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Jump to: Anti-spyware - Anti-virus - Firewalls - AV and Firewall Reviews, Testing & Information - Hosts file - System control
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is considered
to be the next step in the detection and removal of
malware. We compiled a number of new technologies that
are designed to quickly detect, destroy, and prevent
malware. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and
remove malware that even the most well-known Anti-Virus
and Anti-Malware applications on the market today
cannot.
Another one of the best anti-spyware applications available. It detects many of the same types of malwares as Ad-Aware does, and has some other nice features. Such as Tea Timer. This is a registry monitoring device, extremely helpful in these days of malwares dropping all sorts of nasties into the registry. *** Older versions of Spybot Search & Destroy are no longer supported. See here for more info
Tauscan
Pro-active scanning with easy interface for novices. Free trial, then purchase. Free anti virus protection for the home user. Free anti virus protection for the home user. TrojanHunter searches for and removes trojans on your system. It uses powerful scanning techniques such as file, memory, registry, port and ini-file scanning to locate trojans on your system. One of the finer av & firewall companies, purchase required. Anti virus and firewall protection, and email, ad/mal/spyware. Purchase required. Excellent in catching hidden malware files. With the latest version, they have decided to include a toolbar which I don't feel is warranted. See a discussion about it and other vendors bundling software here. Thankfully there are still old versions of Zone Alarm available on sites such as Old Apps.com and Old Version.com. AV and Firewall Reviews, Testing & Information 
VirusList.com
This site lists lots of information regarding the many aspects of anti-virus subjects. Alerts, analysis, news even a blog On this site you will find many av tests and reviews for the most popular applications available. Along with other pc scanning\testing, this site also offers a firewall test as well. This page gives you some options for testing, some pay for, some not. Since 1989, Virus Bulletin has been dedicated to providing PC users with a regular source of uninfluenced, unbiased, independent intelligence about computer viruses, their prevention, detection and removal, and how to recover programs and data following an attack. Matousec Firewall Challenge & Security Software Testing Suite Firewall Challenge
replaces our former project Windows Personal Firewall Analysis and its
subproject Leak-testing. Firewall Challenge combines the depth of our
analyses with the simplicity of leak-testing. The whole system of the
new project is very extensible, we can and we will add new tests to it
to get even more information about the protection of the tested
products. If you are interested in the initial results of the challenge
or in its rules, scoring system and methodology, just visit the Firewall
Challenges pages! Understanding and Using a Firewalls. An excellent tutorial for firewalls, from Bleeping Computing
The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP
addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory at startup,
then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers,
which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access
to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the
local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is it's ability to
block other applications from connecting to the Internet, as long the
entry exists. hpHosts is a community managed and maintained hosts file that allows an additional layer of protection against access to ad, tracking and malicious websites. To help manage host file updates, editing and create back ups, use HostsXpert v4.1 Scotty the Windows Watch Dog sniffs out malicious "mysteryware" and parasites that may assault your computer. WinPatrol puts you back in control of your computer so you'll know what programs are and should be running at all times. With a one time, life time PLUS upgrade you get more options. See why it's worth the upgrade on this page |
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