Security Links

Check Computer Security Tools
Here you find various online tools that you can use to do a Check of your own Computer Security. All takes place online and you will have to give out certain information to complete the tests.

Sygate Online Services
The SOS Test - Checks various items in your system. You can choose to do Quick Scan, Trojan Scan, Stealth Scan, TCP Scan, UDP Scan and ICMP scan.

Gibson Research Corporation
Many different Security tests, among them the well-known ShieldsUP!

Symantec's Security Check
Looks very professional but you are forced to download software without explanation. Hardly something that feels good when you are testing security.

Audit my PC
Firewall Test, Spyware remover and Popup blocker test.

Free Removal Tools
Computer already infected with a virus? Here you find tools to remove the viruses

Comany Security Pages
Links to various companies and their respectively security pages.

Microsoft Security Home page
Great resource with security bulletins and virus alerts.

Government

About Identity Theft
Questions about Identity theft, US Federal trade commission

Virus lists

The WildList
Information about viruses that is in the wild.

Independent Anti Virus Tools test

AV-Test.org
A project of the Business-Information-Workgroup at the Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) in cooperation with AV-Test GmbH. In regularly intervals we test anti-virus software on behalf of the producers and for magazines.