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DebSpecs
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RE: Computer Security for home Users - 9/10/2007 11:44:41
If someone "cracked into" and used my wireless connection, does this also mean they can see confidential data on my network? Thanks.
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RE: Computer Security for home Users - 9/10/2007 12:19:12
if your wireless connection isnt password protected, anyone in the vicinity can "crack into it" but not your data or system - only your internet connection - sleep well, little grasshopper.
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Softix
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RE: Computer Security for home Users - 1/5/2008 6:09:01
I think that reading e-mail attachment from the person you didn't know will cause you problems. I got some viruses before by opening some attachment being sent to me with virus in it. So it was not safe to read e-mail especially in gmails. I think that we must need to acquire our self internet secutiry for this purpose.
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michaelea
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RE: Computer Security for home Users - 4/26/2009 5:12:34
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ORIGINAL: bobby
Has anybody ever chronicled just how much time you spend running patches, updates and scans per week?
10 minutes manually updating and clicking "Start Scan" with malwarebytes once a month!
Although I pay my monthly mortgage payments helping out those who are not so savvy about "clicking the wrong links" I see a lot out there... My attitude for your average home/small office user is this:
1).. Vista with UAC on and set to auto-update is the most secure desktop O/S out there at present and, yes, it's that easy.
2).. The bad guys don't really care no more what O/S you're using. Why should they? They just go after the weakest link on every nix, wanna-be nix & windows computer - the user!
Spooky's right, user education is where it's really at.
3).. Most antivirus software is not much better than useless and here's why: Most current strains of Malware "phone back home" every so often and report that Antivirus Software Apps. A, B and C, managed to get a whiff of them... and so "Home" just whips up a new instruction and tells all the other millions of machines who are also "phoning home" to go and mutate immediately and bonk the mainstream virus app on the head. Again!. They are always about 5 steps head of Antivirus vendors and 1.5 steps ahead of Anti-Malware Apps.
4).. If people just stuck to one antivirus program on auto-update and real time scan things would be better but, they don't. They buy the whole security suite and are pretty dissapointed when after a half hour boot and scan they get a half-dozen "tracking cookies" deleted. Personally I like tracking cookies and am not interested in seeing ads or articles for firearms or weapons and, I don't - because I have tracking cookies that know I don't want that!!
5).. and, after Vista with only one antivirus program installed (avg is free, nod is free and techy) get yourselves one good anti-malware program and update and run it once a month.
Vista with UAC and auto-updates on
AVG - for free &
antimalwarebytes - update and scan once a month or so.
That works. and there's no extra costs or unnecessary extra time involved other than installing the software once...
It really is that simple.
Most of the major "security" vendors out there are, in my opinion, wolves in sheep's clothing and do far more damage to people's computers, productivity and pocketbooks than viri do.
Remember, I'm just talking Home and Small Office users here. Enterprise is different.
Next Week - Firewalls: How does that NAT work with cable again? :)
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manola
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RE: Computer Security for home Users - 7/15/2009 3:09:47
The recent virus and worm attacks should be a wakeup call for all users.
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