On December 8, 2004 Webroot, an award winning anti-spyware solution provider, released a press release identifying the ten most significant emerging spyware and adware threats. Most of these you probably haven’t heard of and a few may surprise you. It is estimated that 9 out of 10 computers are infected with spyware, also known as, adware, scumware, malware and many others. Here’s the top 10. •PurtyScan...
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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.
Finally! It seems that the build up of spyware on peoples computers have finally caused the sleeping giant, Microsoft, to wake up! Spyware has become a larger problem then viruses, as small programs, hijackers, and hidden browser toolbars compete to pop up revenue earning ads on your computer. There have been a ton of free spyware blockers available for download on the net, but none of them could get the job done. Now, Microsoft has finally stepped in and is ready to do something. Microsoft Battles Spyware When I first heard that Microsoft had a beta version for a spyware blocker remover software,...
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Unfortunately for computer users spyware has become the primary threat when surfing the internet and as the problem continues to grow the likelihood that users can stay “spyware free” is lessened. The nuisance with spyware, aside from its annoying byproduct consequences, is that users often invite the invasive application into their computers by visiting web sites with spyware embedded in their homepage. By visiting such a site you are inadvertently allowing spyware to detect and record your personal information and computer usage habits. Other possible occurrences that could have led to your...
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