Online Privacy Tools

Linux Tails

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:

• use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
  all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
• leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
• use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

https://tails.boum.org/

TOR

What is Tor?

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

https://www.torproject.org/

ProtonMail

Free secure email.  Servers not in the US.

https://protonmail.ch

Truecrypt

Open source file and space encryption software

Currently unavailable due to unresolved security issues discovered.

windows 7 automatic updates wont run, error 8024800A

If you can no longer run automatic updates, and it comes up with an error message 8024800A Windows Update encountered an unknown error follow the steps below to correct -

start cmd (START > RUN > CMD, run as Administrator) and copy and paste the following lines:

REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v SusClientId /f
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /v SusClientIdValidation /f

net stop wuauserv

move %windir%\windowsupdate.log %windir%\windowsupdate.old.log
move %windir%\SoftwareDistribution %windir%\SoftwareDistribution.old

regsvr32 /s atl.dll
regsvr32 /s wucltui.dll
regsvr32 /s wups.dll
regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 /s wuapi.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll
regsvr32 /s mssip32.dll
regsvr32 /s initpki.dll
regsvr32 /s softpub.dll

net start wuauserv

wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow