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COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT UPDATE
The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is most closely associated with criminal prosecutions brought by the Department of Justice. But the CFAA also provides for a civil cause of action for a...
Is Online Banking safe to use on Wireless Internet/Public WiFi connection?
Banking, Yes; Email, Probably Not!
Banking online is as safe on WiFi as your home or office internet connection. Banks, credit card companies, and any other financial or reputable retail...
How to remove Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security, and other Symantec products manually
Symantec offers several utilities that can be used to uninstall Norton and Symantec products manully. Although Norton suggest you use Add/Remove Programs, we recommend using this always. It elimi...
Secure your wireless network
For the home user, wireless has become popular due to ease of installation, and location freedom with the gaining popularity of laptops.
Securing your home or office wireless network is ...
Cleaning cookies before buying plane tickets or renting hotels
These days most people purchase airplane tickets and make hotel reservations online. Whether you buy from Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, or any of the other major travel sites, it is always a good ...
A firewall is necessary
The purpose of a firewall is to block unsolicited attempts to access your computer from the Internet, and provide your PC with a certain degree of stealth from malicious scans. There are two distin...
Where to buy your new notebook: online or retail outlet
According to recent market trends, most people are purchasing their new laptop computers at retail outlets as opposed to online. We generally encourage our customers to never purchase a laptop onl...
General Computer Maintenance Tips
Reorganizing the file system Go to "Start" > "Run" > Type in "defrag" and press "Enter" Select which drive you’d like to defrag (normally this will be ...
Get rid of Norton. Use AVG!
Norton AntiVirus can rob your system of necessary resources. Norton is a very cumbersome program. Although Symantec has good intentions, Norton can slow your system to a crawl. A typical Norton ...
Internet Explorer 7 and Quickbooks
If you're a user of Intuit's QuickBooks 2004, 2005, or the original build of 2006, installing Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 could be catastrophic.
If you install IE 7, according to Intuit...