Jeremy’s World

Unfortunately many people fall victim to various types of badware on the Internet due to either lack of knowledge, usage of nefarious websites or a failure to keep their software up-to-date.  Sadly to often, the process of resolving an infection is dealt with by a complete format of the disk and re-install of windows.  But, this is not always necessary.

From my experiences with badware, I have decided to try and help those who are suffering from badware by providing links to prevention, detection and removal tools that might help the typical user.  In this section you will find information and links to tools which can help you combat the nasty software often implanted by hackers and bots on unsuspecting users’ machines.

Badware Detection Tools

A list of detection tools will be found here soon.

Badware Prevention Tools

Anti-virus software

Although not the best software for dealing with all types of badware, anti-virus software is good at dealing with most viruses, trojans and malware that can infect a typical machine.  But be wary!  Not all anti-virus software is good.  Here are my top recommendations based on years of experience with anti-virus software.

Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Lab is widely regarded these days as one of the best network and computer security firms in the world.  Their world renowned anti-virus software is increasingly used by major organisations worldwide.  Originally based in Russia, Kaspersky Lab has years of experience and the technical know-how to deal with new and upcoming viral threats.  You can get a copy of their trial version  virus scanning software or use the free online scanner.

AVG Free: My recommended anti-virus software for the general user or business.  AVG is a well-known Internet brand providing anti-virus and badware detection and removal software.  AVG Free is used by many any indviduals and companies including Excel Building Management.  You can get a copy of AVG Free Edition from their website or at download.com.

Avast! Home Edition: Avast! is another good anti-virus program.  The home edition is available for personal, non-commercial home use.  It is a good alternative to AVG Free if you do not have AVG or find that AVG’s interface is not to your taste.  You can download Avast! Home Edition from the avast.com website.  Be aware that you need to register Avast! once a year with a new key in order to be able to make full use of the software.

More soon…

Badware Removal Tools

If you have already been infected then you need the tools to remove the badware infection.  Not all badware detection software can removal the nasty pieces of badware than exist on the Internet.  I have tried to put together as complete a list as possible of badware tools available from my previous experience of dealing with badware.

Computer networking and security is increasingly becoming an area of Computer Science that has major relevance in everyday society.  As people are evermore using the Internet as a medium for sharing, disseminating and retrieving information, they are at the same time under the threat of those whose underlying agenda can only be described as being “bad”.

This section of the site covers topics related computer networking with a particular focus on issues related to computer security such as badware and malware, cryptography and social engineering.  It will also examine basic networking protocols, ideas and tools available to the everyday user that not all users may be aware of.

Badware, Malware and Trojans

Badware, malware, trojans, viruses, worms, adware are the various names given to a large class of software which currently is the bane of the average user’s existence.  Tens of hundreds of users a day are caught in the nasty web of badware that floats around the Internet looking for unsuspecting, unprotected users.

This section attempts to give the average user some help in combating badware right through its lifecycle for pre-infection to post-infection.  This will hopefully help to overcome the many problems that users experience with reduced performance in their operating system and network connections.

Welcome to my website!  As I work to get the site up to scratch over the course of the next few weeks, feel free to drop by and take a look and maybe even suggest some ideas I may have missed.

During the course of the next few weeks I will be adding information on:

• Badware and Computer Security
• Server and Network Administration
• Information Visualisation
• Mathematics
• Cells and Proteins
• Apple and Macs
• Languages and Travelling
• Programming and Design
• Football and Sport
• XML and Data Exchange
• Multimedia, Music and Videos
• What’s in the News?
• Politics and International Relations
• and probably more…

A la prochaine…