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The Top Twelve Threats No Computer User Should Ignore by Kai

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

The Top Twelve Threats No Computer User Should Ignore The internet is undoubtedly a fantastic resource for families and offers a rich vein of educational content. However, there are potential dangers - welcome to the seedy world of viruses, spam, trojans, pornography, spyware and other nasties. Here are the Top Twelve Threats No Computer User Should Ignore: 1. Viruses - A computer program that copies itself. They often disrupt your computer system or damage your data. Viruses are usually ...
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How Parental Controls In Windows Can Help Keep Your Kids Safe

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

When we think about security on the computer, we always think about black hat hackers on the internet trying to get into our system or someone war driving in a car right outside of our window. We never think about the simple things that can cause chaos on our computers. These simple things can include visiting the wrong web site. This happens a lot when we let our children use our computers. Most children do not know enough about the computer to practice what you would call safe computing. They ...
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Gone Phishing

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Gone Phishing' Phishing, the practice of luring unsuspecting victims to disclose sensitive information online, usually through harmless appearing e-mails, has quickly become the fastest-growing security threat to Internet users. The following tips can help you keep from taking the bait from online phishing scams. An unsolicited email could be a phishing scam if it: Doesn't address you by your full name; asks you to provide personal or financial information, such as your bank or credit card ...
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How to Get Rid of IronDefender Virus? Eliminate and Remove IronDefender Fake Antivirus Completely

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

How to Get Rid of IronDefender Virus? Eliminate and Remove IronDefender Fake Antivirus Completely IronDefender Antivirus is not a legitimate and Real Antispyware Program but itself a spyware, more precisely a new kind of rogue antispyware program from the same family of System Armor. The only difference being the core files are modified a little bit and the name is changed to hide it's detection by legitimate Antivirus programs installed on your PC. This program is distributed with the help of ...
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Online parental settings

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

It is always the duty of the parents to provide the best education to their children. Amidst this, if they find that their kids are misutilising their free time and surfing banned sites, that becomes a grave issue. This is where online parental settings become useful. Through the online parental settings, a parent can control the content which their kids view on the internet.   Online parental settings are tools which are optional in televisions, computer games, videos, softwares and mobiles. ...
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Regulate the Internet!

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

With the advent of Web 2.0 and UGC (User-generated Content), the Internet has completed its transformation into an anarchic and lawless ochlocracy (mob-rule). The Internet is a mass medium and like all media it must be regulated. The laws that apply offline must and, in due time, as legislators are exposed to the less savory aspects of the Web, will apply online. Inevitably, the legal situation varies across countries and continents. Internet penetration has reached different levels at ...
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Spyware Awareness in Today's environment.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Computer users are quickly learning of the newest and most widespread threat facing internet use. Spyware has spread to more than 90 percent of computers surprising users who are unaware of the threats and forcing them to find a solution to the privacy invasions. Spyware programs run on users' computer without their knowledge. They monitor and record the web sites you visit, purchases you make, outgoing and incoming emails, chat messages and some types of spyware are capable of logging your ...
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Working on the Internet

Friday, September 17th, 2010

When one is in a creative state, rarely can one also be in a detail state. Thus, mistakes in correct grammar, spelling and continuity of all details, may happen. Also, proofreading our own work can be very difficult, for all of us. This is because the same mental processes that went into composition are the ones we use to correct our work. Hence, so many websites are launched every year but so many of them fail to work perfectly as these sites have not been tested with a Proofreader's ...
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Regain Internet Privacy from Spyware

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

The majority of computers connected to the internet today are infected with some sort of spyware. The prevalence of internet use has made the growth of spybot, adware, spyware, Trojans, keyloggers and other malware fast and easy. Each form of surveillance software invades users' privacy through numerous methods so they can gather information about people's internet and computer activities. Users must learn to deny spyware access or remove any current infestations in order to maintain a private ...
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Options For Parental Control Filter

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Computer has become an almost inseparable part of our lives. Today even the children are getting introduced to computer at a very young age. But as they do not know what is right and what is wrong they often become the victim of cyber crime. Therefore, setting parental control on computer has become quite essential. It has become quite necessary especially for the parents who are working and have to leave their children behind home. There are number of parental control filters are available in ...
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Predators in Cyberland - How to Protect Your Chilren from Internet Predators.

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Most people would agree the internet is a fun and convenient resource to make new friends and learn new things. As technology advances so does the accessibility of the internet. People can now surf the internet via cell phones, laptop computers, and palm pilots. The internet is everywhere from Libraries, internet cafes, and school campuses across America. While the internet has made it easier to shop, communicate, and research it has also made the world much more complex from a technical ...
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Childproofing Your Home 12 Safety Devices To Protect Your Children

Friday, September 10th, 2010

About 2-1/2 million children are injured or killed by hazards in the home each year. The good news is that many of these incidents can be prevented - by using simple child safety devices on the market today. Any safety device you buy should be sturdy enough to prevent injury to your child, yet easy for you to use. It's important to follow installation instructions carefully. In addition, if you have older children in the house, be sure they re-secure safety devices. Remember, too, that no ...
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Is Your Computer Slow and Sluggish? Take These Steps To Speed It

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Does your computer run as quickly and efficiently as it did when you first got it? Chances are, if you're like a lot of other folks out there, probably not. So what, if anything, can be done about it? Well, I've got some good news for you. Many of the methods you can use to restore most, if not all of your computer's original speed are basic, easy to do and, for the most part, free. Follow these basic steps and see if you don't notice a huge improvement in performance: 1) Download (and then ...
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The Usage of Webroot Parental Control Tool

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

The Webroot is a parental control tool  and is also easy-to-use. It has many features that are directed towards blocking the undesirable sites, take control on the games that are used by your child. If you know about the features in details then it will be easy for you to restrict your child's online browsing. The special Features of Webroot Parental Control Tool The tool is specially crafted to manage the Internet usage of your child and the games they are playing online. The Internet ...
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Google AdSense Fraud

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

It's worthwhile to examine Google's definition of Google AdSense and Click Fraud , before delving deeper into "AdSense Fraud" . Google AdSense fraud is one of the diseases that plague the Ad Words advertisers. The AdSense program essentially allows website publishers/owners to sign up with Google, enabling them to display Google Ads on their sites. These publishers essentially act as "Google Partners". The ads chosen by the Google bot for display are contextual and the ads are related to the ...
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What Is VIPRE Antivirus Premium? The Fastest Next-Generation Anti-Malware Software!

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

What's New In The Premium version? We have kept all the strong points of VIPRE antivirus + antispyware and we added a leading edge, super low-overhead 2-way firewall that supports all Windows flavors and works both on 32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It's so small you won't notice it is running. To make sure your PC is fully protected from malware, we also added Intrusion Prevention, malicious link filtering and much more. This antivirus program is all you need for your PC ...
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Parental Control Programs for Safer Internet Use

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

There are many hundreds of ways that children may be exploited online by unscrupulous individuals and organized groups. Deep concerns recently are that certain websites use a system of 'typosquatting', which is a method of targeting words that are misspelled to capture searches toward a particular direction. Children represent a large target group and many are directed toward pornographic content and websites that deliver  violent and x-rated content. Language used on inappropriate websites ...
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How to Assemble a Sufficient Computer Protection Package

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The Internet is filled with advertising and well-crafted eye-catching techniques to entice or scare you into downloading a free 'virus-scanner' or 'clean-up program.' As tempting and legitimate as these programs may be, you really don't want to download every free computer protection program there is. Here are a few reasons why: 1. You could be downloading a 'privacy' or 'security' program that appears to be necessary for your computer, but it is actually malware or spam. It could actually ...
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