Are You Secure?
David Geer
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.
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome& langid=ie&venid=sym
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 [Some tools may have appeared in other blogs here]
http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/scanoptions.asp
http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/
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.
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