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Free Personal Firewall Software Updated

Thursday November 25, 2004
I am spending part of my Thanksgiving holiday doing a little more house-cleaning on the site. I updated the Free Personal Firewall Software listing. I removed an item or two ... Read More

Product Review: Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition

Wednesday November 24, 2004
Lavasoft recently released a new version of their free spyware detection and removal tool. Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition contains tons of updates and improvements over its predecessor and remains one ... Read More

Book Review: How To Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware

Monday November 22, 2004
This is a review of Ken Feinstein's book "How To Do Everything To Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware". The book is aimed primarily at PC security novices to help ... Read More

Remove Saved Passwords In XP

Friday November 19, 2004
Windows XP offers the ability to save passwords for web sites and network resources. This can be very convenient as opposed to remembering and entering the username and password each ... Read More

Security Awareness Blog

Thursday November 18, 2004
Here is a blog site you may want to check out. The Security Awareness Blog, sponsored by Winn Schwartau's Interpact, Inc. provides news and information from across the Web- sometimes ... Read More

Book Review: Nessus Network Auditing

Saturday November 13, 2004
With the rate of vulnerabilities being discovered and new malware being created, computer and network security seems to be more important with each passing day. There are a number of ... Read More

Cracks In The Armor: XP SP2 Vulnerable To New Attacks

Friday November 12, 2004
No sane information security expert would ever have suggested that any product is impervious, especially not a Microsoft operating system. But, with the addition of Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows ... Read More

November Microsoft Security Bulletins

Wednesday November 10, 2004
There was only one new Microsoft Security Bulletin this month. MS04-039 addresses a flaw in Microsoft's ISA Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 which could allow content spoofing. Microsoft did ... Read More

Book Review: The Executive Guide to Information Security

Sunday November 7, 2004
Symantec Press was recently formed in partnership with Addison Wesley Publishing. This book by Mark Egan, with the help of Tim Mather, is one of the first books put out ... Read More

Phishing Attacks: The Next Generation

Friday November 5, 2004
Phishing attacks originally relied almost exclusively on users being naive or ignorant enough to click on a link in an email that directed them to a spoofed web site. This ... Read More

Creating Strong Passwords

Thursday November 4, 2004
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