Tuesday, 27 January 2009

How could we make us safe nowadays when evil intents are getting growth

We are living in exciting times. Day by day we experience an enormous technical development - especially within computer technologies.

Almost every person in the world has at least a minimum of computer experience. We use different programs for different activities and the programs are often very helpful to us. Many people from different countries are involved in software development. Not only from the large companies like Microsoft, Symantec, IBM and others. There are a lot of small companies or

individual developers making software for every aspect of life. It's hard to find a task that doesn't have a matching program helper.

This is all very well. It means that we can use our computers to improve and simplify our lives.

But there are things that can ruin our great relationship with the computer, and the worst by far is the virus. And there are many different viruses - trojans, sniffers, adware, spyware (sometimes called "malware"). They work in mysterious ways, from showing annoying dummy adds and stealing personal data to erasing programs and even destroying the computers.

Luckily, there is a cure for almost anything. The normal medicine for this is antivirus software. But there are so many programs on the market and it is hard to decide which is the best. We all spend a lot of money and time downloading, installing and updating such software, and everybody needs a watch dog to protect the computer from the infected files.

Lately, a new and interesting approach in the war against virus has developed with all the web based file storages that claim to check all files for malware and provide malware cleanness confirmations. The most important to look for on these sites is how the actual checking and result is described.

Our web site was the first site of this kind. We check files and assure its visitors that we work to make their surfing much safer. What this means? We receive files and check them by our antivirus software. In each case we give a full report about all the files items and their malware staus. We do not only use self developed software but third party software as well, and best of all, this web site feature is free of charge. Software authors can inform their users about their software cleanness by using our reports. Every program on our web site has it's own antivirus report. Follow our web site to make sure.

There's also other an option that's free of charge - you can check any file on the web without getting it onto your computer by using - the online checking form. You can submit a file and receive a full analogue report as it was described above. The second option - web browser plug-ins allowing you to produce checking request without typing of file's URL in the checking request form. Those plug-ins allow you just to call a menu item. After clicking the menu item, the file will be enqueued to be checked. Then you will receive an URL of further report.

The surfing safety is more and more important and we try to solve the one part of that - cleanness of files that people get from worldwide web.

- web site with chekced software

- online utility to check software without downloading

- checking browser plugins

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