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Make sure Windows Vista Service Packs are updated

A recent report from Microsoft serves as a reminder of how important Windows updates can be. The report, titled “Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, Volume 12,” details how computers with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are more likely to be infected with...

Internet crime is big, big business

“$10,000 a day:” that’s the correction that needs to be made to my column of last Sunday. In describing how the Flashback Mac Botnet was making money for the Internet bad guys, the print version of my column somehow left out the “a day”...

The myth of the “safer” Apple Mac

For years, Macintosh computers made by Apple have enjoyed a reputation as being vastly “safer” than other types of computers, particularly those based on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Deserved or not, that reputation has cultivated a...

When in doubt, DuckDuckGo and Tor!

One of the biggest privacy complaints about major Internet search sites such as Google, AOL, MSN and Yahoo is that they keep extensive and often permanent records, called “logs,” of the who, what, where and when of everything that’s entered into that little search...