This years version of the ‘Antivirus pro’ Trojan virus is even more damaging and harder to clean out than last years!
Antivirus Pro 2010
Is a Trojan (attempts to fool you into letting it through your firewall) type virus installer. It wants you to believe that it is an anti-virus product, but it actually installs a nasty [...]
Your Internet connection device has a hardware firewall – why do you also need a software firewall?
I know of no wireless Internet connecting routers, cable or DSL modems, etc. which don’t have a built-in NAT (Network Address Translation) hardware firewall to protect you from online hackers (proper term “crackers”).
So why do you need to also [...]
If you’ve already suffered a data disaster you probably have “backup religion”.
If not, there’s no time like the present to prevent an inevitable computer nightmare!
I say “inevitable” because the hard disk drive containing your Windows operating system and all your data is guaranteed to fail – sooner or later. It’s a hot, fragile, high precision [...]
One of my computer consulting clients just called to ask if it was safe to install an Adobe Flash Player update from an automatic notice he received. The answer is “yes”, if it looks to be from Adobe and not a fake.
Computer paranoia
Don’t mean to scare you, and I haven’t heard about any such fakes [...]
It’s gonna get hot!
Squeeze 410 Million transistors onto a CPU (Central Processing Unit) chip that’s smaller than a dime and you’ve got some serious heat to deal with. Note that the CPUs above are shown laid out on their production “wafer” – before being cut up into individual “chips”. The latest chip fabs (fabrication facilities [...]
What your firewalls should be doing for a living
If your firewalls are good and configured ideally, your computer should appear to be non-existent to hackers trying to get into it over the Internet. And to repeat from another of my posts, the correct term for an uninvited Internet guest is “cracker”, not “hacker”.
That is, whatever [...]
Continue reading about Is your computer invisible to hackers?
Last time, I promised to look deeper into how to monitor what info your computer might be sending to the Internet when you aren’t using it. That is, whether some program might be phoning home to its evil masters with ill intent.
No easy monitoring – but a good firewall helps
Turns out that outbound communications are [...]
Ever noticed that your computer’s hard drive is working away while you aren’t even using it (you hear it and/or see the LED flashing)? Is something bad going on? Is it infected with malware which is “phoning home”? Should you be worried?
Probably no need to worry, if your anti-virus program and its list of bad [...]
So, the time has come when I must take a “time out” and move the files which are consuming the most space off of my hard drive. It’s spring cleaning time. But exactly which files are those? The rather lame Windows file manager (“Windows Explorer”) won’t tell me.
TreeSize Pro to the rescue! TreeSize is a [...]
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