This is the third installment in the Using Browser Extensions series. Reminder: As always, please be sure to have virus and malware protection prior to downloading unknown software. Google and Firefox vet their extensions, but there is always the chance that a piece of malware can be contained in any downloaded file. Utilities This post […]
Internet Safety Continued This is Part 2 of Using Browser Extensions – Internet Safety. We will be covering the two types of programs that probably have the ability to keep you safer than all the others combined: Password Generators/Managers, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Proxies. Using these extensions can be one of your safest acts […]
Why Use Extensions? If you are on the internet a lot, and most people are, then why not do it with the right tools available. Now that Microsoft Edge will be introducing extensions, that means that every major browser out there has extensions that can help you in an endless number of ways. Want to […]
I’m mad! You should be too. You see, computer people have their favorite tools. Tools they’ve found through trial and error, tools they’ve come to trust, tools they’ve used for years, and tools they’ll recommended to others. Ask a computer “guy” how to do something and he will more than likely suggest you use a […]
Security company G DATA has released its regular half-yearly malware report for the first half of 2015. Among the findings, researchers discovered a 64.8% spike in new malware strains as compared to the first half of 2014. This averages out to 12 new strains per minute. In all, the total number of malware strains this […]
I originally wrote this over a period of time. I started when the most dominant malware around was those fake anti-virus programs – you know, the ones that block your system and try to bully you into paying for an upgrade to remove the so-called virus it finds. In reality, the program itself is probably […]
Links to all articles included in this series: The Beginning: Opening introduction to the series Browsers: What are they? How to make them a safer door to Web. Search Engines: The Good, Bad and Ugly. Understanding search results. Malware and Virus: What is Malware? – What is a Virus? What is the difference in their types? How […]
The AV-Test Institute, which is well known for its testing of antivirus real time performance, has just released the results of a series of tests specifically designed to determine how a selection of leading products handle malware removal, cleanup, and remediation. The “endurance” tests, which were run over a period of 10 months, showed that […]
If you see an ad offering a ‘private video’ or ‘naked video’ of one of your Facebook friends, by all means, ignore it. (Who would want to see that anyways? Ewww. But I digress.) This is the latest scam that will result in malware called Trojan.FakeFlash.A being installed on your computer. It has already […]
We let you know about the good software here at DCT, but we also warn about the not so good. The prolific software company IObit has recently released an anti-malware freeware called ‘IObit Malware Fighter 2’ which, it claims, includes real time protection. Free tools of this type which also include real time protection are […]
Malware removal tools, or scanner/removers, have become an almost integral part of a home user’s security arsenal and we are fortunate that there are several very good freeware offerings to choose from. For some time I, among many others, have been recommending Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as top dog, albeit by a narrow margin. Malwarebytes has always […]
It’s a fact of life, much like death and taxes, if you own and operate a PC for any length of time you are almost certain to encounter malware. This is an area where it seems everyone has an opinion and advice on how to proceed when a PC is infected, much of which is […]