Anti-virus software vendors:
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Identity Theft and Fraud
on the Internet:
| Rockland County
Sheriff's Department |
The Rockland County Sheriff's Computer Crime
Task Force was developed through the cooperation of the Rockland
County Sheriff's Office and the Rockland County District Attorney's
Office, and launched in June of 2000. The Task Force is a
member of the United States Secret Service New York Electronic
Crimes Task Force and is a satellite unit of the Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force.
Members of the Task Force have conducted proactive and
reactive investigations that have proven to be effective
in the identification and apprehension of many online predators
who target juveniles as their victims. |
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Firewall
software:
| BlackICE
PC Protector |
Black ICE Protector |
| Firewall
Guide |
independent, third-party reviews of Internet
security products. Good explanations of security requirements
on the net. |
| Kerio |
Free for personal use |
| McAfee |
McAfee Internet Security |
| Norton |
Norton Internet Security from Symantec |
ShieldsUp
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from Gibson Research. The Internet's quickest,
most popular, reliable and trusted, free Internet security
checkup and information service. Easily check your system
here, and begin learning about using the Internet safely. |
| Speed
Guide |
Free scan for open ports on your PC directly from the Internet |
| Sygate |
Free for personal use. |
| Tiny |
Tiny Personal Firewall |
| Zone
Alarm |
Keep hackers and data thieves out of your computer
with ZoneAlarm Pro. |
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Spyware and Ad detection and
removal:
Spamfighter Standard
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Free anti spam fighter - highly recommended by Consumer Reports |
Spyware
Warrior
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This site does some good investigation of "antispyware"
programs. Please note the long list of programs that are inefective
or do actual damage.
quote from the site:
"Some of the products listed on this page simply do
not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection or
may be prone to ridiculous false positives. Others may use
unfair, deceptive, high pressure sales tactics to scare
up sales from gullible, confused users. A very few of these
products are either associated with
known distributors of spyware/adware or have been known
to install spyware/adware themselves. Not all products exhibit
the same problems, however."
There is a short list of trusted programs and other
useful info. |
| Ad-aware
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Get Rid of Spyware now!
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| AdSubtract
Pro
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Remove Internet advertising
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Adware
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Adware, Spyware and other unwanted
"malware" - and how to remove them
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AVG Anti-Spyware
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Quote from the site...
AVG Anti-Spyware Free
is a free anti-spyware protection tool developed by GRISOFT
for home use. We invite you to join the millions
of satisfied customers worldwide who have downloaded the
software and now enjoy the benefits of AVG Anti-Spyware
Free.
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SpywareBlaster
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SpywareBlaster doesn't scan for and clean spyware--it
prevents it from being installed in the first place. SpywareBlaster
prevents the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware,
dialers, browser hijackers, and other potentially unwanted
programs. It can also block spyware/tracking cookies in IE
and Mozilla/Firefox, and restrict the actions of spyware/ad/tracking
sites. With the built-in Check for Updates feature, you can
help ensure your protection is up-to-date. SpywareBlaster
also includes a System Snapshot feature, which lets you take
a snapshot of your computer in its clean state and later revert,
undoing many changes made by spyware and browser hijackers. |
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| Spybot
Search & Destroy
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SpyBot-S&D searches your
hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little
modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display.
Many of these modules also transmit information, including
your surfing behavior on the Internet. |
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| Ad & Cookie Blockers
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AdSubtract
interMute
Internet Junkbuster
Proxy
Naviscope
Norton Internet
Security 2000
Proxomitron
WebWasher |
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Content
Filtering |
Hardware
SonicWALL
Content Filter List Subscription |
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Software |
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Cyber
Patrol |
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Cyber
Sentinel |
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Cyber
Sitter |
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Mailbox
Guard -Fight spam, scam, malware and obscenity
- before it gets into your mailbox. Get in control over your
mail now! |
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Net
Nanny
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Popup
Stopper - by Panicware - free 30 day trial. Then, $19.95 |
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Step-By-Step:
Teach end users how to keep spam out of the inbox |
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Miscellaneous fixes related
to viruses:
- Some
practical advice on protecting your computer and yourself from
online dangers given by a local resident (Collins Security).
- How
to fix the hoax that removed the jdbgmgr.exe file.
- vmyths.com
Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria,
and the implications if you believe in them. You can also search
a list of computer virus hoaxes & virus hysteria.
- Popup
ad killer - Popnot is a small utility that adds PopNot-specific
entries to Internet Explorer's context menu.
- Hoaxbusters
- hoaxbusters.ciac.org - Internet Hoax and Chain Letter pages
- Universal
PlugNPlay Security Patch without the security update patch,
and with the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) system in its default
"enabled" state, any of the many millions of Internet-connected
UPnP-equipped Windows systems could be remotely commandeered
and forced to download and run any malicious code of a hacker's
design. This includes using the machine to launch potent Denial
of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
This means that extremely damaging CodeRed and Nimda-style worms
can now be written for millions of Windows machines. Whereas
the Microsoft IIS server worms of 2001 found and infested 'only'
several hundred thousand IIS servers, a Windows "Universal
Plug and Play" worm would have more than ten million XP
systems, in addition to many more Windows 98/ME systems, upon
which to prey today.
- Urban
Legends - Check out urban legends to find rumors and hoaxes
in all sorts of subject areas.
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