Prevent drive-by hacking

Another growing threat to your computer – and wider network – comes from so-called hack tools. These are part of a wider range of tools known as ‘riskware’, which are tools that aren’t in themselves malicious, but capable of being used for nefarious ends by hackers. This is a grey area usually ignored by security software because the targets are perfectly legitimate programs that perform useful functionality – for example, Nirsoft’s ProduKey is designed to help you recover Windows and Office product keys from your computer, but because it can also be deployed to pull product