Freeware In Internet Privacy / Security

PhishGuard harnesses the collective observations of Internet users to detect and rapidly disable Internet Phishing or Spoofing attacks designed to steal critical financial data. Phishing attacks use fraudulent websites and emails that mimic well-known organizations in order to trick unsuspecting Internet users.

A simple login or account number entry screen becomes a trap. By assuming you are dealing with a trusted party, you can reveal financial information including credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords, and social security numbers to the "bad guys". This type of attack is very difficult for the typical person to detect, as the scammers emails and websites mimic the exact style and graphics of the spoofed company, and appear genuine.

Sensitive financial information disclosed to scammers is used to make fraudulent financial transactions and to enable long-term identity theft. Once installed on your computer, PhishGuard quietly monitors sites on the Internet that you visit with your browser. When you attempt to visit a harmful site, a warning window immediately appears giving information on when the site was discovered, and why it is considered harmful. You can still choose to visit that site, but we dont recommend it!

SimpLite-Yahoo is free for personal use at home or at the office.

In Windows, many applications have something called a "product ID number", a "GUID" or a "Unique ID number". This number may be the same throughout Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player - even the operating system itself. Since this number nevers changes, it would be the PERFECT way a malicious person or even an advertising company could track your habits - perhaps through a malicious website ActiveX control, or Java applet.

Why not just delete it?
In this case, you would have a constant ID of nothing - and given the small number of people that might also have that "null" value, it could still be used to track you.

Cookie Eraser is a simple utility that erase the cookies from Internet Explorer. With simple one click in system tray you are be able to erase cookies.