Are You Secure?

How do you know your computer is secure? No computer is or can be 100-percent secure. However, you should take several reasonable measures like anti-spyware, anti-virus and firewalling tools, and . . . Auditing or testing your security with online tools. Here are some good, free, Internet-based self-serve tools that will tell you a thing or two about how secure your computer is on the Internet....

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Microsoft Anti-Spyware: Is That An Oxymoron?

David Geer

If you read Site Pro News (or if you don't), a recent article suggested four types of Spyware protection - anti-virus, Spybot S&D, Microsoft Anti-Spyware and keeping them all updated.

Now I don't know about you, but with Microsoft's track record, I'm not crazy about installing any additional software from them, especially something that hasn't been out that long and is geared toward searching my computer and deleting stuff.

Mind you, that's what anti-virus tools and Spybot do, but I trust those programs. Microsoft likes to think they own your computer just because their software is on it. "Me no like."

If you have no affiliation with Microsoft and no bias toward their products, let me know if you have used Microsoft Anti-Spyware and what you think.

About the author: David Geer writes for national and international publications like Computerworld, certain IEEE Computer Society publications, The Enterprise Open Source Journal and dozens more. E-mail him at D avid@GeerCom.com, call him at 440-964-9832 or visit his Web site at www.GeerCom.com.


Spyware: What It Is and How to Combat It

Spyware is software or hardware installed on a computer without the user's knowledge which gathers information about that user for later retrieval by whomever controls the spyware. Spyware can be broken down into two different categories, surveillance spyware and advertising spyware. Surveillance software includes key loggers, screen capture devices, and trojans. These would be used by corporations, private detectives, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, suspicious spouses, etc. Advertising spyware is software that is installed alongside other software or via activex controls on the internet,...

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How to tell you are infected with spyware, ad-ware or viruses

How to tell you have spyware, ad-ware or viruses Usually, the easiest way to tell you have spyware is because your PC is running at a reduced speed. The other way to check is to hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and hit task manager (if you have windows service pack 2. If you have before SP2, then this should automatically bring up the task manager). Once the task manager is open, check your running processes under the Processes tab. If you see a lot of strange processes running you don't recognize, you likely are infected with spyware, ad-ware or viruses. An example of strange processes would be a fgkosk....

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