This high speed revolution has increased the swiftness of accessibility for unscrupulous hackers to upload private information quickly and easily, through your home internet connection. With the threat of viruses, identity fraud, phishing, spyware and keyloggers, never has it been more important to protect the valuable contents of your home computer. There are many types [...]
In 2010 Internet usage will be bigger than ever.
Social networks like Facebook are exploding. The Swedish teachers union has suggested that “Social Network Knowledge” should be a school subject. What is probably more important knowledge however is the potential security risk associated with social networks.
An emerging trend in 2009 that will certainly grow even more [...]
Find Patches Your System Needs
This issue arises as a new trend in online scan service provided by antivirus software and computer security solution vendors are trending. Can we trust services like this one? This question triggers many other questions along, such as:
- Do we need to make use of a free virus scan? There are [...]
Make a Firewall Usefull
Basically, a network firewall once installed is meant to be effectively working to protect our system. By applying all of it’s list to block packets, programs, and IPs, a firewall will minimize infiltration to over 80% of the time. But this is true only on certain conditions.
When is a firewall effective?
Firewalls should [...]
Although you have the best security tools installed, is your system constantly getting infected by viruses or contracting trojans and worms? The following details is comprehensive and practical to the application to secure your system.
You can protect the system as well as the computer from threats on your security and privacy only by implementing the [...]