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I had been using ESET Nod 32 Anti virus from more than a year. I would say the best anti virus of all we compared. Works silently , not heavy on system and knows if something is virus. It even passed the Anitvirus Test we made couple of months back.
Microsoft has released its own Antivitus [...]

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Creating short URL is now a trend, easy and track able with services lile bitly but there is one drawback, We never know where it takes us to. Additionally when it comes from people whom you don’t know or may be random link forwarded by few people, security becomes a concern.
Keeping this in mind, Safe.mn [...]

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CyberMachine.org is an online tool which offers you the facility to encrypt and decrypt any text.

All you need to do is simply choose type in or paste the text in the window, and choose the encryption type, to get the encrypted text.

There is a huge list of encryption algorithms to choose from, as shown above.
Once [...]

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Laptop Lock is a free stolen laptop tracking software which lets you find and track  in case your laptop gets stolen or lost. It also lets you secure your important data using file encryption or permanent deletion of files from your computer when it is reported lost or stolen.
This application has 2 parts. First part [...]

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There is lot of buzz going around for Conficker worm aka Downadup which targets the Microsoft Windows operating system and results in  remote code execution when file sharing is enabled.. So the program first infects your computer and then can execute any other program which can result in data theft  or anything else.
Moreover this worm [...]

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Data is always valuable be it anywhere. Most of the time we carry it on Hard disk or USB drives and sometimes we also use Online Storage for this.  However in all the cases your data is no doubt secured but not safe. Anybody who can get hold of your hardrive or USB can get [...]

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Whenever we have to safeguard files from anybody all we do is keep it hidden either in system folder or just somewhere where people will expect it least.  My friends used to blame me for this but sometimes its more of necessity as you just cannot share. But there is a catch, No matter how [...]

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Ever wondered what the particular process in the Windows Task Manager, under the ‘Processes’ tab refer to, why is it running, which application is responsible behind the particular process and other such queries.
Tasklist.org is the solution to all such queries, in other words it’s a dictionary of all the known processes running on any system. [...]

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Private Disk light allows you to create a removable media which is not only password protected but also has NIST certified AES 128-bit encryption to protect your confidential information.
This virtual drive has to be loaded explicitly by you and the file on which it creates virtual drive doesn’t have any program association. This makes it [...]

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Almost all the security products available in the market till date work and rely upon the Virus Signature Database, leaving few like Threatfire as an exception, Virus signature database, is a collection of mechanisms and algorithms to identify and block, delete or quarantine the malicious files.
However the efficiency of Signature based security products has lately [...]