WinPatrol is an anti-malware security monitor that is highly regarded.

It is very popular and the free edition has much of the functionality thst the "plus" version has, though the "plus" to-be-paid-for version is very reasonably priced at $29.95 with lifetime upgrades and is licensed per customer rather than per machine (so you can install Scotty on your desktop and laptop).

Scotty? Who's Scotty?

Scotty is WinPatrol's mascot and helper watchdog icon who will pop up an alert if any potential issues are uncovered in day to day use of your PC.

Secure your laptop by following some of these tips:

Found here at VideoJug.

Hope this helps someone!

A commonly used password is 123456.

A recent analysis from approximately 10,000 stolen but then recovered hotmail passwords showed that out of this list 70 people had used the password 123456.

This is 0.65%. So not massively common then from this albeit relatively small sample.

And also keep in mind the purpose of these passwords – to secure a free email account; many people will not necessarily associate a great value to this type of account and may well choose extreme convenience rather than security (in terms of choosing NOT to have a long involved complex password).

So really the most common password from this sample isn’t really that common.

More worrying perhaps is that nearly half of these passwords used lower-case passwords only with no numbers or other symbols. Now this is not necessarily a problem from a human point of view – you could still spend an inordinate amount of time trying to ‘guess’ a password based on only lower case alphas.

But a system based password guess’er could swallow this easily. So as usual, it’s a horses for courses trade-off. Easy to remember passwords (god, 123456, etc) for low value digital assets may not be a problem – just like a small padlock on a shed containing plastic plant pots could be good enough ...

Logging software is insidious malware. For example, even if you are scrupulous with your password management and the use of secure web sites, a text logger can undo all that hard work by tracking all the text you type.

Passwords can therefore be logged and potentially sent across the internet without your knowledge if you get this spyware on your system.

Many of the big name "internet security" suites a good at preventing known keylogging software from being installed on your computer, but if they miss one, they are usually not so good (if they even try at all) with stopping logging activities.

This is where a software utility liike Zemana AntiLogger comes into play ...