Enhance Your Family Computer's Protection With a Wireless N Router

The invention of computers and later on the establishment of the internet facilities have played a great role in improving the living standards of families. The internet has been one of the most reliable resource materials in the world today. Internet surfing is usually very fun and appealing especially while doing research on the internet. However as much as internet surfing is fun; it exposes the computing systems to different threats. These threats may include computer virus, botnets and even system hackers. Computing threats usually cause a great impact on the computer systems such that they cause a complete breakdown of the systems. This in turn results to loss of data and files saved in the computer. However with a Wireless Router device you can be able to protect your computing system and thus all your files are secured.

Computer crimes have recently been on the rise especially involving organizational computer systems. This is a situation whereby technicians corrupt the computing systems of other people and gain access to personal documents. This can be very risky especially in situations where the information saved in the files is highly sensitive. Data files such as integrity files require to be handled with high level privacy in order to protect the contents in the files. Security routers such as Wireless N routers are used to protect computing systems from hackers. Routers require being highly efficient and as such choosing the best router to protect your system is equally important.

Wireless routers play an equally important role of ensuring that Wi-Fi devices are used to connect to the internet without causing any damage to the devices. The security router acts as a firewall shield whose main role is usually to keep off threats from attacking the device. Wireless routers or 3G Router is highly advantageous while shielding the devices in that it does not require any manual settings. The router automatically sets itself according to the configuration of the operating system in the computer. Wireless N routers are used to shield all devices that are compatible with the Wi-Fi network devices. Such devices include iPods, gaming consoles, laptops and personal computers. Protecting these devices only requires the user to turn on the wireless router in their computing systems.

Wi-Fi router protection devices offer exclusive services to internet users. Some of the services include frequent updates on your internet and security reports. These reports are usually offered through the real time reporting feature in the devices. Users are frequently updated on the possible threats that their wireless routers have been able to keep off from attacking their systems. Setting up wireless N routers is usually a fastened and easy step to undertake. The first step includes making a subscription on the most convenient package for your system. Packages vary in terms of price and services offered in the package. Common packages in wireless routers include parental control packages, Anti-virus packages and intrusion prevention packages. Configuration of the wireless N router device in your system is usually aided by an internet based GUI.

Wi-Fi router devices are a vital requirement in family computers. This is due to the fact that these computers are used by several users and therefore are more prone to threats. The WIFI N Router comes with an internally built Anti-Virus software that also enhances their efficiency. These devices are also easily compatible with 3G internet.

NetGenie was established to provide quality and affordable WIFI Router for home and businesses of every kind. It also offers a wide range of products and services related to, Online Safety for Kids, Parental Control Router and many more.

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System Progressive Protection

A New malware threat has just been released called System Progressive Protection. Like many other malware clients before it, this new malware client just has a different name.

Malware clients like this are nothing new. This threat is the exact same as several before it including Smart Fortress 2012, MS Removal Tool, Smart Protection 2012, Personal Shield Pro and Live Security Platinum. The purpose of these kinds of malware clients to scare the infected user into making a purchase of the program by using false scan results and error messages. This method of scamming people is several years old but still seems to work for the makers of these virus programs.

What makes these kinds of threats hard to remove is all most all programs will be blocked from running. You will most likely not be able to run an antivirus program while this virus is running. This virus threat is not stealing any personal information or banking information. You will get false warnings about all kinds of virus threats and that someone is stealing your personal data. These warning messages are false and only meant to scare you into making a purchase of the bogus program.

You can however boot into safe mode with networking and download and install an antivirus client and run a full scan. However many users will find that they are unable to get online because this virus puts in a proxy setting to block your outgoing internet traffic. This setting is easy to remove and can be done by simply re-setting your web browser or removing the proxy settings that the virus has setup.

How Did I Get Infected In The First Place?

When it comes to malware there are many different ways a end user can get infected. In many cases the end user had security holes that where exploited from not having the latest security patches for the software installed on their computer.

