Security consultant Howard Fosdick has contributed the latest entry in the 2008 OSNews Article Contest: a highly detailed examination of security and privacy on the Windows platform, and how to use free software tools and a little knowledge to protect your privacy online.
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I fix three or four computers a day, at people's homes, day in - day out.
The /only/ way to avoid the plethora of malware on the Internet is to use /anything/ but IE. Firefox is the first port of call, and adBlock - adverts & flash are a major security risk now, don't think that they're not. I've seen it all first-hand over and over...
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I fix three or four computers a day, at people's homes, day in - day out.
The /only/ way to avoid the plethora of malware on the Internet is to use /anything/ but IE. Firefox is the first port of call, and adBlock - adverts & flash are a major security risk now, don't think that they're not. I've seen it all first-hand over and over...