Recovery Vs Installation Disks – What You’ll Need If Your Hard Drive Crashes

March 20, 2011

Are you prepared if your hard drive crashes? Your recovery disk has helped you recover from certain types of failures. However is it always enough, or do you need an installation disk as well? To answer the question, it is important to first understand the difference between a recovery disk and installation disk.

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Remote Access Support – Is it Worth the Risk?

March 20, 2011

Typically when you call a software company or computer manufacturer to fix a problem they rely on you to describe what is wrong and then work with you to troubleshoot the problem over the phone. This can often get quite confusing.

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Online Safety – Stay Safe While Enjoying the Ride

March 20, 2011

In an ideal world, you wouldn’t have to worry about online safety. You wouldn’t have to worry about others on the network trying to steal, harm, or infect your computers with malicious viruses or spyware. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world. The days have passed where you can safely use the computer, browse the [...]

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Can You Be Traced by Your Email Address?

March 20, 2011

When you communicate with people or post online, chances are you don’t think twice about sharing your email address. But should you? Is there a way your phone number and address can be tracked by someone who only has your email address?

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Using Twitter Can Get You Spammed – Don’t Tweet Your Email

March 20, 2011

Twitter, the social networking site, in many ways defies description. It’s been referred to as a micro blogging site and a community IM (Instant Messaging) tool. Take note of the word “community” – with Twitter you post “tweets” that are up to 140 characters in length, and by default, unless you’ve protected your twitter account, [...]

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The Best Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus Still Can’t Protect You From Dancing Bunnies

March 20, 2011

You may wonder what anti-spyware program to use or which anti-virus program is the most effective. There are many good anti-spyware and anti-virus tools out there but it’s extremely important to remember that there is no perfect solution. All of these anti-malware programs will miss things that others may catch. The best approach is to [...]

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How Safe is Your Data If Your Computer Gets Stolen?

March 20, 2011

When working with computers for any length of time, it’s inevitable that you will experience a disaster of some sort. There’s the crash that happens just before a document is saved. The failure that renders a disk unreadable. You get the idea. Are you prepared?

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What Happens to Your Data If Your House Burns Down?

March 20, 2011

Is your carefully backed up data ready for a house fire? You probably already understand the importance of backing up and even encrypting your sensitive data. And while losing your data is bad, having your sensitive personal data in the hands of a thief can be even worse.

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Viruses – How to Keep Yourself Safe

March 20, 2011

If you use a computer at all, chances are that at some point you’ve been effected by a virus. If you were lucky, the virus may have just been an annoying setback to your day, but if you weren’t so lucky you may have lost all of your data… or your bank account information… or [...]

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Secure Delete – Do You Need It?

March 20, 2011

Secure Delete makes sure that when you delete a file it can’t be recovered. Understanding Secure Delete is important to protect your data properly. Depending on your level of healthy paranoia and the sensitivity of your data, plain old “delete” may not always be enough. Deleting a file in Windows doesn’t actually erase the data. [...]

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