• Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 delivers essential anti-virus protection with advanced features such as a best-in-class firewall, anti-spam, and more
• Hourly signature updates, best-in-class unknown threat protection, and application alerts give you complete confidence
• Safe Desktop allows you to safely open any suspicious application, file, email or web site
• Enhanced parental controls to limit or log activities and communications
• Small footprint, tiny updates and intelligent scanning lets your machine perform to the max

KIS 2011 US 3-DT 1YR BOX Kaspersky Internet Security combines the essential security of our advanced anti-virus software with additional layers of defense, such as firewall and parental controls. Innovative technologies deliver real-time protection, monitor suspicious activity, and block dangerous actions before they can cause harm—all while working silently in the background. Real-Time Protection against viruses, spyware, Trojans, worms, rootkits, botnets and more.

List Price: $ 79.95

Price: $ 19.99

Incoming search terms:

Cybercrime

Internet security risks seem to be growing as fast as the newest and most popular online social networking site, Twitter! Everyday, if you pay attention, you will hear about new internet threats that put the typical online user at risk.
Although some uses of the internet such as visiting ‘questionable’ site may put you more at risk, it seems that many threats target even the most innocent online tasks.
A common internet use for even the most technologically impaired is email. Unfortunately however this has become a favorite target for many internet threats.
By simply opening the wrong email or clicking on the wrong link you can easily compromise both the security and functioning of your computer.

The question now is what measures can we take to protect ourselves from the rising risks that threaten our safe existence online?
Here are 5 simple internet security tips that should help protect you from the growing threats we face when using our computers:

Backup Important Data
Whether it is prevention against computer hackers or just an old computer that dies you should have all important files backed up. People use their computers to store all kinds of files from work documents to family pictures. Getting in the habit of regularly backing up these files is the first step towards securing your computer contents from unplanned catastrophe.

Buy Internet Security
Nowadays just about every new computer comes equipped with some sort of online security software program. I liken this to the airbags you find in cars. If for whatever reason your system does not have this type of software to protect you online, then by all means buy internet security for your computer.

It is highly unlikely that even over the period of just one week you wouldn’t find your computer being invaded by some type of virus. A correctly operating computer and peace of mind will be your immediate reward for making this purchase! By all means do it today!

Social Network – Easy Does It!
Social network sites are all the rage today and don’t shows any signs of losing their popularity. A requirement to participate at most social networking sites however includes you inputting your personal information for others to see.

Most each and every one of these sites does allow you a certain degree of control over the security settings on the site. Use these controls and AVOID putting in any personal information you don’t absolutely have to volunteer.

Incoming search terms:

Prevent Computer Virus

A distinction, though sometimes unclear, exists between Malware and Viruses. As a result, it’s often difficult to find a single prevention software solution that will tackle both malicious acts effectively. You’ll commonly need both dedicated Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware products. Each of these programs will act in similar fashions; ensuring they’re both configured and running properly is important.

Make sure your virus definitions are up-to-date.
This can be done by checking the update settings to ensure the program is set to automatically update, and if necessary, paying to renew any licenses with the software vendor to ensure you can keep receiving updates. Both preventing and responding to malicious infections effectively is dependent on whether the protection software is up to date.

Run full scans of your computer system regularly, ideally a few times per month.
This can either be done in the software by configuring a weekly scan of your hard drives or by manually remembering to leave a scan running, possibly overnight when you’re done with the PC for the day. This will ensure that no infections have snuck onto the system, probably waiting to be activated.

Real-time protection can prevent many infections.
Real-time protection acts by scanning every object as you run it, whether that means scanning a document when you open it, or scanning a link when you click it. Since the program needs to check the data before opening it, this may cause a slowdown in performance as it acts as an important barrier between the line of preventing or responding to an infection.

Incoming search terms:

Virus Analyzer

There are many virus spreads on internet and grow up everyday, therefore many antivirus provider like McAffee, Norton, Kaspersky and others competing to make a very powerful antivirus. The making of antivirus absolutely will need to identify the virus firstly before they launch the anti-virus. We must analyze how it works, what it can do by a virus in it, what are infected and so on.
To perform the analysis of a virus usually requires tools that can analyze  a virus in detail and quick. Here are some tools you can use to analyze a virus.

1. Malcode Analysis Pack
(http://labs.idefense.com/software/download/?downloadID=8)
This tool consists of a variety of applications that can help you analyze a malcode.
i.e : ShellExt, socketTool, fakeDNS, Sheilcode2Exe and others.

2. Autorun For Windows
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx)
This application is used to determine the location of auto-starting of the startup screen in windows.
This application will show the programs that run during the system bootup or login.

