November 3rd, 2006
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Are you tired of spyware gathering information on you without your knowledge?
This information is bought and sold. I can’t imagine the weasals who do it have anything but nefarious purposes in mind. Protect your computer security. Speak up to the FTC! You can email comments for the April 19th, 2004 hearing at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/spyware/index.htm
Guy Hartmann is a community educator and often contributes to Quantum Links: http://www.quantum-links.com & blogs information at http://www.quantum-links.blogspot.com
How to Protect your PC from Atrocious Spyware in the Cyber Age.George Papazoglou
Wouldn’t you be shocked to find that
your personal sensitive information,
like files, credit card information,
operating system / software and other
non-disclosed data to be penetrated
by unscrupulous prying eyes? Even worse…
“Is your computer infected by Spyware?”
What is Spyware? Spyware are infectious
programs developed to secretly subtract
and transfer electronic information over the Internet, without a User’s apprehension.
Norton Anti-Virus or any other “virus protection” solution, will not protect your computer from malicious applications like Spyware.
Ever Downloaded any kind of Music, Video or even “Free Software”?
On the Internet, anything “free” has a hidden cost… much more than the cost of a highly-priced product.
How much is your Privacy’s worth to You?
To diabolic marketing companies, your identity my friend, is worth thousands of dollars… they get rich by capitalizing and selling your privacy to third parties, who will in return, sell (again!) or use you as a guinea pig for their promotions – your Anti-Virus won’t protect you from Spyware!
Hint: Some even sell your information to telemarketers, or bulk e-mail marketing companies.
The question is… are the gigantic companies selling “anti-virus solutions”, a part of this greedy industry?
Two of the best “Spyware Scanners” you must-have to protect your computer and identity from prying Spyware.
Spyware Removal Tools
No Adware : Stops privacy invaders like Gator, Kazaa or Adware and PC cluttering pop-ups.
http://cyber-software.com/spyware-removal
X-Block Probably the most powerful tool to automatically tracking, cleaning and informing you about malicious spyware, Trojans and
Privacy-intruding programs.
http://cyber-software.com/x-block
Scan your Computer now for free. Open the program here and then opt to choose “RUN” instead of downloading it.
You will be probably shocked to see how your Computer’s system is infected with several spyware programs.
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Article written by George Papazoglou
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If you’re out for resources on computer viruses, anything got a lot easier since the takeoff of the ‘net. In the past the only choice to source ideas on computer viruses was a dictionary or public library — and we can recall these times pretty good, can’t we? Not a very comfortable circumstances, am I right? Now there’s a plethora of data available because the World wide web is getting bigger and bigger with every single hour. The only thing we need is a place to begin.
An excellent way to start your research on computer viruses, especially when you don’t understand something about the subject, is one of the familiar search engines like Yahoo, Google or Teoma. Where does everyone end up? Right, people get zillions facts about computer viruses. As a result people have to dissect the valuable guidelines from the bad recommendations. Did you ever come across “internet portals”? Typically they are an excellent point to begin your analysis. Good news for those of you who only have limited funds: various gurus on computer viruses lay down their experience and anything you might hunting for!
Where would you want to go with your computer viruses matters? A very good method to come up with qualified tips is to sign up with a computer viruses group or community. Everyone can get in touch with institutions or post to a computer viruses forum. Again, a search engine like Google, MSN or Yahoo assists you to get things going, just do a search on “computer viruses forum” or “computer viruses community”.
If you would like to get your computer viruses material delivered by email, a “electronic magazine (ezine)” would most likely be a smart choice. You are able to subscribe to an electronic magazine exactly as you would do with your newspaper. Mostly they are free, however sometimes the provider of the ezine charges a fee. If so, you can assume first class quality advice on computer viruses! On the other hand: why not turn into a computer viruses professional by yourself and create a supplementary income stream?
Info products are another idea for people with limited time to research the Web. Summarized in an ebook or video tutorial you’ll get a lot of resources you would have spend days to surf on the World wide web. Life can be a breeze if you have sufficient money… 
Given that you ask for original computer viruses material fast, recent online resources on the ‘net are extremely beneficial. Well, now it’s your turn: go and develop into a computer viruses expert!
About the Author
About the author: Sue-Ann Reyna is a freelance publisher based in Dallas, Texas. She publishes articles and reports in various ezines and provides computer virus resources on Anti Virus Facts.
