Protection

Over the past several years the trojan, nuking, pinging, bombing, and all the other Internet attacking methods have increased drastically over the past year.  Hence it is wise and should be a norm to find protection for your PC.  Here Caution Tech. has set up a web page dedicated to protecting your PC from all hacking techniques.  Here Caution Tech. has designed a step by step procedure from most important to least

 

I.  Anti Virus Software
To begin with, every PC should have an Anti Virus program.  Most Anti Virus programs now have the ability to update themselves through the Internet to keep the PC safe from virii.  Caution Tech. suggests all users to either buy or download Norton Anti Virus 5.0 and/or Cybermedia GuaprotectionrdDog 2.0.  These two programs both detect Trojan patches and programs.  Cybermedia GuardDog however has the ability to enable and disable programs to access the Internet before they do.  GuardDog also has many other functions those such as cookie detection and a lot of other Internet Guardian functions.  Refer to the table below for functions of the two programs.
 

Norton Anti Virus 5.0 Cybermedia GuardDog 2.0
Live Update Live Update (Cybermedia Oil Change needed)
Faster Virus Scanner Standard Virus Scanner
Stronger Virus scanner for hard drive
(Larger Virii Encyclopedia)
More protection for Hard Drive (File Guardian, Identity Protection, Cookie Protection, and Password Protection)
Lack of Internet Guardian Powerful Internet Guardian
Standard Virus Application effects Cool sound effects and images

II.  Trojan Scanners
If strange occurrences have been happening to your computer, you have been downloading underground files, or many people have sent you files over the net.  It's just safe to use a Trojan scanner.  Although the virus scanners above have the ability to scan for trojan patches, if you don't have access to these programs it is safe to use smaller programs to find trojan patches in your PC.  There are a lot of Trojan scanners but most are very useless.  Some people get paranoid, thus they download various Trojan scanners for each Trojan Application.  However Caution Tech. has selected the best programs to download to scan and delete trojans.
 

Program Information Download
Cleaner 2.0 Beta This scanner is a 30 Day trial version.  It scans for all trojan patches and asks to deletes them. Download
The Cleaner Scanner is the same as the above but the previous version. Download


III.  Nuke Protection
No one should need nuke protection.  Caution Tech. has not even bothered to set up Downloads for nuke protection.  If you still get nuked get Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 or later.  The reason why people could nuke each other was because of a port error in the Windows 95 and lower systems.  It's also wise to get Windows 98 or the NT 4.0 so that you can keep on updating your Windows system version through Microsoft Online.


IV.  Netbus (Removing the Patch)
If you think that you have the Netbus patch installed in your computer there is the manual method of removing it or the automatic method.  The easy method is to simply download a Trojan scanner listed in the above.  Or you could remove it by going into your system folder.  Here's how to do it this way:

1.  Open your C Drive
2.  Open the folder Windows
3.  Now look for the patch.  The patch's icon will usually be in the form of either a torch or a satellite.  The name may vary though.  The name depends on what you installed it as.

If you think that your getting Netbused now, then quickly press Ctrl-Alt-Del.  This will pop up an application window.  All running applications (exe) are logged here.  So if you find something mysterious then click  End Task.

Tips

1.  After a file download in the Internet always run a Virus check.
2. Netbus's Patch is approximately 494 KB.  So if someone says that it's an Anti Nuke patch or ICQ patch don't accept it.
3.  Don't be curious and open any applications if you aren't sure what it is.
4.  Run Anti-Virus software once a month.
5. Get good back-up software and use it.  If your Hard Drive is messed up it will take months to get it as it was.
6. Get a program such as an Uninstaller.  The best ones are Quarterdeck Cleansweep 4.0, Cybermedia Uninstaller, or Norton Uninstaller 1.0.  You'll need it when you have installing errors or other pains.
7.  Get a program such as Mcafee Safe and Sound which will look at how your system is running
8.  Be Cautious and do not bother trusting anyone

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