One final closing post for my blog-a-thon before it hits midnight here in Central Germany…
If you are looking for a comprehensive, step-by-step plan to improve your computer security, I recommend "The Hacker’s Nightmare" by Bill Hely. Bill is an accomplished computer consultant in Australia. I love his book (it’s the book I would have written [...]
I just came across this blog post by John Taylor, who is also promoting Dr. Mani’s blog-a-thon. John is also a member over at the Internet Marketing Warrior’s Forum and has shared some recent health and heart issues that he has faced. Thankfully he came through them all OK and is using his experience and [...]
We’ve reached the end of my mini blog-a-thon, and as promised (to some, at least), I’m going to make an offer you may not get every day.
For at least the next 24 hours, you can ask any general security-related question you want and I will do my best to answer it. You may leave your [...]
What is spam? Spam is nothing more than unwanted email that you did not request.
As an online marketer, I’d like to make one distinction very clear: if you requested the email, it is not spam, even if you later decide that you do not want it. Let’s take, for example, this website. You can sign [...]
Spyware is simply programs that are installed on your computer without your knowledge or consent. These rogue applications can do anything from display unwanted ads on your computer to downloading additional “junk” to actually recording everything done on your computer for later collection and analysis.
You definitely want to do something about spyware.
There are two things [...]
Real quick: The reason that you can’t rely on the Windows XP / Vista firewall is that it only inspects and blocks / allows traffic as it comes in to your computer. Your firewall software needs to inspect traffic both ways — when it enters your computer as well as when it leaves.
Let’s move on [...]
Let’s continue this mini blog-a-thon by talking about a concept called Defense In Depth. In essence, this is really nothing more than not relying on any one system to protect your computer.
There’s actually a very good reason for this. If one component of your defense mechanism fails, you have a fallback system. Think of it [...]
This post will be short and sweet, so to speak…
This post on Sunbelt Software’s blog talks about the test that I’ve been referring to in the past few blog posts. While their blog is a great resource, it *can* get a bit more technical than the average user needs at times, but since I relied [...]
OK, so you now know about the free version of Avast! anti-virus software. Just how does it stack up?
I’m about to reveal to you one of my favorite sources of computer security information — Sunbelt Software’s blog. I’ve known about Sunbelt Software since 2001 when I was working for a customer that needed patch management, [...]
Here are a few important links regarding this anti-virus software detection capabilities study. I recommend that you take a look at the results to see how your anti-virus software compares. And since I’m not selling any anti-virus software from this blog, I’m not going to make any comparisons between products; I’ll leave that up to [...]