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Privacy Awareness Week – Computer Protection Tips

This week is ‘Privacy Awareness Week’ 2010 and as such it is urged that we familiarise ourselves with our rights, obligations and best-practice in relation to privacy. The few recommendations below, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, are related to Computer identity and information theft. They are well worth reading through: Make [...]

Free Anti-Virus and Security Software

I.T. related security software, in the form of virus, malware, firewall and spyware protection can be expensive. Unfortunately the cost often deters people from keeping their security software up to date. Fortunately there is some very good security software available which is free to use and update and works very well. Here are three of [...]

1 in 5 Chance of Visiting a Malware Website – McAfee

Use Google, Bing, Wolfram Alpha or Yahoo and, when you search for certain terms, you have up to a 20% chance of encountering a malicious Malware Website (Malware is designed to perform some unknown or unwanted activity on the targets computer system and often is in the form of Spyware, Trojans, viruses and even spam). [...]