Monthly Archives: March 2009
Don’t Open a Can of Worms! – Get the New Improved WOT
Regular readers of this site are well aware that for the last year or more, I have written extensively about WOT, Web of Trust. What is WOT? WOT is a free Internet Browser resource that has established an impressive 4.5/5.0 … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Security Alerts – March 31, 2009
Conficker – the truth about April 1st – There has been a lot of panic spread about what the Conficker worm might do on April 1st. Find out the truth behind the headlines. Conficker – The Paris Hilton of Botnets … Continue reading
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Tech Thoughts Daily Security Alerts – March 30, 2009
German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough – With the help of Dan Kaminsky and Rich Mogull, off-the-shelf network scanning vendors have the ability remotely (and anonymously) detect Conficker infections. Controlled cloud the way to go for security – Enterprise security … Continue reading
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Disable Avira Notifier
I recently downloaded Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus as my primary antivirus program. I had been using version 8.2. Recently my favorite security tech guru – Bill Mullins, advised me that version 9 is now ready for download. I … Continue reading
Spyware Terminator v2.5
It must be upgrade week for the arsenal of antivirus/malware/spyware software that I use. Spyware Terminator v2.5 is now available for download (free). It has some nice features that were not previously available on v2.3 (the last version I had … Continue reading
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When Internet Security NEWS isn’t!
Across the globe this morning, the news has been released that a “vast electronic spying operation dubbed GhostNet”, has been discovered by researchers at the University of Toronto. Major newspapers, worldwide, have reported on this story as a sampling of … Continue reading
Uninstalling and Installing AntiVirus Software…
Antivirus software are complex programs designed to identify, neutralize or eliminate malicious content that invade your computer. Many people over a period of time will change from one brand of antivirus software to another. Antivirus software is big business and … Continue reading
Tech Thoughts Daily Security Alerts – March 28, 2009
Don’t get taken in by the Conficker panic – Lately it seems everybody is talking about Conficker and its variants. And much more so if we have to take into account the build up fear around April 1st. The Nabload.DLU … Continue reading
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Tech Thoughts Daily Security Alerts – March 27, 2009
Beware Conficker worm come April 1 – In an event that hits the computer world only once every few years, security experts are racing against time to mitigate the impact of a bit of malware which is set to wreak … Continue reading
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Tweak Windows to the Max with Fresh UI Free!
Has Fresh UI (User Interface), been around forever, or does it just seem that way? One of the oldest and most well established free Windows tweaking applications, Freshdevices’ Fresh UI is a powerful tool that allows you to configure and … Continue reading
