The Internet and World Wide Web is a wonderful communications medium, but also a dark place where the creations of twisted minds stalk and take advantage of the unsuspecting. Crackers (who use their skills for malicious means), spammers, virus creators and Script Kiddies are rampant – creating and discovering new strategies to infect, inundate and compromise your computer security every day. There are also the security threats that arise from within - employees or children may be putting your systems at risk.
The following is a range of free tutorials, popular online security tools and anti-virus software to help keep your computer safe - online and offline.
If the Internet forms the basis of your career and business, you understand just how important it is to keep your data secure. It only takes one virus infection or security breach and your job or online business may be threatened.
Consider some of the privacy, security and anti-virus software, tools and services. Please note: Some of following tools and software available in the market are very powerful and should be used responsibly. Some of the tools presented in this section represent both ends of the spectrum of computer and internet monitoring.
Anonymous surfing
Anonymizer offers the most comprehensive set of online tools to protect your privacy, security and anonymity at home, at work and on the road
Anti-spam services
It’s estimated that over 50% of email delivered to inboxes worldwide consists of spam and/or viruses. While many software packages tag suspected spam, you still need to sift through them all. Install anti-spam services so you’ll never have to even see these messages! It’s simple to set up and you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.
Surveillance detection/prevention utilities
Some surveillance detectors protect your privacy by destroying files that you’ve accumulated during surfing or general computer usage. This great software also has a number of other privacy and security options to help you keep the contents of your computer away from prying eyes - whoever they may be. Deletion processes used are similar to US Government Military standards.
Monitoring Software
Stealth-monitoring utility increases security without bogging down your PC or network.
Software Feature Summary
This software records keystrokes, logs application usage, archives chat/messenger transcripts, records web sites visited, networks deployment capabilities. It has all activity recorded in one password protected and encrypted HTML file and it is able to email activity reports. It can also create different log files for different users.