2 Must Have Tools for your Computer

Browser hijacking has been one of the menaces which have been prevailing in the online world for some time. For those who are not familiar with the term “Browser Hijacking” or who were very lucky not to experience it till now – Wikipedia defines it as “
Browser hijacking is the modification of a web browser's settings by Malware.” Simply put when a browser hijacker get installed in your system, it most probably changes your Homepage and in most cases it will also disable the option of changing the Homepage. The situation becomes rather embracing because in most cases the Homepage will be changed into some erotic site. I was really shocked when it happened in my office with me and after that I started looking for ways to restore the settings. It’s not that surprising to find that Internet Explorer with its low security features is the target of majority of Hijacking attempt, whereas Firefox has a pretty healthy record against the same. May be this is another reason to prefer Firefox rather than Internet Explorer. One of the most powerful anti Browser Hijacking tool is:

HijackThis

HijackThis was originally created by Merijn Bellekom, and later sold to Trend Micro. It still remains as a freeware. HijackThis basically detect Malware by tracking the common methods used by Hijackers. It does not compare the list with a database of Malware list as in the case of other spy ware removers. Hence false warnings are imminent. HijackThis is pretty easy to use but is a very dangerous tool in the hands of a user who is not an expert in Spy Wares. The official Trend Micro site issues the following warning “HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.”
But there is no need to be sad about it, there is huge number of forums where you can paste your HijackThis log and get Help from. One of them and one I use frequently is Cyber Tech Help. Or if you want to do it yourself without any help, you can then search in internet where the List populated by HijackThis is indeed a Malware. But I don’t take any responsibility about the side effects of such a step.

Another set of spy wares affect your USB drives. In most of the cases you get infected by a Flash Malware when you use them in a public computer mostly at cyber cafes etc. In most of the cases the only option left will be formatting the pen drive. But this will result in data loss. Flash Disinfector by sUBs is a tool for removing most of these Flash Malwares. It can be used to remove these Malwares from both computer and Flash drives. It’s pretty simple to use. Save the file then run the software. The software will ask you to insert the affected Flash Drive. Your desktop will disappear for a moment and then reappear. That’s it….