Terry's Computer Tips - Newsletter
March 19, 2006

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Volume 1, Number 40 — Sunday, March 19, 2006

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7.  National Webcast Initiative - Archive Update - Identity Theft

The National Webcast Initiative's site has now been updated with the files from the February 16th webcast "Identify Theft - The crime that keeps on Taking." This webcast archive is available at http://www.cscic.state.ny.us/msisac/webcasts/02_06/.

This series of webcasts and the archives are sponsored by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

You can view the presentation's PowerPoint files, view the recording (uses Microsoft LiveMeeting, which will be installed if necessary), and more resources.

If you don't have PowerPoint, download and install the free office suite OpenOffice.org (www.openoffice.org) or download the free PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft (www.microsoft.com).

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8.  My Software Choices

In my security software recommendations article each week, I write about the alternatives that I recommend, including both individual programs for individual security functions and packages that address multiple functions.

Unfortunately, this makes it a long, long article each week. Hopefully, this will give you a clearer idea of what I prefer.

These are my personal choices — the ones I use on my primary computer (my notebook) and on my wife's computer — are:

• Firewall: Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall, from Sunbelt Software (commercial software, free for personal use, free trial)
• Anti-virus: NOD32 anti-threat system from ESET (commercial software, free trial)
• Anti-spyware/anti-adware: CounterSpy, also from Sunbelt Software (commercial software, free trial)
• Anti-spam: PopFile, more than anti-spam, it is an email classification system (free software)
• Backup: Replicator, from KarenWare (read more in my article about backing up my data files) (free for personal use)

Time is running out on Sunbelt's introductory price of $14.95 for
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall. This intro price ends on March 31st!

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Volume 1, Number 40 — Sunday, March 19, 2006
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Copyright © 2006 Terry A. Stockdale.  All rights reserved.