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February 2, 2010
Valentine's Day: How to Send and Receive e-Cards
Safely
Anti-Virus software
provider AVG just posted a timely Valentines Day caution
. Here's their message -
"With Valentine's Day just a few heart beats away,
millions of
e-cards and messages will be flying through
the Internet. But these low cost, eco-friendly
expressions of affection can expose your home computer
to security threats.
Internet security software distributor AVG (AU/NZ) warns
that criminals are using this increasingly popular
medium to deliver viruses and other malware to the
computers of their unsuspecting victims. Because risky
e-cards are typically made to look like they have been
sent from a trusted friend, they fool the recipient into
opening them".
Lloyd Borrett, Marketing Manager of AVG (AU/NZ), said.
"Most people will automatically open an e-card if it's
from a friend or colleague. To protect yourself from
unwanted attention from cyberspace be very careful what
e-cards you open and what you forward on."
"While receiving an anonymous card from a Valentine can
be exciting, opening an anonymous email with 'I Love
You' in the subject line could be courting disaster.
Don't let some nasty piece of malware worm its way into
the heart of your computer."
Only a tiny percentage of e-greetings will contain a
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January 30, 2010
Protecting yourself from "Net Threats"
Just
about everything we do these days seems to involve
the computer and the Internet. Our mails, family
contacts, children's pictures, flight reservations,
medical records, work documents, and financial
records have found their way into the world wide web
of information.
Making our lives easier through the use of the Internet has also
made us more vulnerable to the miscreants, racketeers,
and cyber-criminals of the world.
Identity Theft and Harrassment are some of felonies and misdemeanors that
any Internet user could be a victim of. Now more than
ever, we need to protect ourselves and our family from
these potential attacks. Here are some tips for your
Internet security.
None of this should really be new - and probably
isn't if you have made any attempt at all to protect
your computer - and family. But these are good
reminders, anyway.
1. Knowledge is power.
Learn as much as you can about the Internet. Books, magazines and,
of course, the Internet offer a lot of information about
Internet security through websites like this one.
Try to learn about basic computer Internet security like firewall,
anti-spyware, privacy policies, etc. Don’t fret if you
can’t understand them thoroughly. As you come across
more articles, you’ll gain a greater
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January 23, 2010
Do
You Know How to Recover from a Software Crash?
We
have a lot of software on our computers today. Everyone should
know how to take care of their computer as well as manage the
hidden dangers and avoid the risks of a crash.
Understanding the meaning of these terms will help
understand this post.
1. Crash - When a program or your entire computer stops
working and
you cannot move the mouse or use the keyboard, and
the screen is
frozen.
2. Reboot - When you restart your computer after a crash.
3. Control Panel - A feature of Windows that will give you
access to
system utilities and settings.
OK, so what should you do first if your computer crashes?
 Try to STOP
and do nothing for a few
minutes. Often, the computer is trying to do your
commands and might just need a little more time to
complete them.
Pressing more keys could add to the computer's
problems, maybe even forcing a crash.
Check your connections for the keyboard and make sure the
pins are not bent. Maybe there is a jammed key on the
keyboard, maybe some liquid has spilled. Check the
computer connections as well.
Also, the mouse may just
be dirty and need the inner ball that rolls cleaned with
soapy water. Dry it and remove any dust in the mouse
body itself and replace the mouse roller ball.
Be sure to check the batteries in your keyboard and mouse if
they connect to your computer by wireless.
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January 8, 2010
Are
you responding to out-of-date security advice?
InfoWorld's
Security Advisor, Roger Grimes, in his Security Central
December 28th 2009 post points out why yesterday's
advice won't protect users from today's worms, viruses,
and scams
"Yesterday's advice" is still valid - Don't click on
links in emails from strangers, Keep you Operating
systems up to date, have current antivirus and firewalls
software, etc.
But Mr. Grimes points out that this advice falls short
because it does not teach web surfers that they are
likely to be infected by Web sites they trust and visit
every day.
- Further, it does not tell them that the majority of the malware threats
they will be exposed to is from very official-looking
Web warnings that trick them into installing software
they shouldn't.
- Does not tell them that malware purveyors often break into legitimate
Web sites, which then launch malware attacks on innocent
visitors using inserted JavaScript.
- Does not tell them that official patches don't come in e-mail.
- Does not demonstrate how to distinguish between a fake anti-virus
warning and a real one.
- Does not tell them that they can be infected by Adobe PDF, Microsoft
Office, and Macromedia Flash graphic files.
- Does not tell them about spearphishing, where the phishing attacker
knows their name and the e-mail appears to come from
someone inside the company and references a product or
group the user is involved in.
- Does not tell them that the top search results from their favorite
search engine often brings back legitimate-looking, but
very malicious Web sites.
We can't agree more with this, and even if we've heard
it all before, there's a lot of good to be said for
presenting these reminders.
... Richard
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January 1, 2010
Greeting and Best Wishes for the New Year
I hope it will be a
better year for all of us - better health, greater
prosperity, and an all around safer and more secure
world...
... and not just for those of us who enjoy the
privileges and the freedom we have as citizens of the
United States of America and other areas of the Free
world,
... but also for all of the citizens of the world who are
ruled in tyranny, who may lack habitable shelter,
healthy and sustaining food, disease free water,
opportunities to be educated and better themselves, a
chance to live as free human beings.
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Here's the latest word I found on Free Anti-virus software. It's
the result of tests reported by Charles P. Jefferies,
NotebookReview.com Contributor on four free products.
They report all are good, and rank them as follows.
Avast,
Microsoft Security Essentials(*),
AVG(*), and Avira
I use two of them(*) on my computers and am absolutely satisfied with
their performance.
... Richard
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Evergreen
Free report -
"Avoiding Current Security Threats"
There are still some unresolved issues with the
Conficker worm and Cyber criminals are flooding the
Internet with bogus "Anti Virus and Anti Spyware"
programs designed to steal your personal information,
add your computers to world wide "botnets", and generally
prey on unsuspecting web surfers with unprotected
computers.
But you can take steps to avoid these security threats,
and I have outlined them in a special report you can have
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Free.
This report is an update and a bit of an overview of the
information published in my newsletters, blog and
websites.
It covers the basics of what to look for and
how to prepare your computer to avoid the next high risk
threat. It's a quick download (PDF file) which you
can obtain by going to the registration page and leaving
your email address so that the download instructions can
be sent to your email inbox.
Get Free Report here and share this web address with
your friends so the emails you get from them are clean
and free of malware.
http://www.richardpresents.com/avoid-threat-registration.html
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Update your Emergency Virus Protection program
 If
you don't have your Virus Protection program yet, here's an
Emergency Step you should take,
Right Now!
McAfee offers a FREE Virus Scanning program named
STINGER.
It has grown in size a little over the past few years and no longer fits on a single floppy Disk.
But so many of the newer PCs, including lap tops don't have a "A" floppy
drive anyway, you should burn it to a CD or memory stick for an offline back up tool.
You can use it as we do, to check
any of your PC computers for viruses, without being on line.
It is an 'After the Fact' application, which means that it does not scan
incoming email files, attachments or downloads, but it does scan whatever
you have already received online.
It currently checks, and repairs over 200 recent viruses. It's FREE
to download from
McAfee
STINGER
Stinger
- Click
for Latest Version
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