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Tizersecure.com » Tizer Secure http://www.tizersecure.com/blog The Complete Computer Protection and Malware Removal Solution Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:34:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 “BotNet” Infects 75,000 Computers Worldwide http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2010/02/%e2%80%9cbotnet%e2%80%9d-infects-75000-computers-worldwide/ http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2010/02/%e2%80%9cbotnet%e2%80%9d-infects-75000-computers-worldwide/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:57:49 +0000 Shelley Koerber http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/?p=143 The newest, massive hacking network “Kneber BotNet” has breached more than 75,000 PCs around the world. Hackers gained access to private data at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies. Criminals use a botnet to control an army of computers and usually distribute massive amounts of spam and malware.

With this particular botnet, analysts believe hackers aren’t interested in money, but they have built a secret underground network to rent out or sell stolen personal information to cybercrooks. This botnet is gathering logins for financial systems, social networking, and email and reporting it back to the criminal. Social networking sites can easily be used to spread malware, as Facebook and Yahoo accounts have been hacked the most. Investigations report 68,000 corporate logins were compromised. These criminals have also poisoned search results. If you search for “Kneber BotNet removal” you will likely get results that will contain fake anti-virus software.

Several large companies like Paramount Pictures have been attacked. It is becoming easier to become a cybercriminal as tools for creating these malicious infections are becoming available on the underground economy. Corporations should monitor outgoing traffic. Stay up to date on security software and you will be protected. The Tizer Secure™ behavioral scan will search for unusual botnet behavior. Download the free 14-day trial.

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Tizer Secure™ Launches Three New Free Tools http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2010/02/3_new_freeware_tools/ http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2010/02/3_new_freeware_tools/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:01:59 +0000 Shelley Koerber http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/?p=137 This week we have launched three new tools that are free for personal use. Over the years, computer usage has become part of everyday life and the amount of malicious threats has risen dramatically as users leave computer ports open while surfing the internet. These free tools are Tizer™ UnLocker, Tizer™ SysScan, and Tizer™ Rootkit Razor. All are compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (32-bit) and have been listed on all major free download websites.

Tizer™ UnLocker is a powerful tool that gives you control over locked files and folders that may be in use by an application. If you are faced with a situation where you want to use, delete, move, or rename a file and get an error message that you can’t, UnLocker is your solution. The advantage it has over similar products is that it allows the user to kill or unlock multiple processes, as well as delete, rename, and move files. It also does not require you to reboot your system after deleting a file like other freeware does. Click here for more details or to download this free useful tool. Tizer™ UnLocker has already been awarded 5/5 stars by soft82.com.

Tizer™ SysScan generates a report for you after it scans your system files, processes, DLLs, and registry. It shows you both legitimate software and unwanted malware and if you are not an expert you may save the log to ask for technical advice on a forum. You also have the option to send your log to the Tizer™ Secure support team for a free analysis. Tizer™ SysScan has a strong advantage over similar tools because it will display hidden processes, modules, drivers, and registry entries while others don’t. Click here for more details or to download.

Tizer™ Rootkit Razor will detect malicious rootkits on your computer through multiple methodologies. It will detect and remove them without damaging your system. Stop rootkits from altering files, changing processes, or stealing your personal information. Take advantage of our advanced rootkit detection technology and find out more details here. It is currently the only anti-rootkit application compatible with the most common Windows operating systems.