3. RegMon for Windows
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896652.aspx)
This tool can show which applications are running to access the system registry on your computer.
All will be displayed in real-time

4. FileMon for Windows
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896642.aspx)
This tool will display the system activity of a file in the operating system in real-time.

5. Multipot (http://labs.idefense.com/software/download/?downloadID=9)
This application is designed to collect a lot of malicious code found on the internet.

6. Process Explorer for Windows
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx)
This tool handles dal find out information about DLL’s processes that are currently open.
This application will show a list of processes that are active at that time.

7. Resource Hacker (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/)
Tools that can be used to change the resource on win32 executables and resource files to another.

8. Rootkit Unhooker (http://www.antirootkit.com/software/RootKit-Unhooker.htm)
Applications to detect rootkits.
Some of the features offered include Ultimate Drivers Detection, Hidden Files Detection and so on.

9. SysAnalyzer (http://labs.idefense.com/software/download/?downloadID=15)
This tool is able to analyze malcode automatically run time to monitor what is being done by the system and running processes.

10. PE iDentifier (http://www.peid.info/)
This application is used to detect packers, cryptors.
This tool is able to detect more than 600 different signatures of the PE file.

11. VB Decompiler Lite (http://www.vb-decompiler.org/download.htm)
A program decompiler for programs that have an EXE, DLL and OCX extension.

12. MiTec EXE Explorer (http://www.mitec.cz/exe.html)
This tool was created as an executable reader.
This application is able to read and displays executable file properties and structure of a file that is analyzed.

Incoming search terms:

Computer Virus and Antivirus

Most of us may have a problem from Computer Viruses. They will never end, as we will see there are alot of new viruses every day. But we don’t have to worry about that since there are many Antiviruses we can use to prevent them.

But, did you know, why the virus existence will never end in the digital world?, Why the virus makers never give up to generate a new virus again and again?, what do they want?. Of course that questions will need a logic answer.

I wrote this article just because i have detected a possibility of conspiracy caused of symbiosis which was have a mutually beneficial between the virus makers and the antivirus makers, so that the virus and antivirus industries still exists untill now.

Conspiracy
In an example case, if there is a new virus launched then some of the antivirus vendors will quickly recognize and clean the computer from this new virus while the other antivirus vendor so confused and slow to recognize this new virus.

From the above cases, may be one of the antivirus vendor’s employees make a contact/cooperation with the virus maker, and they give an order to create a new virus with the criteria that have been set before it, in the sense of order of creating a virus. So that, those antivirus vendor will known as the antivirus vendors which can quickly detect and clean the ‘virus order’.

Thought appear above because I observed that the virus maker is rarely seems consistent with the results of his work, a scene in the beginning but disappeared some time casually.

The conspiracy’s theory above is just my observation only and untill now this theory was never proven.

Commercialization antivirus
In other cases, When we got a virus in our Computer as we know that we have an antivirus over there, but the antivirus cannot recognize the new virus in our Computer even to running the antivirus. We will confused to face to this situation.

From the illustration above, we need to know why our antivirus which was installed in computer unable to recognize even to clean the new virus?.

In fact the problem is that antivirus is updated regularly will be more powerful in providing protection than antivirus which is never been updated. That’s why we need to update the antivirus regularly.

For this one I got the idea from one of the forum on the internet to update the antivirus must be regularly performed and why antivirus vendor can survive / thrive.

Generally, the commercial antivirus is currently working with ‘blacklist’ method, as like as the following explanation steps :

1. New virus has been founded.
2. The virus signature will be identified and will be stored to the ‘blacklist’ database.
3. The Antivirus will scanning any files in the computer and will compare it to the ‘blacklist’ database. If the result is match, then the antivirus will take any action of that files.

Such was the approach that is used by antivirus vendors, but there are 2 major problems in project using the approach as it:

1. We will have a dependence to the antivirus vendor continuously, to update the ‘blacklist’ database. We will still have a possibility to be infected with a new virus which where the antivirus vendor still not find the virus signature to protect our computer. We will never have a fully protection from the new virus as the virus signature will only available to create until someone got infected from that new virus.
2. Due to thousands of new viruses spread every year then ‘blacklist’ database will growing. This means that antivirus software will consume more computer resources (cpu time, hard drive space) which will affect to the performance of computer. The increase in cpu speed, memory and hard drive space will alleviate the problem (of origin do not try to run the latest version of Norton on the old computer). The fact that if we really have to run antivirus software, the computer will be more slow.

The biggest problem is that the user will always be tied to the antivirus software because it must continue to renew the existing ‘blacklist’ database. That’s why the antivirus vendors can continue to survive and develop.

The point of the ‘blacklist’ method is to say “No” to something that should not have in our computer. However, there is another method which is called the ‘greenlist’ method, will keep something which should have in our computer.

