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Lenny Bailes is an IT consultant and teacher who has worked in the Bay Area for 15 years. He's been a contributing editor and writer for a number of computer magazines and Web sites including PC World, CMP Techweb, PC Magazine and Computer Shopper.

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Rescue yourself if your computer is already compromised—here's how

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Some of the viruses discussed in previous posts may damage the boot process on your computer to the point where you can no longer start up. You can't...
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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is Aces at fighting "scareware." (Don't get fooled into turning it off!)

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Ever seen one of those popup browser windows that announces your PC has been infected? Ads like this can pop up from nowhere, offering to scan your PC...
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Macintosh Firefox users -- patch up to version 3.51

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Windows users aren't the only ones who need to worry about hacker security exploits and malware. The Mozilla...
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Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX video flaw reported - patch now!

Windows XP and Server 2003 users, do you ever click on or watch videos in Microsoft Internet Explorer? If the...
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Block that trick!

Internet security on a Windows computer is only as good as the antivirus/antispyware protection that you have installed. But you can do better than...
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Fighting spyware (beyond antivirus)

You might think installing a good antivirus program and firewall on a Windows PC means no more worry. Your PC is...
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