How to erase your internet traces?
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | 1 comment
In today’s high tech world it seems anything we want is only a keystroke away.
Sadly this is the same for the crooks out there. Every time you use your computer you leave files behind that can be stolen by a hacker. Often, these files will contain personal information. To protect privacy and stay secure, you will need to use a trace washer, which will erase traces of all your internet activity.
With the click of a button, or a few keystrokes we can now make instant purchases half way around the globe. The world of information has arrived at our desk. Convenience is right at our finger tips. But with that convenience comes some risks. In the electronic age we live in, everything from our credit card information, to our medical information is stored on a computer somewhere.
Large companies are fully aware of the security risks, and are constantly working to enhance their security measures. These companies have full teams of IS staff dedicated to keeping your information secure. Large budgets allow for the purchase of only the best security equipment. Still, even they experience the wrath of a hacker. We often hear on the news of a major corporation who has had our personal information exposed or stolen from their systems, causing the security of our personal information to be compromised.
The home user often doesn’t give security much thought. Many incorrectly people believe they have nothing on their computers that a hacker would want. This is simply not true!! The home user is more at risk than any of the large companies, because they are not prepared. Home users are a hackers dream. Information is readily available with virtually no security to infiltrate.
Each time you connect to the internet your risk your privacy. Even when you use a firewall and anti-virus software you still run the risk of your privacy being compromised. Firewalls and anti virus software do the job they were designed to do very well, but there is other security protection needed to keep you personal information safe. That is why it is so important to use ID Privacy Shield.
ID Privacy Shield will provide you with enhanced privacy protection for all of your online surfing. You can feel secure in knowing that ID Privacy Shield is on the job. ID Privacy Shield will delete temporary files off your computer, clear the cache, delete cookies, and remove all traces of files that could compromise your personal information.
Your computer stores more information that you might think. Every email you send, every file you open, and every site you visit is recorded somewhere on your computer. It could be in the registry, the cache, temp files, or a host of other places. It could even be in a hidden file.
If you are thinking you are safe because you empty the recycle bin, clear your cache and delete your cookies after every use, think again. You are as vulnerable as you were before deleting those files. A file that has been deleted manually is only deleted from your view. It still resides on your computer, leaving a trace behind that can easily be restored by a hacker, compromising your personal information. A few key windows commands will very quickly uncover your habits, your files, and your personal information.
Each time you access the internet small packets of files are left behind on your computer. Think of these packets as bread crumbs that build a trail. These small packets, or bread crumbs build a trail that others can follow to trace your activity. This is why you often hear about some employee getting fired for surfing inappropriate material on the internet. There activity was followed by someone in their companies IS Security department. Even though they deleted the information a few commands by a pro and they were completely exposed.
Many popular programs that we all use on a regular basis, record the users history. Programs such as Netscape, MSN Messenger, AOL, Kazaa, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, as well as many other programs, track all of your activity by placing files on your system. They do this to provide you with a better user environment, building smarter applications that can know your needs on demand. However, the collection of this information can also put you at risk, because your personal information may be compromised by a hacker.
Don’t become a victim! The only sure way to be safe is to use ID Privacy Shield to sweep up behind you. By using ID Privacy Shield you cover your tracks automatically. It will destroy all data related to your surfing. It’s like sweeping up the trail of crumbs as fast as they land. No more traces of where you’ve visited, logins, or any other personal information.
All traces of your online internet and computer activities will be permanently erased and they will not be recoverable by anyone. Files written to the temporary directory, cookies, registry entries, and files that have been hidden, will all be removed by ID Privacy Shield.
Secure your shredding
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
All important information, for an individual or firm, must be protected even after they were deleted. Deleted files or formatting the disks is easily recoverable. Sensitive data, such as passwords, financial or health records are at risk. Don’t allow to an unauthorized person to discover it.
You must protect also the banking account information, credit card numbers, social security data, human resource, accounting and other internal documents. The confidential data should be not only safeguarded according to the strict rules, but it should be also completely destroyed when needed.
To protect the security and privacy of your confidential data, you must wipe the hard drive clean with many erase passes that overwrite with varied data, including a low-level format for complete sterilization. Even individuals or firms that have adopted good security practices during the normal life of a computer or only a hard drive may not pay enough attention to security during the repair operations or at the end of a system’s life. Today’s huge hard drives will make quite impossible to overwrite a file with other data. So, the only solution to secure the sensitive data you want to be erased is to delete it for
ever.
Data Wipe removes selected stored information from your hard disk and other memories every day. When you delete a file, empty your Recycle Bin or even format your hard disk, the information is not removed from your computer. These commands only alter the structure of the drive, leaving most of the data intact and recoverable with software tools easily available.
When you delete a file or folder, it goes in the trash or recycle bin. Emptying recycle bin to be sure that the file is deleted forever is not a solution. Only the file’s name is removed from the disk’s index, but data still remain on the disk. Many programs can undelete or recover deleted files successfully.
Overwriting data is not sure enough. Suppose that you can erase the data; what about the file name, location, date and time? They may still be available in system files somewhere, giving the attacker some information on deleted files.
The real way to permanently remove unwanted files and data is to use file shredding software. ID Data Wipe erases magnetic media, overwriting it many times, alternating patterns on order to expose the magnetic media to a magnetic field oscillating fast enough that it does the desired flipping of the magnetic domains in reasonable amount of time. The encoded signal is chosen make the erased data meaningless.
File shredding utilizes an advanced algorithm technique of overwriting your files multiple times so that the information contained in them is no longer readable. ID Data Wipe will destroy the original data for ever. ID Data Wipe ensures file deletion overwriting and erasing data to ensure security. It does it using up to 50 pass data wipe. Data wipe is a user-friendly program, easy to install, especially designed for your day to day shredding need for removing data and files on your computer, for ever.You can delete a file or a folder by a simple click!
You can also put your unwanted files or folders in ID Data Wipe bin on the desktop. They will be instantly shredded. You can shred all temporary files left behind on your computer. One of the most important features will clean your computer from all old deleted files and folders that are still stored on your drives. You can not see them but you can easily recreate every deleted file.
You can have also a qualitative reporting if you need a document for the files which have been permanently removed. ID Data Wipe is designed with tested algorithms that erase data from the media to make it impossible to retrieve.
ID Data Wipe from ID Security Suite is erasing data by wiping its contents beyond recovery, destroying its name and dates and finally removing it from disks. Software and hardware recovery tools from restoring the erased data are stopped using ID Data Wipe that completely destroys any data from previously deleted files that might still be accessible on the hard disk.
ID Data Wipe is deleting event the locked files, index.dat, the swap file and the cookies that track the internet connections. The web browser cache, cookies, temporary internet files, recent document list, the temporary files are cleared automatically by ID Data Wipe, for any capacity hard drive.
The only safe and secure hard disk deletion is the result of ID Data Wipe use. Another major advantage is to have a PC running faster and more efficiently on and offline. You will have maximum performance and full security in less a few minutes. ID Data Wipe deletes all evidence of online activity, erase previously deleted files on disk drive, flash memory and unused disk space so your sensitive data can never be accessed or recovered.
How adware works and how to remove it?
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
Browser hijacked, strange pop-ups appearing for no reason? Is your computer running really slow? It’s time you knew how to protect yourself!
These days, the adware threat to your computer, is no laughing matter. Not only is it annoying, it can create havoc with your system, and jeopardize your personal information. That is why it is so important to detect adware, and remove adware as soon as possible.
So what exactly is adware? Just as the name indicates, adware is a term used for many different forms of advertising that appear on your computer. Adware is a software application that is programmed to display a banner, a popup ad, or some other form of advertising. When you load a web page it appears. Sometimes it’s quite obvious, other times much more subtle and you have no idea that files or tracking cookies have been placed on your system.
Adware is used by developers to generate revenue. The adware threat to your computer is dependant on what has been coded into the advertising. In some cases it’s simply an annoyance that produces pop-up ads. In other cases the threat is more critical, because the ad has been coded to upload personal information from your computer, or to download information to your computer without your permission. Adware can be as simple as an annoying add, or so serious your personal information is in jeapordy.
Both spyware and adware install files on your computer without you knowing, giving the ability to change advertising campaigns based on your personal surfing habits. Adware downloads to your computer usually involve tracking your movements on the net, and collecting information about you. It’s like a huge survey of where users go and how long they stay. Put bluntly, it is an invasion of your privacy. That is why it is so important to detect adware and remove it immediately. When you remove adware from your system, you remove the ability of the advertiser to follow your movements on the internet.
Malware is also a form of adware and is often seen attached to freeware or shareware software. When you install the software, it generates advertising within the software. This in itself you might be able to tolerate, after all you did get the program for free. But the annoyance and danger run much deeper.
Malware will run even when you are not using the software it came with,. It will collect information and send it back to the originating server, jeopardizing your privacy. Malware can also create system problems. If you computer seems to be running slower and slower, it could be a result of one or more malware programs running in the background. These programs are constantly accessing the internet and using your system resources.
You also need to be aware that most peer to peer file sharing programs come bundled with Adware. Always read the End User License Agreement, to see exactly what you are agreeing to for the privilege of using their software. Too many of us just click yes and have no idea that we have just agreed to their adware campaign.
One of the most common ploys used by software companies is to tell you they need to have a peer to peer connection to provide you with updates, and for their software or website to run correctly. Screensavers are a perfect example of this type of marketing.
Popup ads may not be as malicious but they are extremely annoying. Using a popup blocker will eliminate 90% of these little devils from popping up on your screen. You can use a popup browser provided with a search engine toolbar, but we recommend a more powerful popup blocker.
Some adware is difficult to remove, and in the worst case scenario removing the adware will cause the software to stop operating or your computer to crash or freeze. With other software the removal is easy and does not interfere with any functions.
Ad-aware will keep you and your computer safe. It is a privacy tool that scans your computers memory, the registry, and all of your drives - hard, removable, and optical, for known aggressive, data mining advertising and tracking elements. This includes tracking cookies.
After your system is scanned, the antispyware application will provide you with a list of the results and choices. You can remove or quarantine all or some of the components. Sometimes there will be a reason to keep a specific file or cookie, so Ad-aware allows you to ignore certain files in future scans.
