You once brought your thumb drive and inserted into your friend’s computer but unknowingly a virus hops onto your thumb drive just so that later it also infects your home computer. Panda Security’s is providing a free solution to this problem through its Panda USB Vaccine that blocks autorun malwares from infecting a thumb drive or hard drive (this is not a virus removal tool).
The vundo trojan is one of the most caught PC infection on many online scanners. According to Symantec, Trojan.Vundo is an adware program that downloads and then pop-up advertisement. You can be easily infected by visiting a Vundo resided website through a link in a spam mail.
VirusTotal, a very cool way to scan a file with 32 anti-virus engines. You can easily use this online service to scan your downloaded e-mail attachments, files send to you by friends on instant messengers and softwares downloaded from the internet. If you’re going to use this service quite often, why not download their desktop tool. A special menu will be added to the right-click “Send to” menu so that you can easily upload a file. Read on to find out the result of one of the file I had uploaded to VirusTotal.
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I particularly love this program. I can get rid of many unwanted temporary files from different sources all in one program. Back when I was not using this program, I had to browse through several folders just to clean out Windows temporary files. As a hard-core internet user which I think you are too, I sometimes switch from using Firefox to Internet Explorer and sometimes Opera therefore, this program comes in very handy as I don’t have to execute each program to perform some spring cleaning.
Some of CCleaner features:
How does this also help combating viruses? Virus hides in temporary folders!
Download CCleaner by Piriform. It’s totally free.
Autorun trojans/viruses from the thumb drive can easily be transfered from PC-to-PC. The outcome? Users found that their drives had been inaccessible through double-clicking the drive icon. But was accessible through the right-click explore menu. Should you encounter this situation again, here’s the solution:
1. Download flash_disinfector.exe by sUBs.
2. Run the program and follow the on-screen instructions.
3. Done ! Thanks to sUBs.
