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How to remove Privacy Commander (Privacy Commander removal) |
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How to remove AdvancedPrivacyGuard (Advanced Privacy Guard Removal) |
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Protecting my privacy from Spyware |
Recently the amount of Internet threats to users PCs has risen disastrously. Last October as a result of research lead under America Online and National Cyber Security Alliance initiative traces of spyware "activity" have been found in more than 80% of user computers. The subject is relevant so it's high time to talk about spyware, why users PCs are vulnarable and how to protect your computer from spyware attacks.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
Do You Trust Your Search Engine? |
I do. Usually. A bit less now. I needed to find some flight information so I entered an airport name into my favorite search engine and in no time at all I had a nice page with all the answers. But wait. I may have misspelled the word "airport." So what? The first entry looked just like what I wanted, so let's click on it.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
You have zero privacy and a keylogger |
keyloggers record what you type on your keyboard, sometimes openly and legitimately but more frequently surreptitiously and illegally. Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy may have been correct when, years ago, he said there's "zero privacy" and urged his audience to "get over it." That doesn't make it any easier to live with keyloggers.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
Microsoft's Revamped WGA Puts Burden On Users |
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it would use Automatic Updates to roll out changes to the component of its anti piracy scheme that nags users when their copy of Windows is tagged as counterfeit. An analyst criticizes the changes as more work for customers.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
Holes found in Tor IP privacy system |
A research team has published techniques it claims could be used to unmask the IP addresses of people using the The Onion Router (Tor) privacy system.The report's lead author, Andrew Christensen of Danish security consultancy FortConsult, uses Practical Onion Hacking to detail how the anonymity of the system could be undermined by tampering with traffic going through the server through which traffic exits Tor, the so called "exit node".
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Identity theft prevention best practices recommended |
Those Citibank ads with the victim acting to the perpetrator's voiceover are a funny way to look at what can be the very serious problem of identity theft.Identity theft can happen in a variety of ways: someone pilfering your wallet or laptop, going through your garbage to retrieve sensitive documents, or even someone impersonating you online. The best way to protect yourself against becoming a victim of identity theft is to use "best practices" in your everyday computing activities.
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Remove your personal details from online databases |
There's probably plenty of information about you available on the Internet. Online directories and databases offer this data either free or for a price. Fortunately, you can remove your personal details from some online databases. But you might be wondering how your name, address, telephone number and, often, date of birth ended up online?(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
Torpark web browser aims to keep surfing private |
Online privacy continues to be an important issue for many Internet citizens, as awareness of spyware threats and the danger of identity theft increases. Personal privacy is also a growing concern. Ars recently reported on a browser based on Internet Explorer called Browzar that claimed to make it easy to hide one's online tracks. Now, a new web browser based on Firefox called Torpark aims to go even farther by integrating an anonymous proxy into the package.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
Ways to erase your Web tracks |
The Internet is forever. Whatever you say or do on the Internet is perhaps recorded for all time. That's why it's important that you be on your best conduct when creating Web pages, such as those at MySpace. A joke might be around for years, whether you like it or not.And, unless you're diligent about it, so are the "tracks" you create on your own computer.
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How to Remove Personal Information from Zabasearch |
I often get emails asking me how to remove personal information from Zabasearch, a free people search engine; so here's a quick FAQ:Your Zabasearch Information
Information gathered at Zabasearch is a matter of public record. They are not compiling anything on you that is not already out there, in the White Pages, the Yellow Pages, or other commonly known informational databases.
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While you surf the Web, who's surfing you? |
Any business traveler who has logged on to a wireless network at the airport, printed a document at a hotel business center or checked email messages at a public terminal has probably wondered, at least fleetingly, "Is this safe?"Although obsessing about computer security is a bit like worrying about a toddler potential hazards lurk everywhere and you can drive yourself crazy trying to avoid them the fact is, business travelers take certain risks with the things they do on most trips.
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No privacy on the Wild Web |
The Internet is a strange place, indeed, and the analogy often used to describe it is: The Web is the Wild West. There are few functioning laws, inadequate safeguards, plenty of illegal activity, black markets, scammers and gamblers, as well as legitimate business interests. Like the Wild West, the Web is also a frontier where people travel in anonymity, and it's a place to set up shop and carve out new identities. The threat of identity theft is huge and the threat of privacy invasion is great; anonymity is not guaranteed.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
RemoveWGA 1.2 Released |
This version removes cleanly both WGA Notification 'Pilot' version and 'Final' version, it should theoretically not be needed anymore to directly unload the WGA notification in live from memory and to risk a blue screen (BSOD).If RemoveWGA finds the final WGA notification version, it "disables" the file WgaLogon.dll by preventing the SYSTEM account to access it (using the Windows file cacls.exe).
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How to keep data private |
Despite their name, personal computers aren't always that personal. You may have to share your machine with others. This can be a problem if you need to keep some of your data private.Encryption can help: it scrambles data and stores it in a format that other people can't easily access. Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition comes with encryption but the Home Edition doesn't.
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You're Not as Safe Online as You May Think |
You've heard the warnings about identity theft, and you probably think your guard is up to avoid letting someone steal your private information. Well, don't get too comfortable.We're told to guard our passwords, social security and account numbers, but government research shows we're not as safe or smart about security as we would like to think.
