Phishing becomes one of the most widespread online threats. Fraudsters try to acquire information such login/password, credit card details by masquerading false sites as a trustworthy ones. These sites look the like original ones and have analogous web addresses like google.com and gooqle.com. Fortunately present-day web browsers have better security than some year ago and [...]
Recently Google launched its Public DNS service. But why do we need it? First Google Public DNS is needed to make Web pages load faster. Every time you enter website address in your browser the request is sent to your Internet provider that processes this request. So Google asserts that its DNS will work faster. [...]
Here is the list of 10 free applications that help you to secure and control you personal computer.
Secunia Personal Software Inspector
This application scans scan, detect, checks and secure all software installed on your computer looking for vulnerabilities and gives you direct links to update programs that are older and potentially not secure. This tool analyses [...]
I’ve just found this site. Here you can learn about almost any process. This library helped me to detect two new trojans on my PC. You can also visit this page for faster navigation in the library.
Open application. Press “Firewall” in the left menu of main window than press “Expert”.
Here you have to select protocol and type a name of port you want to close.
Using this method you can close all open ports you want.
When you are surfing the global network uses opens a number of ports. The most of software applications are intended for using of fixed port. As you can see on this picture Interne Explorer uses 80 port. Mail delivery applications such as Outlook and The Bat! use 25 and 110 ports. If you install [...]
