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Cisco CCNA Certification: Should You Take The One-Exam or Two-Exam Approach?
One question I’m often asked by CCNA candidates is whether to take the “one big exam”, or take the two separate exams required by Cisco to achieve the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam.
The question comes up because there are now...
Creating A Wireless Home Network
Creating a wireless home network
Most people have more than one computer in their home and it is
becoming absolutely essential to having all those computers
hooked up to the internet. A wireless home network can get all
the computers in your...
Finding What You Need
There are all sorts of different devices you can buy that will
give your computer wireless networking capabilities. If you've
taken a good look around, though, you probably have been
confused by all the different kinds of equipment being...
Intranet
Introduction to Intranets
What exactly is an intranet? It's one of those terms that's more thrown around than understood, and has become more of a buzzword than a commonly understood idea. Simply put, an intranet is a private network with...
Link Building for a New Web Site
Link building is such an important area of owning a business
website. It's a great way to promote your site and your
business. And it is also critical for search engine rankings.
Think of link building as networking for your site. The...
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Is "Spyware" Watching You?
Imagine my surprise when I received a phone call from a
friend who told me he'd been the victim of a "spyware"
attack that left him shaking at his loss of privacy.
I listened to his horror story with a sympathetic ear, but
I felt secure since I carry anti-virus software and a
firewall (both by Norton).
At his suggestion - and to my surprise - I ran a program
called "Spy Sweeper" and found a veritable minefield of
dangerous and harmful programs lurking on my computer.
"Spyware" is software that gets onto your computer and
literally "spies" on your activities.
The spying can range from relatively harmless use of
cookies tracking you across multiple websites... to
extremely dangerous "keystroke loggers" which record
passwords, credit cards, and other personal data. That data
then gets relayed to the person who put the software on
your computer.
Three primary types of spyware exist to complicate your
online life, including:
1. "cookies"
2. "adware"
3. malicious programs like "keystroke loggers"
Cookies represent mostly a danger of lost privacy.
In theory, someone could use a "cookie" to track you across
multiple sites, combine that data with several databases,
and figure out a lot more information about you than would
make you comfortable.
"Adware" tracks more than just your movement across sites,
it spies on your installed software and computer habits to
then serve up advertising, modify websites before you see
them, and generally do things without your knowledge with
the intention of trying to get you to buy things.
"Keystroke loggers" and other malicious programs exist for
one purpose: to cause personal mayhem and financial damage.
Spyware gets on your computer in one of several different
ways.
First, it rides along with software you download from the
'Net and install on your system.
Second, they come as email attachments (much like viruses)
and automatically install themselves on your computer when
you open the email message.
Third, hackers find an open
port on your computer and use
the "back door" to install basically anything they want.
And fourth, the more malicious types, like keystroke
loggers, can even get installed by someone with direct
physical access to your computer such as an employer,
suspicious spouse, business competitor, or someone who
wants to know exactly what you're doing.
Now, suppose you carry an up-to-date anti-virus program and
a firewall - shouldn't that represent potent protection?
In a word: NO!
I can personally attest that even the most up-to-date anti-
virus programs and firewalls will not (repeat, WILL NOT)
catch all the spyware that can infest your computer.
You need a program that specifically scans your system for
the tens-of-thousands of existing spyware programs along
with the new ones appearing daily.
Check out "Spy Sweeper" from webroot.com - this is the
program I used to discover the spyware on my computer.
One thing I noticed, however, is that this program is a
memory hog, so once I scanned, I turned it off and then
use it 2-3 times a week... not the best strategy, but
I want to give you the "whole" picture.
I also got the following recommendations from numerous
subscribers about 2 programs to specifically help identify
and remove spyware from your system (PC):
1. "Ad Aware" from lavasoft.de
2. "Spybot Search & Destroy" from safer-networking.org
The overwhelmingly recommended firewall suggested by readers
was Zone Alarm Pro from Zone Labs
=> http://www.ebookfire.com/zonealarm.html
The bottom line seems pretty simple (but lengthy) if you
want to protect yourself against this growing threat.
~ Keep your anti-virus program current
~ Install a firewall
~ Carefully screen software before installing it
~ Scan for specifically for spyware weekly
~ Stay current on this growing threat.
About the Author
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist
(http://www.TheNetReporter.com) and is the author of
several best-selling ebooks, information products and
software programs.
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