Archive for March, 2008
« Previous EntriesSurf The Internet Like a Ghost
Monday, March 31st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.When you surf the big ole’ WWW. its possible that your browsing habits and patterns can be accessed by people or organizations that you wouldn’t want to. You leave a trail behind online, such as your IP address, computer name and other data available [...]
Trojan Horse - Greek Myth or Computer Scare Story?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008You may have heard of the term Trojan or Trojan Horse [for this blog, I'll call it a Trojan]. You may wonder what exactly a Trojan is, and what does it do once it has invaded your computer?
Well, a Trojan is a nasty and destructive program that impersonates itself as a safe application. Unlike a virus, [...]
It’s Like a Real-Time Bouncer for Your Computer
Friday, March 28th, 2008I recently came across a great little program that sits in the background, using little resources, monitoring what programs are running on your computer. You are given a lot of information about what is running on your computer and enables you to manage your start-ups, cookies, services and tasks quickly and easily.
Scotty [the icon for [...]
It’s Amazing What You Find When You Actually Use Your Anti-Virus Program
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I use AVG Anti-Virus, there I said it. It works for me. You may disagree, but I’ve used it on and off for over 2 years now. I couldn’t quite get used to Avast and Anti-Vir doesn’t have email scanning, which I find very useful with AVG. Nothing against Avast or Anti-Vir, as they are [...]
9 Free Open Source Alternatives: Part 2
Monday, March 24th, 2008Here is part 2 of 9 Free Open Source Alternatives. The remaining five programs are listed below.
5 - PDF Creator - Alternative to: Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat was the defacto standard in PDF creation. Then, boom, along came quite a few open source PDF creation tools, and no longer have you to pay to create PDF [...]
9 Free Open Source Alternatives: Part 1
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Open source is what the Internet is all about. Programs that are openly available to all to add to, amend and improve on that are freely available to all to use. There are some great open source programs that do the same [if not better] job of some paid for programs. Below is a list [...]
Phorm - They Are Watching & Then Advertising To You!
Friday, March 21st, 2008If you’re based in the UK and you have your Internet connection with Virgin Media, BT or TalkTalk, then your browsing history is being watched, monitored and then sold on. This smacks of privacy invasion to pimp our browsing habits out, without permission, to make even more profits.
The following website http://www.badphorm.co.uk/ has information regarding http://www.phorm.com/ [...]
7 Steps You Must Take to Protect Your Identity
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Below are 7 steps that you must take to protect your identity from being stolen. Identity theft is huge business for fraudsters and organised crime gangs to fund further criminal activity.
1 - Guess what the first step is? Use anti-virus, a firewall, ccleaner, anti-spyware programs and update them regularly. I won’t lecture you on this [...]
9 Ways to Help Protect Your Computer From Viruses
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I cannot claim credit for this as this is actually from Microsoft themselves! It’s helpful for both XP and Vista users. Some of it is common sense and some blatant plugging for some of their products, but overall some helpful anti-virus advice.
Click here for 9 Ways To Protect Your Computer Against Viruses.
Is Firefox Really Better Than Internet Explorer?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008What web browser do you use? There’s a big possibility that it’s Internet Explorer or smaller possibility that it’s Firefox. Why do I suspect that it’s one of the big two browsers? Well, Internet Explorer’s world market share as of Jan 2008 was 67% with Firefox coming in at 16% [I have also seen a [...]
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