Archive for the 'Adware' Category

Site Blocking

If you allow your kids to go online on their own, use the built-in the windows content blocker. It allows you to specify which sites you do not allow them to access blocking entry with a password or to totally prevent entry to a site by blocking it altogether. There are facilities where you list [...]

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Encryption Technology

This is the main feature of so-called secure web sites that encrypt data for all transactions. This is only necessary when sending information say as you pay your bill, you would notice the browser if you watch closely shift to some other mode which would become evident due to it working a bit slower than [...]

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Anti-Virus Protection

Most anti-virus programs of today come in packages that have different features. It may be the basic anti virus that intercepts or removes viruses before they spread. It may also come with email protection which scans all incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and other malignant programs preventing them from leaving your computer and infecting [...]

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The Human Factor

Still considered to be the largest security threat the world over, human nature defies explanation even with terabyte calculations to predict what people would do and how they would react to stimuli. The internet has suffered a lot mainly due to human error, failure of equipment that was already way past their prime, cables dug [...]

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Information – The Cyber-Criminal’s New Gold Standard

The internet has changed the lives of all people on earth, getting news out faster than traditional media, reaching out to for social functions and many more. It has also become the battle ground between the people who aim to gain information and those who own them, with the people who protect us from such [...]

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Firewalls (Part 2)

Many other filtering can be done to protect computers and even in a home scenario with only a few computers, firewall software would be a good investment but as stated, it comes standard or as add-on options with anti virus software you may already have. Bigger corporations install a firewall appliance which is simply a [...]

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Firewalls (Part 1)

Firewalls are software that prevents intrusion of certain information from entering your computer. A personal firewall protects you from suspicious access from outside such as hacking cases and filtering of addresses that prevents information from sites you block from getting in and bugging you. The name was given for as with a physical firewall, which [...]

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Cookies with no Milk (Part 3)

Ever wonder how your user name and passwords are entered automatically as you go to a site, cookies too, and what about those pop up messages that keep bugging you about something you just searched for, them too. All of these pesky and annoying stuff just because of them, in a never ending battle for [...]

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Cookies with no Milk (Part 2)

The problem is in their nasty ability to record everything you do and then send the information they gather to other people. If you are using windows, set the security settings to medium and you’d be amazed to see just how much of these cookies run as you jump from site to site. Another problem [...]

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Cookies with no Milk (Part 1)

The security risks of cookies are quite hard to fathom but for most of us who simply know them as the type you dunk in milk, loaded with chocolate chips, they really pose a big threat. They have been around for a long time and have allowed internet companies to gather personal information from us [...]

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