Category Archives: Operating Systems

Operating System security is an important topic to discuss and many posts found here provide good advice at protecting your computer.

5 Mac Protection Solutions

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We all love Mac and their operating system. It’s rather good and reliable – at least, during a few years of usage, refreshing and other operations it didn’t bring to me any troubles. But there is a solid minus in it – a lot of software must be bought, there are no in-built tools for elementary things like HDD defragmentation, antivirus protection, log cleaning and other things that are necessary in everyday life of a common Mac user.

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Top 3 Security Benefits of Patch Management

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Patch management is a process of updating a software package by changing its instructions to fix any issues there might be. This might be common knowledge to many, but how many actually know what such issues can lead to? And what are the benefits when these are fixed?

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5 Computer Security Risks to Avoid for Good Performance

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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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How to Create a Standard User Account in Windows 7

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If you are using Windows 7, I highly recommend that you create a standard user account in Windows 7. Most people tend to always use an administrator account, which means that every application that they run has complete access to the system. You can probably see why using such an account all the time can be a problem.

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Start The New Year With Computer Security in Mind

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Now that the holidays are over, and we are once again settling into our daily routine, we tend to start doing things we have been putting off until the holidays were over. We go back to our usual activities, whether it is work or school, and continue life as it was before the holiday rush. [...]

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 4

Should You Disable the Windows Pagefile?

So far in my Windows security series, I have looked at securing your system using a hardware firewall to keep your Internet connection secure. I then talked about creating a Windows standard user account, and disabling certain services. In my last post I talked about more methods you can use to secure your Internet connection from within Windows using software and a DNS service.

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 3

Should You Disable the Windows Pagefile?

This is the third part in my series on securing your Windows 7 system. In part one I talked about securing your system using a hardware router and an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). In my last post I discussed creating a standard user account, disabling certain services, and a few other tasks you could perform within Windows to secure your system.

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 2

Should You Disable the Windows Pagefile?

In my last post titled How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 1, I talked about securing your wireless router and about how to protect your computer with a UPS. While the tips provided in that post can apply to more than just a Windows 7 system, I felt it was important to discuss how to secure you system outside the actual operating system.

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