Category Archives: Security

Secure yourself from viruses, spyware, rootkits, adware and malware. Tips on using antivirus, firewall and other security tools.

Review of Bitdefender Total Security 2013 & 5 License Giveaway

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Bitdefender Total Security 2013, is the flagship product of Bitdefender. It is a one stop solution that protects user from all kinds of threats and also provides tools to fine tune the computer for optimum performance. Now, let us have a closer look at it. [...]

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BitDefender 2013 Products are out [Offline Installer Links Included]

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BitDefender is a popular name in the security industry and today they’ve released their next generation product lineup, BitDefender 2013. BitDefender 2013 products carry the same UI of 2012 version with minor tweaks. In fact, core features like antivirus protection module and firewall were just [...]

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Skip Open Candy During Installation of Softwares

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Installation of certain softwares is accompanied by a step in which the user is shown a suggestion like Yahoo toolbar, Google toolbar or even other softwares. This is managed by an application called Open Candy. From Wikipedia : OpenCandy is a company based in San [...]

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Get Prevx SafeOnline for Free

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What is Prevx Safeonline? Prevx Safeonline is a software which helps you to enter your personal details like passwords and credit card info into websites without compromising your security even if active threats reside on your pc. It does this so by isolating your browser [...]

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What is Flame? and How to Remove it?

“Flame”/”Flamer”/”SkyWiper”, in terms of aliases or codenames: “Worm.Win32.Flame.A”/ “WORM_FLAMER.A”/”Trojan.Flame.A”/”Win32/Flamer.A”/”Win32.HLLW.Flame.1″, I think these many names should justify the power of recently found malware, which is recognized as the most lethal, powerful and harmful malware ever made in computer history. Many times dangerous than the popular Stuxnet [...]

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CheckPoint’s New “ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall” Is As Good As Paid Ones

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Now-a-days, every vendor, including those who make freewares, are trying to dump as many security features into their products. Thus we are seeing redundant features in both antiviruses & firewalls, such as behavior blocking, anti-phishing etc, in both firewalls and antiviruses. Hence, your free internet [...]

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Review : Avast Free Antivirus 7

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Avast Free Antivirus, critically acclaimed as the most feature-rich antivirus for its price, has released its new line of products a week ago and the way it came into the scene is really mind-blowing. The first beta of Avast 7 was released on Feb 8th, [...]

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Roboscan Internet Security Free: A promising entrant in free antivirus arena

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Antivirus market is a hugely competitive one. And even there is a huge competition between free antivirus which apparently makes no economic profit to the company other than increasing its popularity. Roboscan Internet Security Free from ESTsoft is a new entrant into this crowed place. [...]

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Safely Carry Your Files, Folders And Passwords Using Protectorion Data Safe

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Carrying valuable documents from one desktop to another via USB key needs safety measurements and this can be achieved by special software that encrypts files. We have protect confidential data using strong encryption and prevent others from reading and misusing your data. Protectorion Data Safe [...]

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Fix/Bypass Trend Micro “Incompatible Software Found” Error

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Recently, I tried to install Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2012. But, the installation stopped from proceeding and gave the following error : Many of you may already know that Super AntiSpyware (SAS) free version does not have real-time protection. So, SAS won’t interrupt Trend [...]

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