Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation program for Windows. Sandboxie uses isolation technology to separate programs from your underlying operating system preventing unwanted changes from happening to your personal data, programs and applications that rest safely on your hard drive. Secure your favorite web browser and block malicious software, viruses, ransom-ware and zero day threats by isolating such…
Category: Security
Windows without admin eliminates most vulnerabilities!
I’ve always said that it was unsafe to run as administrator in Windows. I was always sure that this was good advise but I did not know how much this would help. At last months RSA Conference (a cryptography and information security-related conference) a paper was introduced that shows that 85% of all critical Microsoft…
LastPass, Good For Now
October 13th on Security Now Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte had Joe Siegrist of LastPass to talk about the acquisition of LastPass by LogMeIn. Looks like for now Joe will remain at LastPass to run things. Joe said that LogMeIn had no plans to change things, at least for now. I gather from this conversation that…
AVG Goes Rogue
AVG the worlds 3rd most popular anti-virus announce that they will sell your browsing data to third parties as an additional income stream beginning of October.
LastPast Purchased by LogMeIn
A few days ago I learned that LastPass favorite password manager has acquisition by LogMeIn a provider of software as a service and cloud-based remote connectivity services for collaboration. I’m not sure where this leaves LastPass but for now I think it is OK. I would stay with LastPass until I hear something from Steve Gibson of Security…
ProXPN and Introduction to VPN
ProXPN is the easiest to use free VPN. Quickly secure your Internet connection and unblock any website. Our VPN works with Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and more. ProXPN is free to use forever but it limit your speed through the VPN to 300kbp. If you login to a lot of open wifi it is a must….
uBlock Origin, Best Ad Blocker
uBlock Origin is an effective ad-blocker for your Firefox, Chrome, Opera Safari web-browsers that is effective and easy to use. uBlock Origin is effective in blocking unwanted ad content and worst of all malware without any configuration of any kind but it can easily be configured to allow or disallow as much of the content you want…
It’s time to get rid of Flash!
Flash is a web-browser plugin that enables things to appear to move on webpages. Flash has been great despite the numerous exploits and security breaches but now it’s time to get rid of it. HTML5 has displaced the need for Flash and only poor sights use it. Lets uninstall Flash or turn it off. On a…
LastPass Not Broken!
The news about the LastPass network breach has been completely blown out of proportion by the media. None of your private data has been exposed. What may have been exposed was a salted and hashed version of your email address, master pass-phase, per user salts and authentication hashes. All of this appears as random gobbledigook and requires…
MS MRT will now remove Ask Toolbar
Microsoft has done a really great thing. The Microsoft MRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) and Microsoft’s Defender (antivirus) now identifies the “Ask Toolbar” as malware. Antivirus companies have refused to do this because it is packaged with “legitimate” software like the Java Runtime. Microsoft was right to do this because no one wants the Ask Toolbar. Not only does it…
Good-N-Free Meetup 