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Create Secure Passwords

By Mark on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 | No Comments

The longer your passwords are the harder they will be to crack. How long should they be and what sort of characters should you use? Steve Gibson on episode 256 of  Security Now suggest ten characters. Both upper and lower case with numbers. This gives you 7.6×10 to the 17th power possible character combinations.  You [...]

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The Lastpast You’ll Ever Need

By Mark on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment

For the last six months I’ve been using Lastpass a password manager that is truely extraordinary. Lastpass is easy and safe. Lastpass is everywhere you are. It works on PCs, Macs, Linux and other operating system. It works with Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and nearly any other web-browser. Adroid phones, iPhones iOS, Blackberry and [...]

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Most POP Not Secure

By Mark on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 | No Comments

I will tell them that Gmail with its 256bit AES plus SSL is more secure then what they’re using now, unencrypted POP mail. (Assuming a good pass word is being used.)

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Personal Software Inspector

By Mark on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

The Personsl Software Inspector by Secunia will check to see if you have critical software out of date and will prompt you to install the new version. I have a very up to date system but I install  Secunia PSI and ran it. After a couple of minutes it found that my Skype
had a

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LastPass

By Mark on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is [...]

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Shields Up

By Mark on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Are you secure on the net? May you are! Maybe you aren’t! The Internet is always being monitored by hackers, bots and other things looking for computers that have open ports that can be attacked. ShieldsUP is a site from the security and harddrive expert Steve Gibson at GRC.Com. ShieldsUp scans your computer to see [...]

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Free Malware Protection

By Mark on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 | No Comments

That’s right! Never pay for an anti-virus or spy-ware programs again. Microsoft has a new anti-malware program and they are giving it away. Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spy-ware, and other malicious software. It’s easy to install. It effortless to use and Security Essentials does not [...]

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Online AVs

By Mark on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | No Comments

One of the more stupid things I’ve heard said over the years of working in tech support is “Install this free CA Security Suite. It will remove the viruses (viri) that are slowing your Internet down.” WRONG! If you are installing an anti-virus because you are having problems, don’t! A full anti-virus not only will [...]

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Windows Security Tip

By Mark on Friday, January 16th, 2009 | No Comments

It is well known that no one should be running there computer logged in as an administrator. When you run as administrator you are running a risk of getting infected with something (virus [viri], spyware, others). When you run as a admin (Short for administrator) anything that can access your user-account has the same privileges [...]

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Windows Security Tip

By Mark on Friday, January 16th, 2009 | No Comments

It is well known that no one should be running there computer logged in as an administrator. When you run as administrator you are running a risk of getting infected with something (virus [viri], spyware, others). When you run as a admin (Short for administrator) anything that can access your user-account has the same privileges [...]

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