Richard O'Hara backs up regularly to an external hard drive, but that leaves him worried. "How can I make the data on the external drive secure in case it's lost or stolen?"
Lincoln Spector |
15 Apr |
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Jerseygirlinfl asked the Answer Line forum if photos floating around the Internet could contain mailware.
Lincoln Spector |
27 Mar |
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Melanie, concerned about online privacy, asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum who can see her IP address and how serious a problem that is.
Lincoln Spector |
17 Mar |
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Harish Kumar asked if a brute force attack--which tries random text strings until one turns out to be your password--would work on major websites. "Will Facebook allow millions of failed attempts?"
Lincoln Spector |
17 Feb |
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Rose's Internet service intermittently slows to a crawl. She wants to make sure that her neighbors haven't hacked her Wi-Fi for free connectivity.
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16 Jan |
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Malware infected Jones888's computer, and important files are no longer accessible. How can Jones get them back?
Lincoln Spector |
13 Jan |
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Maggs2378 found personal information "on one of those 'people search' web sites" and wants to know how to get it removed.
Lincoln Spector |
09 Dec |
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Susan Taylor worries that password managers may not be sufficiently secure. "What if the password manager company is hacked?"
Lincoln Spector |
18 Nov |
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Don doesn't need to keep other people off his PC. He asked me how he could skip the logon screen and boot directly into Windows without a password.
Lincoln Spector |
28 Oct |
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Pritesh Singh asked whether anyone other than the intended recipient can view files attached to a Gmail message.
Lincoln Spector |
21 Oct |
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No one stays healthy forever. At some point, your loved ones will need access to all of your accounts. You can make that job easier for them.
Lincoln Spector |
07 Oct |
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While cleaning up an infected PC, Flingwing asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum to explain the difference between malware and viruses.
Lincoln Spector |
19 Sep |
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Kirsty woke up to find that someone else had taken control of her Twitter account. I tell her how to get it back.
Lincoln Spector |
09 Sep |
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Password managers help you keep more passwords than you can memorize. Eric asked if he could carry one on a flash drive.
Lincoln Spector |
25 Jul |
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Mgentry2 asked the Windows forum to recommend password managers that can "keep track of both online passwords and desktop application passwords (Outlook, Quicken, etc.)."
Lincoln Spector |
17 Jun |
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