check antivirus capability

Now, you can check if your antivirus really works. Type the following in notepad:
 
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Save the file as virus-test.txt

Scan the file. If your antivirus detects this file as a virus and tries to remove it, then you can be sure your antivirus is a good one. This is a much easier way, than actually downloading a virus to test it. This sample virus code is perfectly harmless and allows you to test your antivirus. A good antivirus like MS Security Essentials will detect this test virus even before you scan it.
That's all the tricks I'm sharing, at least for now. All the tricks above are perfectly safe and will not harm your computer in any way. There are many destructive notepad tricks as well, like making a real virus which kills the Operating System, but personally, I believe that is only meant for developers who want to make their OS security better. Use these tricks in your best behavior
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How to Completely Erase a Hard Disk Drive

A new year has begun and perhaps you have decided to perform a system upgrade or get rid of your old computer system and purchase a new one. But before you sell or donate your old computer, it is very much necessary to completely erase your Hard Disk Drive. Yes, every one of us are aware of this fact and so, we delete the contents of the hard disk either by using the DELETE key on our keyboard or by Formatting the hard disk.
 

Deleting and Formatting – Just Not Secure Enough

But the fact is, the data will still be on the hard disk even after deleting it or formatting the hard disk.

Using the delete key on your keyboard will only remove the shortcuts to the files making them invisible to users.

Deleted files still reside on the hard drive and a quick Google search will show many options for system recovery software will allow anyone to reinstate that data.

Formatting the hard drive is a bit more secure way to erase the hard disk.

Formatting a disk will not erase the data on the disk, only the address tables. It makes it much more difficult to recover the files.

 However a computer specialist would be able to recover most or all the data that was on the disk before the reformat.

For those who accidentally reformat a hard disk, being able to recover most or all the data that was on the disk is a good thing.

However, if you’re preparing a system for retirement to charity or any other organization, this obviously makes you more vulnerable to data theft.

Erasing the Hard Disk through DISK WIPING

So it is necessary for us to use a 100% secure way to erase the hard disk. The secure way of erasing the hard disk is called Disk Wiping.

Disk wiping is a secure method of ensuring that data, including company and individually licensed software on your computer and storage devices is irrecoverably deleted before recycling or donating the equipment.

Because previously stored data can be brought back with the right software and applications, the disk wiping process will actually overwrite your entire hard drive with data, several times.

Once you format you’ll find it all but impossible to retrieve the data which was on the drive before the overwrite. The more times the disk is overwritten and formatted the more secure the disk wipe is.

There are a variety of disk wiping products available that you can purchase, or freely downloaded online to perform more secure disk wipes. One of my favorite disk wiping software is

WipeDrive/ WipeDrive Professional

You have to use this tool by burning the iso image file onto a CD or by using a floppy disk. After burning this tool you have to boot your PC and follow the screen instructions to completely erase the hard disk.

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Learn To Recover Your Computer After Virus Attack


 Even after the virus is totally removed from the system, some users find it difficult to restore all
 those things back which were affected by the virus. A virus usually when enters into a system       
 disables the registry editor and task manager so that the user can not remove the virus from the
 system.

     Here is a free tool Re-Enable using which even a novice users can fix all the things which were  
     disabled by the virus. An antivirus can remove the virus files but sometimes it may fail to restore
     the system settings. In such situations this tool can come handy.

The program has the ability to restore functionality to these Windows features:
--->
1)   Windows Registry
2)   Command Line Tool
3)   Windows Task Manager
4)   System Restore Config
5)   Folder Options
6)   Run command
7)   My Computer
8)   Task Scheduler
9)   Right Click Context menu
10) Ms-Config (Xp only)
11) Control Panel
12) Search

You will require dot net 3.5 or higher version to run this software. Or if you don’t want to download .Net framework then you can try the portable version of this software.
Download  Re-Enable

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