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01/27/2011

Avoiding Viruses

If you want to avoid viruses, there are three layers of protection you can employ:

1) Make sure your antivirus program is up-to-date and has not expired. It is easy to check. An icon is always present in the system tray located bottom right of your screen near the clock, which you can double click on to check status. If the icon is not showing, you should be worried.

2) Always install critical updates and patches on your Mac or PC. The four updates I recommend you always do on your PC are:

Java -an orange icon that appears in bottom right of your screen near your clock
Adobe Reader- a red square icon that appears in bottom right of your screen near your clock
Adobe Flash- a red box that appears in the center of the screen when you first boot up your PC
Windows - a yellow shield in XP, or a blue/green rectangular icon in Vista or Windows 7

Never update Flash, video codecs, etc from websites such as youtube or facebook. It might be malware masquerading as an update.

3) The most important thing you can do to protect yourself is modify your behavior.

Be skeptical of emails.
Avoid clicking on links. But if you do, be sure the sender really sent you the email. If your friend becomes infected by a virus, or has his/her email account hacked, the virus can send out emails to everyone in their address book.

Don't fall for pop-ups that warn you that you have "multiple virus infections" and click on the pop-up.

Consider a browser filter that scans the website when you input a search and gives you a visual warning if the website is considered dangerous - for example McAfee Site Adviser which is a free download.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

And my personal plea - please don't forward chain emails to all your friends about something important that they must then forward to all their friends. If you think the email is legitimate, verify it first on www.snopes.com Even if it is legit, many people detest receiving these chain emails.

12/15/2010

Mozy online backup service

Mozy online backup is a great way to back up your files to the cloud (off-site) so in the event of a disaster, you will always be able to retrieve your data.

Mozy Home offers unlimited data back up to home users in the US for $5 a month. Mozy Pro is recommended for business users.

The software is simple to install, and includes a setting to back up your data simultaneously to a USB connected external hard drive. So your files will be backed up in two locations.

If you are based in the US, use this link:

http://www.mozy.com/home/?ref=3f9a896b&kbid=56134&m=20&i=87

If you are based in the UK, use this link:

http://www.mybackuponline.co.uk/

06/27/2010

How Safe is Your Password?

This article appeared in Lifehacker. It was written by an Internet standards expert, the CEO of web company called iFusion Labs. He knows all about security - and describes how he'd hack the weak passwords that everyone uses.

http://lifehacker.com/5505400/how-id-hack-your-weak-passwords

06/29/2009

Emails you should be careful about opening

I have been receiving lots of emails recently saying I have been “tagged” or from a client inviting me to join “my life” Please be very careful and think before opening or replying to these types of email.

See this article from the NY Times which explains what these emails are about (you may need to click on “skip the ad” at the top right to go straight to the article).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/technology/internet/20shortcuts.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

03/31/2009

April 1st - the "conficker worm" may strike

CBS's 60 Minutes features a story you may be interested in watching about the menace lurking on the Internet that could affect your PC and maybe your bank account. A new generation of hidden computer viruses and worms are hiding on internet websites and invading the PCs of millions of Americans, threatening to steal financial information or cripple computers with multitudes of spam. Threats like the new worm known as Conficker - which experts say will be given new instructions on April 1 - are worrying security experts, who wage war against the evolving viruses that are often the creation of foreign cyber gangs.

No-one knows for sure what, if anything, Conficker will do.
It would be prudent to make sure your antivirus
has not expired and is up-to-date and you have run the
latest Windows Updates, available at
www.update.microsoft.com

I recommend these antivirus applications:
VIPRE from www.sunbeltsoftware.com and NOD32 (the
antivirus, not the security suite) from www.eset.com

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