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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you surfing safe?
- Ok, you've got a computer, and you get online. You surf your favorite sites, Sports, Shopping, Cowchip Tossing Blogs, and so on. Your kids download songs and IM their friends. But are you being tracked? Is your personal information stored safe on your computer or is it being mined to a geeky looking guy sitting in the dark half a continent away? Do you know for sure you are secure? Many people don...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spyware removal
- Spyware SolutionProbably Today's Biggest Computer Problem. You Suffer Without Knowing Your PC is Infected! "The effects can be devastating...and very costly." "Probably the biggest problem PC User's are experiencing right now."SymptomsPC runs very slowly for no apparent reason. It is difficult to access the Internet. Bandwidth seems to be reduced. Unwanted popup ads and often ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to fight spyware
- If you are wondering how to fight spyware for safe web surfing, this Internet privacy article will answer some of your questions. By now you have probably heard about the dangers of spyware.Spyware has become so common, it has now moved ahead of viruses as the number one danger facing computer users today. But with these safe web surfing tips you can learn how to fight spyware.Anythi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top five spyware fighting tips
- Spyware and adware are becoming major problems for online surfers and PC owners. Some highly respected sources such as AOL, Earthlink and Webroot place the rate of infection at 80-90% of all computers. Granted, some of this percentage is taken up by relatively benign tracking cookies, but other types like keyword logging, system monitors, worms and Trojans present a major threat to your privacy an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Protection for your pc - painless and free!
- Viruses, Bugs, Worms, Dataminers, Spybots, and Trojan horses. The Internet is a veritable minefield of things that can invade your PC and affect it's Security and Performance.You can do something about it and you can do it FREE, using some or all of the following programs and tips.Anti-Virus protection.One of the best Free programs for this is AntiVir Personal Edition Anti-Vir...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - New mass mailing spamming internet trojan for the windows platform
- May. 16th 2005 - MicroWorld has reported the discovery of Troj/Sober-Q, which is a mass mailing spamming internet Trojan for the Windows platform.Some of the spam emails sent by this Trojan takes to respectable German news outlets, such as Spiegel etc., as reported by MicroWorld, which contain articles on:1. "Necessasity of Health Reforms";2. "asylum seekers receive first clas...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to give away your personal information
- Identity Theft and Your Personal Information -------------------------------------------- Identity theft is apparently the "in thing" these days. By media accounts, hackers and evildoers lurk everywhere trying to steal your personal information. In the past few months, one company after another is being forced to admit customer data has been lost or stolen.In many cases, t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to avoid hackers from destroying your site?
- Recently, my site and other internet accounts ( http://www.nabaza.com/sites.htm ) have been hacked maliciously for the purpose of getting all my online sales and transferring it to his/her account. I've learned a valuable lesson that I would like to share with you so as to avoid becoming the next victim for this hacker.Steps to protect your web site:1. Don't give out your username/pa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to clean the spies in your computer?
- Manual Spy Bot Removal > BookedSpaceBookedSpace is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object used to show advertising.Free PC Health Check - find bad files fast! How many corrupt and redundant files are lurking inside your PC ready to cause harmful errors? Find these harmful "time-bomb" files instantly and keep your computer ERROR FREE 24 hours a day!Variants BookedSpace/...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 simple steps to stay safe from spyware
- There are several basic concepts to keep in mind when deciding to stay spyware free for good. This article will outline a spyware checklist for you to keep in mind when getting tough on spyware and taking back control of your computer using two popular free applications, Ad-Aware,and Spybot - S&D. Using these two programs in conjunction will eliminate a vast majority of spyware problems from your ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Computer security
- What is computer security? Computer security is the process of preventing and detecting unauthorized use of your computer. Prevention measures help you to stop unauthorized users (also known as "intruders") from accessing any part of your computer system. Detection helps you to determine whether or not someone attempted to break into your system, if they were successful, and what they may have...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top five online scams
- The top five online scams on the Internet hit nearly ten million people last year according to an FBI report in December 2004. That figure doubled from 2003 to 2004 and people are continuing to fall for these email and identity theft scams.These con artists and hackers are just waiting to commit online fraud and steal your identity. Look carefully at these top five online scams and be aware...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are they watching you online?
- When surfing the Internet you probably take your anonymity for granted, most of us do.Tapping phones, listening to confidential conversations, reading others' e-mail messages seems like something that only happens in spy movies to "other" people.However, you probably don't realize just how much information about yourself has the potential to get transmitted across the Internet every ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Types of computer infections
- Computer infections can be broken up into 4 main categories which are explained in detail below:VirusesComputer Viruses are small pieces of software that attach themselves to real programs. An example would be a virus that attaches itself onto windows explorer. Each time you run the program windows explorer the virus will also be executed and perform the function that it was m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Virus prevention 101
- Blaster, Welchia, Sobig, W32, Backdoor, Trojan, Melissa, Klez, Worm, Loveletter, Nimda? Do these names sound Familiar?Have you been as bothered by viruses this past year as I have? Does it seem like there are more viruses, worms and Trojans out now then ever before? It is only getting worse.For the general public, "virus" has become a catchall term for any unwanted program that sprea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spyware - whos watching who?
