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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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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Comments(0) 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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Today is a bad day for us to browse the internet unarmed with knowledge. That is because hackers have found a new place to burn. YouTube. Some of the videos in Youtube contain links to malicious pages, or links that makes you download a malware, that allows hackers to save your keystrokes, [...]
To clean up your personal information after accessing the Internet through computers that are not your own, simply delete them. Go to the Tools menu of your Internet browser and select Options for Firefox or Internet Options for Internet Explorer. In IE, click Delete under Browsing History in the General Tab and individually delete temporary [...]
Read More..>>When your work does not need any link to the internet or office network, you can try disconnecting it by disabling the network card or through some other means. Any Trojans or viruses that aim to steal information cannot defeat hardware constraints such as a pulled network cable. When using remote terminals or accessing the [...]
Read More..>>The price we have to pay for privacy is great when were talking about getting charged illegally with respect to your credit card due to information leaked from an online transaction. True, many online transactions are protected by security through secure lines and all but there are still some that get through and get on [...]
Read More..>>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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