Are you safe when you use the wireless network at your local coffee shop or airport? Maybe. Maybe not. Are you accidentally sharing your files on your computer? Is your computer "trusting" connection attempts from the other computers at the hostspot? Reader Sam Boggs wrote to ask: Terry: To improve security when using Wi-Fi at [...]
Wireless Security
First, be sure to connect to the router using an Ethernet cable for your configuration work – otherwise, with the first change, you’ll get locked out. If you are using wireless to login to the router, if you get locked out, you’ll have to wait for the router to time out and close that login. [...]
An Interesting Gmail Problem and What’s Probably Happening
Subscriber Carolyn wrote with a strange Gmail problem. It’s really unusual because Carolyn isn’t using Gmail… Hi Terry I have a peculiar problem that I’m hoping you can help me with. I have a friend in Los Angeles who uses a gmail account (my Email is an Earthlink A/c). I keep getting Emails in my [...]
An Anti-Virus Question
Jennie, one of my friends and readers, wrote to say: Terry, I want to download the NOD32 virus program and wonder if I can download it on my desktop (fast access) and put it on a CD and install it on my laptop. I have been unable to get the fast access to work on [...]
A Look Inside PC Pitstop Optimize 2.0 | PCPitstop Optimize 2.0 Review
Product: Optimize 2.0 Publisher: PC Pitstop License: Commercial software, annual. Licensed for multiple-users on one computer or multiple computers one user Like many of the other downloadable programs that are designed to scan and fix computer problems, Optimize 2.0 from PC Pitstop is a program that can be run on schedule to routinely check for [...]
Advertising and the Web
There is a very popular misconception that the Internet — especially the Web — is free. We get that feeling because most sites are freely open to the public — they don’t require memberships fees or subscriptions fees for you to access the sites. Sometimes, we get that feeling because we pay to access the [...]
Ad-blocking in Sunbelt Personal Firewall
Reader Glenn Bryson wrote to me this week via the to ask: Message: Terry, Thanks for your very helpful advice. On your recommendation, I upgraded to Vipre antivirus and antispyware. Since then, I have a lot of ads blocked with this error statement: “Ad blocked here by SPF” Does this have anything to do with [...]
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