Do you use the Internet every day? Do you surf the web, or just go to specific web sites that you already know? Do you check out web sites that someone’s recommended to you? Or, do you skip all the web stuff and just do emails, mainly with family and friends? If you answered yes [...]

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I recently updated from NOD32 version 2.7 to the latest v3.0. I found that Eset has dramatically simplified the structure of the NOD32 controls. They had been criticized in the past as creating a great product for advanced PC users. The new version has a simplified “Standard Mode” that is much easier to use. The [...]

I write my weekly online and email newsletters. Then, occasionally I get around to converting some of the newsletter articles into web pages. Google and the other search engines like web pages more than they like online newsletters — the newsletters get indexed fairly quickly, but then get dropped as "old" pretty quickly, too. Here [...]

In every issue of my weekly online computer tips newsletter, I have my current security software recommendations. In that article, I write about the programs that I choose for antivirus, antispyware/antiadware, firewall and antispam. I also include a paragraph in the article on using a cable / DSL router. But, I guess I haven’t had [...]

Those of us with home networks usually share files, or at least printers, across our network. This nice feature allows several computers to share and use one or more printers. At my house, we share an HP Laserjet 1200 and an HP ColorJet printer. That way, any printer can print color pages when we need [...]

ZDNet’s Security blog has a story that should be a good warning to anyone running an older copy of Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition on their PCs. There are some worm variants running around that are targetting this older Symantec product — attacking a known security hole and turning PCs into zombies to relay spam and [...]