Free Avast anti-virus software with anti-spyware protection
If you use your computer for non-commercial and home use only, you can download a free copy of the popular Avast anti-virus software that also includes a free anti-spyware protection. At present Avast is available in version 4.8. The free version also comes with built-in anti-rootkit. It works on all editions of Windows from [...]
Kaspersky free online virus file scanner
No doubt it is desirable to have a good antivirus software on your computer. However, there are times when the antivirus software installed on your computer is not able to detect a virus in particular file. Or, sometimes, it will give a report which you may find to be doubtful. Therefore, you may need [...]
Free online virus and malware scan from BitDefender QuickScan
If you’re suspecting that your computer is infected with viruses and/or malware, you can conduct a free online scan of your computer using QuickScan from BitDefender. It combines local scanning and in-the-cloud scanning to quickly detect security threats to the computer scanned.
How to protect your computer
Your computer is not an isolated machine these days. It interacts with other computers in many ways. For example, you may be browsing the Internet where your computer will interact with several other computers, directly or indirectly. You may visit a website hosted on a web server, download a video file from another server, [...]
What are phishing attempts and how to avoid them
“During inspection of our records, we could not verify information relating to your account. Please click here to verify and update your account information.”
“Our bank has installed a new security system. Please update your account information immediately in accordance with the requirements of our new system or else you won’t be able to access your [...]
Find free online information from McAfee Site Advisor if a website is safe to visit
There are millions of websites on the Internet. You may be visiting some of these websites regularly, however you may also be visiting some sites for the first time every day. Not all the websites on the Internet are safe to visit. There are several websites which are unsafe / dangerous since they may [...]
How to secure your email account – important security tips
Email is one of the most used methods of communication these days. We check our email account(s) several times a day and send/receive several messages a day. Many of our mails contain important personal information. Security of our email accounts thus assumes importance. Unfortunately, many people do not pay proper attention to keep their [...]
How to ensure that web pages update when new content is found
When you use your browser to visit a website, you would generally get the latest content available on that website. If you again visit the same web page or website, then you would expect the updated content to be displayed in the browser. Normally, the updated content on the same web page will be [...]
Disable or enable automatic anti-virus scanning of downloaded files in Firefox
When you download any file from the Internet in your Mozilla Firefox browser, it will automatically scan the downloaded file to check whether it contains any viruses. This is the default setting in Firefox. This anti-virus scan is done with the help of your default anti-virus program. This may considerably delay the download process, [...]
Free online scan for viruses in a file using dozens of anti-virus programs
Sometimes you’ve a file that looks suspicious and appears to be having some virus or malware. Or, even if the file appears to be normal, you want to be doubly sure that the file does not contain any virus before you use that file on your computer. You may have one or two anti-virus [...]