The awesome How-To Geek had a very good post on lifehacker the other day, which I think worths a post space here spreading the word, loudly.
What he basically claimed in the post was
When it comes to keeping your Windows PC secure, all of the scare tactics and overblown virus stories out there make it
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Whether you want to be a good guy who just wants to protect yourself or a bad guy who wants to insult others, you need to cover your own ass, no matter what, especially when doing things online. That’s how hidemyass.com comes in play.
Hide My Ass! helps hundreds of thousands of people daily by protecting their privacy and identity…
I believe most of people who have been using computer for a certain amount of time have encountered or even suffered this damned never end computer malware, either being a direct victim or being asked to fix it. Finding the better way and the better tool to fight with it seems to have become an…
If you are a fan of using AVG free anti-virus like me, here is a good news for you. AVG now offers its AVG 8.5 Pro edition free, which usually charges for $34US. At least for one year per computer. But, just like the old saying, there is no free lunch in this world. You have to…
I had one colleague whose computer unfortunately got caught by this malware recently. It looks legitimate enough to foul people to have it installed and scanned your computer. But in fact,
Antivirus 360 is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses false scan results and aggressive advertising in order to promote itself. This rogue is advertised by the Vundo Trojan and is
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Nice essay from Microsoft Technet, the revised 3-part series of edition to the first one published in 2000 by Scott Culp.
Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it’s not your computer anymore
Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it’s not…
The three-day PWN to OWN contest at the CanSecWest security conference finished today here in Vancouver. The contest this year includes three laptops, running the most up to date and patched installations of MacOS X Leopard, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu Linux on MacBook Air, Fujitsu U810, and Sony VAIO, respectively.
All of them are survived after day 1 which…
How often does your wireless connection get dropped, if you are using Vista? If you are same as me, facing this kind of annoying problem every day, blame on Vista. It’s one of those Vista-incompatible devices on your network causing this problem, the wireless router in particular.
Vista validates your network connection every time when the computer tries to connect to the…
PCWorld.ca has an article today that tells 7 things your company’s IT department doesn’t want you to know which technically I agree most of them. And it’s true that with so many useful awesome online applications out there it’s nearly impossible for IT department to restrict their employees’ use of work PCs and networks to lock down the system and…
Thanks to LifeHacker for discovering this nice little free tool that will keep all applications running on my computer up-to-date.
Freeware application Secunia Personal Software Inspector is sort of like Windows Update for your installed software, monitoring your installed apps and notifying you of available security updates. When you run your first scan after installing Secunia, you’ll be presented…
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