Detection and Protection from Spyware Part 1 of this 2 part series looked at how common Spyware is. Let’s now take a look at how to protect your computer, privacy and identity from spyware attacks. Here are a few solutions for spyware along with my personal recommendation.

Programs that compromise your personal information… or… Spyware 101 Spyware is any program that communicates data about your computer and/or you that you do not explicitly authorize. Imagine that some program is transmitting your behavior and usage patterns on your computer to some individual or company? Well unfortunately, its far more common than you might [...]

For public demos of your website or application, use a restricted user account to protect your computer and private files One of our customers is excited to demo her application, www.insightfulonlinetarot.com, at trade shows, but is concerned about the security of her computer. She asked how to allow users access to a web browser and [...]

A customer of ours recently asked how to stop her browser from remembering passwords. She wants to give a demo at a trade show, but knows how awkward it will be when a prospect tries to log in to her system, and sees a list of remembered passwords. The prospect will probably not want to [...]

My friend’s Facebook post says it all: “and just like that, my 6 yrs life vanished in the lost of thousands of pictures, journals, music and documents”. 2 days latter after taking her hard drive to get checked out: “thank all for the concerns, unfortunately I wasn’t able to recover anything from the old drive, [...]