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 [...]
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 [...]
Another big security issue for your Windows installation is keeping up with Microsoft’s security patches. You do this via the online “Windows Update” feature of Windows.
As the bad guys (or the good guys working for security companies) discover new ways to exploit the weaknesses in Windows, or the Internet itself, Microsoft figures out ways to [...]
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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