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Should an ISP be responsible to protect against malware? http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2010/02/should-an-isp-be-responsible-to-protect-against-malware/ http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2010/02/should-an-isp-be-responsible-to-protect-against-malware/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:51:36 +0000 Shelley Koerber http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/?p=134 Internet usage is part of daily life, and usage continues to rise around the globe. There has been a lot of talk regarding whether an Internet Service Provider (ISP) should be responsible to prevent against the spread of internet viruses. Studies show that about 70% of subscribers assume it is the responsibility of the ISP to provide protection against malware. IT security experts believe an ISP should attempt to increase awareness among customers, but the ISPs are not interested in playing this role. Every computer linking to the internet today has potential to spread new viruses and attacks. Increased bandwidth availability also increases the speed of attacks. A study done by Websense found that as much as 13.7% of searches for trending news and buzz words led to malware. An ISP can see what is flowing through their network and look for virus patterns but customer downloads cannot be controlled. Certain fire-share applications can be blocked or monitored, but does an ISP really want to block these? Many users would not want to be monitored. ISPs find this a challenge, since a user can easily switch providers if security blocks are put in place.

At the very minimum, an ISP should help educate their users on protection from malware and look at offering proactive security to their customer base to make their network safer. If you do not have your computer protected and are looking for comprehensive protection from malware, download the free 14-day trial of Tizer Secure™ and you will be pleased.

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Tizer Makes Several Key Enhancements for Final Product Launch http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2009/10/tizer-makes-several-key-enhancements-for-final-product-launch/ http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2009/10/tizer-makes-several-key-enhancements-for-final-product-launch/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:52:03 +0000 Admin http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/?p=100 icon-onlyAfter months of beta testing and making product improvements based on feedback gathered from a large number of beta testers and users, Tizer Secure™ has launched with several improved key product features and technical enhancements that provide unmatched malware protection, privacy and performance for Windows PC users.

Polymorphic Virus Scan

A polymorphic virus makes slight changes in its code in order to spread itself, undetected, on a user’s machine. The newly copied virus with its brand new code evades traditional security software because it’s not in its database of malware signatures.

Tizer Secure™ completely scans a user’s PC for confirmed virus threats in the database and suspect virus threats that match our heuristic and behavioral algorithm. It then takes the code from each of those confirmed and suspect threats and, chunk by chunk, compares it to the other files and processes on the computer. If a close match is found, Tizer Secure™ classifies the match as a new suspect threat.

UPX Packing Recognition

Most of today’s viruses pack themselves within a protective shield that gets executed in much the same way that a legitimate software application is packed inside an EXE file. Windows PC users don’t know that the real virus is hiding inside the pack until it’s already executed.

Many antivirus software applications cannot read a virus within a UPX packing system. Tizer Secure™, however, opens the package and checks to see if there is a virus inside before it’s executed.

Site Block

In addition to adding about 50,000 malicious sites to the blocked sites list, the Tizer Secure’s™ site blocker list works across all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and more.

Process Monitor Messages

Instead of prompting the user to take action when a process needs to be stopped, Tizer Secure™ added a process driver that includes an artificial intelligence that takes the action for you without prompting you or giving you a warning message every time a process has to be stopped.

Conficker Protection

The Conficker worm exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server Service to replicate. It then travels through the network looking for other machines with the same vulnerability to infect next. Conficker also copies itself onto USB devices, such as memory sticks and MP3 players that plug into infected PCs. Thus, the worm spreads to the next PC through the infected USB device.

We have successfully added Conficker protection technology to Tizer Secure™. This protection uses the heuristic and behavioral analysis to detect all variants of the Conficker Worm and Conficker-type malware. It then uses a driver-based tool to remove these variants.

Rootkit Protection

Since rootkits are increasingly being used by cyber-criminals to get into computer systems and steal private information, our developers have beefed up Tizer Secure’s™ rootkit protection. By tracking rootkits through the processes they hide, Tizer Secure™ can more accurately expose them. Also, seeing these hidden processes makes it easier to remove rootkits without destabilizing the user’s system.

Malware Deletion without Restart

Many antivirus applications require a complete system restart in order to remove any virus that is hidden or shared in the memory of the system. Tizer Secure™ has added a technology that can now delete any virus—even if it is hidden or shared in the memory and cannot be deleted in its normal form—without the need to restart the machine.

