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2011 Security Advice

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:30:39 +0000

Today, spam is still a problem, viruses and other “bad” things are still circulating, and spyware is worse than ever. These are generally lumped into a category called “Malware” these days, from the French “mal” for “bad”.

To protect yourselves, I still advise the use of Spybot, as well as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for anti-spyware, and Avast (just updated to version 6) and AVG for anti-virus. In addition, I use ZoneAlarm for my firewall (to keep the “baddies” from “calling home” and sending your private info to the writer of the spyware). Also, Adobe Reader is now on version 10, which they say is the most secure yet. As well, Mozilla’s Firefox has now updated to version 4, with many new features.

You can get links to all of these free, legal, software packages on our website

As always, if you need help, please contact us.

Sheila Brown

Update Adobe Reader

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:12:46 +0000

Due to a security concern, please update to Adobe Reader 10 at http://www.filehippo.com/download_adobe_reader/

NOTE: click only on Download Latest Version on the upper right and be patient while it loads (Save the file, then run it to update your computer)

McAfee update damages Windows XP/SP3 computers

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:29:38 +0000

For those who have been affected by getting an update this week, there are fixes now available. A tool can be downloaded to run from a USB stick on the affected computer (or burned to a CD for those computers where the update damaged access to the USB ports). The tool is available from http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/tools/SDAT5958_EM.exe

As always, if you need more help with this or any other issue, please contact us.