March, 2009

Removing web cookies found via anti-virus scan

Monday, March 9, 2009

Sometimes after the Anti-Virus scan has run its course you may receive the following message, “Files Cannot be cleaned”

Defender-Pro Anti-Virus is more than likely detecting items called ‘Cookies’ that are embedded in your Internet Browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) and will have to be removed manually.

CLEANING WEB COOKIES

Internet Explorer:
Clean your Web cookies up by deleting them manually. To do that click on Start, Control panel, Network and Internet Connections, Internet Options. On the General tab click on the Settings for Delete browsing history, then click on view files. Delete everything in the Temp internet files.

Mozilla Firefox:
Open up Mozilla Firefox and hit the following keys on your keyboard: CTRL, Shift, Delete This will bring up the Clear private data Window. Select Cookies and then hit the “Clear private data now” button

If you would like to learn more about cookies please see the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Configure the parental control

Friday, March 27, 2009

Configuring the Parental Control:

You will first need to open Defender-Pro in the Advanced View tab. Then, click on the Parental Control module. In the right hand side you will see a list of all the Windows user accounts present on that PC. To change Parental Control settings you need to have administrative privileges. Double click on the user account for which you want to change the settings and the Defender-Parental Control setup window will appear.

The Status page will offer you the ability to enable or disable each Parental Control Module. You can also set a level of tolerance depending on the age of the person you want to limit access to.

There are 5 modules that you can configure:
Web - You can create a list of blocked websites or a list of allowed websites.
- When using the blocked websites list you will have access to all.
- Internet pages except the ones in the list.
- When using the allowed websites you will only have access to those.
- You can use a list of blocked websites provided by Bit Defender.
- To add an item to the list you just need to click on the + (plus) sign, than enter the string.

Applications: - You can block access to certain applications
- To add an item to the list you just need to click on the + (plus) sign and browse to the executable file for that application

Keywords: - You can block websites or e-mails that contain specific words
- To add an item to the list you just need to click on the + (plus) sign, then enter the string
- You can select the protocol that will be filtered by this module by Choosing between HTTP (websites), POP3(e-mails) or Instant Messaging

IM Traffic: - You can deny chat conversations with certain IM contacts
- Click on the + (plus) sign to add a user to the list. You will need to specify which action to take against that user.

Time Limiter: - You can block access to all websites between certain hours.
- Click on the box corresponding to the desired interval in order to block access in that timeframe.