If the ‘Greenlist’ method applied by antivirus vendor, certainly the end-user will have more benefit rather than using the ‘blacklist’ method. Which is mean, the end-user will not need to update or tied to antivirus vendor, and it will makes the antivirus vendor cannot survive their existence in this digital world.  source : howtoarchives.com

Incoming search terms:

Credit Card Protection

If we are talking about a crime and civil law, carding is an illegal activity that utilize a stolen credit card and use it for any transaction. Why they called as a “Carding”? The object of this case is a credit card which was stolen from someone and use it without any permission from the card holder of the creditcard.
How do they (carder) get the creditcard information and where they get from?
Usually they got the creditcard information from the following methods  :

1. Online transaction, they hack a database from online shop website and grab the database of consumer’s creditcard.
2. Offline transaction, they get the receipt of the creditcard from the supermarket or ATM.
3. Email Sniffing, by sending a fake email as an official creditcard company i.e Paypal, Mastercard, Visa or any Bank’s name and ask the creditcard holder to give their creditcard information for security purpose.

How do they works?
When they get the stolen creditcard information, there are two methods to use the creditcard.

1. Direct usage. Which is mean, they use all information on the creditcard such as creditcard holder’s name, card’s number, billing address, zipcode, expired date, CVV (3 digits number behind the card), billing phone number and etc. to do a transaction.
2. Generate the number. If they have tried to use the above methods, and the transaction result is declined, then they trying to generate the number using software which is called as Creditcard Number Generator. By using this software, they can generate the number up to a thousand creditcard numbers. After get the number they use a fake billing address, phone number, expire date and all of the required information while submit the transaction.

The 2nd methods will be more easily to do if they want do a transaction using any whatever shipping address and name.

How to prevent it?
I believe you do not want to be a victim, so that you have to prevent it as the following tips :

1. Do not ever send all information of your creditcard by an email, even the email asking you to send the information for the security purpose, since the creditcard company never asking you regarding that information.
2. Before you decide to use a creditcard on online store please make sure that the online store has a credibility security system i.e Amazon, Yahoo Store, Google Store etc. While typing the creditcard number, you can use On-Screen Keyboard (on Windows XP) to prevent the keylogger.
3. If you decide to use your creditcard on offline transaction in the supermarket, make sure you keep the receipt, do not ever throw away the receipt on the trash.
4. Destroy your monthly billing statement of creditcard if you think it was useless anymore. Do not ever to dispose it to the trash can.

Incoming search terms:

Malware Prevention

Sometime we do not have time to manage our files in our Computer, or maybe we have forgotten to protect our document in our computer and later we got some files have been infected from a virus, and your anti virus do not have enough ability to restore that important document files. That would be a nightmare story if you didn’t any prevention to protect your files. Therefore we need some methods to prevent this problem. The following methods may help you to prevent your computer infected or being hacked.

1. If your computer connected through internet then you should Use a router for any internet connection (other than dialup). Be sure to keep updated the firmware on your router to the latest from the manufacturer. A router uses something called NAT (Network Address Translation) that works fairly similar to a firewall – however this is more like a firewall. NAT in most cases will not allow ports to be scanned & forwarded behind it. Also, the router will be your external IP address leaving your computer on an internal IP address. If ports on your router are not forwarded to your internal IP addresses (usually 192.168.*.* type of address) then a hacker on the internet will have a lot of difficulty scanning your computer. They will merely scan a router which in most cases is rather “stupid” and very hard to attack.
2. Keep your computer operating system updated. For Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix users, always install the latest updates of security patch.
3. Use an Anti virus that have an Internet Security feature. This would be considered a firewall on the system you use. This is where you computer is basically asking you permission to install certain pieces of software along with asking if you want to allow certain connections on your computer. Again, a router will help you avoid a ton of mischief from hackers. This is more or less fail safe. Also make sure your Antivirus is updated frequently.
4. Make all of your passwords HARD, with letters, numbers and symbols. Make them at least 20 characters long. Do not include the names of your kids, dogs. Never make them just common words.
5. If you run a wireless network, always use WPA or WPA2 security. Again, make your password at least 20 characters including letters, numbers, and symbols. DO NOT SKIMP on wifi passwords.
6. Using web access email is always the safest. Free email accounts such as Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail always keep high levels of security on their sites. Also, always be very weary of any email you get that tells you to click links (Paypal for example). Hackers can make very good copies of websites like Paypal (including logos & design) and spam you. You click thinking you are at Paypal, put in your user name and password, and the hacker then has your user name & password. If you get an email from sources like your bank account, Paypal, Ebay etc., open a clean browser go directly to the site, and log in.
7. Do not keep entire hard drives open to sharing especially on networks that have several people. If its a simple home network where everybody is trusted, it’s great to just have a folder available to share just in case you are compromised from the outside.

