Guide 29 - Tutorials | Articles

 USB Security Utilities 1.0 Features

• Small in size and portable
• Can be installed in various portable device
• Supports Strong Scanning Engine
• Detects dangerous files
• Can view device information
• Multilanguage interface
• Simple to use
• Strong detection ability
• Prevents infection of device

Simnet RegDefrag is yet another tool to defragment your registry. It quickly scans your registry and provides you with an overview that shows which parts of the registry are defragmented and to what extend. The program will create a System Restore point before it starts the defrag process, so you can undo the changes if you run into problems. By using Simnet Registry Defrag periodically, you improve your system’s performance, prevent registry corruption, compact and optimize windows registry.

Windows only: CCleaner Enhancer updates the popular system cleaning utility with support for cleaning up after 270 more applications, so you can keep your system even more crap free.

Once you've downloaded and started the utility, your CCleaner installation will be updated with support for the extra applications—you'll be prompted to select the folder to install the rules in if you're using a portable version. You'll find the new rules on the Applications tab in CCleaner—readers should note that you won't actually see 270 new rules in the list, since you'll only see rules that actually apply to your system and installed applications.

CCleaner Enhancer is a free download for Windows only. If you're new to CCleaner, make sure to check out how to run CCleaner on a schedule to keep your PC crap-free automatically, or create a shortcut to run CCleaner silently.

Update: Looks like the web site died under the weight of Lifehacker's readers. Here's a mirror copy of the zipped download file.

Passwords are your first and last line of defense. Most people do not seem to understand the importance of this tool. It’s only when their account is hacked, password is stolen or some security is compromised with, that they bother to exercise due care in dealing with passwords. Creating an ultra-strong password and not sharing it with world is all it takes to be safe on the web.





Here’s a guide that will help you create an easy-to-remember but strong password.

 Essentials of a good password

1. Password should at least be 8-10 characters long.
2. Passwords should be a combination of numbers and letters.
3. Letters should be both capital and small.
4. At least one symbol or special character should be present.

Steps to create a strong password

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  Step 1. Select A Sentence: First step is to select an 8-10 words sentence. The important thing to keep in mind here is that the sentence should not be obvious or guessable. Any random sentence is good enough. Do not take guessable and/or short sentences like “I first name is XYZ“, etc. For the purpose of explaining, we will take the first line of this post as the sentence.
  “Passwords are your first and last line of defence”.
  
  
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  Step 2. Trimming the words into characters: Reduce the words to their first letters. For example, “Passwords” can be reduced to “p“. Also, words like “are” can be changed to “r“, So our sentence gets reduced in the following manner:
  Passwords [p] are [r] your [y] first [f] and[a] last[l] line[l] of[o] defence[d]
  
  Now, the password looks like this: pryfallod
   
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  Step 3. Insert Numbers: As said before, a good password has both, numbers & alphabets. So to get numbers, we can do two things. Firstly, the word in Step 1 can be represented by numbers. In our example, “first” in the sentence can be represented by “1” instead of “f“. Secondly, letters in Step 2 can be converted into numbers which look similar. In the present case, the second last letter “o” can be changed to “0[zero]. Similarly you can substitute ” l” for “1“.
  After this step, our password turns into: pry1all0d
  
  
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  Step 4. Capital & Small Cap Letters: Some of the letters in the password have to be capitalized. Now we arrive at the question, which ones? The first and last letter can be selected. Or, perhaps, those letters can be selected which are more prominent or more important. In our case, “passwords” and “defence” happen to be the most prominent words in the sentence. These words need not be at the end or start of the sentence.
  Now our password looks like: Pry1all0D
   
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  Step 5. Special Characters or Symbols. Symbols lend and extra level of security to the password and make it nearly impossible to crack. One can randomly add a special character to the password or follow the same method that one did in Step 3 with numbers.
  For instance, “l” can be replaced with “!” or “a” can be replaced with “@“. Or randomly substitute letters with symbols like changing “y” with “$“.
  
  
  
  Final password: Pry1al!!d
  
  Now, this password is really difficult to crack. Looking at it, one may think that it would be really hard to memorize such a password. However, it isn’t that hard to remember it. In fact, by the time I complete writing the article, I myself have memorized the password. Moreover, even if you forget the password, you’ll always have the original sentence to help you recall the password.
  
  
  Now that you have a good password, here are a couple of things you should take care of;
  
  
  • You should never share password with somebody else, not even your best buddy or spouse.
  • You should never write down your password anywhere, neither on a paper nor in notepad or document file.
  Often, the best passwords lose their importance if any of the two tips above isn’t followed.
  
  
  Take care and secure yourself.

A Keylogger is basically a spy ware, it records all your keystrokes.

Here is how a keylogger 

works

• By recording each keystroke and immediately dispatching it to remote listener over internet
• By collecting keystrokes data in a temporary file and then uploading it via internet
• The collected keystrokes are never sent via internet instead they are collected in a temporary file and then if someone has access to your system either physical or remote they collect this data manually.
• Finally the hardware keyloggers: these are actually hardware devices that include a little flash memory to record all your keystrokes,and then the person collects this data manually

So why do I need a Anti Keylogger when I have an 

Antivirus?

 UltraSurf is a small application which protects your Internet privacy withanonymous surfing and browsing -- hide IP addresses and locations, clean browsing history, cookies & more.UltraSurf is a free software which enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public web sites in the world safely and freely. Users in countries without internet censorship also use it to protect their internet privacy and security.