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Cubanology Computer Tips (Click on Links)
By Jose Reyes
This Web Page will inform the reader with up-to-date security options to further protect their computer from Spyware, Pop-Ups, Spam and Viruses from entering and damaging your computer and securing your web browsing ability throughout the World Wide Web. I've suggested some websites that will prepare the ordinary internet surfer with new ideas and interesting tips. These Programs here could be outdated or useless because I have had this link open for years now so I will date my findings from on now (October 5, 2007) I will place 4 to 5 at a time from on now
February 25, 2008:
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October 5, 2007:
When you buy yourself
a brand new Laptop, do not waste any money on Word, OpenOffice is totally
FREE, try it out and dump Microsoft Office... |
 Geek News Central DocuPen RC800 Portable
Scanner... |
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New attack vectors
for vulnerabilities in QuickTime and WMP surfaced last week. The
QuickTime vulnerability allows scripting to run with full user rights
without the user's knowledge. The other vulnerability allows hackers
to insert code that tricks the Windows Media Player into opening a
Windows Internet Explorer browser, regardless of the user's preference
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MozillaThunderbird: Use this Email client
service instead of the ever-dangerous Microsoft Outlook Express. From Website:
"Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much
more".
FREE
Download!!!!! Mozilla Firefox: 75% of internet surfers use Internet Explorer as their Web Browser, so the makers of Spyware and Adware, use "Internet Explorer" to intrude and attack your computer. To eliminate all Spyware from entering your computer it would be easier to change your Web Browser to a completely secure one and Firefox is the best out there! Firefox is a Mozilla browser, that is completely standalone and independent from Internet Explorer or other Windows components. It offers tabbed browsing combined with numerous handy features like popup blocking, Live Bookmarks (RSS integration), password manager and more. Completely Free!! SpywareBlaster: JavaCool Software Company: "SpywareBlaster doesn`t scan and clean for so-called spyware, but prevents it from being installed in the first place. It achieves this by disabling the CLSIDs of popular spyware ActiveX controls, and also prevents the installation of any of them via a webpage. This allows you to run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but it will never download or even prompt you for any of the known ActiveX controls. All other Active-X controls or plug-ins will work fine.......... This incredible program is the best software out there, in detecting spyware and stopping it before it gets into your computer. Read the rest of the description to find out more. If you decide to download it, remember to check off everything correctly, you'll see it will not be so complicated. SpyBot-Search&Destroy: Along with Ad-Aware this program is the most up-to-date spyware detector and eliminator that you can find now. Try it out , you'll see. Free Download!
SpywareGuard: SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against so-called spyware. It works similar to an anti-virus program, by scanning EXE and CAB files on access and alerting you if known spyware is detected. SpywareGuard provides a fast scanning engine, signature-based scanning, heuristic/generic scanning, a control panel, and an online-update utility for downloading of definition updates. It does not replace your anti-virus protection, but instead detects programs that may cause privacy concerns Free Download! EMS Pop-Up Stopper: Best Pop-pup Stopper out there. Free Download! ExtremeSearcher.Com: The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook. Learn to Search the Internet and find answers to your questions much faster. Find the best search engines and more. Very educational. Norton Security Check: Do an Internet Security check and a Complete Virus Scan on your computer for malicious viruses and Internet intruders. The Symantec company is the producer of "Norton's Antivirus". Check on all the new viruses and how they enter your computer. Pretty Simple and Free! Snapfiles.com: Very dependable website to obtain software, download all types of software, including a lot of freeware. Spysweeper: A great website which offers a free Spyware eliminator named "SpySweeper". Spyware are website companies that add cookies on your computer and take over your internet browser and keep an illegal track of your surfing activity. They place a search engine you don't want, can place a Trojan that can control your computer, adds illicit websites, adds pop-up to your computer, advertising and many more malicious information. Easy to download. Once you download it, a scan will be done which will take awhile but will show all the Spyware on your computer and information for each file it located. Read more on it. Free Download! Note: Spysweeper is free but with all the new malicious adware around, you have to update constantly and for that you have to pay.
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