Category: Tips and Tricks

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Security Tips For Traveling With Your Gadgets

Published on: December 26, 2011 and has 6 Comments

The holidays are here and it is the perfect time to take advantage of the long weekend and travel to meet up with families and friends or just go on an out of the country trip to relax. Since we live in a gadget filled world, almost everyone who travels brings with them their multitude of devices like their smart phones, net books, laptops, and more.

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5 Computer Security Risks to Avoid for Good Performance

Published on: November 7, 2011 and has 13 Comments

Taking time to apply some computer safety rules can help you get the best of your computer in the time when it does not produce the actual result that it supposed to produce. The extreme rate at which computers are getting infected with virus and some other malware application has made it becomes a norm for computer users to be searching for ways to protect their systems.

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Stop Spam Right at the Source – How To Finally Report Those Annoying Messages

Published on: September 29, 2011 and has 6 Comments

I find that every time I write an article about getting rid of spam people cannot get enough. After all, 488,005,400 Americans use the Internet every day, many for work purposes, and spam is nothing but an annoyance. What prompted me to begin researching this and really getting the subjcet out there to the public was the fact that spam messages KEPT HAPPENING. Flashing messages, non-stop emails telling me I’m a winner, and pop-up ads that take over my screen never seemed to lessen. According to spamcop.net, there are approximately 10.1 spam message sent per second!

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Staying Safe By Understanding Desktop Security

Published on: February 8, 2011 and has 1 Comment

If you are just getting started with the use of a home computer, you have no doubt heard of the various types of malicious software that can be used to infiltrate your system. This type of unwanted programming is commonly known as malware, and is used by unscrupulous individuals trying to gain access to information [...]

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Size Does Matter…at Least for Passwords

Published on: March 31, 2010 and has 7 Comments

I have been thinking and talking more about security in recent weeks. For my regular readers you would have noticed that I have been concentrating on securing Windows 7, but one topic I didn’t discuss was that of passwords. It seems everything we do with computers, you will usually need to enter a password at [...]

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Fix: Removing WindowsClick From Your Computer

Published on: May 20, 2009 and has 2 Comments

I recently had the opportunity to fix a computer that was having issues with a virus/trojan/rootkit. I included all three in the list because I had no idea what I was looking at when I first heard of the issues. I was told that when the owner of the machine would perform a search in [...]

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Is Your Data Safe?

Published on: July 23, 2008 and has 11 Comments

I have been scanning and archiving old family photos in order to help preserve them for the future. The first set of photos are the only copy of each photo available so they were chosen first for archiving. It is important that when you archive photos that you create a system for backing up your [...]

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What You Need to Secure Your Computer

Published on: May 21, 2008 and has 3 Comments

I have written many posts regarding securing a computer in the past. Many of the posts have gone into detail about using specific software and hardware to secure your computer. In this post I will provide a more quick overview of the main components that you should have if you want to secure your computer.

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