Even though enabling separate Windows 7 accounts can increase security, there are several obstacles to overcome when many different user accounts are used on the same PC. The most important is that more than once account means that a hacker has more opportunities to gain unauthorized access to the PC and the server.
12.13.11 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
Rogues will cause you many unwanted computer problems, invade your privacy as well as try and steal your money. Rogues will make use of a fake system scan, fake system scan report results as well as fake computer security notifications. You need to know that Rogues will try every single trick that it can in [...]
11.16.10 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
When it comes to Microsoft and Windows 7 security they did do something very strange. Basically they made it so Windows 7 was to create default names for the Guest accounts and the administrator accounts, on every copy of the Os. This basically was put in place in order to make life much easier but [...]
10.6.10 | Windows 7 Tips | Computerexpert
As is laid out by researcher, Gartner, his predictions predict that by the year 2012, 60% of all virtualized servers will in fact be less secure than the servers they will have replaced. By 2015, Gartner suggests that the this figure will have dropped to 30% – that is, if virtualization deployments projects continue being [...]
09.21.10 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
According to recent survey conducted by Proofpoint, concerning email security trends, the following key findings have been highlighted: Spear phishing? It appears that a staggering 48% of respondents believe their organization to have been targeted by some form of phishing email scam, which was designed to compromise their PC usage.
08.3.10 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
Here is an overview of last week’s most fascinating news, reviews as well as articles. Cloud computing not as safe as they want you to think This is the perfect solution for our increasingly mobile life style; everything that we need is always online. Beware of Chinese bearing gifts UK businessmen have been warned by [...]
08.3.10 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
The latest story which is circulated around the news is in connection with a person who goes by the name of Raoul Moat. It has been created that he pops up in article searches with various titles. Some of these titles may include but are not limited to the following: “Timeline of a gun rampage” [...]
07.9.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
It has recently been reported that a new spam trick is taking place. This time cybercriminals are once again trying whatever methods that they can in order to achieve their malicious desired goals. This time there is a new spam campaign which is going around that makes use of Digg, which is a social networking [...]
06.24.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
Sooner or later, we are all temped into downloading free software from the Internet – be it an application, music, a movie or even a game. Most of the time, the downloaded program is legitimate and actually does serve the purpose it says it will, but there is also malware disguised as helpful software – [...]
06.17.10 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
It has been discovered that Google has recently released a specific online tutorial that actually allows developers the opportunity to play the role of a hacker. This is done by giving them the opportunity to exploit genuine security bugs which exist within a mock web application. This tutorial that is available is free which is [...]
05.28.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