With the growing threat of identity theft, computer hijackings, and other security threats, it’s important that you don’t delay purchasing good adware software. If you don’t want your system overrun with adware, install Ad-aware to keep your system clean and healthy, and your personal information secure!
Encryption and backup must go hand in hand
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
Whether you know or not, you are a target, an easy target, if you do not take minimum steps to protect yourself when using the internet, when you are making security copies for your essential data.
No law mandates financial institutions encrypt data, but common sense require applying the best security methods. Wasting data is not an option!
Some surveys that said only 7% of companies routinely encrypt their backup data. Recent lost of important tape having unprotected data appears like a disaster. It makes us think more seriously to encrypt the data before the backup and archive phase. The lost of millions of consumers are prompting companies to embrace security technologies they have neglected: encrypt and backup data.
Most businesses copy computer data on backup tapes for storage with third party vendors in the event of a disaster. Few encrypt it, but neglecting the security basic rules is a pure suicide. Shortly after it lost track of essential data for thousand customers, important firms decided to begin encrypting backup tapes.
Too many companies and individuals lose valuable data to hard drive failures, with absolutely no plan in place to prevent this from happening. ID Backup Manager is the best method to ensure the safety and security of your company’s invaluable computer information.
Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. Encrypted data (cipher text) must be then archived, making the back up more secure. Nobody would store or send confidential information in the open on a computer ignoring the basic rules of backup security. The only way to secure backup information is to use encryption. To read en encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it.
ID Backup Manager makes it easy to backup your data virtually to any type of storage
media: hard or network drive, DVD, CD-R/W, FTP or LAN.
ID Backup Manager will help you organize your automatic backup. It also featured an intuitive user interface making even the most advanced backup features accessible for beginners and professionals. The backup files are encrypted to make the storage more secure.
ID Backup Manager will encrypt automatically your data before archiving it, simple, straightforward and secure. The ID Security Suite software will encrypt computer files, and store them on your computer safe from viewing by others. The ID Backup Manager is easy to set up and use, have a simple user interface; doesn’t have to be installed at both ends. Special add-ons are provided to facilitate the backup of MS Outlook, system registry and drivers installed in the system. Restoring is as easy as clicking a button, but you can also use a number of advanced options.
Avoid the hassles of disks, tapes or floppies for your backups! Using the ID Backup Manager you’ll have secure encrypted data. Finding and selecting files is easy with our right mouse click options or with the friendly interface. The backup modes are full, differential and incremental; the program works with timestamps and versions.You don’t have to remember to do a security copy for your information. ID Backup
Manager remembers for you.
Our solution is really secure: we encrypt your data with Rijndael algorithm. Data is stored encrypted and only accessible with your passwords. The Backup files are compressed using any of the six compressing methods derived from Zlib, Ppm and Bzip.Compression options are: uncompressed / compressed / compressed encrypted.The ID Backup Manager is offering a large scale of choice for its source: it can backup Application Data Folder, the Desktop Folder, the Windows drivers, the Favorites folder, My Documents folder, Outlook Express Address Book, Outlook Express Emails, System Registry. It cans restore individual files, having an easy to use wizard for choosing which file to be backup.
The program gives you a complete control on the encryption and backup process, logs and reports let you know what was backed up, when it was backed up, and how much storage space you are using. You will receive automated email notification on every successful backup. It cans also schedule the backup at the special time.
You can restore files anytime. In the event of a crash, a virus infection, or a simple user error your backups are a click away. Additionally you have access to your file using your password, without any further intervention.
The new ID Backup Manager combines information security and availability to simultaneously provide word-class security and world-class encryption of your data. This software is designed to keep your business up, running, and growing, no matter what happens.
Imagine how many hours it took to compile the information stored inside tour computer, and think of how many hours of grumbling it is going to take to redo all of that work. With ID Backup Manager, you can leave work with a peace of mind that if your computer system fails, you have everything backed up on another server, or you can simply back everything up on a CD. It takes only a few minutes to encrypt and securely transfer the information to an outside storage source.
If you or your company has information that you just can’t afford to lose, use ID Backup Manager Program!
While very straightforward, ID Backup Manager has all features any PC user, whether a novice or a professional, might need. Good for home or office, this backup program is reliable and easy to use. It has a clear and intuitive interface helping you to walk through the process. Overall, ID Backup Manager is a good choice for any user who wants to keep backup files of sensitive data.
It is very rare to see a software company put so much effort into teaching a user how to use their software. It is extremely easy to learn what ID Backup Manager does and how to use it. This is no small task!
Internet security for home users
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December 18th, 2007 | No comments
Releasing computer viruses (as well as worms) is a crime in most jurisdictions.In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents. The insertion of the virus into a program is named infection, and the infected file, or executable code that is not a part of a file is called a host. Viruses are one of the several types of malicious software; the term virus is often extended to refer to computer worms, spyware or adware.
