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Both XP and Vista protect you with an incoming firewall. And with Vista, you can configure the outbound settings to protect you as well.

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eBay has an ever-increasing number of categories, listing all sorts of itemsantiques, books, coins, collectibles

Drivers are the software that enables your hardware to communicate with your computer

I’ll bet you usually remember to clean your house occasionally.

With as many shortcut keys as Windows has, there are bound to be some functions you use on a daily basis that don’t have a convenient shortcut.

New threats are constant.

Is your computer system acting weird?

Running up-to-date antivirus software is great, but there is an even better protection

To run Disk Management, do any of the following

Networks that use the TCP/IP protocol rely on IP addresses to route packets of data from point to point.

The default network settings in most cases produce a working network environment with minimal fuss and bother

If you have been using e-mail for more than a few weeks, perhaps you have received an e-mail message like

One of the most confusing things about e-mail for many users these days is spoofed e-mail addresses.

Most home users use either a POP3 (Post Office Protocol) e-mail account or Webbased e-mail such as Hotmail or Yahoo.

When e-mail first began as a simple text-only command-line application to
exchange simple messages between computer engineers

Hand in hand with the preceding advice, you should also create a “dummy” Administrator account.

In order for an attacker to gain access to your system, they really only need two things: a valid username and its associated password.

Disabling the Guest account has been recommended by security experts since the Guest account was first created.

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Having an intrusion detection system (IDS) on your computer or network is like having surveillance cameras or a motion sensor alarm in your home.

Every year seems to mark a new record for the most new malware introduced, as well as the most systems impacted by malware.

Obviously, having 70, 20, or even 5 different passwords at a given time can be difficult to keep track of.

Password-cracking utilities use three methods for attempting to break a password.

So what’s a person to do? You can’t even remember what you had for dinner last night or what time your son’s soccer practice is. How are you going to remember what your password is?

Screen savers started off as a measure to protect your monitor.

Microsoft created the ability to hide known file extensions so that everyday users would not need to be bothered with too much technical stuff.

A Windows “service” is a program that runs in the background on Windows.They aren’t programs that will show up on the Start Bar at the bottom of the screen or programs in the sense that you would directly access or interact with them.

You may never have heard of the terms FAT32 and NTFS, or at least never cared enough to find out what they are, but they are file systems. When you format your hard drive, you can choose whether to format it using FAT32 or NTFS.