Computer Security Usefulness
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.I have successfully upgraded to XP Service Pack 3. It took me about 50 minutes to upgrade, including the downloading of the service pack and the rebooting required. So far, I have had no ill effects from the upgrade.
I haven’t noticed an increase [...]
Windows Sysinternals Is a Useful Collection of Utilities
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I came across this handy Microsoft [shock, horror!] utilities website recently and thought it was very handy indeed.
There are many handy tools available from checking your internal system clock, monitoring DLL files in real-time [that has been at the top of my list of things to monitor, sort of, well ok not really, but I [...]
Windows XP Is Pants Say PC Tools
Sunday, May 11th, 2008PC Tools recently conducted a security study of Microsoft’s operating systems and has admitted that XP is less secure than Vista [WTF!] and is even less secure than Windows 2000 [double WTF!].
The link for the findings is here. What amazes me is that XP is less secure than Windows 2000 when XP is supposed to [...]
Five Steps On How To Stop Spam Email
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008How widespread is Spam? According to Vnunet: “Spam email accounted for 96.63% of all email scanned in March 2008, making it the third consecutive month that junk mail levels have remained steady.”
SPAM laws were passed in the USA and UK in 2003, and so far have failed to stop the flow of SPAM messages to [...]
Malware Can Be Popular To Some People
Monday, April 21st, 2008We’re nearly at the end of April 2008, and some utterly unconnected reason I’d like to highlight how two separate companies who deal with Malware infections, class the top 10 Malware threats for March 2008.
In one corner we have Sophos, who have been around for a while and produce many computer security products. In the [...]
Another Handy Tool to Remove Malware
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Do you know exactly what Malware is? Wikipedia describes Malware as follows:
“Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. It is a portmanteau of the words malicious and software. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, [...]
Surf The Internet Like a Ghost
Monday, March 31st, 2008When 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 from your computer. This is true even if your system contains no [...]
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 [...]
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