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Is Your Mobile Phone At Risk Of Attack?
Nov 29th
With more and more people surfing the web on mobile devices it’s a fact that some malicious people have devised ways to invade and attack them.
There are dozens of known mobile phone viruses and security threats already, and it’s a safe bet that more will be popping up in the future.
Since we’re all about safe computing, which would include safe mobile computing, here’s some information on effective anti-virus measures for mobile phones.
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The 4 Effective Anti-Viruses For Mobile Phones
by David H. Urmann
There are effective anti-viruses software that can protect your mobile phones from being attacked by malicious programs. These include Zebra Virus Cleaner, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Commander Mobile Anti-Virus and F-Secure Mobile Anti-virus.There are more than forty mobile phone viruses and threats that have been reported. Apparently, these viruses can badly damage your phone and can cause it to be of no use at all. Therefore, getting an anti-virus is vital to keep your mobile running well and efficient.
Zebra Virus Cleaner
One of the most effective anti-viruses that you can implement on your mobile phone is the Zebra Virus Cleaner for Symbian OS Smart Phone. This is a dependable anti-virus software that can protect your mobile from being assaulted by malevolent programs. Zebra Virus Cleaner can identify and clean rootkits, Lasco, Cabir, Skulls, plus nearly a thousand of viruses including Trojans and worms from your smart phone. It also provides security for all your personal files and information. Zebra Virus Cleaner scans quickly and gets rid of viruses completely in real time, easy to adopt and has a friendly feature. The users can set the time to scan and update automatically.
The Kaspersky Anti-Virus
With the growing recognition of smart phones and communicators, your phones may not be safe from malicious programs that were increasing both in numbers and variety. The Kaspersky Anti-Virus is the appropriate and reliable solution that will keep your mobile phones from such programs that affect the mobile platforms. It was developed and combined the latest technology of the Kasperky Lab technologies, experts in the antivirus field. Their solution offers competent armor for your smart phone and personal files.
Commander Mobile Anti-Virus
One of the most effective defends against mobile phones harmful content, unwanted messages and malfunctioning applications is the Commander Mobile Anti-Virus. With this anti-virus, you can scan both the principal memory and memory cards, thus providing an absolute and prompt protection. It can detect viruses such as Cabir and thoroughly remove them from the system. All files are automatically inspected when they are copied, synchronized, modified, saved, or downloaded. This will definitely put off corruption of your mobile phone files.
F-Secure Mobile Anti-virus
F-Secure Mobile Anti-virus is uncomplicated to adopt and does not need excess device resources or pointless user interaction. By design, it examines all files both in the device and on the memory cards. When a corrupted file is found, it is directly isolated to protect all the other data in the system. When the data connection is applied for emails and web browsing, the anti-virus database is updated unnoticeably in the background. F-Secure anti-virus also safeguards mobile computing by bringing together an integrated anti-virus and firewall. This platform makes available a remedy and automated security thru real time. The F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus scans both the incoming and outgoing internet packets to thwart malicious, unsafe, or possibly destructive packets. F-Secure is also uncomplicated to apply.
These mobile software anti-viruses help us to stay composed and prepared for the attacks of malicious programs that can virtually impair the system of our phones. The defenses that they build into the network layer are the most valuable system of protection. In selecting mobile antivirus solution, look for the one that supports your device as well as its operating system. Also, the anti-virus software should be trouble-free to use, has over the air updates and a real time virus scanning and should scan all attachments for viruses. Although anti-viruses may significantly decelerate your mobile phone but it is beyond doubt the best protection.
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Picking The Best Antivirus For You
Nov 28th
Some people I’ve talked with say they’ve been a little confused when trying to select protective software to use on their PC’s. One person said it best, “it seems like there’s almost as many different programs for protecting your computer as there are viruses trying to infect it”.
That’s not exactly true, but I’m sure it can seem that way to anyone who wants protection but isn’t sure on which software might be right for them.
So, I found this great article that talks about common needs and features in modern Antivirus applications, and how you can judge them for yourself when picking a program.
I would just emphasize that there’s really no wrong choice you can make other than having nothing to protect your computer and information, and you can always change what you’re using at any time if something doesn’t work with or fit your needs.
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How To Choose Best Antivirus Solutions
by Mike Selvon
These days there are a number of choices that people have when they need to purchase internet security software packages to protect their computers from online threats. People can choose to visit some websites and get trial versions of security downloads before purchasing a full program, or they can simply go into a retail store and buy the software installation disk. Regardless of which method of acquiring the software is preferred, the question still remains for most people, “What is the best antivirus software available and which should they choose?”
In most cases, the antivirus internet security protection software that is published today comes with good warranties, guarantees and a strong level of customer support to help the computer user deal with any serious issues that might arise because of the various internet threats that are posed to their systems. Because of this level of support, many PC owners are most comfortable with an antivirus internet security suite from a highly reputable company.
