Note on 23-01-2011: since the writing of this post, Avast has cleaned up their license renewal act making it easy and clear how to renew the free license. Still using it so far, so go Avast! :) Maybe you haven’t heard of it before but Avast! Antivirus from Alwil Software is virus protection software that [...]
December 22, 2006 – 23:07
It’s hard to believe there are still people who would sell or ditch their old hard drive without erasing the data off it first, but apparently there are. A while ago I prepared an old 486dx2 machine for it’s final trip to the recycle centre (at least, I think they recycle old electronic devices that [...]
You might know (but very it’s likely you don’t) I wrote about securing your Windows machine by not running as a user who has administrative privileges on in a previous post. So this summer I was staying in a hotel by a well known and established chain, which have these nifty computers in the lobby [...]
September 7, 2006 – 19:22
It’s time to feed the brain once again with a selection of free literature, downloadable in PDF format off the infamous internet. Yes indeed, and I think there’s some for everyones taste for once, and not only the geeks amoung us. Talking geeks, lets kick off with seeing to their needs. How about some security [...]
September 1, 2006 – 21:42
This recent myspace security leak doesn’t come as a surprise to me I have to say. The whole site feels like a hack when you’re using it. Like it’s just a bunch of stuff slapped together into a single app. It makes me think of one of those dreaded pieces of software that was slapped [...]
This older El Reg article about Windows Vista security nails something I’ve noticed a few times before and is definitely a problem which doesn’t have a quick and easy solution. Asking a user to confirm a potentially risky operation is useless, because in most cases the user doesn’t have a bloody clue what the message [...]
I just came across this bit of info, which is quite interesting and useful in the unfortunate event your cell phone would get stolen. Using your cell phones serial number you can have your network operator block the phone the next time it logs on to the network. Even when the petty thief uses a [...]
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