In this post I am going to explain to you, how to remove the residing autorun.inf file after you cleared all the viruses in your pendrive or local drives . This file does not allow us to access the drives, when we try to do it or when we try to rename the drive it won’t allow it either. This file is used by most of the virus authors to lodge in there and work all evening after the poor mortal has taken away all the viruses from the drive! This file give lots of annoyances. Basically it usally used to call or run the viruses frequently. (more…)

Linux the term is altogether an alien word for many people. And of the handful of people switching or let’s say having their ‘tryst’ with Linux, have a very common misconception – ‘Linux is virus free.’ A very debatable sentence, lets take a look at some arguments. (more…)

Password. The one word protecting your online (or otherwise) accounts from misuse. These days the need for a secure password cannot be undermined. But remebering those cryptic passwords could be quite a challenge. So what do you do? Use a password manger or write it down. Although the former is quite safe, the latter would be quite compromising. So here’s a way to get a hard-copy of your password securely. (more…)

Well before shifting over to wordpress, I was and still am quite active on the blogger platform. Recently when I checked one of my blogs, it showed me that all the pages of my blog had been reported as an attack page! As far as I know Google’s blogger servers should be pretty safe and hacker-proof and I haven’t intentionally placed any malicious code on my own.

I clicked on the ‘Why was this page blocked?’ button in the ‘Reported Attack Page’ in Firefox, and came upto the Google safe browsing Diagnostic page. And now I quote from that page as to the reason why my blog was blocked:

Of the 181 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 134 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-05-25, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-05-25.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including manilis.com/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including bidvertiser.com/.

Oh boy, yeah, bidvertiser! (more…)

Your office computer could be an open book for others to abuse while you aren’t at your desk. Or maybe your child could be using (or misusing) the computer while you were away. What proof do you have of them using your computer? Of course surveillance may be there at your office, but surely not at home.  So how can you find out when your computer was switched on the last time?

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Lavasoft Ad-Aware Plus, the world-leader in anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-rootkit protection, needs no introduction to the average geek. Saying that the $26.95 (for 1 year) is often left out by many users, instead going in for the free edition. So here’s your chance to download Ad-Aware Plus 8.2 for free.
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