How do you protect your mobile phone ?

March 1st, 2010

Have you ever thought about your mobile phone security ? Probably not, and this is because too many devices phones have limited features so they don't support 3rd party applications to get viruses. Neither java application helps the virus creators. Java creates a virtual machine on the phone, so if that something bad happens it will stay into that virtual machine, he can't access other parts of your phone.

What about smartphones ? Are they vulnerable to viruses ? The smartphone creators are much more careful about security, they really invest some time in it, but that can't ensure that the viruses will never come. Read the rest of this entry »

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When was last time you had a virus ?

February 28th, 2010

How often you encounter problems with viruses ? I'm curios what precaution methods you use, how you find when you have a virus and how do you handle it.

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I did not encountered problems with viruses recently. I'm using Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and it should tell me if a file is infected. To maximize protection i set the anti-virus to tell me whenever an application wants to modify system data or to modify registry files. Read the rest of this entry »

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How do you protect yourself against viruses

February 26th, 2010

We all know that we  are facing a lot of problems because viruses and software vulnerabilities. This is happening mainly because of poor software that lack security issues, and i'm talking here about Windows. If you aren't careful you can end up with all your files infected, and if you don't protect yourself there is not much you can do.

I run a poll here because i want to find out if you use any anti-virus software, and if you do, which one ? Please be honest and vote even if you don't use any anti-virus software. Read the rest of this entry »

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Protect your computer on the Internet with OpenDNS

February 25th, 2010

We all know that the Internet will be almost everything in the near future. Games are switching from offline to online. Even if you say right now that an online game will never be as good as an offline game, i bet you are right, but this don't prevent people to prefer online games more. They have other advantages, they can be played from anywhere, they are light, etc.

We must accept the change and be a part of it. Big companies will invest more and more into web based games and maybe someday they will be better than offline ones. Read the rest of this entry »

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They can find my Street and Name if they Know my IP Address ?

January 23rd, 2010

The IP address is an unique indentifier assigned to each computer in a network. That is the definition of the IP address, probably you know this. Many questions raise from this sentence and you put yourself those questions many times: "How they can know where i am from?", "IF they have my IP address they can find out my street address", "They can find my name based on my IP address", "They can get into my computer using my IP address", "Why the IP address those websites show me is not the IP address that i got from my ISP" and many more questions regarding IP addresses.

Maybe when internet was explained to you for the first time you have seen a image with a cloud and everything connected to it. That image is logical and that is probably the right way to think the internet but in reality, the internet looks more like the image above. Read the rest of this entry »

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