Enhanced Database

Through user’s reports and research from our development team, Tizer Secure™ has added more than 65,000 new malware signatures to its ever-growing database over the past month.

Improved Detection Quality in Scans

Tizer Secure™ has improved the detection quality of its heuristics and behavioral scans. While Tizer Secure™ does not include operating system files in its scan results, our scan will be able to detect if an attacker has mislabeled a malicious file as an operating system file or as a fictitious or well-known brand name. These impersonator files will be deleted.

Application Hardening

Our developers have also added a new driver that provides application hardening protection to keep viruses from deleting or infecting the Tizer Secure™ registry keys and binaries on the PC. No process will be able to close or delete any of the Tizer Secure™ files, except for Tizer itself.

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Go Tizer! Tizer Secure™ launches with new affiliate marketing program http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2009/10/go-tizer-tizer-secure%e2%84%a2-launches-with-new-affiliate-marketing-program/ http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2009/10/go-tizer-tizer-secure%e2%84%a2-launches-with-new-affiliate-marketing-program/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:34:33 +0000 Admin http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/?p=92

After years of research and development, months of beta testing, and then even more product improvements and updates followed by even more testing and the filing of two technology patent applications, we’re finally ready to put Tizer Secure™ on the market for consumer use. Our good friends and affiliate program managers at Andy Rodriguez Consulting will help us with our official launch.

Joy Valentine, Vice President of X-Wire Technology, and John Moore, Marketing Communications Manager, discuss Tizer Secure™ at Affiliate Summit East in New York in August 2009. (Photo courtesy of Affiliate Summit.)

Joy Valentine, Vice President of X-Wire Technology, and John Moore, Marketing Communications Manager, discuss Tizer Secure™ at Affiliate Summit East in New York in August 2009. (Photo courtesy of Affiliate Summit.)

We met Andy and his team when we participated as a vendor at the Affiliate Summit East 2009 this past August 9-11 in New York City. While there we met a lot of interesting affiliate marketers and affiliate marketing-related companies and we learned a lot about affiliate marketing.

In fact, we learned enough to know that we should let the experts handle our affiliate marketing program. That’s where Andy Rodriguez comes in. We are now a member of the ARC Family of Merchants and offer a host of benefits of joining the Tizer Secure™ Affiliate Program. We have also chosen one of the most trusted and fast growing affiliate networks – ShareASale to launch our product. Go Tizer!

Affiliate Benefits:

$90 Average Order
In-house ShareASale Program
30% Commissions on product license SALES!
60 Day Cookies
Parasite FREE
Microsoft Certified Comprehensive Internet Security Product
Developed and supported by a Microsoft Certified Partner
Patent pending technologies.

Custom Links and Banners created for your site traffic
$5 CABs (Cash Activation Bonus)
Dedicated Program Management by Andy Rodriguez

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We’ve Launched http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2009/06/we%e2%80%99ve-launched/ http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/2009/06/we%e2%80%99ve-launched/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:37:37 +0000 Admin http://www.tizersecure.com/blog/?p=24 Tizer Secure™ Beta released for testing.

Promising to revolutionize the computer security industry, Chapel Hill, NC-based X-Wire Technology has launched the beta version of its new all-in-one internet security solution, Tizer Secure™.

Tizer Secure™ Beta is a robust internet security solution for Windows PC users that offers protection, privacy and performance to Windows PC users. Its robust tools find both verified and unverified malware threats, stop infections at the point of entry, protect privacy, optimize performance and remove hard-to detect rootkits.

Tizer Secure™ Beta is built around the Adaptive Heuristics for Early Detection (AHED) and the Hidden Process Rootkit Detection systems. After Tizer Secure™ scans the computer and compares its files and processes to a database of active malware threats, its AHED scan uses its proprietary algorithm to identify any potentially harmful files, processes and rootkits that are not in the database.

To learn more about Tizer Secure™ Beta, take a look at our press release or download it directly from our site.

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