Archive for May, 2009

Basic Spam and Virus Protection Sunday, May 17th, 2009

If you are a small business owner you know that you face internet security issues each and every day. Various types of viruses, spam, and potential hackers are waiting for you every time you power on the computer.  These are common threats that occur to several small businesses daily and unfortunately they seem to be here to stay. There are a number of different techniques though that you can do to boost up your security while you are conducting business on the internet.

1. Virus Protection

• You need to make sure that you have the latest and most update virus protection that is available. Also you need to use the software to scan your computer daily before accessing the internet. Also set your virus protection to scan your email as well.

1. Spam Blocker

• Be sure that you have an adequate spam blocker installed on your computer. There are a variety of these available on the internet. It will help eliminate any possible spam from entering your email.

1. Web Hosting Spam Blocker

• This may run you a few dollars each month but it is great to have on your computer. If you are running a business though it is best to have the best as well as the most protection that you can. This will help prevent other web host from spamming on your site.

1. Email Address Spam

• When you add a link to your site to your email address you are opening the door to hundreds of sites attaching on to the site and emailing you tons of spam. The only way that you can prevent this is to remove your email address off of all of your internet sites. You can use a contact form in replacement to your email address and you will still be able to communicate to your customers.

1. Discussion List Spam

• If you must add your email to a discussion blog use one of the free email sites such as Yahoo. Therefore you will be able to protect your real email address from spammers.

All of these discussed above are great ways for you to boost your internet security. The more that you do to protect your business online now, the less headaches that you will have in the future. Internet security is an important aspect that cannot be ignored.

Spyware Detection and Removal Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

There are more and more people every day that are turning into the internet today to find the information they are looking for in an effort to save time and offers them better information and options. But these people need to be aware when they are visiting these websites and they are downloading information from these sites can expose their computers to viruses, spyware, and other malicious information. Once these are installed in their computer it has the ability to detect personal information and the way that they happen to use their system. This makes this spyware extremely dangerous to you and your computer. It also creates a need for them to perform regular scans and remove the spyware from the computer.

The spyware can do a lot of damage to your system as well. It has the ability to damage both your data and your system in general. While you are probably like many and cannot avoid doing certain things online you can install spyware tools to help keep you safe. These spyware services are easily available online and they have good technical support as well.

In order to check for potential viruses on your computer you or your tech will need to run a scan using an antispyware program. You have to realize however that not just any anti spyware will work. You need to check for the reliability of the product by checking out the reviews from other users.

There are new threats being released into the internet daily. As a result you need to be sure that you keep your antispyware updated. This will refresh your computer’s memory of the program that you are using to enable it to continue to fight against the spyware. If you have updated software you need to realize you are putting your computer in danger against all types of dangerous spyware. If yours is outdated you really need to consider updating your system immediately.

Spyware is a very harmful type of virus that you will need to protect yourself from. An updated antivirus program will save you a lot of problems later.