Who is vulnerable? Any machine on the Internet can be reached by another machine on the Internet, unless it’s protected by software or hardware designed to control that access. Whether your connection is by dialup, ISDN, cable modem, T1, or ADSL, you can be attacked over the Internet. Broadband connections tend to keep the same [...]
An Unanswerable Question – It Doesn’t Work
I like to receive questions from subscribers — it’s fun to figure out the answer, it helps them, and it gives me an easy way to write newsletter articles. As anyone who has ever written a newsletter can tell you, the hardest thing about writing the newsletter is coming up with the topics for the [...]
A Quick Look at ESET Smart Security 4 Suite
I’ve been using ESET’s Smart Security 4.0 on my main notebook for a couple of days. Regular readers will know that, although I have a couple desktop computers and a Dell Mini-10 netbook, my 5-year-old Dell Inspiron 8600 continues to be my main workhorse. I have’t given up on Sunbelt VIPRE Antivirus+Antispyware, Sunbelt Personal Firewall [...]
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 at the Windows XP Security Center
It’s been a long time since I looked at the Security Center in Windows XP, so I decided to take a stroll through it today. How do you get to the Security Center? Take a click on Start, then onto Control Panel, then the first click on the right (bottom of the category view) is [...]
A Look at ESET Smart Security 4 | ESET Smart Security 4 Review
A number of my subscribers have asked me which security suite I would recommend. As I discuss in my "My Computer Security Software Recommendations" article in each newsletter, my own preference is to use the individual security products (antivirus/antispyware, firewall, antispam) that I think serve me best. However, I know that a number of people [...]
Adware Ties into Internet Explorer
I received a query from a reader about a warning message he was receiving: Hi Terry , I was wondering if perhaps you can help me , I have this very annoying adware that occurs EVERYTIME at startup …. not-a-virus:Adware.Win32.BHO.cr Now althugh this doesn’t appeato be causing any problem on my PC and I get [...]
Adware Popups Problem
Subscriber Sheikh Sarwar wrote to ask: When I start pc, lot of popups, programs start showing up. I have to close one by one. Need help in how to (a) stop this messup (b) close all open windows in one shot. Thanks, Sheikh Sarwar I wrote back to advise Sheikh that it sounded like an [...]
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