Computer Security Tips

12 Tips to Make your PC Healthy
— Here's a dozen of tips that makes your PC healthy, if you follow it. Nowadays day-to-day there are lot new security issues that affects the computers performance. So there are certain security measures that needs to followed to make our PC Healthy

PC Protection for Layman

Protecting a PC, Is that really easy?
— A computer without proper security is exposed to lot of risks, how to combat those and prevent your computer from such kind of potential new threats that increase day-by-day being a layman

New Conficker Threat and April 1st 2009 - A Prank or Real?

The Conficker.A and Conficker.C seems to have infected around 10 Million PC’s globally. But recently this Conficker worm has turned the attention of so many security software companies, being their websites and their network would be affected on 1st of April. Being it a Joke or Serious issue, I personally feel that it’s always good if we are secure to protect our computer from such kind of infections using a good Antivirus Software or Internet Security Software Tools. Coming back to Conficker – the Microsoft has given a severe alert level for this Conficker.C and Conficker.D Worm, which is expected to be live on the malware servers on April 1st. Click to know more about Worm:Win32/Conficker.C and Worm:Win32/Conficker.D from Microsoft Official Website. Anyways, if Conficker is going infect PC’s on April 1st or December 1st, it’s our responsibility to keep our PC secure, with updated security patches released by our OS providers to prevent / protect our computers from any worm or other unwanted malwares.

Though its gonna be a real infection or if its not going to be an infection on April 1st, still we can have our security patches updated, to safeguard our computers from any kind of dreadful infections.

Anyways if you are presently infected with Conficker worm, just download Conficker Remover tool to disinfect/remove it. If you feel that your antivirus software is unable to clean any Worms, Trojans, virus or any malware, you can always search for some specific worm removal tools for free in the web.

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Cracking a Software Key – What’s the risk possessed?

Many people they don’t want to pay for computer protection. Hence they start downloading the cracked version of software which we term as “pirated software” or “illegal software”. The people, who use such cracked software, think that both paid and cracked version is going to have the same features. So instead of spending they try to generate a duplicate key and crack the software and use it. But wonder how long is this cracked software going to work?

What’s the risk of using a pirated version of software?

In pirated or cracked software version though the features and the GUI everything remains same, you won’t have any automatic updates or regular bug fixes. Anyways illegal is illegal always. For example, the most popularly downloaded antivirus software, though it can be cracked, it would be useful only for that day. The reason is because there are thousands of viruses that are generated day by day all over the world. So the antivirus companies they research, find the new virus, find a signature, write a program to disable it from action etc and upload it to their antivirus software, which goes as automatic updates to the people who genuinely purchased the software. Whereas the people who installed the software using a duplicate cracked key, the automatic updates doesn’t work out. So the end user who uses the illegal software, doesn’t get the periodic updates, and is transparent and vulnerable to lot of security threats and attacks.

Moreover, in case a person who downloads a cracked version of software and installs it in his computer, sometimes if that results in a system crash, who would be providing the support? If he/she goes and asks the software company, the company will sue against him/her for using a pirated version of their software. The most possessed risk is that if you visit any crack download sites, you will see porn pictures to attract you, which may or may not be carrying some kind of viruses, which will enter the system while installing the cracked version of software.

So it is always good to buy software spending few bucks or instead go for some free wares, which is genuine. Because most of the freeware softwares may have adware installed in their software, which gives you regular pop-up and spy’s your computer.

A Recap – Why not to use Cracked Software:

1.) It’s Against the Law – i.e. its infringement of Copy Rights.
2.) You don’t get Automatic Updates
3.) Chances of getting malwares
4.) Finally its Doesn’t provide enough security to the Computer

“Using Cracked Software in a Computer is like using a broken shield in a War”

To fight the anti-Social elements you go for Fitness Courses and Self Defense Courses, to fight your computer enemies you need to install a real Internet Security software.

Will update you more on my Internet Security Blog.

Nigerian Scam / Spam mail leads to suicide

In a breakthrough, Many of the email users receive a mail stating that you have “Won a Lottery of $5000000 and you can claim it now”. Thinking this to be a genuine one, many people reply the mail with their name, address and bank details. But when you reply those mails, they again shoot you a mail stating that you need to first pay the taxes or consignment amount or so on and claim your Money. But people only realize it later when they lose money that it’s a fraud email. These types of mail we term as “Online Lottery Scam, Nigerian Scam – being the mails claims to be sent from Nigeria.” There are some people who have lost lot of money believing such kind of spam mails and even committed suicide.

If you see the cause of suicide, there are spam mails such as “Nirosha Silva”, who even come via chat and speak stating they have lot of assets, and to transfer it they need money, and to make people believe they even call via phone and speak. Once they receive the money, they easily see for the next person to cheat again. So please try to understand what is spam and lets prevent and protect ourselves and others educating about such kind of fraud mails.

If you get such kind of mails claiming that you have won a lottery or stating that they need your help in transferring their assets from one country to another, or shooting (UK Requirement Microsoft) chained mails i.e. telling you if you forward this mail to one person you will get this many cents or dollars, kindly don’t believe them and lose your money. Always try to ignore such kind of mails, and also tell your friends, family and relations not to believe such kind of fraudulent emails.

The Screenshot provided is a recent spam email – which we shouldn’t believe. Click the image to have enlarged view.