This confusion can have serious consequences, leaving computers vulnerable to future damage. Viruses cannot directly damage hardware, but the software in the hardware however may be damaged.Viruses are deliberately created by programmers, unlike biological viruses; they cannot come into existence spontaneously. People think that the majority of viruses are created with malicious intent. On the other hand, some virus programmers consider their creations to be works of art, seeing virus writing like creative hobby.
There are good viruses, spreading improvement to the programs they infect, or delete other viruses. That viruses are rare, consume system resources; they may accidentally damage systems and have become infected and acted as vectors for malicious intent.
Longtime before computer networks became worldwide known, most viruses spread on removable media, particularly floppy disks. In 1990s, more viruses were written to infect popular traded software, macro viruses become common too. Viruses spread by infecting documents and sending infected email. Users can get computer virus through instant messaging; this process is done by taking the virus code and placing it into a web sites shortcut which is accessible through instant messaging someone. The receiver gets the virus and within a few hours of being on the virus has the capability of transferring itself to the computer’s network.
A worm can spread itself to other computer without needing to be transferred as part of a host. Many personal computers are connected to the internet and to local-area networks, facilitating their spread. Today’s viruses may also take advantage of networks services as www, email, file sharing systems to spread, blurring the frontier between viruses and worms. ID Security Suite package defends against all of these types of attack.
Today viruses are somewhat less common than network-borne worms. Due to the popularity of the internet security techniques, as our ID Security Suite, originally designed to protect computer from viruses, but expanded to cover other threats.
A new kind of attack against the home user or firms security is phishing; this is the act of sending emails to users falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise. This is an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. Sometimes the email asks the user to visit a site where he must update personal information, as credit cards, social security, and bank account numbers. The motivation is that the web site already has the information, but must check it once more.
The real purpose is to steal the user’s personal information; the idea being that bait is thrown out with the hopes that while most will ignore the bait, some will be tempted into biting. We’ll avoid phishing attempts using the ID AntiPhishing software.
Another annoying event that can be avoided using the internet ID Security Suite is to see new windows opening when you visit a website. The ID AntiPopup prevents new windows that display advertising that can interfere with your ability to see the content of the page you are trying to read. When the ID AntiPopup intercepts an incoming ad the cursor changes its look.
Sometimes, sites communicate useful information using pop-ups. The ID AntiPopup can remember these sites so popup are allowed to launch. The sites with useful popup windows are forming a while list.
ID Security Suite will give you also the possibility to install personal firewall software to prevent identity theft. A firewall is to a computer, as a security system is to a home. The ID Firewall allows specific traffic through specified doors (ports). The personal ID Firewall product provided by the ID Security Suite will alert you if anyone ever tries to tamper with the doors of your computer. You will decide who can visit and who is not welcome
ID Privacy Shield is another important product of our ID Security Suite. The way it works makes virtually impossible for any spy program to work on your computer. The product works against all spyware in real time.
The ID Backup Manager can backup files, documents, emails, settings, programs and more to virtually any local or remote device including FTP locations, across network, CD/DVD disks, internal and external hard disks, removable media, memory sticks.The ID Security Suite customers are able to store critical business data automatically, without the need for any action or intervention.
The operating system has a database repository for information about the computer configuration that keeps growing; as it does so, it attacks obsolete and unnecessary information, and gradually becomes cluttered and fragmented. It can degrade the performance of the whole system and cause many software problems.
The ID Registry Cleaner, as part of our ID Security Suite, scans the registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the registry. By fixing this obsolete information, the system will run faster and error free. The backup / restore tool let you backup your whole registry, so you can use it to restore the registry to the current status in case you encounter some system failure.
Spam (junk email and unsolicited commercial email), has become the scourge of internet. It has become much more than an annoyance. Spam messages often spread viruses, malicious scripts, fraudulent offers and cost internet users time and money dealing with the flood of spam. Every day computer users are working for their computer security, wasting time sorting legitimate emails from spam based on the sending email addresses, subject lines or by using a simple spam filter.
ID AntiSpam, as a component of ID Security Suite, uses various methods to identify spam. It can allow users to maintain their own personal white list of legitimate addresses, maintain a personal black list (domain names and email addresses of known spammers) of blocked email addresses.
ID AntiKeylogger blocks key logging software activity without using of signature bases in real-time. It is capable to buck various types of key logging programs possibly included in any shareware, freeware or commercial products, as well as Trojan horses, viruses of very different operation principles. To ensure your computer’s security, spy software will not be able to record or steal your personal information, passwords, and logins.
The ID AntiDialer component of the ID Security Suite is protecting you from uncontrolled internet connections. Anytime you want, you can check how much money you spend when you’re on the internet, via your telephone line.
The ID Startup Cleaner allows you to easily view and manage the startup programs. Most users have the feeling that there are too many programs in their computer which starts automatically, so now, using ID Security Suite, the coder can make their choice.
Some internet users are installing third-party toolbar browser extensions to customize third web browsing experience. Unfortunately, many of these extensions also send intrusive pop-ups, change browser settings, and even stealth install themselves without the user’s prior consent. Using the ID Security Suite, you’ll remove without the reinstall possibility these components with the Toolbar Remover.
