Friends Help Friends With New PC’s

It’s Christmas time — a lot of people are purchasing a new computer for their home, sometimes purchasing their first computer, or a computer for their children. Unfortunately, many of these new purchasers don’t know how to protect themselves properly on today’s Internet. That’s where we, as more experienced PC users (of whatever experience level!) [...]

VIPRE HOLIDAY SALE

GFI has two versions of VIPRE — the antivirus/antimalware version VIPRE Antivirus and the antivirus/antimalware + firewall + antispam version, VIPRE Internet Security 2012 (which I use). They’re running a special Holiday Sale from December 12 to December 26, 2011. Get: $25 OFF VIPRE Internet Security 2012 Home Site Licenses $20 OFF VIPRE Antivirus 2012 [...]

VIPRE Internet Security 2012 Review – A First Look

New version of GFI’s VIPRE Antivirus Premium — now called VIPRE Internet Security 2012 — has been released I’ve been using versions of VIPRE since it was first released. Initially, VIPRE Antivirus+Antispyware was the program that grew out of Sunbelt Software’s CounterSpy (which I also used). Then, they combined their firewall product into it to [...]

Setting VIPRE Antivirus Premium’s Firewall to Trust a Network

I answered a question recently that came from mailing list to which I subscribe. The questioner had received a security pop-up from VIPRE Antivirus Premium, the antivirus / antispyware / antiadware / firewall security program that I use and recommend. The popup advised that a computer at a specific IP address was trying to make [...]

Who’s Using My Internet Access?

New subscriber Nelson H. wrote to ask a question about his Internet access: Dear Terry I have adsl2 on my computer and I belive someone is stealing my usage by accesing my connection. I cannot find what program is running on my comp, but my usage is going through the roof even although I am [...]

A Firewall for 64-bit Windows

I received an email asking about a firewall for 64-bit systems. We swapped several emails to discuss this and other Windows problems. Subscriber Karen wrote to ask: I have been reading your newsletters for about a year now and keep waiting for your recommendation for a firewall that works on 64bit systems. Sunbelt does not [...]

Spec’ing Out the New Desktop Computer

So, what did I install in my wife’s new desktop computer? I needed to consider what she was going to do with her computer, which includes some email, web surfing, some photo editing, some graphics, mainly simple things. I could have built her a lot less powerful computer — but the incremental cost was in [...]

VIPRE and a Firewall?

New subscriber Bette Poppe wrote me to ask about VIPRE: Hi, I read your review on VIPRE, I am a home use only computer user, I am thinking about buying this product– do I need firewall too? I have McAfee and do not like it, it really slows down my computer when scanning and downloading [...]