Cracker
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 [...]
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 [...]
Your Security Policy It doesn’t need to be formal, but everybody who wants anxiety free computing needs some kind of Security Policy. Ignorance isn’t bliss when there are so many threats. And the biggest aren’t from the Internet. Let me scare you first and reassure you later. Consider a few common scenarios from my computer [...]
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 [...]
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