The ID Security Suite includes too a ID Harddisk Cleaner, offering 100% secure erasure, with hardware testing, automatic hardware inventory and reporting, friendly and easy to install.
ID Harddisk SmartChecker repairs with backup ability. It includes the diagnostic tool and use two separate methods for disk checking: using file-access or direct access to disk surface. Using the ID USB Lock Key, from ID Security Suite, you will lock out unauthorized users from USB, managing this device level.
ID Folder Protector is software for computer security that can password protect, lock, hide and encrypt any number of files, folders, drivers, pictures and documents. Using the ID Security Suite, your files will be protected, undeletable, inaccessible and highly secure. This is the way to improve the computer’s security; this is the way to safeguard the files from viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware, even protect them from networked PCs or cable users.
To improve your computer security, the ID Process Manager will allow you to easily see hatvs happening behind the desktop, which processes are running on your computer. Using the ID Security Suite you will become the master: ID Process Manager permits to close normally or kill any running process.
ID Computer Spy is a spectacular component of the ID Security Suite; combines powerful monitoring features with extreme ease of use, making it ideal choice for home users, automatically recording every exact detail of the PC and Internet activity. Install watch is a utility which keeps track of which files are created and modified during the installation of a new program. This is part of the ID Security Suite and monitors processes while they run; works with every dynamically linked program, by intercepting system calls that cause file system alterations.
Maybe the most spectacular component of the ID Security Suite is the ID System Optimizer; it optimizes the performance of your computer, solves problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs.ID Security Suite products are generally superior to free versions, as there are more frequent updates and better support options. To improve the home users security, not only in the case of important data on PCs, the user should really go for a high-end antivirus and antispyware product, as our ID Security Suite.
For any home computer user, here are plenty of high quality products, which are usually, suffice: firewall, privacy shield, backup manager, registry cleaner, spam blocker, antiphishing, antipopup, antikeylogger, antidialer, startup cleaner, toolbar remover. Our suite include too hard disk cleaner, hard disk checker, USB lock key, folder lock, record studio, process manager, computer spy, network watch, unerase, file encryption and an optimizer.
This software package is the most important tools for the home computer user and for any level firm to protect information and avoid unpleasant events. Imagine a frequent situation in the computer coding activity: after coding few weeks or months programs that will ensure a very important project development, a virus destroys some parts of it. If there isn’t a recent backup on CD (and it is impossible to imagine someone to do it every day or every hour), all programs are compromised, the coder or firm looses his credibility, and so on.
To prevent a similar situation, the security suite allows everyone to protect many months or years of achievements from an impermissible intrusion of viruses or hard disk incidents.
The only way to make your computer secure without ID Security Suite is to turn it off or disconnect it from internet. ID Security Suite won’t only stop hacker trying to get in but also halt suspicious programs from trying to send information out over the internet!
How to secure your emails?
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
Securing your digital life takes on a new level of importance. Most people would rather lose their phone line than their email service; this explosion of email has comes a parallel rise in email-based threats. This threats range from minor nuisance to major resource drains and create serious vulnerabilities. No computer user can afford to ignore the problem. Spam, viruses, worms, phishing, blended threats and inappropriate use of email; they are all part of the same issue: content security.
Spammers obtain email addresses by a number of means: harvesting addresses from web pages, guessing common names at known domains (dictionary attack); and e-pending or searching for email addresses corresponding to specific persons. Some spammers utilize programs called web spiders to find email addresses on web pages.
Spam wastes time, it is very difficult to get rid of. Most mailboxes today are constantly flooded with spam, unwanted advertising of any kind. Today more than 50% of all emails are spam mails. Email worms and viruses can reach your system and infect your users through harmful attachments. Some viruses are transmitted through harmless looking email messages and can run automatically without the need for user intervention (like Nimda or Love Letter virus).
You need to secure sensitive information, deal with spam, reduce spam; protecting your email is making all information more secure. The most deadly viruses, able to cripple your email system in minutes, are being distributed via email in a matter of hours, even minutes.
We all know that spam is here to stay, but it doesn’t have to invade your inbox and waste your time; we all want to make the email secure, reduce or even block spam.For any user, an every day problem is block spam, reduce spam, and delete spam. Spam costs you money; according to recent report from an independent company, a computer user receives up to 13 spam mails per day.
ID AntiSpam helps you to make your email secure, protected from spam and viruses.ID AntiSpam is designed to reduce or block spam; it is the first line defense in securing your email and your computer. In today’s world email is a necessity, but thanks to ID AntiSpam, computer owners can now effectively manage email security.
Messages and attachments are unpacked and scanned; emails that our software determines to be spam or contain viruses get trapped in a user accessible quarantine. The user has complete access to the quarantine so he can confirm the spam and valid emails.
The user never misses a valid email, and never has to be subjected to unwanted again. ID AntiSpam uses a blended set of proven anti spam filters to maximize its spam fighting power. You’ll have complete control over the way in which you handle and dispose of spam and unsolicited email; it includes black list / white list, users can build their own personalized while list and manage heir own quarantine areas.
