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What is a Firewall? A firewall is a tool that monitors communication to and from your computer. It sits between your computer and the rest of the network, and according to some criteria, it decides which communication to allow, and which communication to block. It may also use some other criteria to decide about which communication or communication request to report to you (either by adding the information to a log file that you may browse whenever you wish, or in an alert message on the screen), and what not to report. What Is...

All About Backdoors. Since the early days of intruders breaking into computers, they have tried to develop techniques or backdoors that allow them to get back into the system.   In this paper, it will be focused on many of the common backdoors and possible ways to check for them.  Most of focus will be on Unix backdoors with some discussion on future Windows NT backdoors.  This will describe the complexity of the issues in trying to determine the methods that intruders use and the basis for administrators understanding on how they might be able to stop the intruders from getting back in.  When an administrator understands how difficult it would be to stop intruder once they are in, the appreciation of being proactive to block the intruder from ever getting in becomes better understood.  This is intended to cover many of the popular commonly used backdoors by beginner and advanced intruders.  This is not intended to cover ever...

Brief information about spyware. There are a lot of PC users that know little about "Spyware", "Mal-ware", "hijackers", "Dialers" & many more. This will help you avoid pop-ups, spammers and all those baddies. What is spy-ware? Spy-ware is Internet jargon for Advertising Supported software (Ad-ware). It is a way for shareware authors to make money from a product, other than by selling it to the users. There are several large media companies that offer them to place banner ads in their products in exchange for a portion of the revenue from banner sales. This way, you don't have to pay for the software and the developers are still getting paid. If you find the banners annoying, there is usually an option to remove them, by paying the regular licensing fee. Known spywares There are thousands out there, new ones are added to the list everyday. But here are a few: Alexa, Aureate/Radiate, BargainBuddy, ClickTillUWin, Conducent Timesi...

how to remove shortcut virus easily with few simple methods..  here we are descusing about shortcut virus which is very irritating for all of us. when you insert your pendrive or any portable storage device the files into the device becomes one shortcut which is called as shortcut virus here i will tell you how you can remove this virus form your computer easily.. #1 Remove virus from cmd here we will use command prompt to remove shortcut virus from your device easily..   1.insert your infected device into computer   2.DONOT open infected pendrive or device just insert it into the usb slot   3.open command prompt as administrator   4.input this code:        attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*   5.in this code replace latter D with your specific pendrive name or drive latter at last of the code line   and press enter and your shortcut virus will be removed but there will be sevral diffrent system files ...