AntiVirus, Firewall, and Antispyware
Turn On Your Browser's Phishing Filter You click on a link in an email that takes you to your bank's website where you enter your password
and account information. Unfortunately, the email and the very convincing looking webpage was a fake.
Your bank account was cleaned out and your identity was stolen. More ... Smart Card Some smart cards contain an embedded microprocessor which can be programed with
applications. Some smart cards have electrical contacts, the microprocessor is
under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. Many cards are contactless
and use radio-frequency to operate. More ... Seven Steps to a Secure Wireless Network The signal of a WiFi network can be picked up by any device within range. This means
that anyone with a laptop in range of your network may be able to connect to it
unless you take precautions. More ... Microsoft Security Essentials Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus program created by Microsoft
for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, that provides protection against
viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans. It replaces Microsoft's subscription-based
Windows Live OneCare. More ... Avoid the Indigestion of Cookies You may have heard of cookies, a cute name for a tiny piece of code that is stored
on your computer when you visit some websites. In most cases, cookies are harmless,
but more aggresive companies use them to track who you are and where you go. This
has obvious privacy concerns. More ... Has Malware Turned Off Your PC's User Account Control? The User Account Control prevents software from installing or changes being made to a PC without
the user's permission. Unfortunately hackers have used Windows bugs and vulnerabilities to turn off
the User Account Control. Use the steps in this article to make sure the User Account Control on
your PC is not turned off. More ... Botnets - What Are They? A botnet is malicious software that takes over a computer and turns it into a zombie and makes
it join a network of other zombie computers under the control of hackers for the purpose of
performing a denial of service (DOS) attack on a website. More ... Top Tips To Secure Your Online PC Most of us use a PC these days, but how many of us are really serious about securing it? Well,
not most of us! They just need to get their job done sitting on the PC and hence look no further.
But they do find themselves in great trouble when the PC crashes, files are corrupted, login
information are stolen or attacked by viruses and malwares. More ... How Many Spyware Items Are Slowing Down Your Computer? Spyware and other forms of malicious software are regularly infecting computers across the
world. Most computers have no, or little, protection from software with the intent to harm.
Most frightening is the frequency at which your computer is being infected without your knowledge. More ... Top Eleven Tips for Safe Computing Probably the greatest threat to the security of your computer system is ... human behavior.
A majority of the viruses, bugs, spyware, spam and other nasties can be avoided or reduced by
modifying our behavior on the Internet. More ... DriveLock Hard Drive Protection DriveLock is a hard disk specification that prevents unauthorized access to the contents
of a hard drive. If DriveLock is enabled, at power-on the BIOS requests the user password. More ... Video - Protect Your Files with Free SafeHouseExplorer Encryption Application SafeHouse Explorer is a file encryption application that is simple to use and is
light weight so its executable can stored on a USB flash drive along with an encrypted
volume, allowing you to access the encrypted files, without administrator privileges,
using your password, on any PC. More ...
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