Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Do I need to buy antivirus software for my PC?
It depends. If you have budget constraint, you may like to try anti virus free software. I have been using AVG Free Anti-Virus software for years. It works really fine so far. Updates are always available. AVG Free Anti-Virus can be downloaded from http://free.avg.com/.
September 8, 2011
Posted in: Home & Office Software, Security 
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Wireshark (Ethereal) to manage and troubleshoot network
Wireshark (used to be known as Ethereal) is a open source GUI network protocol analyzer freeware. As packet analysis is important in trouble shooting and managing network, Wireshark is use regularly by network professionals, security experts, developers, and educators around the world to see and understand raw protocols on the wire. Typically a network administrator [...]
March 22, 2009
Tags: packet analyzer Posted in: Network, Security No Comments
FreeOTFE – disk encryption freeware
FreeOTFE is an open source freeware uses for disk encryption for PCs and PDAs. Like TrueCrypt, you can create virtual disks on your PC/PDA using this tool. The virtual disk is encrypted using AES, Blowfish and other cyphers. However, it operates exactly like a normal disk – any data written to it is securely encrypted [...]
March 12, 2009
Tags: disk encryption, Security, virtual disk Posted in: Security No Comments
Wireshark, NMap and Eraser
Three new security tools freeware are added to the 88 Best Freeware list today. Details for each of these three freeware will be introduced in the near future. Anyway, basically Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer which was formerly called Ethereal. This is a very powerful tool use in capturing packets on the network. NMap [...]
February 21, 2009
Tags: eraser, nmap, security tools, wireshark Posted in: Security No Comments
Using TrueCrypt to encrypt your data
TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux The best feature that I found with TrueCrypt is it can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Files that is stored in this encrypted disk are automatically encrypted or decrypted [...]
January 3, 2009
Tags: encryption, information security, Security, software Posted in: Security No Comments