Computer Update March 2010

Just a Bit of an Update Equipment Security

Download Sites Cnet.com Zdnet.com Majorgeeks.com Tucows.com Filehippo.com

Your System Security Review ◦ Anti Virus:  Resident  Avast  AVG  Cloud  Panda Spyware ◦ Spybot Search and Destroy ◦ Ad-Aware

Your System ( Con’t) Malware ◦ Malwarebytes ◦ IObit Malware Fighter ◦ Stopzilla $ ◦ Webroot $ ◦ Kaspersky $ Beware of Fakes – Ransomware

Your System (con’t) Firewalls ◦ Microsoft (XXX) ◦ Zonealarm*** ◦ Panda $ ◦ Trendmicro $ ◦ Semantic/McAfee $ ◦ Webroot $ *** ◦ Lavasoft $

Your System (con’t) Other Stuff ◦ Keylog Detector  KL-Detector ( ◦ Rootkit Killer  Kaspersky TDSSKiller  (

Your System (con’t) Rescue Me.... Be prepared for the unexpected AVG Rescue CD or USB Drive ◦ Free Software ◦ Removes infections, repairs files and recovers systems ◦

Security Sites Trend Micro – blog.trendmicro.com/ Lavasoft - ◦ Kaspersky - ww.securelist.com/en/weblog Microsoft - blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/ CERT -

Rogue Security Software Signs ◦ Your Regular Security Software disabled ◦ New Security Popups ◦ Notification your computer is Infected ◦ Offers to Run Computer Virus Scan ◦ Pay for Full Version to get rid of Virus

What Do I Do Now? Try to close the Program from the Task Manager ◦ Don’t Close with X ◦ ( Cntrl F4 or Control –Alt-Delete ) Close in applications Tab Run security software – Malwarebytes/ IOBit/ Stopzilla 1.May require Boot Scan 2.You might need to rename Security Software install name Use a Rescue Disc  AVG Rescue Disc Wipe Drive and Reinstall from Back Up

What ya got System Inventory ◦ Belarc Advisor (

Your System (con’t) Hard Drive ◦ Space Utilization  Ridnacs  download.cnet.com/RidNacs/ _ html Defraging ◦ Smart Defrag ◦

Your System (con’t) Clean up: ◦ Ccleaner  Cleaning and optimization tool (Files & Registry)  Start Up ◦ Whatinstartup  download.cnet.com/WhatInStartup/ _ html

Your System (con’t) System Optimization ◦ Soluto  Runs as a background service that watches your PC  detects slowdowns and trying to analyze the cause.  Analyzes Boot process, Web Browser, Remote Actions and Crashes  Tells you what is happening

Your System ( Con’t) Duplicate Cleaner ◦ download.cnet.com/Duplicate-Cleaner/ _ ◦ Find and delete duplicate files, mp3s, photos, old documents and much Clone Spy ◦ Free Duplicate File CleanUp Tool for Windows ◦

Your System ( con’t) Permanently Erase Files ◦ Eraserdrop Portable  eraserdrop-portable.en.softonic.com  Drag and drop eraser ◦ Filekiller   Completely removes a file from your disk without leaving any track

Delete Your Accounts Look for Your Accounts ◦ Spoekeo - people search engine  Delete those Accounts ◦ Information on how to delete your account from all of the major social networking, blogging, shopping, etc. sites and services across the web. ◦