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CajunRick
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| Joined: | Fri Sep 29th, 2006 |
| Location: | Houma, Louisiana USA |
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| First Name: | Rick (& Kermie) | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Lifetime Catholic, Latin Rite |
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 02:33 pm |
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A government employee's life was virtually destroyed by hackers who placed child pornography on his computer without his knowledge.
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3866
EVERYONE needs to be running up to date anti-virus software and test regularly for malware (spyware, keyboard loggers, etc.), and you should be running a personal firewall as well.
AVG from Grisoft is a good anti-virus program that is free for personal use, but once you download and install it, you must keep it up to date. Find it at http://www.grisoft.com/ .
Comodo offers a free personal firewall at http://www.comodo.com/ . They also offer other security software that is free for personal use.
A word to the wise..
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Ali
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| Joined: | Sat Jan 6th, 2007 |
| Location: | Ohio USA |
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| First Name: | Ali | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | JW, finally fully Catholic |
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 05:36 pm |
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In addition to the AVG software, I also run daily (on a rotating basis) Ad-Aware and Spybot. Both are free downloads from a third party site, easy and straightforward to install. They check for cookies and tracking software. A google search will give you a link for them.
I do most of my banking/bill pay online. My livelyhood also depends on safe internet access. This is something I do not take lightly.
Consider yourself warned! LOL
Ali
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EMarshallBuckles
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| Joined: | Mon Nov 19th, 2007 |
| Location: | Rockville (Near Richmond), Virginia USA |
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| First Name: | Marshall | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Christian Church,Episcopal Church,Baptist denomination,learning about RCC |
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Posted: Thu Jun 19th, 2008 07:14 pm |
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 AMEN to the above! I run Norton Internet Security! Wouldn't surf the 'net without it!
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BodRod
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| Joined: | Mon Oct 2nd, 2006 |
| Location: | Apple Valley, California USA |
| Posts: | 813 |
| First Name: | Cliff | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Raised an SDA, then Generic Christian, finally at home with ... |
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Posted: Fri Jun 20th, 2008 12:17 pm |
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| Way back when, before I had a virus program running, I entered 000@0000.com , obviously an illegal address, at the head of my email addresses. Twice the computer crashed, because of the illeagal address, rather than send out a virus which infects an address list and re-emails itself to everyone in your address file. Since those days, I have both an anti-virus program and an anti-spyware program running but I still leave that address in the list. Last edited on Fri Jun 20th, 2008 04:17 pm by BodRod
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