The one thing we know for sure about today’s malware is it’s very smart. It’s so smart that it often recreates its own component parts even if it has been deleted. How smart is that? Today’s malware generally writes itself into multiple parts of the operating system and in many cases it can hide it’s

One of the things that I find really annoying when I install a new application is the program’s decision that it is so essential to my happiness that it automatically triggers an auto-start command on system start up. So that means, every time my computer is booted, this type of presumptive program is started with

Many of us go into curiosity mode when we surf the Internet. One of the keys to the success of the web is that it can in fact, satisfy our curiosity about almost anything we can think of. Over time we have learned to satisfy this curiosity simply by a mouse click here, and

One of the many perks of being a member of the Blogging community is, it allows me to have direct contact with a great many other Internet users; many more than I would have to opportunity to communicate with, in any other way. One of the benefits is the real issues that other users are

In the already overcrowded anti-malware application market, we have yet another free anti-malware contender. On the other hand, it’s always a plus to have another free and effective security application to choose from. As a secondary on-demand scanner, this nifty little program performed well on my test systems. Orbitech, the developer of Hazard Shield describes this

There are plenty of good anti-malware products, but experienced computer users’ realize that to ensure maximum safety, it’s important to have layered defenses in the ongoing fight against malware. Given the virtual epidemic of malware currently circulating on the Internet, no single anti-malware tool is likely to identify and remove all of the millions of

Whenever the subject of file/disk encryption comes up when talking with my non-technical friends, I often get the oddest looks and the strangest comments. These comments generally revolve around the fact (my friends’ facts), that only someone with something to hide would need to encrypt files. Well, they’re right; but not for the reasons that

Are you, like me, the tech support guru/IT department for your friends, family, and perhaps even the neighborhood? I’m often asked by friends, to help them, their friends, their neighbors ………. the list goes on endlessly, to reconstruct a computer that is not responding properly, has become loaded with malware, or in some instances, has

It’s not very often that I forget about security protection software installed on my computer. But I must admit to having forgotten about the fact, that for years, I have had SpywareBlaster installed on my system. I allow myself to feel better about this when I consider that unlike other security programs SpywareBlaster, once installed,

A packed, cluttered registry can often be one of the major causes of computer slowdown, and in some cases, computer malfunction. On top of that, a messy registry can cause programs to stop working as they should, and it can lead to frustration while you wait for the operating system to load, often at a