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Torpark Provides Route Around India Censors |
India's Department of Telecommunications has ordered Internet service providers to block several websites, including Blogger, Geocities, and Typepad....Another commenter noted how the Torpark project could help Internet users in India get around the blocks. If nothing else, the existence of Torpark would render India's decree moot if it works as advertised.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
India blocks Web sites, blogs after terrorist attacks |
The Indian government has blocked about 20 Web sites and blogs in India, following suspicions by the country's intelligence agencies that the sites were likely being used by terrorists to communicate with each other.ISPs (Internet service providers) received instructions over the weekend from the government's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) to block about 20 URLs (uniform resource locators), said Deepak Maheshwari, secretary of the ISP Association of India in Delhi. The orders did not indicate why the URLs were being blocked, he said.
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Microsoft Adds Privacy Folder To Windows |
Microsoft has released an addon to Windows XP that creates a password protected "My Private Folder" for storing private documents and files. Some enterprise administrators immediately objected.Microsoft Private Folder 1.0, which can be downloaded from the Redmond, Wash. developer's Web site users must prove that their copy of Windows is legitimate by running the controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool places the new folder on the desktop.
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Anonymity: Hiding Your Identity in 2006 |
The main question is of course, what are you trying to hide? Closely following that is how important is it? The precautions you take have to weigh up to the value of the data you are trying to protect, in this case, you are trying to protect your anonymity.In the recent years privacy and anonymity have become big issues with CCTV cameras everywhere, and projects like Echelon reading all your emails and reporting back to the Orwellian 'Big Brother'.
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Search the web anonymously |
A new search engine allows web users to search the web anonymously, automatically deleting all their personal search details. Called Ixquick, the website collates the results of popular search engines such as Google, AOL and MSN, and displays the results on the same page.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
FTC Loses Laptop, Maybe IDs Of Spyware Spreaders |
Some days the ironies pile so high you need an extension ladder to see the top-most.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the government agency whose duty it is to protect consumers from hucksters and scammers and which regularly sues spammers, takes on privacy violating adware spreaders, and takes identity stealing spyware makers to court today admitted it had lost a pair of laptops, and thus the identities buried in the data on the machines' hard drives.
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Steganography, Hiding Information Inside of Information |
Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message. While commonly thought of as messages hidden in pictures it is not limited to just pictures, although this is one the common uses, but messages can be embedded in any number of digital media types. It can even be embedded into sound files.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^
Microsoft WGA Notifications removal tool: RemoveWGA v1.02 |
RemoveWGA enables you to remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to Microsoft servers every time you boot. Futures updates of this notification tool will (officialy) setup the connection rate to once every two weeks.Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot. Moreover, connecting to Microsoft brings security issue for corporate networks, and privacy issues for everyone.
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Anonymous Surfing with BugmeNot.com |
Avoid Annoying Registration with BugmeNotIf you're as tired as I am of sites forcing you to go through registration just to view their content, than BugMeNot is for you. It's easy to use and makes life much simpler, not to mention it's a good guard of your online privacy and enables you to surf anonymously.
Here's how it works (from the BugMeNot Tutorial):
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How to Protect Yourself From Big Brother |
You are being watched.Regardless of the government you live under, your actions on the internet are being tracked. Your every search recorded and kept in a database for future use/abuse. US citizens have had their web traffic monitored by the NSA and AT&T, and their every search history subpeaned by a Federal Judge. As we move towards a more wired and connected society, the potentials for abuse grow exponentially. Imagine a future where your past searches label you as a threat to your government. Or where your browsing history is known by everyone. It's possible now.
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BugMeNot Provides Free Passwords to Sites Requiring Registration |
It's happened to all of us. A friend sends you a link to a story they know you will want to read, and zap! The website requires that you register in order to read the story, even though their site is free.The canonical example is the New York Times.
Now, there are at least two ways to look at this. One is that the site is letting you have for free what you would ordinarily have to pay for (say, for example, if you bought or subscribed to the print version of the New York Times), and so giving up your email address and demographic information is a fair exchange the price you pay, if you will.
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Every Move That You Make: Internet Privacy at Risk |
Privacy advocates have good reason to worry about a recent flurry of activity related to Internet data retention by ISPs. (In this context, data retention means keeping records about subscribers and their Internet activities beyond what is required for normal business purposes.)In late April, Colorado Representative Diana DeGette, a Democrat, drafted legislation that would require ISPs to retain data about their subscribers until one year after their accounts were closed (see "Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping" and "Backer of ISP Snooping Slams Industry").
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Ditch the Laptop for A USB Key |
Nowadays, whenever someone plans a long distance trip, staying in touch with the world is a major priority. Bringing a laptop, with all its weight, bulk, and potential for theft is often viewed as a necessary evil. Most people simply cannot be without their email, and access to their personal travelogues. In the past, keeping all the relevant information on a laptop was the only solution to connectivity on the road. With the availability of cheap USB keys and hard drives, though, the world traveler has a few more options.(...Read more)-------------------------------------------------------- Top ^