I use TrendMicro.com (a question I'm often asked) and here's the report for January. It protects every web link and email I receive, but also runs this month end report:
Showing posts with label update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label update. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
It's 2012: Is your protection software updated?
Protecting your computer from malicious spyware and viruses remains critically important. Make sure you have protection software running and that it does two things: 1. updates itself to be aware of new viruses and spyware, 2. runs a periodic report and cleans up the problems.
I use TrendMicro.com (a question I'm often asked) and here's the report for January. It protects every web link and email I receive, but also runs this month end report:
I use TrendMicro.com (a question I'm often asked) and here's the report for January. It protects every web link and email I receive, but also runs this month end report:
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Get your news at only the real CNN web site, not mail links
With so many of us watching the Olympics, keeping up with world news, and getting ready for the big DNC convention in Denver next week, the web's resources are a natural way to get a quick news fix.
Last week I noticed I was getting emails from CNN with news stories. Since I'd never signed up, I deleted them, but want to share this warning with you. As I suspected, the non-CNN look-alike emails actually lead to trouble. Here's the recap, thanks to the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce tech person:
As I rebuild a 5th computer in so many days, I thought it would be worth
sending a message to everyone about a very nasty virus that is out right
now. It is called Antivirus 2008 or 2009 and is downloaded from an email
that looks like it is from CNN. If you open the mail and click a link to
one of the stories, it will ask you to install a flash update and when you
click OK the virus is loaded on to your machine. It disables your current
virus protection and constantly warns you that you have hundreds of viruses
on your machine. It keeps prompting you to buy the full version.
Read more:
http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/antivirus-xp-2008-malware-wave-conti
Last week I noticed I was getting emails from CNN with news stories. Since I'd never signed up, I deleted them, but want to share this warning with you. As I suspected, the non-CNN look-alike emails actually lead to trouble. Here's the recap, thanks to the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce tech person:
As I rebuild a 5th computer in so many days, I thought it would be worth
sending a message to everyone about a very nasty virus that is out right
now. It is called Antivirus 2008 or 2009 and is downloaded from an email
that looks like it is from CNN. If you open the mail and click a link to
one of the stories, it will ask you to install a flash update and when you
click OK the virus is loaded on to your machine. It disables your current
virus protection and constantly warns you that you have hundreds of viruses
on your machine. It keeps prompting you to buy the full version.
Read more:
http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/antivirus-xp-2008-malware-wave-conti
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Fix your Norton Anti-Virus program today
If you use Norton Anti-Virus, you should run Live Update as soon as you can. The company patched a serious flaw on August 12th.
Through an error in its product, programming language flaws could allow another computer to take control of your software. Norton was not properly checking the data it received to make certain malicious commands did not pass through.
Thanks to Network World for announcing the problem - there's no record of it on Norton's Symantec site.
Through an error in its product, programming language flaws could allow another computer to take control of your software. Norton was not properly checking the data it received to make certain malicious commands did not pass through.
Thanks to Network World for announcing the problem - there's no record of it on Norton's Symantec site.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Information grab by Google?
As an update to the post of July 8, about Google:
The Google program that ran on PBS in Chicago on July 12th, a film called "The World According to Google" was surprising.
Instead of celebrating the behemoth, it dug into assessing the scope of the enterprise, questioning the right of one company to collect all the world's information. I've long suspected Google and other big internet firms were on that path.
I listened with interest as Brewster Kahle, the man who made a fortune with the Alexa search engine, and founded the Internet Archive in 1996 discussed the issue. Unlike Google, the Internet Archive purpose is: "offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
There's an interesting interview with Brewster Kahle on SecondLife.com.
The business model for Google is sound: give information away for free, get money from advertisers. But who owns that information? We do. And, while it is clear that large internet companies collect user data, they are also giving that information away, either through strategic alliances, or if the government demands it.
Do you want all your private photos, email , address, web search history and files on your computer archived forever by them? And given or sold to others?
The Internet archive has received a grant to challenge Google Library's right to own digital book rights. See CNET http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=73142.
Are you still with me? Contrary to Google's efforts to capture and digitize books from the world's libraries, the Open Content Alliance, is a joint effort by the Internet Archive, Yahoo and Microsoft to digitize library collections, including those of the University of California system and The University of Toronto. Unlike a similar project from Google, which allows users to read the digitized content only through Google's Web site, the OCA material will be searchable through any service and everyone will be encouraged to download books.
Who's to say Google will always live by its 'do no evil' motto, once they compile more information than any other source?
Who's to say what is free on the web today won't suddenly require prices once needed information is locked up by a corporation?
I'm only asking the questions, here. I don't have the answers, but hope you'll spend a few minutes noodling the ethical dilemma posed by the problem.
The Google program that ran on PBS in Chicago on July 12th, a film called "The World According to Google" was surprising.
Instead of celebrating the behemoth, it dug into assessing the scope of the enterprise, questioning the right of one company to collect all the world's information. I've long suspected Google and other big internet firms were on that path.
I listened with interest as Brewster Kahle, the man who made a fortune with the Alexa search engine, and founded the Internet Archive in 1996 discussed the issue. Unlike Google, the Internet Archive purpose is: "offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
There's an interesting interview with Brewster Kahle on SecondLife.com.
The business model for Google is sound: give information away for free, get money from advertisers. But who owns that information? We do. And, while it is clear that large internet companies collect user data, they are also giving that information away, either through strategic alliances, or if the government demands it.
Do you want all your private photos, email , address, web search history and files on your computer archived forever by them? And given or sold to others?
The Internet archive has received a grant to challenge Google Library's right to own digital book rights. See CNET http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=73142.
Are you still with me? Contrary to Google's efforts to capture and digitize books from the world's libraries, the Open Content Alliance, is a joint effort by the Internet Archive, Yahoo and Microsoft to digitize library collections, including those of the University of California system and The University of Toronto. Unlike a similar project from Google, which allows users to read the digitized content only through Google's Web site, the OCA material will be searchable through any service and everyone will be encouraged to download books.
Who's to say Google will always live by its 'do no evil' motto, once they compile more information than any other source?
Who's to say what is free on the web today won't suddenly require prices once needed information is locked up by a corporation?
I'm only asking the questions, here. I don't have the answers, but hope you'll spend a few minutes noodling the ethical dilemma posed by the problem.
--
Helen Gallagher
Computer Clarity
www.cclarity.com
Tech news at cclarity.blogspot.com
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