USB pen drives can be a great source of virus spreading from computer to computer, here are two portable antivirus solutions that are portable and can keep your portable storage media clean from viruses, trojans,worms,etc.

Mx One Antivirus - Mx One is designed to protect the devices of external storage devices like usb (pendrives), iPod., mp3, mp4, memoirs M2, SD, microSD,etc.,

Features :

• Protection against: Virus, Trojanos, Worms, etc.
• Compatible with any antivirus resident like for example: Nod32.., Kaspersky.
• Protection in realtime with System “Check and Block” which neutralizes potential threats.
• Takes less than 1MB of space.

Mx One : HomePage || Download

ClamWin Antivirus - ClamWin is a Free Stanalone Antivirus for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine.You can use it from your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer.

Features:

• High detection rates for viruses and spyware
• Regular virus database updates. ClamAV team regularly updates virus databases to include a new virus/variant immediately after it appears
• Standalone Virus Scanner, which means that you need to manually scan the files using ClamWin before you copy your files onto the pendrive.

The portable version of the antivirus engine is available from PortbableApps

ClamWin Portable : HomePage | Download

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Tool 1. Fast Stone Capture - This is a portable app that can do more than just sceenshot capturing which can capture images and saves then in 8 formats.

Features :

Slimline sidebar file browser provides full shell operations.Screenshot Captor : HomePageTool 3 : Snippy : Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy.The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard.

Snippy — HomePage | Size : 84 KB

Widows OS Option –

Method 1 : If you are using Windows OS then pressing “Print Screen Button” will copy the image of the full screen into to clipboard which can be pasted ( Ctrl + V ) in MS Paint.

Method 2 : If you want to take the screenshot of only the active window then select the Active Window and then press “Alt+ Print Screen Button “

FireFox Plugins For taking Screenshots :

1. ScreenGarb — Plugin for taking screenshots of web pages
2. FireShot

Do share with us which tool you use to take screenshots for your posts and suggest a new tool that you feel can be part of this list.

Windows System Manager shows the currently running tasks,processes,Performance, etc. System Explorer is freeware taskmanager replacement with many features like Startups, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files.It also searches for details about suspicious/unknown file/process via online databases.

A portable version of the tool is also available for using via a USB Drive.It only on Windows XP and Vista.

Features :

System Explorer — Homepage

There are 2 download options available

1. Installer version Link1 Link2
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2. Portable version

Do you update your Windows Operating System as regularly as your Anti-Virus Programs?? Not updating your Windows OS can lead to many vulnerabilities unfixed. Protector Plus - Windows Vulnerability Scanner is a No-Installation Required Application that checks your system for Windows Vulnerabilities and also gives the list of all the vulnerabilities present on your system and provides links to Microsoft Security Bulletin ID’s of that vulnerability from where you can download the fix for the vulnerabilities.It also gives the criticality of the vulnerability like Critical, Important and Moderate, and also a brief description about the vulnerability.

Windows Vulnerability Scanner is compatible with these versions of Windows only:

• Windows Vista
• Windows XP (Home & Professional) Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2
• Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
• Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
• Windows 2003 Servers

The tool is updated every month to detect the latest vulnerabilities.

Download Protector Plus - Windows Vulnerability Scanner from here.

USB Disk Ejector is an easy to use software and makes ejecting USB Devices easier and faster.program the tools enables USB devices to be quickly ejected through a mouse click or keyboard press. It’s especially useful when dealing with multiple USB devices and for Vista users who don’t want the ‘now safe to remove this device’ dialog box to appear.

It works in both GUI and also in Command prompt.The command line options let you

• Eject the drive that the program is running from.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive letter.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive name.
• Eject a drive by specifying a partial drive name.

How to Use ?

1. Load the program, if you have any removable USB devices they will be shown in the list.
2. If you plug in any additional devices while the program is running then the list will automatically update to show them.
3. Double click on a device to remove it.
   A message will only be shown if there is an error and the device cannot be ejected. The ‘it is now safe to remove this device’ message will not appear. This behavior can be changed with the ‘SHOWEJECT’ command line option. See the ‘command line options’ section below for more information.
4. Unplug the device from your computer.

Command Line Options :

• /?
  Displays a dialog that shows all command line options.
• /SILENT
  Stops balloon messages from appearing when the program is run in GUI mode.
• /SHOWEJECT
  Shows the standard ”It is now safe to now safe to remove” message when a drive is ejected. This message is disabled by default.
• /REMOVETHIS
  Ejects the drive that the program is running from. Eg if the program is run from a usb stick on drive G then drive G would be ejected.
• /REMOVELETTER
  Ejects the specified drive letter. Eg /REMOVELETTER G
• /REMOVENAME
  Ejects the drive with the specified name. Eg /REMOVEDRIVE “Sandisk U3 Titanium”
  Partial name matching is possible if a wildcard (*) is used. Eg /REMOVENAME “*SANDISK” would eject a drive that had Sandisk in its name.

USB Disk Ejector

• HomePage
• Download
• USB Disk Ejector Read Me

USB Disk Ejector works on WindowsXP and Windows Vista.

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In this age of technology data is gold, so we need tools for securing our data more efficiently.

Here are 3 tools for securing your data, 3 tools for 3 types of data.

1.File Encryption - This tool can be used to encrypt files on the Windows platform.

Features

• Four encryption algorithms (Blowfish, AES, MD5, Triple-DES).
• Strong key support, handling and cryptographic implementations.
• Encrypts megabytes of file data per second on modern machines.

Screenshot :

The cons with this tool is that

1. All the files would be having the same password

2.The protection is also a one time protection, when you open a locked file,the protection is removed and the file is no longer protected.

Download FileEncryption from here.







2. Folder Protection

You can encrypt any folder including flash disk and removable hard disk.

Features :

• Fast and Simple:With one-click encryption and decryption. Instant encryption and decryption
• Strong Encryption technology:Using the Strong encryption technology that can effectively protect your data.
• Encrypted folders are protected against copy, deletion or real size check.

Check out the step by step guide on how to use this tool here.

Download FolderProtection from here.

Via - WhoisMadhur

3. ExeLock

This tool lets you password protect Windows executable programs. It works on the program files that are 32-bit Windows-9X/NT/2000/XP/ME executables.When protecting a program, the tool modifies the binary executable itself, so that it first asks for a password and runs the program only if a valid password has been entered.So that it does not matter where you exe file is located ie., on your hard drive, floppy disk, or pen drive.The exe file remains locked even if you run it from plain command line.

Screenshot :

Features :

• 1.Not change the size of protected file.
• 2.Not change the icon of protected file.
• 3.The protected exefile will still work fine in a different machine.
• 4.Safe and efficient.Does not run in the background to provide its functionality.

Download Exelock from here.

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