Security
It’s happened to my clients – it CAN happen to you! Your computers and all your paperwork are destroyed in an office fire or other computer disaster. What will you do? Even if you’re prepared for a computer disaster, you’ll still have to: Deal with your insurance inspector and claims adjuster Hire a cleanup contractor and [...]
I hope online backup services aren’t your only safety net! Don’t be lulled by a false sense of disaster recovery security By using only a remote backup service like Mozy or Carbonite. If all you care about is disaster recovery for your (smaller than their size limits) personal files, photos and the like, these services can be [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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