Security

Sign in to Gmail via Secure Internet Connection

7 September 2008 1 Comment

It is recommend for you to have a secure connection network between your PC and the Gmail server. Let say if you login to Gmail using a public network like wireless or hotspot in Starbucks, someone can tamper or see the sensitive information transferred from your PC to the Gmail server. This is because the network you are using is not secure and is open to everybody.

Non-secure networks make it easier for someone to impersonate you and gain full access to your Google account, including any sensitive data it may contain like bank statements or online log-in credentials.

Submit suspicious file to VirusTotal

19 August 2008 3 Comments

When you found a suspicious file, you might want to scan it using your favourite antivirus scanner. But do you think that your antivirus gives 100% accurate result? Or, would you like to scan the suspicious file using more than 30 antivirus scanners which of course will produce a better output?

VirusTotal is a website that provides you the solution to scan a file with more than 30 antivirus scanners. You just need to submit the suspicious file to VirusTotal and then VirusTotal will start scanning the file. After a few minutes, VirusTotal will give you the results from its 37 antivirus scanners.

Although VirusTotal can scan a file using 37 antivirus scanners but it does not mean your PC is protected from viruses. It only can scan a single file and it is on demand. There is no way a website (VirusTotal) can protect your PC 24/7. You have to install antivirus like Kaspersky Antivirus and make sure to run it in real-time mode.

Encrypt your confidential file using TrueCrypt

17 July 2008 6 Comments

If you have a top secret and confidential data, where you will save it? Will you put it on your Windows desktop? Or put it in your My Documents? Of course you will answer NO to these two questions, right? If we do not secure our confidential data or file, there is no point we classified it as confidential. So we need a special mechanism that can protect the data. And another question is, what mechanism that we can use?

usb truecrypt I choose TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is a free open source software that able to create file container which you can use as virtual drive on your computer. The file container is encrypted depending on the encryption algorithm that you choose upon the creation of the file. You are also required to enter password to protect the file container.

The file container is like a normal file that you can copy, delete, cut and paste on any digital media storage such thumbdrive. Although you create the file container in Windows, but you also can open it in Linux platform as long as you have TrueCrypt installed in the operating system.

Lets go back to my example above. If I have a confidential file that I want to encrypt, I will create a file container using TrueCrypt and then mount the file to the computer. TrueCrypt will prompt you to enter the password. If the password is correct, TrueCrypt will mount the file container.

Delete or Erase files with Eraser

17 June 2008 7 Comments

I use my PC mostly for blogging, internet surfing and sometimes pay bills online. I also store sensitive information such as my education grades (this can be sensitive information too :p ) in my PC. Everything that I do and files that I saved are recorded and stored into the hard disk. Even though I have deleted the files and removed “the traces”, they are still exist in my hard disk.

Maybe you have heard about this. When we delete a file, the file that we have deleted is not removed from our hard disk entirely. It is still exist in our hard disk but the operating system doesn’t know where to find it because the first byte of the file has been changed to E5 (a HEX value). The data is still remains on the hard disk unchanged unless when a new data is written on it.

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If you have sensitive documents in your PC or you don’t want somebody else found what you did with the PC, you can wipe your traces by using Eraser. Eraser is a powerful tool that can help you to cover up your tracks. This freeware tool will overwrite the file up to 35 times when using Guttmann technique.

Kaspersky 2009 is available now!

7 June 2008 50 Comments

Note: This article contains valid activation key for 6 months period Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 product.

I am a legal Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) user and have waiting this new version to come out for long time. I really wanted to see its new interface and the new features in this new version.

Although I am eligible to be a beta tester for Kaspersky product but I keep myself away because I want to make it as a surprise to myself. The new version of Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) and KIS have been released. And I have upgraded and protect my PC with the latest KIS version!

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