Incoming search terms:

Quoizel Portable Desk Lamp

After one year managing and working from my old computer desk in my office, now i have decided to replace my old computer desk with the better one. Even it’s a small desk for my computer, but i like it, as it’s a simple and suitable for me. I also place my old quoizel desk lamp on it, even got a new computer desk, I did not replace my quoizel lighting desk lamp, since it’s my favorite desk lamp while working in my office. This is a Quoizel Portable Lamp, it looks like very suitable on my Computer desk, which can brighten up a workspace, make me enjoying my work while facing of my Computer. The desk lamp Q148KES type have a dynamic shoulder vertical join, so that I can rotate or move up and down the lamp if needed. The colors of the body is empire silver since its material are from Steel Material, makes the lamp looks elegant in my Computer desk. Otherwise it’s small dimension as 22″ Height and 15″ Wide. Even the body is a Steel Material, this Quoizel portable lamp has 8 lbs of weight, truly portable desk lamp.

Incoming search terms:

Mobile Advertising

Now mobile phones are the most trend of the communication media at the present which have a variety of features. With this technology, there are many consumers interested to have this mobile phone devices. With the increasing number of smartphone users, it also increases the mobile media user, as it had been predicted by Strategy Analytics that the majority of users and advertisers spend on their mobile phone media such as internet mobile browsing, playing mobile games, apply some mobile application on their smartphone device, listening music using their mobile phone, watching video or TV mobile, etc. It’s predicted that the associate data will increase from under $75 billion at the end of this year to $138.7 billion in 2015, with a 13.1% CAGR.

With the increasing more variety of the mobile media applications, the mobile phone consumer will be more prefered to try and apply any application on their smart phone devices. We can see on the iphone or blackberry products that become the most popular phone in 2009, even if in 2010, the availability and the  compatibility on this products is a key of the successfully in the mobile phone global market. As long as the mobile application have an advantages and compatibility with their mobile phone devices, the users will not hesitate to try and install the application on their phone. This phenomenon indicates that the mobile application business began to gain a place in the mobile phone market. As shown by Harris Interactive that Mobile Advertising Network, especially from mobile phones device have an excellent opportunity to provide the service. Harris Interactive also have the survey’s data that 37% of adults of the mobile phone users will not ignore to that mobile advertising. This is why the Mobile Advertising Network has appeared to be an innovative channel with solid future potential in terms of reach, targeting and message relevance.

There are many mobile advertisers that providing this service, however only some of them have been qualified for the service users. I have found what’s the best Mobile Advertising Network to promote our product via Mobile media. There is a premier platform for this service called as MobGold. It’s become much more easier and faster to promote your products through this advertiser. MobGold is specifically made for mobile advertising, mobile marketing, business purposes as a promotional media via mobile phone. There are many features offered from this Mobile Advertising Network, such as SMS advertising, Mobile web advertising using Text-links-Ads as a promotional media, Mobile Email advertising, iPhone Advertising for those who specifically targeting any iPhone users.
Also there is a new features provided by MobGold, as it called as GoldLink, the superior network platform which provides a wide connectivity between networks.

For those who likes to participates to this Mobile Advertising Network, MobGold has provided their Mobile affiliate program, it’s easy and free to join to this affiliate program provide by MobGold. Everyone have the opportunity to get many benefits from this mobile ad network.

Incoming search terms:

parental control software

When you need any kid’s protection from internet activity, the following parental control software may help you good enough to do that. KidsWatch is a 2008 Award Winning Internet Safety and Parental Control software package that can meet the challenges facing parents on how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use. Help your kids stay away from trouble and take the next step in parental supervision – computer supervision! Limit Internet surfing, chatting & game play. Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered in chat conversations. Monitor chat, websites visited, programs used and computer use. Install today to create a peaceful & safe environment.

Parental Control Software Feature and Benefits :

1. Select from 7 predefined settings based on age OR Customize settings for each user OR Clone the restrictions of an existing user
2. MONITOR (Child Activity Reports) Records Chat/Instant Messaging and Visited sites
3. BLOCK (Website/Internet Filtering) – Offensive Websites, Restrict Access to Programs
4. PROTECT against Sexual Predator & Chat Alerts – Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered inchat conversations; Prevent inappropriate website content exposure; Restrict and monitor access to chat rooms and instant messaging
5. LIMIT – Computer & Internet Access Time + Game Playing – Limit Internet surfing, chatting and game playing to a time and duration appropriatefor each user; Define computer curfews (i.e. 10pm on school nights)

Incoming search terms: