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ANTI VIRUS

rid your pc of malicious programs and scripts
What to do if you have a virus
McAfee home page      McAfee Security - Computer Virus Software and Internet Security For Your PC
McAfee Anti Virus Tips
McAfee "FreeScan" Free McAfee Virus Scan [ must register ]  
Symantec Security Response security threats - see free newsletter
Symantec Removal Tools Removal Tools
Symantec Security Check Page Free Scan[s] online. Security, Virus, and Attack Trace
Norton Antivirus Try or buy, autoupdates
TrendMicro Antivirus, autoupdates cleanup fix, free internet scan
Trend Micro Free Online Scan Free Trend "Housecall" online virus scanning service 
Emergency Rescue Disks from Trend Micro for clean boot scans of your pc
AVG free downloadable virus scanner from Grisoft     "The AVG E-mail scanner does not support every E-mail client. Supported clients are MS Exchange, MS Outlook and Qualcomm Eudora which use the MAPI protocol. If you are using a different client be assured that you are fully protected by the AVG resident shield"
AVG removal tools We provide you with a list of specialized utilities for virus removal. The utilities can be used to remove of some of the most common viruses. The list is updated on regular basis.
Panda AV Home Page Home page, free internet scan
Panda Virus Removals Free disinfectants
Panda Free Scan Free online scan
Panda Trialware Try before you buy
Removal Tool list "Virus or Hoax"  Removal tools
NOD32 AntiVirus From New Zealand [ the best? ]
Security Focus Awesome security Newsletter - Security Issues, tells you stuff the vendors won't tell you
F Prot Anti Virus from FRISK software ; Iceland ; many platforms supported
Dr. Solomon's for your MacIntosh, from McAfee Security

BitDefender

Antivirus products, corporate and linux based, has free online scan available
Eicar Test Viruses  Test your AV program for effectiveness - Download Eicar test virus
Send Eicar viruses Send Eicar test virus to yourself, test your AV program email scan  [checked ok 7/7/08]
Extremely exhaustive AV list from Eweek.com wow! will take you a while just to skim over this one!
VCatch AV Solution Free AV client
CA eTrust Free for one year.
{ Free offer extended indefinitely }
AntiVir Free AV client
Avast32 free antivirus software Freeware avast! 4 Home Edition

Reviews

Anti Virus Software Reviews 2005 This site, Anti-Virus Software Review, is a tool to help you understand virus issues and to determine which solution gives you the most protection for your computer system and files. 
Review of Recent Releases of AV software in June 03 Hal PC Magazine [ Independent Reviewer ]
AV software comparison [ Vendor Review  by NOD32 - not independent ]
HackFix Misc trojans - Icons Eye opening AV comparison matrix of effectiveness ratings
Anti-Virus Comparative 
February 2005
Big AV comparison matrix, [by % effectiveness]
AV Comparison Site Independent whole site on AV comparisons
Links for more AV comparisons many links on AV comparisons

Anti-trojan

AV clients don't always get their trojan, use these

Tauscan

www.agnitum.com
Trojan Defence Suite http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/
Trojan Hunter http://www.misec.net/trojanhunter.jsp
Trojan Remover http://www.simplysup.com/

Anti HiJacker

browser hijacker (sometimes called hijackware) is a type of malware program that alters your computer's browser settings so that you are redirected to Web sites that you had no intention of visiting
HijackThis - produces report to expose hijacks and trojan / virus processes
HijackThis: A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked!, but expanded with a lot of other checks against hijacker tricks. freeware.

General 

Everything regarding malware thats not in the other categories
Invisus "The INVISUS® PC Security Solution is the most comprehensive PC security system for small businesses, professionals, and home office PC users" It costs $30 [1st mo.] aand $15 each subsequent. Enterprise quality service that's priced competitively with current software [ taken as a total package ]. 
CNET security software reviews How to buy security and utility software for your business

VIRUS DATABASES

More Details on your virus / worm
Trend Micro Virus Information
1. McAfee Security - Virus Info 2. McAfee Avert® Labs Threat Library

Symantec Virus Threats Page

Panda Software - Virus Info
VirusList.com Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding
and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses.

ANTI SPAM

undesirable email advertising
What are Cookies? Description of Cookies
Spamhaus worldwide database of spammers
SpamCop Spam Reporting service [my new easy how to instructions for spamcop]
Spambot Info Advanced Spam Fighting Info and links showing how spammers work
Spamhilator Anti Spam Program - Free
MailWasher MailWasher Free highly recommended spam remover, sends "bounce" message to fool spammers
E-mail Antispam Tools Compare AntiSpam Tools
Cookie Washer Free Cookie Manager
My Personal AntiSpam Page  More info on spam problem
Sabotage Spammers Bait - Send spammers thousands of useless email addresses
Fight SpamBots! This page shows a 100 randomly generated email addresses
Still more Anti Spam Sabotage Even more of the above
Counterexploitation [ Pro Privacy ] More spam fighting links

ANTI SPYWARE

tiny programs left on your computer to report your habits, etc.
Spybot-S&D Spybot Search & Destroy anti spyware free
nice howto for Spybot S&D!
Spyware Blaster Spyware Blaster anti spyware

Lavasoft

Ad Aware anti spyware [ i use this ] free
Privacy.net Eye opening site! See what they know about your pc when you visit a site!
Reuters Latest Financial News - Removal of Adware can be tricky good article on spyware / adware removal programs
Spyware Info  forums forums that can help you with your specific problem

FIREWALLS

extra protection needed for high speed and other always open connections to the internet
What are Firewalls? For novices
Zone Labs [ Broderbund ] home of Zone Alarm, at home you only need the free one
Direct Link to ZoneAlarm Downloads  Firewall only is the free one.  <<< READ !!
Blackice Defender Home Page BlackIce Home
BlackIce Download Eval 30 day free eval copy of BlackIce
Extremely exhaustive Firewall list from Eweek.com, mostly enterprise quality types
MS XP Firewall Info XP Fire wall doesn't stop Trojans you need a 2nd firewall in addition
Use the {XP}Internet Connection Firewall MS instructions for XP firewall
Sygate Technologies, Inc.   download last Free version at 321download , link 
 

VIRUS INFO

Some assorted picks
MS - What you should know about the blaster virus MS page on Blaster
SWEN info page
Tech info page [ swen virus countermeasures]
News post shows how to block swen Block Swen with mail client rule
A.C.V Reference Desk courtesy of alt.comp.virus newsgroup
Virus images amazing embedded virus images!
Giant list of AV links Open Directory - Computers Security Anti Virus

AV Newsgroups

alt.comp.virus  newsgroup
alt.comp.anti-virus newsgroup

Keeping current is important in Antivirus programs, 2 or 3 new viruses appear each day!


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Created on ... Aug  7, 2003