I have an article up on my site that explains email phishing. Today in my email inbox, I received this letter:
Dear PayPal Member,
Your account has been randomly flagged in our system as a part of our routine security measures. This is a must to ensure that only you have access and use […]
I am suprised that this just did not come out earlier. Eliot Spitzer seems to be putting his focus now on Sony. Eliot seems to have been the most vocal about spyware and going after companies for their practices. A couple days ago, he had his team out in […]
In addition to have a good anti spyware tool and an anti virus tool, you really should make sure that you have some type of personal firewall application running on your computer. The personal firewall will prevent remote applications from installing software on your computer. Users of Windows XP will find that they […]
Found something really interesting on the Microsoft web site. They are offering a free scanning tool to check your computer for malicious software. Users who has authentic copies of Microsoft XP, 2000 and 2003 can run the tool for free here.
Something that struck me as funny was after installing the product, my Microsoft […]
Yesterday, I talked about a tricky pop-up. Today, we’ll focus on one of the normal types of pop-up windows. Here is an example:
This example is one of the less tricky ones because sometimes in the text of the add they have something that says “click here to close”. Clicking on it will […]
How many times have you surfed to a website and were thought you were closing out a window but ended up being taken to another website, or have had something start to download on your computer? If you did not have proper spyware protection on your computer, you might not have even known something […]
One thing that we always recommend to users is that they make sure that they have the latest security patches installed on their machine. Microsoft does make it very easy because all you need to do is turn on this feature.
I run Microsoft XP Professional, so to get into the automatic […]
You know I was just thinking that I never wished anyone a happy Thanksgiving today to the readers of this blog. Please accept my apologies and have a happy Thanksgiving and don’t eat too much. I hope everyone was able to spend time with their loved ones.
Have you ever heard the proverb “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? You probably heard that growing up from Mom or Dad when it came to dressing warm in the winter, or not going outside with your hair wet. Well, this proverb has some modern day applications as well […]
I happened to make a purchase online with my credit card a couple of days ago, which was something I have never done with this card. Later on in the day, I received a phone call from the company asking me if I had made a purchase for XX dollars on a certain web […]