Sunday, September 29, 2013

Some tools for securing & cleaning your Windows machine

This is not a fancy or pretty article, but, functional.  The following are various tools I use to help secure and clean computers.  This is a list of links I keep on my Google Tablet for when I visit and I can quickly download and install software.  The Windows Defender offline I install on to two USB sticks (32 bit and 64 bit versions).  The rest of the utilities I download and then copy to a USB stick just in case the person does not have a working internet connection.


Autoruns for windows
Technet.Microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals


AVAST:
www.avast.com


CCLEANER:
www.piriform.com


Chrome (note this installs only and no download):
www.google.com/Chrome

chrome://extensions
chrome://plugins


Firefox:
www.mozilla.org

To reset all and lose everything:
about:support and click Reset Firefox
safe mode: firefox.exe -safe-mode


Malwarebytes:
www.malwarebytes.org


SlimWare Utilities:
www.slimwareutilities.com


SPYBOT Search and Destroy:
www.safer-networking.org/private


SUPERAntiSpyware:
superantispyware.com


Window defender offline
Windows.Microsoft.com/en-CA/what-is-windows-defender-offline