- I am in the midst of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." With that attitude, I praise their skills only for the mere sake of not wanting them to defile mine, or my business.I am talking about hackers, crackers, phreakers, and those pesky buggers that throttle our lives daily with Spam, new Trojans, e-mail containing viruses, and worms...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 things you must know about spyware
- 1)Spyware is on your system. Like it or not, statistically speaking, you probably have spyware on your machine right now. There are so many malicious programs floating around out there that one or two have bound to have gotten past all of your security settings. McAfee and Norton Anti Virus are both excellent programs, but even they can be beaten by the determined spyware makers and distributors. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont fall victim to internet fraud-10 tips for safer surfing
- The Internet offers a global marketplace for consumers and businesses. However, criminals also recognize the potential of cyberspace. The same scams that have reached us by telephone and in our mailbox can now be found on the World Wide Web and in email. Organizations such as the National Fraud Information Center have emerged to help people recognize shady schemes in order to prevent further victi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Internet privacy
- Over the past few years as the internet has become more and more popular, privacy has become a major issue. Just as if you are walking down the street and can be watched, every click of your mouse every website you browse, or file you download, is traceable. In recent years this has become a major issue.Spyware: The most currently talked about privacy issue at the moment. Spyware are li...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Road warrior at risk: the dangers of ad-hoc wireless networking
- Airport Menace: The Wireless Peeping Tom ---------------------------------------- As a network security consultant, I travel quite frequently. At times, it seems like the airport is my second home. I actually like to fly, it's a moment in time where no one can reach me by e-mail, or mobile phone.It never fails that something interesting happens to me at the airport. I've even met so...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Secrets on security: a gentle introduction to cryptography
- Let us take the example of scrambling an egg. First, crack the shell, pour the contents into a bowl and beat the contents vigorously until you achieved the needed result - well, a scrambled egg. This action of mixing the molecules of the egg is encryption. Since the molecules are mixed-up, we say the egg has achieved a higher state of entropy (state of randomness). To return the scrambled egg to i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Internet/network security
- Abstract Homogeneous symmetries and congestion control have garnered limited interest from both cryptographers and computational biologists in the last several years [1]. In fact, few steganographers would disagree with the investigation of spreadsheets. Our focus in this work is not on whether write-back caches and evolutionary programming [13] can cooperate to achieve this intent, but rather...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Check out that privacy policy
- Before you enter your name, address or any other data in that form, STOP! Wait. Don't enter anything yet. If you do, you may be giving away personal information to strangers, and you know what your mom said about talking to strangers.Okay, back up a minute. You want to buy a new necklace for your wife at that great dot com you recently found. They require you to fill out a form first - your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spyware, what it is, what it does, and how to stop it
- Spyware is software that runs on a personal computer without the knowledge or consent of the owner of that computer. The Spyware then collects personal information about the user or users of the infected computer. The personal information collected is usually the name of the user; the users email address, Websites visited, online shopping habits, as well as various other information about the user...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spyware protection software
- Spyware protection software is the easiest way of removing spyware from your computer and keeping it away. It detects and removes all pieces of spyware and adware automatically. Spyware is extremely difficult to remove manually and should only be removed with spyware protection software.Spyware protection software is designed to not only get rid of spyware viruses but will shield you and yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Computer viruses and other nasties: how to protect your computer from these invaders
- Can you protect your computer from all possible viruses and other invasions?The quickest answer to this is "no." It's just flat impossible to protect your computer from all viruses, registry attacks, worms, spyware, malware, popups, and other such nasties.That's the bad news.The good news is that you can clean up and protect your computer against almost all of these ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal firewalls for home users
- What is a Firewall?The term "firewall" illustrates a system that protects a network and the machines on them from various types of attack. Firewalls are geared towards keeping the server up all the time and protecting the entire network.The primary goal of a firewall is to implement a desired security policy; controlling access in both directions through the firewall, and to protect ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The move to a new anti-virus model
- This is the second in a series of articles highlighting reasons why we need a new model for anti-virus and security solutions.Reason #1: the Basic ModelAnti-virus software vendors still rely on yesterday's methods for solving today's problems: they wait for the next virus to wreak havoc and then produce a solution. That worked for a long time when a virus would take years to traverse...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Desktop security software risks - part 1
- This is the second in a series of articles highlighting reasons why we need a new model for anti-virus and security solutions.Reason #2: the Desktop Security Software RisksThe risks of placing software on the desktop are such that I will be breaking this article into two parts.Fundamentally we think of having software on our desktops as a good thing. I love downloading or inst...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Burning bridges is bad, but firewalls are good
- When you signed up for that ultra-fast DSL or Cable connection there was probably one very important piece of information that your ISP failed to mention. By accessing the Internet via a high-speed connection, you have tremendously increased your chances of being victimized by a computer hacker.Dial-up may not have seemed like it could have held any advantages, but it actually did have one ...