But, there is a strong contingent of people who are convinced that the best antivirus software packages are the ones that are freely available to computer users. Indeed, there are many different, free internet security systems available that can be found at any of the numerous software download websites or through various software discussion forums. Often, software publishers will have free versions of their software available on the sites as well.
In some cases, the software publishers offer a limited time trial in order to allow the PC user to try out the software. This is a great benefit for computer users who are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of options they have to choose from.
Typically, the company will allow you to use a full version of their software for a limited time, such as two weeks or 30 days. At the end of that period, you must purchase a license in order to continue using their security software.
The biggest advantage to these trials periods is that the user has the opportunity to get a “feel” for the software and to see if they are able to run it easily. They can test the user interface and see if it is intuitive or if it was designed more for computer geeks and engineers than for the average computer user.
In most cases, these companies also offer at least a minimum level of support while the user is testing their software. This is done with the hope that the user will be pleased with both the software and the customer support so that they will decide to make the purchase of the internet safety antivirus package.
Another way that some of the software companies allow people to test out their computer internet security software is to allow them to use a limited or “lite” version. Typically, the limited version will provide some functions that the full software features, but will have many of the advanced features disabled. In most cases, these limited versions have no time limitation on them, but simply do not provide the full level of protection that computer users should have.
Once the PC owner has had the chance to test drive the security suite software in one of these ways, they will be able to determine for themselves which is the best antivirus package for them. While testing the software to see how it handles threats, it is also a good idea to research the software publisher to know if they are reliable and if they have a good track record for providing good customer service.
Mike Selvon has some informative articles for the creative mind. Find out more about the best antivirus solutions at his resourceful site. We appreciate your feedback at our internet safety rules blog.
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Browsing the Web Safely
Nov 24th
You’re probably aware that malicious people have devised some pretty creative ways to gain access to your sensitive information online.
That includes various methods which are being employed without your knowledge right on web sites you may visit routinely. It all happens “behind the scenes” and often is allowed because of some hole in your browser or Internet security settings.
It’s important to point out that while threats online are very real and serious, which is why Heather and I started this blog, we also don’t want to generate a sense of “the sky is falling” among our readers.
There are threats online, but they aren’t any more dangerous than those you face in the offline world, and statistically don’t appear to be any more prevalent than offline threats either.
In other words, online or offline, being aware of your surroundings and applying common sense to your own actions is always the best advice–and that’s what we’re trying to help you with here.
Part of your online surroundings when surfing the web is your browser, and while web sites may look the same in different browsers, that doesn’t mean browsers are all created equally. Here is a great article I found which talks about 2 newer web browsers and examines them for safety and security:
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New Better Browsers To surf the Web Safer
by Larry Miller
New Better Browsers To surf the web Safer
We all can use a better browser, to surf the web faster and with better security. There are two new browsers one from Google and one from Microsoft.
Lets check out some features of google’s Chrome first. The features that are very unique I will go over here,the rest I will include a external link because it being a google project It includes videos.
One box for everything- this is cool you type into your address bar and the browser will recommend searches or sites that you have visited.
Importing settings- Just click on the wrench up at the top right of the google chrome window and scroll down to import settings then un check what items you do not want and scroll down to the browser you want to import from.
Crash Control- This is great chrome has a built in task manager just right click an open area up top and it will bring up a menu,to say close a misbehaving tab or more.
Incognito mode- This mode enables the user to surf in a session that is not saved in the browser making it more private.
Safer Browser- Chrome has built in warnings of sites that may contain malware or that are phishing sites. Phishing site is one that Imitates another site or is a copycat site to trick you into giving your info, look for simple miss-spellings on the page.
Internet Explorer 8
In Private- This is a feature that can be turned on in the safety menu or a new tab. what is its ability? it is to surf without storing your session in the browser so its a more private surf.
Caret Browsing- Caret Browsing is new Accessibility feature that allows users to navigate a web page using a movable cursor thats on the screen and the keyboard. Users can select and copy text down to a single character using only the keyboard. Other content types, like table or images, can also be selected and copied.
Web Slices- Web Slices a new feature that allows users to connect to a web site by subscribing to content directly within a web page on that web site. Web Slices behave just like feeds, where users can subscribe to get updates and notifications of changes.
Automatic Crash Recovery- The Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) feature of Internet Explorer 8 helps prevent the loss of work in the unlikely event of browser failure or nonresponse. ACR takes advantage of the Loosely Coupled feature of Internet Explorer to provide new crash recovery capabilities, including tab recovery, that will minimize interruptions to a browsing session.
