February 28th, 2008
At home I have a computer with no anti-virus or software firewall installed on it. My computer rarely slows down or crashes, and my anti-spyware applications only report Internet cookies as problems. I don’t recommend that anyone go without an anti-virus, anti-spyware, and software firewall installed, but those tools will only work properly if you let them. This article will describe how to work with those tools to keep your computer clean of viruses and spyware.
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How To Keep You Computer Clean Of Viruses And Spyware
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February 22nd, 2008
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Before Internet access became widespread, viruses spread on personal computers by infecting programs or the executable boot sectors of floppy disks. The first worms, network-borne infectious programs, originated not on personal computers, but on multitasking Unix systems. Unlike a virus, this worm did not insert itself into other programs. Instead, it exploited security holes in network server programs and started itself running as a separate process.
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Malware For Profit - Is There Protection?
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January 30th, 2008
More than one user has complained about finding unwanted material on their computer. If you are the only person who uses your computer and you know that you haven’t visited pornographic content websites, it can be very disheartening to find pornography on your computer.
The Internet is filled with information and just about anything you could want to buy or sell is available at your fingertips. Unfortunately, what you may not be interested in buying or selling might be being pushed in your direction because of Spyware. Spyware can be discreetly hidden in your computer files and could arrive by any number of methods not limited to the following:
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Help! Pornography Keeps Mysteriously Appearing On My Computer
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January 27th, 2008
Has your computer been acting strangely lately? About 95% of people who actively surf the internet have computers which are infected by spyware. So what is this and how does it get into your computer system. Spyware is constantly spreading and is infecting lots more computers every single day. So what is it? These programs come in many different shapes and sizes but all have a couple of things in common. It infects your computer while you surf the internet without you even knowing about it, spyware can also gain access to and send your personal information from your computer to other computers without you even knowing, and apart from the fact that it can be very difficult to find, trying to uninstall or disable it successfully can be a mission.
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January 20th, 2008
Internet Cookies -
The main use of cookies is to remember user preferences and customize the user’s browsing experience. When you visit a website, you may be asked to fill out a form providing information, such as name, email address, interests, etc… This information can be packaged as a cookie and stored on your machine by your web browser for later use. The next time you go to the same website, the server can ask the web browser to retrieve information from the cookie. The server can take the information gathered from the cookie to present a custom web browsing experience for you, save passwords and remember your preferences.
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January 18th, 2008
Three Dimensions to Protect Your Computer
By Isaac Chu
Step 1 - Strengthen the defense of your computer
- Install Firewalls
“Firewall” is an isolation technology to separate the internal network and the Internet. The firewall carries out some filtering when two networks communicate. It lets the data/person that you “agree” to enter your network, and also block the data/person you “do not agree” from your network. It can prevent they changes, copy, or destroys your material. To ensure the firewall get into work, you must keep it update.
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January 18th, 2008
E-cards (or electronic greeting cards) have become a popular, convenient and inexpensive method of sending greetings to friends, family and business associates for many computer users. Currently, there are thousands of e-card companies. E-card companies are becoming increasingly creative with many including options to add audio, video or animations to your messages. With e-cards increasing in popularity, they are now being heavily to download spyware and perpetuate Internet fraud on unsuspecting users.
A legitimate looking e-card, once clicked on and/or downloaded could actually contain spyware, spam or a computer virus. Some examples of this include: displays of obscene images, pop-up ads, launching of adult websites or spoofing of your email address to send e-cards to others (making them appear as if they came from you).
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Avoiding Spyware And E-card Fraud - How To Safely Send And Receive E-cards
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