Category: Security

  • Analyze And Fix Vulnerabilities In Your System

    Security is becoming an increasingly popular concern even for the home users nowadays. The fear of being unsecure becomes more prevalent when we get compromised at least once. There are certain areas of system security where even a moderately advanced techie will fail to identify the security hole. The security hole gets identified only when…

  • Password Protect The USB Flash Drive

    Previously I have written about how to hide the files and folders in your Windows safely. Today I want to write about another software which can password protect the USB drive. It’s called Rohos Mini Drive. What Rohos Mini Drive does is that it creates an encrypted partition on the USB drive which can only…

  • Solution: Remove Ahsan’s Computer Virus Infection Completely

    Yesterday a Technize reader mailed me that he was having a virus in his computer which had renamed My Computer to “Ahsan’s Computer” and My Documents to “Ahsan’s Documents”. I have already fixed this virus in my friend’s computer. What this virus does in addition to renaming My Computer and My documents is it renames…

  • How To Save Yourself From Conficker Worm April Attack

    Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup, Kido or the Microsoft Worm began spreading in October 2008. By January 2009, it had affected 16 million computer around the globe which included hospital system and sensitive military systems. The worst part of it is that Microsoft had already released a patch for the vulnerability Conficker has been…

  • Monitor Your System With WinPatrol Security Monitor

    Out of a zillion security applications there are some softwares which stand aside with their uniqueness, their ease or use and the way they protect the systems from malatious attacks and viruses. If was can master one software which can truly monitor our system in real time, we don’t even need to install system bloating…

  • DirectX 11 For Windows XP and Vista – A Trojan Virus!!

    MegaLeecher has reported that the latest DirectX 11 which will be shipped and installed on Windows 7, Microsoft’s upcoming Windows, has been available for download for Windows XP and Windows Vista users. Likewise DirectX 10 was also available although it was not official but patched to be used on Windows XP and Windows Vista. It…

  • Is Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder A Virus?

    I have been using Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder to find the Product key of installed Microsoft products. It’s really very effective in the sense that we can easily find the product key of any installed Microsoft product. So if we want to reinstall any of the product, we don’t have to find the CD…

  • Ericsson Is Distributing Free Laptops For Their Brand Promotion

    Fwd: FREE Laptops!… The Ericsson Company is distributing free computer Lap-tops in an attempt to match Nokia that has already done so. Ericsson hopes to increase its popularity this way. For this reason, they are giving away the new WAP laptops. All you need to do to qualify is to send this mail to 8…

  • How To Remove Flashy.exe Virus

    A reader of Technize asked me about how to remove flashy.exe virus. First of all let’s see what exactly is flashy.exe. It’s a type of backdoor trojan for Windows Platform that tries to take control of the infected system. It runs a telnet server on the infected computer. It also changes the administrator password to…

  • Windows Task Manager Alternatives

    Chiranjib, our regular reader, was asking me continuously to suggest some alternatives to the default Windows system tools that are usually disabled in case of a virus attack. So I thought I would just write about all the tools I know which are helpful in troubleshooting a system. It will be a series of articles,…