...I feel very dopey right now... When I entered the address into the RIPE whois search, I entered it as 91.99.***.***, which gives the...
I use Comodo Firewall pro and was looking at the active connections window when I saw svchost.exe making an odd connection to an IP address. After...
I have been meaning to reformat my computer, but obviously have been putting it off since it takes so long. When I was browsing around in my...
If I got infected with malware, I know it would have gotten past both the Comodo HIPS and AVIRA, so I ran a-squared. It found two files (HP Games)...
I was visiting the "real clear politics" website and the Des Moines Register website with NoScript in Firefox 2.0.0.11, and then I went to my...
Anyone know if Veoh tv is safe? In other words, what is it tracking when I download videos, and have there been any exploits?
Anyone? I am afraid to do any "mission critical" stuff right now.
I was surfing a website and then went back to my yahoo homepage. In the upper right hand corner of the browser screen, I saw a black box roughly...
Are we talking about memory footprint or speed decreases on the harddrive?
In real life, if you have a fully patched Windows box with a good on-access anti-malware, and a good software firewall (even Windows firewall will...
I don't know, I was using the December 7th version.
I don't understand, how can it be faster and more secure at the same time? I thought an overwrite was an overwrite.
Firefox does simple file deletion for the "clear private data feature." If you want secure deletion, you can get CCleaner. Also, in...
Gutmann says that only a couple random passes is all you can do. If that's true, it means that more erasures give no benefit at all. However, I...
I was reading the DBAN website and it said that the Gutmann method is basically useless on modern harddrives. Quote from the webpage:...
It's odd, the problems appear to happen with the newest version. I might have to send the author an email. The newer versions do work with vista....
I am using AVIRA in Vista, so it may be a similar problem.
I might have to go to another eraser program.
For the average user, an antivirus is still the best baseline protection. Even though this can be viewed as the oldest form of pc security...
This should have been the release version. I tried both previous builds and reverted to Webroot firewall. However, the Comodo firewall has a...
I have been using webroot firewall for a while and logged this: 5:02:18 PM 12/11/2007 Out *.*.*.*:2967 *.*.*.*:3576 TCP (6) Didi this mean...
I found a workaround for the firewall logs. If you mind the wdflog.mdb getting big, right after you install, you can make a copy and just keep on...
So it is normal behavior? Never happened before.
Anyone know anything about the bug in the firewall where you can't delete firewall logs? I posted a question a while back...no response.
Re: Ecrypt/Locking app Keepass is great for passwords. Single file encryption: AxCrypt, and Volume/container encryption: Truecrypt. All are...
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