Ever been on a website, attempted to enter your personal information and your PC wants to store your personal information? Sure you have. Whether you’re punching in payment information, your address or even passwords you wouldn’t tell your best friend, AutoComplete attempts to "save" the information.
Although convenient for future browsing and shopping, AutoComplete is a feature that can put your personal information at risk, especially when entering your card number to buy those concert tickets or books or whatever your interests. First, anyone who uses your computer or who shares your network can access your log-in and previous search information as stored through AutoComplete and second, a hacker now has a nice convenient place to access all important information.
AutoComplete got its start in 2001 when the first authentication web forms first stored personal information. Every Web browser utilizes a different AutoComplete function and all can put your information at risk, so it’s necessary to stay on top of the proper way to disable this feature.
To disable auto-complete:
- In Internet Explorer Open the Internet Explorer browser, From the Internet Explorer menu, select 'Tools,’ Select 'Internet Options' and Click 'Content'
- In Firefox Open the Firefox browser, from the Firefox menu, select 'Tools', Select ' Options' and Click 'Privacy.’
Gateway announced today, that they are recalling over 13,000 laptop battery packs. This recall is due to overheating and fire hazard issues. This recall is exclusively for laptop models and 400VTX and 450ROG notebook series. According to reports most of these battery packs were purchased between May and August of 2003. Battery Packs with serial number 6500760 or 6500761 are the only batteries that will be swapped out under this recall policy. Gateway will replace all affected battery packs for Free!
For all additional information regarding this issue please visit http://www.gateway.com/battery/index.php
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Do you have security holes in your WIFI Network?
Researchers at Darmstadt Technical University have determined that a hacker can destroy your so-called secure WIFI network in a matter of minutes. By destroying your security features it allows hackers to steal passwords, confidential information and engulf your system with pornographic material. Majority of all home users rely on an encryption system called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WEP was designed to eliminate others from using their WI-FI link. WEP has been known for some time to have flaws and holes in its security protocol. According to the researchers it took an estimated 30 minutes of monitoring airwaves before it was possible to bypass the WEP. The researches have pinpointed holes and can now decrypt your WI-FI connection less than five minutes. To resolve this issue you may want to consider using WAP protocol (WI-FI Protected Access). This new protocol was introduced a couple of years ago to replace WEP. With all the new and cool technology we tend to forget all the security risk that may arise. So, please make sure that your network is hacker-free and BeCareful, BeSafe and BeSmart!
Labels: Network Information
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Apple’s long awaited IPhone release date is scheduled for June 29th 2007. This new phone will devour an estimated 1% of the cell phone market according to market analyst. The average cost of the IPhone is around $499-$600 dollars U.S.dollars.
AT&T has a contract with Apple for the next five years, therefore it is exclusively offered to Cingular customers only. Bummer! So, if you are not a Cingular customer you will need to “Get on the Good Foot” and sign on the dotted line or sever you existing contract with your provider and pay a $250.00 cancellation fee. Wait! Before you pay the $250.00 you may want to evaluate a new program call Cell-Swapper. This program is designed to allow the consumer to swap out of their existing contract without penalty.
The standard IPhone is loaded with “Go,Go, Gadget Features” that will have the average tech geek in amazement. It includes breath-taking graphics, touch screen, IPod, SMS application, and 2 mega pixels for pictures, WIFI, and browsing capabilities. In conclusion, move over Blackberry it’s a new sheriff in town. ¶ 1:00 PM 0 Comments
By design these trojans are programmed to divert your banking and financial information to an undisclosed location.
The IRS or the Better Business Bureau will never request your personal or financial information via email. Remember these simple rules while checking your email account.
- USA government will never initiate contact with you by email.
- Always exercise caution when you receive emails from an unknown source.
By following these simple steps you can reduce your risk of a spyware infection.
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We could have seen this coming. Netsky.t and Netsky.q have been among the leaders in our Top Twenties for quite a while now; Bagle.gt has spent several months now moving up the table towards the top three, and fourth place this month was unexpectedly taken by Sober.aa. The first samples of this worm were detected by Kaspersky Lab analysts on 7th April 2007. This may not seem very significant, but the previous version of this worm, Sober.z, dates back to the middle of November 2005! More than a year and a half has passed since then. Sober.z was one of the most widespread worms in its time - it seemed then as though the German police were hot on the unknown author's tracks, and that an arrest would be imminent. However, nothing happened, and now someone (perhaps someone different from the worm's original author) has released a new version of this old email worm. The result is clear – Sober.aa, a primitive worm, has been able to squeeze out worms with far more advanced functionality, and it may well climb higher in the ratings in months to come.
The Warezov and Zhelatin worm families are among the victims in this latest struggle between viruses. Warezov.ms, which came second in the April Top Twenty, has fallen off the bottom of the table, and Warezov.ns, which came to take its place, wasn't able to rise higher than the very modest 19th place. However, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.bqs has raised a red flag – it was mass-mailed on 24th May and has risen to 8th place in the May Top Twenty. This is a warning sign as it's Agent.bqs which downloads new versions of Warezov to victim machines, creating a potentially huge epidemic and a gigantic botnet.
In May phishers were less active than in April and March. There's not a single phishing email in the entire Top Twenty this month. However, this is clearly a temporary phenomenon and phishing attacks will undoubtedly be back to take their place in the rankings of the most common threats in mail traffic. Interestingly, tenth and twentieth place this month are two classic file viruses, Grum and Cheburgen. File viruses are not typical for the Top Twenty but gained their place due due to an peculiarity of the life cycle of a file virus. Just as happens in the natural world, Grum and Chebrugen are effectively parasites. They aren't able to spread by themselves, either via the Internet or across local networks. However, they are extremely aggressive and will infect all files on the victim machine indiscriminately. As a result, email worm files on the victim machine will be infected. And the consequence is that an infected message sent from the victim machine will contain a 'sandwich' - a worm file which is also infected with a file virus.
Other malicious programs made up 10.97% of all malicious code in mail traffic, indicating that there is still a relatively large number of other worm and Trojan families in circulation.
From Kaspersky VirusList.
The Shield Deluxe is powered by Kaspersky Labs. ¶ 8:30 AM 0 Comments
To do this, they click on the Windows Icon in the bottom left corner (where the Start Icon used to be). They go to Control Panel, Then To User Accounts.
They then click on the underlined Turn User Account Control On or Off (this is not underlined in the system, just in this graphic)
The user must then UNCHECK the “User User Account Control” and then click “Ok”.
They MAY need to restart before they can activate The Shield Deluxe. ¶ 9:42 AM 0 Comments
Free Software ... no support.
Norton $9.99 per call
McAfee $2.95 per minute
PCSecurityShield Free Technical Support (yea, a little self promotion)
So while there are questions about how good free protection is (someone has to pay for all those developers finding viruses), there is no question about the value of technical support. ¶ 6:05 AM 0 Comments
