How to update your PC and remove Conficker from WindowsSecrets.com The following steps should prevent infection by Conficker and eliminate the worm, if your PC has it. One positive side effect is that you’ll enjoy a computer with up-to-date patches: Step 1. Attempt to run Microsoft Update. The Conficker worm can infect vulnerable computers merely [...]
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Craigslist, Freecycle or Both? By now, most people have heard of Craigslist. Craigslist is a local online classifieds list for more than 550 cities in over 50 countries worldwide. It is community moderated, and largely free. You can find jobs, housing, goods, services, romance, local activities, advice – just about anything really. When you go [...]
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I was reading an article yesterday about an individual who was inspired to find out what information about him was online. He searched for his own e-mail address on the search engine Pipl. What he found shocked him. He came across a list that he was on that not only contained his email address, but [...]
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It’s scary to think how much and what kind of information is getting out from your computer. It’s so important to have updated anti-virus software and firewalls on your computer. Click the link at the bottom of this article to read the entire article. It’s well worth it. SAN FRANCISCO – Getting hacked is like [...]
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Verizon Wireless began selling a device at the end of January that boosts cell phone signals within a home, making it easier for people to drop a home phone line and rely solely on wireless. These devices are known as “femtocells.” Once Verizon’s Network Extender is connected to a broadband Internet line, it acts as [...]
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We’ve all done it, taken lots of digital pictures, copied them to our computers and emailed them to our friends and family, only to have it take forever to mail or to get comments from them letting us know that the pictures either were too big to view, or that they were so big that [...]
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What’s important to take away from this story is that the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing opened this person’s computer up to the world and basically said, “come take a look at my files, even the private ones”. A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama’s [...]
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