Archive for category Data Security
What is the Difference between Virus and Trojans
Posted by Lance in Data Security on January 11, 2010
Virus and trojans are both man-made programs, belonging to computer virus. Trojan is a kind of virus. But why do we talk about and have trojan remover singularly?
You may know that initial computer viruses were programmed for sabotage. Their authors designed them to damage data on others’ computers, to terrorize others to achieve some certain [...]
Top Free Data Erase Utilities – Erase Sensitive Information from Your Computer
Posted by Lance in Data Security on January 7, 2010
Why you need to erase data from your computer?
Data Recovery Risk
We’ve all heard the horror stories about someone buying a used hard drive at a flea market or garage sale and then finding tons of personal data left on the drive by the previous owner. Or even worse, people getting their credit trashed by ID [...]
Top 5 free antivirus software – protect your hard drive security
Posted by admin in Data Security on January 5, 2010
What is Antivirus software?
Antivirus software provides an essential layer of protection from a multitude of virus, trojan, worm, spyware, adware, dialer, keylogger and rootkit infections. Traditionally antivirus programs just detected viruses and spyware removers just detected spyware but nowadays the boundary between antivirus and spyware removers is unclear. Most current antiviruses have at least reasonably [...]
Encrypt your NTFS partition with Encrypting File System
Posted by admin in Data Security on December 22, 2009
What is Encrypting File System (EFS)?
The Encrypting File System (EFS) is a file system driver that provides file system-level encryption in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is available in all versions of Windows later than Windows 2000 except Windows XP Home Edition, and the Starter, Basic, and Home Premium editions of Windows Vista and Windows [...]
Clear sensitive information from your hard drive with data security software
Posted by admin in Data Security on December 19, 2009
What is data recovery?
Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as hard disk drives, storage tapes, CDs, DVDs, RAID, and other electronics. Recovery may be required due to physical [...]