Written by mellow on November 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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It is not an exaggeration to say that, to look at the internet today, is to look at the wild wild west of virtual reality. You open an email and you are in danger of picking up a computer virus. You download something that looks interesting and you get a “Trojan Horse”. You respond to a nice looking add and you fall victim to a phishing scam. It is enough to drive one crazy. Not only is there no sheriff in this virtual reality recreation of the wild west, there does not seem to be any law whatsoever. Is there an answer to this dilemma? Some experts contend that there is. The creation of what I would call “Internet Security Societies” (ISS). An ISS provider would implement a tracing software, so that all interactions within their and other ISS providers’ environments would be totally traceable. There will be complete and personal accountability for all activities on the internet. If you got a piece of malware during your surfing, you could call your ISS provider and they would give you a complete report of where and who did the planting. As long as you only interact with approved members of an ISS provider, you would be assured of such complete accountability. Does such a concept seem far fetched to you? Consider the fax machine. It must have been quite a job selling the first few fax machines while nobody else in the market place owned one. And yet the technology proved itself, it filled a real need. Today you cannot seriously consider starting a business without a fax machine in the office. Nobody would take you seriously. The concept of the Internet Security Society has the same potential today. It promises to bring some sorely needed order in the wild world of the internet. However, the tracing software is a mammoth task. The successful implementation of the concept is by no means an easy thing. Considering the enormous numbers involved in the daily internet activities of potentially millions of members, makes such a task seem unattainable. And yet, if it is accomplished it will fill the tremendous need for order on the internet. Kanosis makes the claim that is has developed the software to accomplish this task. The center piece of their software is called “The Coil”. If it proves that it can deliver, it will be the next giant of the internet. If not, somebody else will step in to provide for this need. Some present giants of the internet are working on the development of such software. In any case, whether it is Kanosis or somebody else who first delivers in such a lofty undertaking, the undeniable facts dictate: Just hold on to your wallets. There is another monthly bill on the horizon if you want to remain active and be considered legitimate on the internet.
About the Author
John Douramacos (injohn) is an internet marketer http://www.makebucksonline.com who is interested in the financial markets http://www.4xtradingtrends.com and in security systems. http://www.thekanosiswave.com
Written by mellow on November 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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We’ve put Spyware and Adware together because in many ways they are inextricably linked. They are certainly are both intrusive and extremely annoying. Left to accumulate, both types will have a detrimental affect on the performance of your PC.
Let’s deal with Spyware first.
What Is Spyware?
Spyware often appears as cookies or small pieces of program code which are transferred to your computer from the internet or from installed software without you knowing. Its purpose is simple enough – to make a note of what you are doing as you browse the web and then feed the information back to its originator – all of this while the user remains completely unaware of what is going on.
Now why would anyone want to know this, you might ask.
Well that answer is simple enough too. Suppose you spend a lot of time looking at gardening sites. You might find that you soon begin to receive a lot of e-mails advertising seed catalogues. The Spyware has sent back information that suggests that you are a keen gardener and more importantly – a potential customer. Likewise, you may find that you start to get a lot of pop-up ads while you are browsing the Internet – some related to gardening and some related to the kind of other interests gardeners are expected to have.
What Is Adware?
Although just as irritating, Adware does tend to be a little more up front about itself. Some free software, Kazaa is a good example; fund themselves by displaying pop-up and static advertisements while you are using the software. When you install the Kazaa software other software is also installed which takes care of the advertisement maintenance. In fact, Kazaa will refuse to run if you uninstall the advertisement software.
Now it’s arguable that funding software this way is perfectly legitimate. After all, commercial television has been funding itself this way for many years. You, as the user, have to make a decision as to whether or not you are prepared to put up with the advertisements. If not then don’t install the software.
It’s worth thinking for a moment about Spybot – Search & Destroy. This is the free software that we recommend for removing both Spyware and Adware. The author has supplied us all with an excellent piece of software for which there is no charge. Now ask yourself how many people you know who would be prepared to spend hour upon hour developing something that is then supplied to complete strangers for no return remuneration whatsoever.
It becomes clear why some people therefore use Adware to fund both themselves and future development of the software.
The author of Spybot, Patrick M. Kolla, has decided to resist the temptation to include advertisements with Spybot but the software has proved to be so popular his own ISP is now charging him for the extra bandwidth his web site takes up as people download the software.
To counter this he asks for donations to help meet his costs – no fixed price – just donations and they are not compulsory.
Perhaps you will consider this after downloading the software.
The download and installation process is easy enough if you accept all of the default settings the software suggests. You can download the program at www.download.com (just put Spybot in the search window). Take a little time to read the inbuilt tutorial which is an education in itself.
Click on the SEARCH & DESTROY button to start the search process which can take a few minutes. The software will list all of the Spyware and Adware that it finds and includes a tick box next to each item so that you can choose whether or not to leave an individual item active. Personally I have found that the program seems to know what it is doing and I tend to accept the tick boxes as they are. Those with ticks against them are removed once you take the FIX PROBLEMS option. You should then re-boot to ensure any changes made have been fully acted upon.
I have no problem with readers downloading this or any of the other PC Doctor+ guides and including them as content in their own websites. All I ask is that you display a link to my own site at http://www.arrival-computers.co.uk (Im English so manners count lol!) .
Steve Latimer is Systems Manager with ARRIVAL Computers ( http://www.arrival-computers.co.uk )
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