The Weekly Geek

User Account Control (UAC) was introduced in Windows Vista. However, it soon became an annoyance due to the number of notifications it presented to the end users. In my opinion, the UAC in Windows 7 has been improved.  It displays fewer warnings and you have some control over the frequency of the notifications. However, even [...]

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Lately I have been dealing with some individual computer issues that were related to a lack of Windows updates. Originally making end users in a domain act as Power Users of the equivalent was a good security idea, however, over the last couple of years it has been an issue because updates would not occur [...]

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Even with the appropriate security measures in place, there is still the risk that malware can go undetected by your anti-virus software or even disable it. The “Malicious Software Removal Tool” is designed for such situations. In past articles I mentioned some of my favorite add-on programs such as Malwarebytes, Spybot Search and Destroy and [...]

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I advise people using loaned computers to always assume there is some sort of spyware planted. The recent flap over a Pennsylvania school district’s use of tracking software on schoolissued laptops, supposedly to locate those that were stolen, makes me wonder how much illegal snooping goes on everywhere, whether initially intended or not. read the [...]

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It was bound to happen: on-demand, web-based fraud that mirrors the efficiency, sophistication, and universality of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In his recent white paper, entitled “Fraud Trends in 2010,” Rick Van Luvender, Director of First Data’s InfoSec Incident Response Center, has forever characterized this thriving underground economy as Fraud-as-a-Service, or FaaS.

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