Let’s say you’re a politician. And let’s say, like most politicians, you have a lot to hide. Not only do you have all those government secrets, like how much pork you packed into that farm bill so your financial backer, Petey’s Fine Pigs ‘n Such, has the funds to study the effects of colon cleansers on low-bellied Australian… Read More »
Did you know you can use a USB flash drive to lock your computer? You can. And unless someone has access to that flash drive, they can’t start or logon to your computer. It will turn any USB flash drive into a key to your computer. So if you want to secure your computer so no one can access… Read More »
For years now, we’ve featured Trend Micro’s “Housecall” as our recommended online virus and spyware scanner. We’ve always encouraged you to run it once a week to double-check your installed anti-virus and anti-spyware programs to make sure they haven’t missed anything. And, we still recommend Housecall as a free online scanner. But, we thought you ought to know… Read More »
Where common sense fails, absurdity sails What “can” you do about the problem with Internet Explorer 9’s SmartScreen filter? Your best choice is never to trust it. As always, your best choice is using common sense and information you can verify – and not a flawed, provably lacking and almost risible “safe surfing” program like Internet Explorer’s SmartScreen.… Read More »
Glenda wants to know how to get rid of AVG How can i get AVG off my computer?? Our answer It appears that more and more once great free antivirus programs are following the bad example set by Norton and McAfee – beginning with turning into security suites first, and apparently now becoming darn near impossible to completely… Read More »
Since we’ve discussed the cloud and its pervasiveness (and it’s still in its infancy really) many times in this newsletter; we want to cover another subject which we’ve written about often in these pages: passwords. We’ve received dozens of emails from people who are really afraid of what the cloud may bring in the way of security breaches… Read More »