Archive for 'Internet-Security'
Surveillance Company Says It Sent Fake iTunes, Flash Updates – Digits – WSJ.
Great. Now we can’t even trust software updates from “legitimate” companies. The only workaround is to ONLY get your updates manually from the software maker’s website.
From: Steve Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
I’m fed up with Mozilla Firefox. I switched to it, but recently, it’s been that I can type faster than the program can put letters on my screen. There’s always [something coming up on] my computer to show something is going on. I go to the Task Manager and all it shows is Firefox. I have to wonder if there’s something monitoring my keystrokes and thus it’s busy. I don’t want to feel I’m just getting paranoid but this weekend, I couldn’t get into my bank account online. I called them up and they said that somebody was trying to get into the account repeatedly and they shut it down because of that. I installed AdAware again and it removed some things, but that didn’t solve the problem.
Actually, this is a test to see if the same thing would happen as I’m in Internet Explorer. It’s keeping up with my typing. So, do you know of another browser to use that’s not Google or some other suspicious organization?
ANSWER:
Internet Explorer is always a good second choice. If you have Vista or Win 7 you can upgrade IE to IE9, but it’s not available for XP. I use Chrome a lot, but I understand your concerns about anything to do with Google. That’s why I tapered off my Chrome usage as well as my Gmail usage. Another good browser that no one seems to be aware of is Opera. Mozilla makes another browser called Sea Monkey, but it might have the same problems as Firefox. Safari for Windows is half-decent. Here’s a list of several alternatives.
As to someone monitoring your keystrokes, it could be true these days. Are you using Malwarebytes? They’re the best, you just have to keep it up to date and do a FULL scan every once in a while (bi-weekly?) and a quick scan weekly if not more often.
Something else you should do is to make regular backups to an external drive and scan that drive regularly for viruses with any antivirus other than Norton or McAfee. ClamWin and Avira aren’t very good, either. Microsoft’s Security Essentials is installed on all of my PCs exclusively, and it’s free. Also, I recommend Acronis backup/imaging software.
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Scroogle. This search engine uses Google, but removes the cookie that Google uses to track everyone.
Stuff like this is why I’ve been using Google Chrome for about a year now:
Microsoft warns of security flaw that ‘affects 900 MILLION people using Internet Explorer’
via Microsoft security flaw ‘affects 900m people using Internet Explorer’ | Mail Online.
For those old gadgets you’d just as soon get rid of:
And for a quick online scan against malware:
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/news101004/
And here’s another one, an online spellcheck of your website. It’s useful for those areas of the website where there’s text but no spellcheck functionality on the back-end:
Beware of this scam. Don’t bother trying to get them to help you unlock your pc:
http://rt.com/Sci_Tech/2010-08-31/hackers-gang-russian-bust.html. The fix is to download, UPDATE, and run Malwarebytes.
Keep an eye on who’s keeping an eye on you, here:
