Archive for June, 2008
Last Day to Download Hotmail Via Outlook Express
Monday, June 30th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.The 30th June 2008 and the title above says it all and this link to an earlier post I made, will explain it in full.
I still haven’t found an alternative, so I think I’ll just use Hotmail online and slowly change over any [...]
91 Viruses & TeamViewer
Friday, June 27th, 2008
91 viruses! My nephew’s computer recently had 91 viruses on it. It took me over 2 hours to clean the viruses and spyware off. He didn’t have an up to date anti-virus program and he intermittently used an anti-spyware program.
In his defence he is only 14, and as much as he enjoys his Myspace page [...]
British Banks Rule Change Prevents Phishing Fraud
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net
British banks have changed a rule within the banking code to prevent them from paying out to customers that have been victims of Phishing or online bank fraud.
It concerns section 12.13 of the banking code which has been added to state: “Unless you have acted fraudulently or without reasonable care (for example, by not following [...]
Threatfire Gave Me Damp Results
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008I wrote in an earlier post about Threatfire and how it seemed like a useful program to have, in the fight against evil malware attempting to take over the world, my computer.
Well it turns out after using it just under two weeks I am less than impressed by its results. Six suspicious activities blocked and two Malware threats stopped. Wow! [...]
What’s Happening in the World of Phorm?
Monday, June 16th, 2008That intrusion buzzard circling in the sky, or Phorm as it’s more commonly known, has been busy keeping itself out of the headlines recently. BT [British Telecom] has yet to announce when it will [legally] start using Phorm on its customer base.
I said [legally] above as they [not-very-legally] trialled Phorm out last year on around [...]
Credit Card Fraud Strikes Again
Friday, June 13th, 2008British online retailers cottontraders.co.uk were hacked in early 2008 and allegedly [they won't release exact numbers] 38,000 customers credit card details were accessed. Apparently all the data was encrypted and all affected customers were informed of credit card fraud violation.
What this highlights is that buying products over the Internet is as dangerous as buying something [...]
File Conversion Made Free & Easy
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Have you ever wanted to convert one type of file to another? If I had to answer that question, I would say no, but if I think a little longer about it, then I would have to actually answer yes. There have been quite a number of times where I have had to convert a [...]
Threatfire Adds to Your Virus Defences
Sunday, June 8th, 2008I have recently downloaded and installed another anti-virus program to my computer. So now I have two anti-virus programs running side by side. Threatfire [from PC Tools - who make Spyware Doctor] works slightly differently from other anti-virus programs.
Blurb from the Threatfire website: “ThreatFire is dramatically different to traditional antivirus software. Normal antivirus products usually [...]
Keyboard Forever
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008My computer is a hybrid. I mean that in that I built it myself, for less than half the cost of a new one. I built it about 3 years ago, and apart from upgrading to 1GB of RAM and adding in a 500GB hard disk it has done me proud for those 3 years.
The [...]