Archive for the ‘Guides and Tips’ Category

ID Theft - How to Avoid Identity Theft

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - It's fairly easy to protect yourself against identity theft when you're online, since all you have to do is keep your softwares patched and up to date, install a good antivirus and anti spyware program, and to never visit untrustworthy sites as well as ...

Computer Spying to Catch a Cheating Spouse

Monday, July 7th, 2008

By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - A lot of relationships, particularly those with men or women who have weak bonds with each other, tend to get ruined or at least marred with discrete online affairs. If you have glaring suspicions about the online habits of your partner, you may want ...

How to Remove? Spyware Quake Removal Step

Friday, July 4th, 2008

By Spyware News (www.spywarenews.org) - SpywareQuake is part of a new breed of adware/scam hybrids that act as trojans and infect systems via email spam or website scripts. Once infected, SpywareQuake bombs the user of the computer with fake security notification pop-ups, telling them that their computer is infected. ...

Internet Explorer vs Opera vs Mozilla Firefox

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

When you want to surf the net, you click on the blue 'e' on you desktop. That's all there is to it. Why should you have to choose a browser? And is there a choice at all? Isn't the word 'browser' synonymous with 'InternetExplorer'? With the recent spate of browser-related security ...

Protect Your Online Privacy - Useful Tips

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Tips and guides to protect your online privacy when you are surfing the net - When you venture online, the markers of your identity shrink greatly, and you are known only by your digital, electronic signatures. Any one who can mimic these can claim to be you, and wreak havoc ...

Spyware Blocker - How to Combat Spyware

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

One thing is certain. You have to fight spyware, there is no alternative. You cannot leave the issue aside, you cannot say that, “let it stay the way it is.” I mean, you can always say that if you like, but the risk might be a bit too high. You ...

Cyberstalking - How to Stay out of Danger

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Cyberstalking has recently made its place among the most notorious and destructive crimes that involve the use of the internet. And not unlike real life stalking, it is also perhaps the most terrifying. Cyberstalking occurs when a person is able to gain personal information about you through the internet and online ...

Instant Messaging IM Worms - Get the Facts

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

You've taken this course in internet safety and learnt all that there is to learn about how to avoid viruses and worms. You have installed advanced virus scanners, so nothing can pass through your email program and infect your Operating System, nor be downloaded from the internet or from a ...

Zango Removal Instruction - Spyware Alert

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Zango is an adware which monitors the web sites and URLs that you visit, and generates popup adverstiments every few minutes. Instruction to remove Zango from your pc 1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 2. Find Zango on the list 4. Click the Change/Remove button 5. Check ...

Cookies: What Do They Do and When Should You Remove Them?

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

You visit a website that requires registration, and you create your own unique user-name and password combination. Then when you comeback to that site some day later, the site magically seems to know who your are, and greets you by name! Apparently it knew your login and password, and logged ...