You work hard to protect your PC from the malicious thugs of our digital world. You keep your antivirus program up to date. You avoid questionable Web sites. You don't open suspicious email attachments. You keep Java, Flash, and Adobe Reader up-to-date--or better yet, you learn to live without them.
Lincoln Spector |
30 May |
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Russell Caplan still uses Office 2003, which Microsoft will stop supporting next year. He asked if he will need to upgrade to a more current version.
Lincoln Spector |
23 May |
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Arcticsid installed one antivirus program on a new PC that already had another. Then he asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if that was a good idea.
Lincoln Spector |
22 Apr |
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Porcupins asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if encryption standards like AES really make your data secure.
Lincoln Spector |
21 Mar |
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Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Carol asked why there's so much of it.
Lincoln Spector |
21 Feb |
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Sdlmd downloaded an Android app that wanted access to Contacts, even though it had no legitimate reason to check on friends and relatives. What can be done?
Lincoln Spector |
24 Jan |
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Davikokar launched a program even though Norton warned that it was a Trojan. A subsequent hard drive scan revealed nothing bad. Davikokar then asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if Norton had given a false positive?
Lincoln Spector |
02 Jan |
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Trinu, who keeps sensitive data inside AES-encrypted .zip archives, asked the Answer Line forum about the advantages and disadvantages of switching to TrueCrypt.
Lincoln Spector |
13 Dec |
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The iLivid installation routine put several unwanted programs on Threaddy's computer. Why didn't Norton block the program as malware?
Lincoln Spector |
03 Dec |
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Microsoft has released a confusing selection of security programs over the years. Deborah Armstrong asked me to make sense of them.
Lincoln Spector |
12 Nov |
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2godballdaglory asked the Answer Line forum how he can boot an old PC with a password he no longer remembers.
Lincoln Spector |
05 Nov |
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Passwords protect every part of your online life. If you don't treat them properly, you're exposing yourself to a whole mess of trouble.
Lincoln Spector |
22 Oct |
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KenWid10 asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum how best to send encrypted information to someone over the Internet.
Lincoln Spector |
20 Sep |
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After discovering how easy it is to recover data from a hard drive removed from one PC and attached to another, Melker asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if password protecting Windows actually protects your data.
Lincoln Spector |
06 Sep |
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Arcticsid asked the Answer Line forum if his ISP can "sit back...watch a screen, and see everything you are doing at any given time?"
Lincoln Spector |
03 Sep |
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