Security

Easy way to delete and avoid virus in pen drive

Most of the computers affected by virus because of using pen drives or USB drives. Nowadays everyone using pen drive for their own purpose. We cannot stop using pen drive to escape from virus. Instead we can delete and avoid virus in pen drive using simple steps without any antivirus software. First we can see,

How to delete virus in pen drive?

Plug your USB drive or Pen drive to your computer.

It will show popup window asking you to choose among the actions.

Just simply close it.

Visit My Computer and look at the drive letter of your USB drive or Pen drive. Consider it is H:

Now goto start –>  Run and type cmd that will open Command Prompt window.

In Command Prompt, enter the drive letter with : [ For example, H: ] and press Enter.

Then type dir/w/o/a/p and press Enter.

You will see a list of files. Now look for the file with these names

1. Autorun.inf

2. New Folder.exe

3. Info.exe

4. explorer.exe

5. restore.exe

6. New_Folder.exe

etc.,

If you see any of the file name, it must be virus.

Now type the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and press Enter.

and then delete each files using the following command,

del filename

For example,

del Autorun.inf

del restore.exe

etc.,

That’s all. Now you’ve deleted virus in your Pen drive. Those who not believe after this process, they can scan their USB drive or Pen drive to believe. If the file cannot be deleted, try it in Safe Mode. It should work.

You may think doing this process every time is time consuming. To avoid this process, now we can see,

How to avoid virus is pen drive?

We are deleted virus in pen drive.

Now open new Notepad.

(Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> Notepad)

No need to type anything in that Notepad.

Press Save as that Notepad file in the location H: with the name  ” autorun.inf “ with double quotes.

Now autorun.inf file is created in your Pen drive.

Right click that file and select Properties.

Set/tick the attributes to that file name Read-only and Hidden, and select OK.

That’s it. Now 90% of the viruses are avoided.

Just try it and don’t forget to give your valuable comments.

Panda Internet Security 2010 review and price

Panda Internet Security 2010

Panda Internet Security 2010 has the features and the interfaces same like 2009 release. We can create and customize our own web content filter. Installing Panda Internet Security 2010 takes less than one minute, it automatically installs antivirus module and we can choose some options from anti-spam, firewall, identity-protection, backup features and Web content control. It offers to do hard disk and memory to sweep for viruses.
The top navigation bar has 5 links, Status, Scan, Report, Quarantine and Services. The services navigation page contains a suggestion box, Panda bulletins, rescue discs and E-mail technical support.
Panda has security packages same like Kaspersky Internet Security and McAfee Network Manager, which used to trace your network for further protection. Panda concentrates on the way that your computer is interacts with the Web. It can also copy and upload suspicious files that are not identified by your current installed security software or their Web-based services. It uses Cloud-based scanning. Using preferences, we can select “Enable CPU load management”, using this we can reduce the CPU usage during scan to prevent other tasks from slowing down. It uses slow scan.
Panda includes USB protection, it can avoid autorun-and it can move or mount the file, It provides a new autorun.inf file for USB’s to give more protection.

Backups & Restore is another feature, it prevents loss of important files either through hard disk problems or unintentionally or other accidents. It can be Backup and restoration from hard disk, CD, DVD or external media or online are both extremely simple and easy. It provides safeguard, to allow access to your most important files anywhere and anytime. Safeguard provides 2GB of free, secure storage for one year.
Drawbacks:
Panda Internet Security 2010 doesn’t have the feature such as anonymous web surfing, password protected file vaults- both are becoming increasingly common.
Requirements:
* 300MHz of Faster processor
* 128MB RAM
* 275MB Free Hard disk space
* Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
* Windows XP (32-bit), or Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit).
* CD-ROM drive.
Price:
US $35.97, single PC, six months, US $59.95, single PC, one year.
US $47.97, three PC’s for six months, US $79.95, three PC’s for one year.

Ubuntu Operating System

Ubuntu is an Operating System for computers based on Debian GNU/Linux. It is freeware, it provides an up-to-date, stable Operating system, with strong focus on usability and ease-to-installation. It has been selected by the readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktops, claiming about 30% of Linux desktop installations in both 2006 and 2007. Ubuntu is created of multiple software packages distributed as a free software or an open source license. The main license used is the GNU General Public License(GNU GPL). Explicitly declares that users are free to run, copy, change, study, distribute and develop and improve the software. This Operating system is sponsored by the UK Based company Canonical Ltd., By keeping Ubuntu free, Canonical is able to utilize the talents of the community developers in Ubuntu’s constituent components.
Canonical provides support for four more Ubuntu-derived operating systems: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and Ubuntu JeOS. It releases new versions of Ubuntu for every six months. Long Term Support(LTS) versions, which are released every two years. The recent version of Ubuntu is 9.04, which is released on 23rd April, 2009, and the upcoming version, Karmic Koala, is to be released on 29th October, 2009.

UBUNTU

Dell, Tesco and Gliese IT are offer computers with Ubuntu pre-installed since 2007, while System76 has has done so since 2005. Dell computers using Ubuntu 8.04 has extra support for ATI Video Graphics, Fingerprint Readers, Bluetooth, Dell Wireless, HDMI and WMA/WMV/MP3.

Ubuntu

Features of UBUNTU:

• Usability and Security
• UTF-8 Character encoding
• sudo tool is used
• Comes with OpenOffice, Firefox, Pidgin, GIMP, Transmission and several lightweight games.
• GNOME(current default desktop) supports more than 46 languages.
• It runs many programs designed for Microsoft Windows9such as Microsoft Office), through Wine.
• Install directly from a hard drive(via UNetbootin).
• It is available on the PowerPC.
• Kubuntu and Ubuntu can be run and boot from an USB Flash drive.
• USB creator program is available to install Ubuntu on a USB drive(with or without a LiveCD disc).

System Requirements:

• It currently supports the AMD64, Intel x86 and ARM architecture.
• Minimum system requirements for a desktop installation are 300 MHz x86 processor, 256 MB RAM, 4GB space of hard drive and video card that supports VGA at 640×480 resolution.
• The server requires 300MHz x86 processor, 64MB RAM, and video card that supports VGA at 640×480.