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Author :: Vinay Rana  |
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| Article Title :: How to Prevent Your Computer from Virus and Spyware Attack |
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| What is a computer virus?Virus is a harmful program which when runs on a computer may alter the information, files and damage data stored in it.How a computer gets infected from virus?1. From Infected Floppy Disk2. From infected files downloaded from website.3. From infected files from a infected CD4. From infected E-mail attachment.5. From running an unknown program or code on your computer.What precautions or measures we can take to prevent virus from entering into our computer?1. We should only use floppies that are from known source and are properly scanned from an anti-virus.2. We can install a good firewall on our (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Marilee Veniegas |
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| Article Title :: Filling in the Data Leaks (Protecting your Personal Stuff) |
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| Living Digitized
The electronic flow of data permeates the fibers of every business. Try to make a transaction without accessing the binary realm - bets are that even the cash register used to ring your favorite morning beverage is accessing electronic data. Today, business survival and success depends on immediate connectivity and data communication.Living in a digitized world has altered modes of business communication as well. Shooting a quick email off with a pricing quote or sending an answer to a email query are just as commonplace as a client call. Email has evolved into the standard mass communications tool, whether it be message communications or as a docum (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Ted Marlett |
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| Article Title :: My Violent Life |
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| What, you say! My life is not and has not been violent. I am a peace loving person and would not even hurt a fly. What happens when that fly decides to hurt your? Violence in neighborhoods is still rampant and you live close by. People get robbed, raped, and beat upon on a regular basis going from work to home or home to stores or just traveling on what they would think is a safe street.Many of us, fortunately, have learned ways of avoiding attacks and the violent subculture that thrives in and around our lives. What about those of us who cannot sidestep this problem? We have always had to learn to defend ourselves the best way we can, physically or emotionally.There (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: John Geiger |
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| Article Title :: Worms, Horses, Bugs and Thugs |
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| “A determined hacker is hard to stop. But those malevolent crackers would rather walk through an open door than pick a lock” writes Michael Fitzgerald of Extreme Tech.With all of the viruses, worms, trojan horses, and other new phenomenon called by old words running rampant, how do we provide a little peace of mind for ourselves and our workplaces? Like locking our house, stopping the mail, or adding a security system to our home or automobile, there are some simple things we can do to make it less attractive or at least less obvious to be the next target of these malicious acts. Most of the following preventative measures are free or of little monetary expense and simple to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: D. David Dugan |
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| Article Title :: Spyware & Adware: The Only Way To Really Stop It, And It's FREE! |
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| The net is full of software packages to prevent, clean and remove Spyware & Adware from you PC. Most of these packages cost a substantial amount of money to purchase and keep up to date. If you're anything like me, the last thing you need is another monthly subscription to pay.So what to do then? Top sources all agree that Spyware & Adware are some of the leading causes of computer problems today, and they are right. An infected computer can become almost useless. Often times it is near impossible to remove all traces of the infection short of reinstalling your operating system again.Subscription services and software packages are only one layer of defense against Spyware & (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Andrew Pena |
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| Article Title :: What is a Virus and Spyware and What's the Difference? |
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| I know you've heard the terms Virus and Spyware. These terms are always on the internet and in the news. "But what are they", you ask? Not only is it very difficult to give you a definition in plain English but both act very similarly.Here's what you should know about Viruses and Spyware.1- It doesn't matter which you have, both are very bad! Both Viruses and Spyware can do great harm to your computer. Things like: destroy important data on your PC, create physical problems with your computer, steal bank account information (like passwords,credentials, etc...), steal other personal info (like credit card info). DOES THIS SOUND VERY SCARY AND BE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN? YOU BET! (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: D Crenshaw |
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| Article Title :: A Market For Lemons - The Economic Price of Internet Retail Fraud |
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| "The Market For Lemons" was an economics paper written by George Akerlof. It is useful today for explaining why individual "bad apples" can decrease profitability for online businesses and how they may ultimately destroy entire markets. To start, let's find out a little background about "The Market For Lemons." First off, a "lemon" by definition is a product that looks decent enough, but at its heart is a sour-tasting, piece of junk. They are most commonly referred to in car markets, but lemons can also apply to many other kinds of goods such as web and information products. Now back in the sixties, George Akerlof started thinking about lemons while he was an assistant professor at B (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Matthew Eigbe |
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| Article Title :: How To Identify Scams On The Internet |
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| Look before you leapWhat is the one thing that an Internet scam aims to do?
Simple answer: separate you from your money.
Solution: look carefully at any offer to help you to earn money
that requires you to pay the company anything at all that
seems excessive.Paying for value received is one thing, paying for the benefit
of being able to sell someone else's products is a benefit only
to the company. It is also a warning to be careful.That does not mean that all companies asking you to
pay something for membership, services or products are
scams. It does mean that you should check carefully.Costly experience teaches lessonThis advice comes (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Pinky Mcbanon |
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| Article Title :: 10 Smart Ways to Protect Your Computer against Viruses |
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| Virus infection on your computer may cause a very serious damage and even loss on your business. You can just imagine it may wreck your system registry or your entire computer (with all your receivables data on it!) or all your HTML programs! It will come to total black out screen, it will not boot at all. But that is actually the worse scenario that may happen. Are you going to wait for this worse scenario in your life to happen? I guess NOT, right?Here are the 10 smart ways that I personally do to protect my computers against viruses, malicious dialers and spywares.(1)If you are using Windows XP, always turn on the firewall.(2)Always run all necessary latest updates (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Bob Rankin |
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| Article Title :: Clearing Browser History |
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| Cleanup in Aisle 451Well, that depends on which list you mean. There are several crumb trails that can reveal your web whereabouts to others who might be snooping around your computer. Let's look at some ways to clear your digital tracks with the most popular browsers.First, there's the address box (up near the top of the screen), where you type in web addresses (URLs) of sites that you want to visit. Those addresses accumulate in the dropdown box that you can access with the little down-arrow on the right of the address box, and some of them will display below the address bar as you enter URLs. This can be very handy or very embarrassing, depending on who's watching over yo (read full article) |
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