The methods and algorithms used by ID AntiSpam software are comprehensive and advanced, constantly updated, to keep up with changes that spammers and virus writers are constantly making. ID AntiSpam is helping you to keep the garbage out of your inbox; our software has been designed for one purpose: win the war against spam.There is also the possibility to report spam to the internet service providers. Reporting unsolicited spam will improve the security information and also helps feed spam filtering systems.
ID AntiSpam intelligently knows which emails you have received are good and which are spam by using artificial intelligence and black lists. ID AntiSpam quickly and easily helps you stop spam from polluting your inbox with advanced rule-based and list based filtering; blocks specific addresses of knows spammers, just as other programs do; but ID AntiSpam goes far beyond lists. Its filters also watch for subject lines and text within messages. ID AntiSpam can filter in the sender’s address, subject line, body text, message header and can even block spam based on its country of origin.
ID AntiSpam comes with many filters already installed and new filters are released regularly, based on serious analysis. ID AntiSpam ensure security information directly supporting multiple client-based email applications and web based email clients; ID AntiSpam enables you to benefit from its advances filtering without forcing you to change how you access and read your email.
Makes sure good emails make it to your Inbox. Fight spam with ID Blocker Spam, easy
to use and efficient! Optionally you can adjust delete spam messages instead or sorting them to a spam folder. You never have to see a spam message again. The email program will be a happy place again; no more hours spend each day sorting through the garbage!
By giving users ID AntiSpam, for effective spam filtering, a stable product and a polished usable interface, further confidence is assured with future enhancements for email security.
End your spam nightmare and make email enjoyable again by keeping your email box free of annoying spam! Our software reduce and even block spam, analyzes email so effectively that in many cases it is more accurate than filtering by hand.
ID AntiSpam will give you the freedom to once again enjoy reading your email!
Tracking cookies and how to delete them
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | 1 comment
Cookies, not so long ago they were something we ate, a delicious snack. Now it’s a term for files that arrive on your computer when you surf the web. Computers are filled with both good and bad cookies. A common bad cookie is known as the tracking cookie. It is important to detect tracking cookies and remove tracking cookies from your computer as soon as possible. For a smooth and hassle free removal of these bad guys, use the Ad-Aware software.
The use of the internet has skyrocketed, and with the increased usage comes increased concerns about privacy. These concerns are fueled by what we hear on the news, and read in the paper. The fear is real, but for many there is no understanding of how the web works and what kind of tracking is possible with these cookies.
Most of us have heard the term HTTP. This stands for hypertext transfer protocol, and this is what makes it possible for different computers to talk to each other on the web. If the site you are visiting uses cookies the HTTP header will tell your browser what information it needs to be placed in the cookie. Your browser adds this cookie to the many other cookies which already reside on your computer.
Each time you visit a site, your browser checks the existing cookies on your system. If you already have a cookie for that site it will use that cookie. If you do not have an existing cookie it creates a new one based on the HTTP instructions it is given. This process happens so fast you are never aware it is occurring.
Most claim that they use cookies so they can personalize their website to your tastes and needs. However the real truth is tracking cookies are mainly used to target advertising. Targeted advertising attempts to match the product with the consumer that is most likely to purchase that product.
There are many online advertising companies, but doubleclick is by far the biggest. Even if you have never heard of them, there is a good chance that you have a cookie on your computer from DoubleClick. Cookies you receive from sites you’ve never been to are called third party cookies. These are usually a type of tracking cookie.
Doubleclick isn’t the only one placing tracking cookies on your computer, they just happen to be the one doing a billion dollar a year business. They are used by many companies.
Any time you visit a website by clicking on a link, the information is recorded, in an attempt to create online profiles about your interests. Lycos, AltaVista, and Infoseek, all use cookies to record what terms a user searches for.
Privacy has become an increasing concern, as more and more websites use tracking cookies to build market profiles. In fact it has become such a big concern that the FTC has been forced to begin to address the issue with new legislation.
Online businesses argue that profiling does not invade the individuals privacy rights because there is no personal information attached to the tracking. Only your likes and dislikes, and your buying habits are tracked. However, this has been proven incorrect. Online businesses are able to attach your personal information to the profiling information.
Initially browsers were able to block these tracking cookies but the advertisers were quick to overcome this obstacle. Sometimes we very willingly give out personal information online. For example if we are placing an order at a major department store or our favorite online bookstore, we will need to provide our personal information such as name, address, and credit card number, so that they can process our order. The problem is the consumer never knows if their information is sold to another website. We’ve all experienced it to some degree. You purchase something online and next thing you know you are receiving email or snail mail for similar products, yet you’ve never visited their site or shopped with them before.
There are bills being passed that address how your information is collected, and what can be done with it. The government has new laws to control this type of tracking, but who is going to enforce these new laws? Rather than relying on the government to protect you, I would recommend you take action to protect yourself.
The best solution to keeping your information safe is to use Ad-Aware. It will automatically block and delete cookies that pose a threat to your privacy. You can configure the software to allow cookies from certain sites, or block all cookies. There is plenty of flexibility in the set up. It’s like having your own internet police 24 hours a day.
Common Internet scams and phishing schemas
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
The number and sophistication of phishing scams sent out to consumers is continuing to increase dramatically. While online banking and e-commerce is very safe, as a general rule you should be careful about giving out your personal financial information over the internet.
