In fact, nine out of the top ten most phished sites are finance related, ...
Safe Internet Browsing with SandBoxie
Importance of Safe Internet Browsing Internet is an interesting place. On one hand it is a treasure of information, where you get as much information as you have time, energy and patience, but on the other hand it is a complete jungle out there, wher...
Safe Internet Browser - Which is the Safest Web Browser
Internet Browser market is heating up like never before. With the recent reports that Internet Explorer has reduced its market share to less than two-third from about 90% a few years back, there seems to be no end in the race of supremacy. There is a...
LinkExtend Firefox Plugin - Enhance your Internet Security
Internet Security Blog: It is our constant endeavor and the very purpose to discover some excellent Free Internet Security Tools, which can do their bit in enhancing your Internet Security. In this context, we just discovered a neat little Firefox Pl...
Can Hackers Breach Your Internet Security | Test it Online
Click here for more such Links and Resources on Internet Security. Firewalls protect your computer from giving unauthorized access to others, without your consent. But sometimes, there may be some gaps or holes in your Firewall which can invite hack...
Use OpenDNS to Block Conficker / Downad Worm
The recent attack of the dreaded Worm Conficker is one of the most widely spread in the history of Internet. No other worm has spread so quickly and affected so many of the computers worldwide. Millions of computers have been affected and some estima...
5 Essential Security Features in Windows 7
After receiving not-so-great response for Windows Vista, Windows 7 was released a couple of weeks earlier my Microsoft. IT Community is busy these days analysing the features of Windows 7; its look, the interface, the changes from Windows Vista and s...
Intelinet Smart Security Review - Is Intelinet Security a Scam?
Is Intelinet Smart Security Fake? Are they rogue Security Software. We may not say, but definitely facts suggest not to trust them....
Trend Micro eMail ID - Identify Phishing / Spam Mails Easily
Most of the online threats on your Internet Security start with an innocent looking email, inviting you to click on an important looking link. You click on the link, and the malware starts its dirty tricks. It is highly important that you are able to...
Top 10 Free Online Internet Security Services
Internet Security is something, which you cannot take lightly. Specially with the ever changing face of online threats, you just cannot rely upon a single security tools to provide you an all round protection from Internet threats. You may have inv...
A-Squared HiJackFree - A Great Free Internet Security Software
HiJackFree is a great Free Internet Security Software, which searches and plugs all your infections and vulnerabilities....
Email Scams Now Use “From” Field to Breach Your Security
You would have come across hundreds of emails which just announce that you had WON hundred million dollars in a lottery or someone in Nigeria had left 10 million pounds in inheritance to you or something like that. These are all email scams and unfor...
Shocking | FTC Reports Against Rogue Internet Security Vendor
In the last post, we have written about the a recent FTC action against a major vendor of Internet Security Software, which have pagued millions of PC users all over the world. We have just found the chargesheet paper of FTC against the same vendor &...
Rogue Security Software | A Beginning to their End
In a major development against the spread of Rogue Security Software, FTC has started action against a dubious firm with the name "Innovative Marketing", which is understood to be behind the spread of several of the recent rogue Security Soft...
Which Web Domains are most dangerous for your Internet Security
You can strengthen your Internet Security by avoiding to visit harmful and dangerous websites. Readon on to know, which domains are most dangerous for your security....
Internet Security Review | Growing Threats of Drive-by-Downloads
With the ever increasing trends of online threats to your Internet Security, more and more types of malware are causing havoc to users computers. One of the common types of threats is Drive-by-Downloads. A drive-by download is a form of exploitation ...
WOT | Free Internet Security Tool for Firefox
Internet Security concerns are growing day by day. Each passing day gives birth to new Internet security threats, newer malware, viruses, spyware, trojans, rootkits and what not; and with them we come across various Internet Security Tools. Some of t...
Freeware | Free Anonymous Web Browsing with xbBrowser
With the ever increasing threats of eavesdroppers, data thieves and all sorts of people (including governments) trying to know more about you for various reasons, the need of Anonymous web browsing is increasing day by day. Besides this, Anonymous we...
OpenDNS | A tool for best FREE Internet Security
OpenDNS is a great tool for getting the best FREE Internet Security while increasing your browsing speed at the same time. Setting your browser and Internet connection to use OpenDNS is absolutely easy and we recommend you to start using this service...
Shocking - A Live Example of How Websites spread Malware
[Please make Internet a safer place and consider Stumbling this post for the benefit of more and more innocent web surfers.] Yesterday, during my regular Google search for new Malware attacks, I discovered a rogue blog, which is blatantly dishing out...
GMAIL joins Paypal and Ebay for Detecting Phishing Emails
Phishing email scams are increasing day by day. New tricks are being learnt by the phishers and email providers are after them to be more clever in detecting phishing emails. Related: You can find 9 effective ways to detecting phishing emails on this...
