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Be involved: This is the most important item in this list. Be involved and consider activities that you can work on together. Play games, do research for school projects or on a subject of interest just for fun. This will allow you to supervise your child’s online activities while teaching her good computer habits. Keep your computer [...] I was on twitter and saw a link to an article that discusses why the bad guys seem to be winning the IT or cyber security battle. This article is well written and offers readers many items to ponder and provides links to a lot of great tools. A couple of highlights from the article: Internet User Guide: [...] Reading through the NSA guide to securing computers and networks I noticed the recommendation to using alternate DNS providers and we agree with this assessment. Alternate DNS solutions offer a lot extra’s for a small fee. “Domain Name Servers (DNS) provided by the ISP typically don’t provide enhanced security services such as the blocking and blacklisting [...] While Windows users have been fighting this for a while, we now see that Apple’s OSX has some vulnerabilities of its own. Starting this past weekend articles like the one referenced below are showing up all over the internet. “A fake antivirus application is targeting Mac OS X computers using Apple’s Safari browser. Cybercriminals pushing MAC Defender, [...] It’s becoming a problem all over the world, where you are constantly trying to keep your computer running virus-free. It’s getting harder and harder all of the time and now we even find some of the ads for Antivirus and Malware security software are really Malware themselves, causing our computers to run slower and slower. You [...] Today’s article looks at Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) which has become one of the more popular free anti-virus, anti-malware products on the market. This article is not going to be about installing the software because there is really nothing to the setup. Just download, run, and accept the defaults until you come to the end and [...] This article is not an indictment or a critique of the security Adobe products. What this article aims to do is show the reader how easy it is to update Adobe products. All computer users encounter numerous popups about updating this or that piece of software or operating system on their computer and I now see [...] Hackers, Computer security, and the basics on protecting yourself, and your systems online. To me computer security really means the securing and backup of all devices connected to the internet or used to store your information. Securing the device also means keeping the hardware and software well maintained. Recently we have seen the company HBGary Federal brought [...] MLD Services once again repaired a PC with a trojan/malware version of DNS redirect, which is a shame because the user could have saved themselves a lot of money by just updating Windows, their web browser, and running a full Internet Security suite. Kind of New Items for 2011: Items or services that MLD Services has been using in 2010 that we think would be a big benefit to our customers in 2011. Google’s Android on smartphones. Outstanding system with outstanding tools and is available through all wireless carriers and from multiple hardware manufacturers. |
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