Simple steps to protect against Internet Threats
Protecting your PC from malware is becoming increasingly difficult. While it may seem a little paranoid, I’m right in saying that you can’t take your eye off the ball for one second. Even Microsoft’s internal network has been compromised on more than one occasion.
I remember the “good old days”, before the Internet and Internet threats such as Trojans, worms and viruses. In terms of computer malware life was simple back then. The main way a computer could be infected was via an infected floppy disk, the ability to detect and clean the virus was much easier. Compared to today, it used to take some time for viruses to infect a computer and slow the system down. Antivirus software back then was capable identifying and cleaning viruses before they became too much of a problem or caused much damage. Computer users were pretty clued up on how to protect themselves by scanning all external disks before copying them to a computer.
The arrival of the ‘Net’ changed all this; it provided new avenues through which viruses could move from host to host with alarming speed. Computer no longer only worry about viruses being transferred through floppy disks, but also now through emails, email attachments, peer-to-peer file sharing, IM and software downloads. Today’s viruses can easily spread through many entry points without human intervention, and take full advantage of weak points within a system or program. With technology advancing, and the advent of computers linking with other mobile devices, the potential threats also increase.
The advances in antivirus software have thankfully kept up to date with virus threats. Antivirus software is very important to a computer’s ability to fight off viruses. These products are designed to fight against malware that enters a PC through the internet as well as file servers and desktops. These programs also offer a main control feature to controls deployment, configuration and updating.
Computer users should stay cautious and follow some simple steps to protect against today’s malware threats:
1. Evaluate your current computer security system
With the threat of new viruses able to attack in an array of ways, the idea of having just one antivirus software has become outdated. You need to be sure that you have protected your entire computer system including desktops, networks, gateways and servers. You should consider a better antivirus internet security product which includes features such as antivirus, firewall, content filtering, and real-time proactive intrusion detection such as the ThreatSense technology found in ESET Nod32 . This type of defence will make it more difficult for viruses to access your systems.
2. Buy Antivirus Internet Security from reputable sources only
Only buy antivirus and internet security software that has been created by a reputable company such as Kaspersky, ESET or BitDefender antivirus. New viruses appear daily and so it is absolutely essential that you update the software regularly. Learn about the real-time scan feature and configure it to start whenever your computer starts up. This will protect your system by checking your PC each time it is turned on.
3. Always scan files and folders for viruses
Always scan programs or files no matter from where they are from.
4. Be cautious of opening files from unknown sources
Be careful when opening binary, Word, or Excel documents from unknown sources especially if they were received during an online chat session or as an attachment to an email.
5. Backup your data
Backup your data on a regular basis in case your system breaks.
Popular New Free Flash Games: Marbles
Flash games are great fun, and very addicting, especially when you’re bored. It’s because of the variety that a player can choose from and the fact that any game can be played directly from a browser without downloading. So many kinds of games are available to play for free on the internet:
Free Games – can be played at all times from anywhere in the world. When you’re at school and want to play a quick game, free flash games are the way to play online. Free online flash arcade games have become popular since players don’t need to invest any time into their playing. People look for a quick escape from their hard day at work or school with fun arcade or strategy games.
Well-liked Game genres – The shooter genre is very popular with free online flash games. These flash games may be played in real time, be turn based, or even multiplayer. Shooter games allow you to get into battles with opponents using all types of weapons. You must try to remain alive while killing all your opponents. These games have multiple stages packed with action and thrill where the player is required to triump over each challenge at every stage of the game.
Other free online flash game genres include arcade games, board games, casino and card games, sports games, motocross games, and puzzle games.
Play Marbles Online Game. Try to avoid the walls and collect all the marbles. Use the fun bouncers to jump walls.
Instructions:
Use to mouse to avoid walls.
Just give Marbles and some other Action Flash Games a try. You won’t regret it when you see how easy it is to play free online flash games from your browser.
Flash Online Games are a great way to have fun at any moment, from any place, and in any situation.
Is 3DTV Going To Be Any Good?
I remember our huge 40 inch CRT TV we had in the front room, I thought that was as good as TVs could be, even though the back stuck out a few feet! Then plasma TVs started to emerge and suddenly you could hang your TV on the wall, which compared to the old CRT units was like magic. LCD televisions were the next onto the market, and they started to draw people away from plasma TVs that suffered with screen burn, then HDTV sprang up, so what is next on the horizon?
A recent development has been the use of LEDs for the backlighting of an LCD TV, previously they used CCFLs (cold cathode fluorescent lamps) which are bulky compared to LEDs. There are two versions of this technology, one where the LEDs go all the way across the back of the screen, which is the best way, or one where the LEDs are at the side and the light is directed to where it is needed, either way you get a TV much slimmer than the CCFL versions.
3D televisions are starting to come onto the market now, but the reaction to them has not been that great because the technology is so new. Don’t get me wrong, 3DTV is going to be amazing in the future, but at the moment you have to wear special glasses which ruin the experience. Currently the TVs use ‘active shutter’ technology which means the glasses need to have shutters in them that open and close many times a second, that gives the experience a strange flickering effect, plus reports suggest that the 3D effect on the TVs won’t work if you sit more than a few feet away from the unit.
Remember these are the first generation of 3DTVs though, so the people who like to have the newest toys will buy these models, then the rest of us will wait for them to improve the technology and buy the later versions of them. There are one or two companies working on commercial applications of 3D viewing without having to wear glasses, so hopefully that will filter down into our TVs soon.
OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) are another technology which we can look forward to, although it has been in the pipeline for years and they can’t seem to get above a 13 inch screen at the moment. They are still working on it though to make larger screens which we can have in our homes, but if they do crack the current problems then the resulting TV will be just millimeters thick! So the future of TV is certainly interesting, I can’t wait to see what things will be like in 5 years time…
If you want a huge LED LCD TV then at the moment something like the Samsung UN55B8000 is popular.
You Can Now Play Doom on Your Palm Pre
The absolute classic FPS Doom has now been ported to the Palm Pre, running under Palm’s webOS. Alledgedly the Palm Pre version has most of the functionality of the original and is actually quite playable! The Palm Pre runs PRDoom, the open source doom clone. Check out the video below for some mobile based blasting – though you may have to turn your monitor (or your head I guess!) on it’s side to view it properly.
Lego RC Back to the Future Delorean – now this is Seriously Geek
Occasionally something comes along that I feel is just made for this site – and today I stumbled across one such thing. Combining Lego, radio control and the Delorean from Back to the Future it has geek written all over it – as does it’s creator! Pictured below, the Lego RC Delorean is a thing of geek beauty. You can check out a video of this thing in action at Legohaulic’s Flickr page along with a whole load of other geeky Lego creations. Does this person have too much time on their hands? Maybe…
Lego RC Back to the Future Delorean