Phishing is the act of attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business with a real need for such information in a seemingly official electronic notification or message, most often an email or an instant message. It is a social engineering attack.
The term “phishing” comes from the fact that internet scammers are using increasingly sophisticated lures as they “fish” for users financial information and password data. ID Security Suite is offering you the possibility to stop phishing: the ID AntiPhishing, to wiping out internet scam and fraud.
Problems like phishing scams change from phenomenon to endemic threat, technology companies are launching products and services to end or great reduce the threat of online. ID AntiPhishing software from ID Security Suite is effective against the use of spam to direct internet users to websites controlled by thieves but designed to look like legitimate
sites.
Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers’s personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social engineering schemes use spoofed emails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as account usernames, credit cards numbers, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brands names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crime ware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan key logger spy ware. Pharming crime ware misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through DNS hijacking or poisoning.
As scam artist become more sophisticated, so do their phishing email messages and popup windows. They often include official looking logos from real organizations and other identifying information taken from legitimate web sites. Consider installing the tool bar from ID AntiPhishing from ID Security Suite to help protect you from known phishing fraud websites. ID AntiPhishing alerts you before you visit a page that is on our list of known fraudulent phisher web sites.Every internet user must be suspicious of any email with urgent request for personal financial information.
Always ensure that you are using a secure website when submitting credit card or other sensitive information via your web browser, to make sure you are on a secure website when submitting credit card or other sensitive information via your web browser. Don’t use the links in an email to get to any web page, if you suspect the message might not be authentic, instead, call the company on the telephone, or log onto the website
directly.
Avoid filling out forms in email messages that ask for personal financial information; you should only communicate information such as credit card numbers or account information via a secure website or the telephone. Unless the email is digitally signed, you can’t be sure it wasn’t forgotten or spoofed. Phishers typically include upsetting or exciting, but false statements in the emails to get people to react immediately.
At first glance, it may not be obvious to the recipients what is in their inbox is not a legitimate email from a company with whom they do business. The “from” field of the email may have the “com” address of the company mentioned in the email, and the clickable link may also appear to be taking you to the company when site, but will in fact take you to a spoof web site. Looks can be deceiving, but with phishing scams the email is never from who is appears to be!
Regularly log into your inline account; do not leave it for as long as a month before you check each account. Regularly check your bank credit and debit statements to ensure that all transactions are legitimate. If anything is suspicious, contact your bank and all card issues. The phishers’s emails typically ask for information such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, back account; these emails are typically not personalized, while valid messages from your bank generally are.
Ensure that your browser is up to date and security patches applied. In particular, people who use the most popular browser should immediately go to ID AntiPhishing to download a special patch relating to certain phishing schemes.
Always report phishing or spoofed to certain phishing groups. ID AntiPhishing tool bar protect your savings from phishing attacks. The tool bar traps suspicious URLs containing characters whish have no common purpose other than to deceive. It enforces display of browser navigational controls (toolbar and address bar) in all windows, to defend against pop up windows which attempt to hide the navigational controls. The ID Security Suite’s ID AntiPhishing tool bar clearly displays sites’s hosting location, helping you to evaluate fraudulent URLs.
Can spam be stopped?
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
Worried about safeguarding your computer and your important data in today’s connected world? Our ID Security Suite will help you keep your kids safe on the internet, protect your system from viruses and spy ware, back up and encrypt your important data and more.
Unscrupulous person have taken advantage of the boom in email and web use to attempt everything from selling a large range of products to stealing your personal identity and credit card information. Spamming has become a profitable business, driven by the low cost of sending email compared to other direct marketing techniques.
The high return on investment for spammers has resulted in an over helming volume of unwanted messages in personal and business email boxes. The spammers made a simple evaluation: conducting a direct mail campaign costs an average of $1.39 per person, meaning that a response rate of 1 in 14 is necessary just to break even on a $20 item. Selling the same $20 item via unsolicited spam email costs only $0.0004 per person, meaning that a response rate of 1 in 50000 gets the seller back to break even; anything above that is gravy.
With profit margins like these, it is easy to see why spammers will try anything to get past anti spam technology to deliver their messages to your inbox. The proliferation of spam on email and spy ware in web browser may make you want to throw your hand up in disgust and walk away from the internet.
As we know, spam is an ever growing problem, using and working with them can often prove to be very complex. We must not forget that 50% of all emails worldwide are spam mails. The total volume of email sent in 2004 exceeded two trillion messages, and continue to grow at an exponential rate through 2007. With this sort of massive email volume traveling across the internet, the need for accurate and through spam protection has never been greater.
For many users receiving spam everyday is a nightmare. ID Security Suite response to the spam explosion is ID AntiSpam, to reduce email volume from senders who consistently send spam. It is a powerful tool to fight against spam, and the suite is a real efficient product to fight spam and other email threats.
With ID AntiSpam from ID Security Suite, you can keep your Inbox clean of unwanted emails. It is easy to use software, made to reduce and block spam. Instead of giving up, take ID AntiSpam and have some effective ways to enjoy your online experiences without the hassles of unwanted advertising and intruders. The best solution to avoid it is ID AntiSpam!
