Archive for 'Secure Life' Category
Spyware: An Internet Plague
21 December 2008As spyware threats continue to grow the methods by which users are infected becomes less and less difficult. It no longer takes physical access to a computer nor do users have to click on an ad or email attachment to install the malicious applications. Spyware can easily be picked up by visiting a […]
Simple Steps To Protect Your Personal Information From Hackers
14 October 2008The Internet is an unlimited sea of information. The user can find information about virtually everything, tangible and intangible, on the web. But, in the cyber world, while users browse various resources for information, there are other unscrupulous blokes who secretly access the personal information of others without their knowledge. Such people who clandestinely breach […]
How Did This Happen to Me? Top 10 Ways to Get Spyware or Viruses on Your Computer
13 October 2008If you use the internet, you have probably been infected with a virus, trojan or spyware. According to the SANS Internet Storm Center, the average unprotected PC is infected within 20 minutes of normal internet usage. Many people want to know what they did to get infected. Unfortunately, usually it was just one wrong click.
Here […]
Three Easy Steps to Help Protect Your Home
11 October 2008Back in the day “my other life” as I called it, the restaurant business was how I made my living. It didn’t take too long to learn there were only three groups of people trying to steal from you: employees, customers and suppliers.
As far as employees were concerned, being the nave bumpkin, I thought they […]