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March Madness Malware
Are you ready for March Madness? Have you filled out your bracket selections? This is the time of year when people want to check the latest scores, follow their favorite teams and, perhaps, watch that impossible last second shot that somehow found the hoop. You even may have signed up to receive the scores from [...]
A Final Line on Malware Protection
The truth of malware today is that it is a cat-and-mouse game between the criminals/hackers and the security people. The hackers are ready to take advantage of every opportunity. Recently, former beauty contestant Carrie Prejean was in the news. It was just hours later that there were malware and spyware sites using the “Carrie Prejean” [...]
Know When Something is Being Installed on Your Machine
The number of malware sites are increasing. IBM has reported an increased sophistication with attempts to infect computers. The frightening thing is that some malware is being pushed unknowingly by legitimate sites. This is a danger to all computer users. However, there is one segment of our readers who are going back to school in [...]
A Watchdog for Your Computer Installations
There is a myth about computer security that survives. It goes something like this: ‘you can stay out of trouble if you don’t visit bad sites.’ This is not true. First of all, what defines a ‘bad’ site? And, with the expertise and sophistication of today’s criminals, any site can be compromised and turned into [...]
Geek Savings on WinPatrol
USA Today has called WinPatrol “very powerful protection”. Yesterday, the founder of WinPatrol, Bill Pytlovany, was gracious and answered a few questions for us. WinPatrol protects your computer by keeping it under constant surveillance. There are stealth methods whereby malware and spyware can infect your computer, without you knowing. Even when you are super cautious, [...]
A Few Moments with Bill Pytlovany
Bill Pytlovany is well known within the internet security community. He is receiving some much deserved press recently from print publications. Bill was gracious in giving us some time and answering a few questions: Bill, you are a Microsoft MVP. Can you tell us how you became interested in security software? Yes, I’m very proud [...]
Special WinPatrol Savings for our Community
Malware and spyware can infect your computer without your knowledge. Even if you are very cautious, a whole load of problems can happen with a simple mis-click or the wrong push of a button. Heck, your system can even become infected without your having to actually do anything. Some malicious sites have what are called [...]
