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More Godaddy Email Woes

Setting up email with Godaddy, or most hosting providers is pretty simple as long as you follow all of the steps.

I’m not going to spend time writing a technical aritcle on setting up Outlook 2010 or any other email client as most ISP and Web Host do a great job already. See an example [...]

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Microsoft Issues a Temporary Fix for Duqu

Microsoft Updates for Duqu Microsoft which earlier promised a security update earlier this week released a temporary patch to deal with the virus, which targets victims via email with a Microsoft Word attachment.

Security researchers became aware of Duqu in October when Symantec said it had found a virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a [...]

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Free or Low Cost DNS Alternatives to Your ISP

Why you might want to switch from your Internet Service Providers name resolution servers? Faster browsing speed, security features, and reliability.

Security is achieved through real-time block list (RBL) of harmful websites, phishing sites, malware sites, and spyware sites.

Speed can be achieved by improved latency between client and DNS resolving server, latency between resolving [...]

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Computer Security: Keeping Kids Safe Online

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 [...]

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The NSA Guide to Secure Computers and Networks

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 [...]

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Fake Antivirus targets Apple OSX

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 [...]

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Small businesses need to embrace big technology

MLD Services is big on cloud based or Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for small business and wanted to share an article I just read from others who share the same opinion.

MLD Services has already implemented online backup solutions for customers and also uses Zoho for their small business and productivity needs.

For security needs check out our cloud based security option using OpenDNS.

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Creating a Shortcut to FTP Server in Windows 7

In the last article I wrote about a client using an FTP server to use as a file share for remote offices, and before I go any further I would recommend thinking about your using FTP and security issues before continuing, especially with so many other options available that might be more secure.

With that [...]

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Mint Online Finance Software

Mint Online Finance Software – Your Own Impenetrable Fort Knox

With the influx of new software on private finance and online security, the most frequently-asked question still asked is, “Why?” Why use software when there are banks and secretaries or assistants?

Here’s why:

Too many people are becoming victims of insufficient information to make sound [...]

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Panda Cloud Antivirus Solution

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.

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