While there are general security tips which apply to all operating systems, however, each operating system platform provides its own set of security challenges. The following tips are designed specifically for Microsoft Windows XP.
Disable dangerous features. Microsoft Windows systems come with a number of features enabled by default that introduce significant security risks while doing little or nothing for convenience. These include The Guest Account, Autorun, and even Automatic... Read More....
With computer security on everyone’s mind and the advent of all the viruses, spyware, and other malware on the Internet it is all the average user can do to maintain a secure PC. Here are some Windows Vista security tips.
Check out your protection through Window’s Security Center. This is an all in one monitoring tool that will help you keep track of your antivirus software, automatic updates, and firewall. Window’s Security Center for Window’s Vista has many more security... Read More....
Internet fraud or cyber crime, specifically the method known as “419 fraud” has taken a lot of victims. Today there is another article in the news about a woman who is so blinded by greed that she ultimately lost $ 400,000 from fraud. She was convinced by fake official documents and she parted away with her savings.
By reading this article, you may know what kind of cyber crime “419 fraud” is (also known as Advance Fee Fraud or advance fraud), and you will... Read More....
Windows 7 is supposed to the most secure version of Windows yet.
Windows7 Operating System software is built on top of Windows Vista base code and hence it offers much of the same level of security that Windows Vista offered. However, Windows 7 has added some more new features to operating system security and streamlined the user account control.
The default user account that is created during the installation in Windows 7 is a protected administrator that would only be prompted... Read More....
For those that don’t know, spyware is bad, spyware is really bad. It also has many different names. Like adware, malware, badware, trojans, worms, downloaders, junkware, etc. Whatever you call it it’s bad and you need to know how to get rid of it. The most common method people use to remove spyware is to download some software from Download.com and run that to remove the spyware. This method works ok most of the time but it usually takes much longer than I would ever... Read More....
