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Today I want to talk a little about the dreaded computer virus. The goal of this article is to teach you, the home user, the fundamental skills needed to help detect, remove, and most importantly prevent viruses from infecting your computer. As the owner of a computer consulting business, I have seen 1st hand how much damage computer viruses can do.
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Computer viruses. How to detect, remove, and prevent them.
Today I want to talk a little about the dreaded computer virus. The goal of this article is to teach you, the home user, the fundamental skills needed to help detect, remove, and most importantly prevent viruses from infecting your computer. As the owner of a computer consulting business, I have seen 1st hand how much damage computer viruses can do.
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Phishing, the worm is off the hook.
You might have heard of the term "Phishing" before no, I am not talking about casting a pole into the lake and relaxing for the day. I am referring to "Phishing" which is a term coined to define tech savy con artists (Phishers) who use email, bogus websites and other techniques to con people into revealing personal information such as credit cards, passwords and user names from the unsuspecting user.
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Wireless security 101
In todays' modern world wireless networks have now become commonplace. With wireless networking you can connect multiple computers together without the need for cables. Wireless networking also allows you to share resources such as printers, Internet and files.
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Hotspot safety. Time to smarten up.
So you go to your local café hotspot, sit down with your trusty laptop and casually order a hearty cup of dark roast coffee. After 30 minutes of checking your email, the weather, and writing your latest blog in MySpace, you decide to call it a day. Unknown to you, the guy at the corner table, the one quietly reading his paper sipping java, has just stole your recently typed user names and passwords, and got a kick out of the angry email you sent to your boyfriend. Luckily he was doing it just to see how easily it could be done, and decides to delete your personal information.
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SSID Broadcasting. Ending the confusion
Today I received a question from a reader who asks; "I have 3 computers within my WLAN, should SSID broadcasting be enabled or disabled?" That's an excellent question and one that is often very misleading. Let me start by stating a simple fact. Disabling your Secure set identifier does not hide your network.
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