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Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.
Be SeKUre Not specifically a malware removal tool, but CCleaner is one of the handiest tools around for freeing up disk space and tidying up your registry. (Make backups!) Hint: Download the "Slim" version by clicking on Other Builds on the Download page. You skip extra language packs and it's sans toolbars.
www.ccleaner.com
CCleaner created by Piriform authors of the hugely popular freeware tools CCleaner, Recuva and Defraggler.
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You have to register to get it, but Sophos' Anti-Rootkit tool is free and quite effective--they have a free Conficker removal tool here, as well: http://www.sophos.com/products/free-tool
www.sophos.com
Our free software, Sophos Anti-Rootkit scans, detects and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer using advanced rootkit detection technology.
Be SeKUre Malware that hijacks browsers and hosts files can make downloading additional tools on the road nearly impossible--build yourself a USB stick with the PortableApps suite to get around borked systems!
portableapps.com
What's New: PortableApps.com Format 1.0 and Installer 1.0 are now final and available for publishers. Freeware debuts with 2x Client, Canabalt, Foxit Reader, FreeCommander, Google Chrome, IcoFX, Skype, SpyDLLRemover, TeamViewer, uTorrent, XnView and more coming soon.
Be SeKUre No computer first aid kit is complete without a MalwareBytes installer.
www.malwarebytes.org
"Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a surprisingly effective freeware antimalware tool.""It's a relatively speedy malware remover, with the quick scan taking about 8 minutes even with other high-resource programs running."Seth Rosenblatt
Be SeKUre Sometimes, you know you've got a nasty DLL file or other bit of malware that you know you need to remove, but it's so firmly entrenched that you can't get rid of it even in Safe Mode. That's when you need a bootable CD that will let you browse the hard drive. Hiren's to the rescue! This CD is absolutely packed with incredibly useful utilities.
www.hirensbootcd.net
Download Hirens BootCD containing various programs such as Partition, Antivirus, Hard Disk, Backup, Recovery, NTFS, RAM, BIOS tools...
Be SeKUre Another of our favorite tools for cleaning up startup items and removing recalicatrant Windows malware is HijackThis. If you go online looking for help, you'll almost always be asked for HJT logs. Tread carefully! HJT is a powerful tool and can cause unexpected results in the wrong hands.
free.antivirus.com
Scan your computer to find settings changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. Trend Micro HijackThis generates an in-depth report to enable you to analyze and fix your infected computer.
Be SeKUre If you're anything like the folks in the KU IT Security Offfice, one of your holiday "jobs" is fixing up relatives' computers. When you're buliding your holiday computer toolkit, what do you like to add? We'll be posting a few suggestions today. First one? F-Secure Rescue CD. Read on...
www.f-secure.com
Now it is time to release the new Rescue CD for which we put out the beta some time ago. We decided to update the version number to 3.11 since we added a couple of useful utilities to the CD image. Otherwise this is the same version as is available on our Internet Security 2010 installation CD.
Be SeKUre New Facebook worm: Wanna see something hot? (Hint: No. You do not.)
www.darkreading.com
When users visit the page the worm spreads from while logged onto Facebook, the worm automatically reposts itself on their Facebook Walls so their friends will see and click on it. The worm also copies your wall.
Be SeKUre Are you still using IE 7 or *gasp* IE 6? A 0day vuln in IE 6 & 7 has been discovered and exploit code is available. Upgrade to IE 8 or, better yet, switch to Firefox.
www.eweek.com
First anniversary of the detection of Conficker A variant marked with claims that complacency has ca
www.scmagazineuk.com
Saturday marks the first anniversary of the detection of the Conficker virus.
Be SeKUre Today is the 40th anniversary of the first permanent link established on ARPANET, a predecessor to the Internet. Want to know more about the history of the Internet and ARPANET? Check out the book "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet" by Katie Hafner. Linked below is a map of ARPANET as it existed i...n December, 1969. (Thanks, Michael Stanclift!) You may also want to read the Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
Be SeKUre That free lunch may be very, very costly.
wsbradio.com
The AARP says a common setting for fraudsters to engage their victims is through a free lunch or dinner offer, by which an individual is solicited to attend and learn more about investing in retirement. Many of these invitees have received 10 or more invitations to these "free" events.
Be SeKUre Windows users: it's always a good idea to disable File & Printer Sharing if you don't use it. It's especially good now that a vulnerability has been discovered in Windows 7 that allows a remote attacker to crash your system if File & Printer Sharing is enabled. (Link goes to fantastic how-to video demos from Indiana University.)
ittraining.iu.edu
In this section, we will discuss how to protect your machine locally. Many attacks on your machine will attempt to make the machine believe the attacker is a local user. By completing the steps below, you can ensure that the great majority of these attacks will fail:
