Introduction to Cyber Security

Moon Secure Antivirus - Aims to be the best Free Antivirus for Windows under GPL license. It offers multiple scan engines, Net shield, Firewall, On access, on Exec scanner and rootkits preventions plus features from Commercial Antivirus applications. It can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/moonav/

PCTools Antivirus- with PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your PC and personal information. It protects you fromVirus, worm, Trojan and has Smart Updates, IntelliGuard Protection, file guard and email guard. It can be downloaded from http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/

Rising Antivirus – Rising Antivirus Free Edition is a solution with no cost to personal users for the life of the product while still provides the same level of detection and protection capability as RISING Antivirus . It protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use and Smartupdate technology make it an "install and forget" product and entitles you to focus on your own jobs with your computer. It can be downloaded from http://www.freerav.com/

Threatfire Lite – Provides Comprehensive protection against viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers & buffer overflows. And have Real-time behavior-based malware detection, malware quarantine & removal, etc. It can be downloaded from http://www.threatfire.com/download/

ACTIVITY

1. 
   Compare the feature of some of the popular free antiviruses.
   
2. 
   What is the difference between free antivirus and paid antivirus? Is it safe to use free antivirus in your machine?
   
3. 
   Use the guidelines to for generating secure passwords and evaluate whether your current passwords can be considered as safe or unsafe passwords.
   
4. 
   Based on the above guidelines, change your unsafe passwords to safe ones.
   
5. 
   Find out some popular password managers and evaluate them based on their characteristics‟.
   
6. 
   Based on the above comparison, choose one of the best password managers for yourself.
   
7. 
   Create two step verification for your Gmail account.
   
8. 
   Find out how many sites, other than Gmail provide two steps verification.