Tab Grouping- This new feature of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 allows users to put up related tabs–the tabs that originate from the same web page–into groups. Users can form tab groups in one of a few different ways, such as by opening a link from within a web page in another tab, or by right-clicking a specific tab and clicking New Tab. If, for example, a user chooses to queue up several different search results, the related tabs will not only open next to the original search result page (as opposed to the end of the tab band) but will also be put all in one group represented by a solid color. Different colors for different browsing tasks–for example, a research project, an online shopping spree, or a set of news articles opened from the same newspaper web site–allow users to quickly identify the tabs.
These two new browsers will improve the speed and security of your surfing and possible make it more enjoyable. Both are still in beta but are looking good.
Google has always had a good stable beta I have used gmail in beta and google earth both programs I had no problems.
About the Author
I have been building computers and upgrading them for about 7 years. I have been working at internet marketing for about a year and a half. I enjoy finding ways to help others with their computer problems and new marketing ideas.
Impress the Geek in your life – and save money!
Nov 23rd
With the economic woes facing so many people this holiday season is expected by some to be very poor for retailers.
Their loss can be your gain though, so today we’re going to look at a few “kewl gizmos” you can get at great prices that will knock the socks of the geek(s) in your life.
The LaCie Hard Disk 1 TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
That’s a full TB of disk space for storage and backups for just $119.00 – The included software attempts to format the full external drive as a single partition, but we recommend using some other disk utility software to setup multiple partitions based on your personal needs. It’s the geek thing to do.
HP 2133-KR922UT 8.9-Inch Mini-Note PC
1GHz processor, .5 GB Ram, 4 GB Flash Drive – you can’t go wrong with an HP mini-note for under $300
Canon PowerShot A590IS 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
A great camera with high performance at a low price. Includes Canon’s “Easy Mode” which helps anyone take pictures like a pro, even if they’ve never taken a picture before.
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC
A must read for geeks and those who love them! For those between the ages of 11 and 30 this is your story, and it’s a great guide for Gen-Xer’s to Baby Boomers for understanding the Net Generation who will shape the future.
Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel
The game “most wished for” by visitors to Amazon.com this holiday season, it includes the Wii Wheel. For ages 5 to 105, everybody loves Mario!
Are Pop-Ups Still Bothering You?
Nov 21st
Most of the latest web browsers have some form of pop-up blocking embedded in them which is usually enabled by default, so the annoyance of pop-ups has been largly trimmed over the last year or so.
But still there are a lot of people using older browsers for whatever reasons, and some marketers have found creative ways of skirting around the default blockers in their codes.
So, if you’re one of the folks who can’t seem to stop pop-ups most of the time here’s a quick piece that just might help you.
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Pop-Up Blocking, Honest Advice and Reviews
by Nigel Fryatt
With the development of the internet, new marketing and advertising methods have been used in an attempt to catch internet consumers even when they aren’t browsing. Pop-up’s are not only annoying, they are embarrassing. How are you meant to explain to your partner, or boss, why you’re viewing a ‘one month free trial pornography banner’ Many people who aren’t educated in pop-ups don’t understand them, and will simply assume you really were trying to get that free trial.
Pop-ups mainly occur when you’re browsing the internet online, if not your in serious trouble. You may have a form of Adware, which means your screen gets completely covered in ads. If you’re interested you can view my anti-adware site where I promote and review adware prevention software on behalf of their developers, http://frynig.bezoogle.com/pp/adware/. If you’re not interested, then that’s fine, I’m here mainly to talk about pop-up prevention. You may already use a pop-up blocker then if so, you’ve got no need to read on although I strongly advise you do. Pop-up blockers allow you to stop pop-ups all together. Whilst your trying to watch films, no more little ads popping up in the middle. Whilst you’re in the middle of work, no more ads. Whilst your playing games online or chatting to friends, no more ads. It’s simple, you find a good quality pop-up prevention program and all the bother, annoyance and aggravation disappears.
Are pop-up prevention programs really worth it? Yes, many people have been known to completely destroy their laptops or computers because of pop-ups, they just can’t take the strain of pop-ups whilst trying to do things they want to do. Would you rather pay out for a new laptop/computer or spend very little on a high quality pop-up blocker. I’m not here to sell you these programs however; I just merely think it is an extremely worthwhile investment. I use them on a daily basis and I’ve been able to write this whole article without a single disruption.
I work within the pop-up prevention and adware field so I have great knowledge of the effects of both. I work on behalf of software developers to review their products and I get money for referring people to their websites. This is how I make my living; I’m not going to lie, but I only promote the most high quality programs. If you genuinely want to stop pup-ups then check out my anti pop-up review site http://frynig.bezoogle.com/pp/popup-blocker/. If you’re not interested in buying anything, then merely go to inform yourself.
I believe strongly that the annoyance of pop-ups can be stopped, but only using the best quality software. Take my advice and you won’t be bothered anymore.
I thank you very much for reading my article, and look forward to your visits on my sites.
Honest, Reliable reviews and opinions.
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