An intelligent spam filter studies every email characteristics so seriously that in many cases it is more accurate than filtering by hand. It is mail filter software that is designed to make installation, configuration and maintenance as simple as possible. Using it is possible to fight spam, reduce and stop spam.
ID AntiSpam identifies legitimate emails, in addition to accurately identifying spam. It enhances its effectiveness by employing proven techniques to including black lists, white lists, sender identification.
You can stop the spam flood with ID AntiSpam, your PC or your organization can cope with spam volume explosion and maximize the effectiveness of your email security investment.
You can also evict the spammers from your Inbox, block spam and other email threats from you. You will reduce spam volume explosion and maximize the effectiveness of your email security investment.
ID AntiSpam is software, not a service, so you will use it forever. It stops spam completely, immediately after installation, with no configuration and stops annoying interruptions from spam and repeat offenders.
ID AntiSpam is dealing with spam painless and effortless. Spam Blocker couldn’t be more elegant or simpler to use. It is a spam fighter that stops 100 percent of junk email straight out of the box.
Messages from people you know are delivered to your inbox and all other messages are quarantined. ID AntiSpam automatically builds your white list of approved senders by scanning your saved / sent emails and contacts. As you work with your email, ID AntiSpam automatically updates the list on your behalf.
With ID AntiSpam you can send uninvited email and spam out of your Inbox automatically with an email filter that blocks spam and puts you in complete control over who may send email to you or from preventing emails to reach your inbox. The software blocks spam and filter according to pre-set categories, keywords, domain names, and more! ID AntiSpam provides a safe preview of email, with the ability to turn image display off.
ID AntiSpam is easy to use, no complicated configuration or training necessary.Can spam be blocked? The answer is yes, but it takes the steps from above to have again the possibility to enjoy your email reading everyday.
Kazaa rates as worst pest
Posted in : Maintenance | Posted by : Cristina Mailat
December 18th, 2007 | No comments
Program that monitor user’s online behavior, legally or illegally, are a big business and a big headache for computer users. The other top threats are Ezula’s Top Text reference tool, which installs ads on user’s computer, Game Spy Arcade, which installs adware. Download Accelerator Plus, which is changing browser settings, displaying pop-under ads and transmitting information to a web site without the user’s permission.
The most rapidly spreading pests are Gator/GAIN/Claria and Grokster. Spyware is a $2 billion a year industry, judging from rough estimates of the number of adware installations and the amount of money generated by each installation. It is a real industry based on business relationships that tie legitimate advertisers to online marketing companies, small application vendors, and web site operators.
The peer-to-peer application Kazaa is at the top of the list of the unwanted software “pests”. The unwanted spyware, adware and Trojan are called sometimes pests to distinguish them from viruses. The top threat is the Kazaa peer-to-peer application, the prone to degrading network performance, consuming vast amounts of storage and creating security issues.
If you have Kazaa on your computer, the IT administrator has probably stopped you from downloading its content. The spyware has many faces, and the better way to stop there is to remove Kazaa from your system as soon as possible. This program becomes the most powerful distribution vehicle for adware / spyware bundles.
Public peer-to-peer networks have always associated with adware program distributions.Just check if Kazaa begin it’s installation with a complete and truthful disclosure of proposed usage, and obtains explicit, informed, consent for such use. We know that the answer is no.
After using Kazaa you probably have spyware and adware that you don’t even know about. The symptoms are annoying and malicious: unexplainable pop-ups appearing unexpectedly, unwanted toolbars, home page changes, slow computer and internet. Much spyware and adware uses your system resources and internet connection. Some of it even causes your computer to send spam emails behind the scenes, sucking up your internet connection. If your system performance has recently taken a nose dive may be infected.
Suddenly you are unable to visit your favorite search engine and everything you do seems to take you to a search engine you have never heard of. This is just another sign that you may be infected.
What is happening with a user with minor knowledge in spyware domain if he wants to find and share files, and having been told that Kazaa is the best software around?
On every page there is only general stuff. Somewhere, on help section, he will know that his PC and connection will be used. No sign of that it really doing. The novice will find that it is peer-to-peer software, and roughly what that’s about. It includes advert modules; it will use the user’s computer resource, including CPU and net connection. Kazaa assure the user they are complete and truthful in disclosing their proposed use of the owner connection. Great!
Is hard to believe that anyone reasonably come to believe it’s anything but ordinary peer-to-peer software, with adware included. It requires complete and truthful disclosure obtaining informed consent. The reality is different; on the contrary, it’s a deliberate, concerted and fraudulent plan to plant software intended for one purpose, but disguised as only for another, ‘in tens of millions of computers worldwide’. It is a plague, a real pest - a confidence trick on a massive scale.
Other says that Kazaa is the spyware king; despite the fact the Kazaa home page proudly applauds itself for containing no spyware. Marketing industry is already whining about this classification; they want to differentiate spyware from adware to keep their profit party raging (supporting laws that ban spyware, not adware). Users meanwhile don’t care what it’s called, they want only remove Kazza.
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