Often times a good paid antivirus client can block these kinds of malware threats. Another sad truth in today's world is end users really need a paid antivirus client to be properly protected. Free clients just won't cut it in the new complicated world of high end rootkits and malware threats.

Even with the best antivirus client out there users can still be tricked into installing malware threats. They may be trying to watch a video and are told they need to update their video software by downloading a program and installing it. It's not really a video program but a virus that the user is installing.

Bottom line is you should only download and install software from sources you trust and even then you should use caution.

For a detailed System Progressive Protection removal guide and vidoe that covers how to remove this threat check out this System Progressive Protection removal guide. You can also find out information on hundreds of other virus threats and great how to guides on the removevirus.org website.

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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - More Protection For You

In using the Internet especially, the law of "unintended consequences" seems to play havoc with even the best computer systems and the law is not something you can plan for it just happens as when your IT specialist installs a new version or patched version of a program that is carrying malware.

Malware isn't software that you can really see, feel or touch, it's just software that sits on your machine day after day, and may be recording your keystrokes, looking at your mailbox contacts, looking at your regular online visit sites, quietly putting together quite a dossier on your computer use.

Then one day, the master computer, located somewhere on the network, goes out and poles all its malware kits for the information they have gathered and suddenly folks who had assumed that their machines, which are located on corporate intranets with only a few VPN tunnels through or located on very tighly monitored and fire-walled systems are receiving information that they never asked for. We won't go into some of the information that is spread because, suffice it to say, it is really outrageous and, in some cases may be untruthful or even hazardous to your health.

This is where Malwarebytes Anti-Malware comes in quite handy as it scans your machine for these hidden programs and when it finds them it resigns them quite quickly to "File 13," also known as the "Round Bucket." They are zapped and our machine is cleaned up so that you can rest easy, knowing that: Your machine is clean; You aren't spreading them.

Oh, that's right, we forgot to tell you that malware tends to go into your contact files and emails and look for any machines out there that are not already loaded with the malware or one of its colleague programs and if it isn't when the malware is finished, it is.

Malwarebytes is constantly updated so your machine has constant protection from the latest in malware programs that may be out there. The key is that you have to constantly ask your system to update itself if you want to stay on top of the problem, but, if you are conscientious or you know how to write small command code subroutines, you will quickly find that you can run these pretty much automatically.

You will find that this relatively simple, yet powerful piece of code note only restores your peace of mind, but it also blocks all sites where malware and spyware software originates while also removing it from your system.

Roberto Sedycias works as an IT consultant for ecommUS

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Home PC Protection - How to Make Sure You Are Safe

What we do not understand, we cannot protect

The biggest problem is that people often tell me that they know nothing about computers and rely on others to protect or fix their home computer when it has problems.

This is no longer acceptable in the world of technology today, to say that you don't understand how your computer is exposed to risks.

Don't give access to your computer to untrusted people

Simple but effective. If you do not let people use or access your computer when you are not present, it will protect your pc the most. For example, you hand over your computer to the repair guy in the store without asking or checking their reputation.

Did you know that some computer technicians;

Search all your hard drives and read personal informationThey look for your photographs and make copies of images that could be very personal to youYour banking and passwords are easy for them to find and some get paid to pass details to others for criminal activitiesCause trouble for you by hiding pornographic material on your hard drive and then report you to the authorities

We are too trusting when we hand over our computers containing all your personal information.

Never allow anyone to fix your computer remotely

Never, ever accept someone telling you that they can fix your computer from the internet if you give them access or change firewall settings.

If you didn't call for help, don't believe anything they say about the problems they will fix for you.

By giving them access, it only takes a few minutes to completely copy your hard drive information or find your banking details. Within minutes they use this to commit fraud before you have the chance to cancel any cards or change passwords.

Use different passwords and change often

For your password to be effective it needs to contain at least 6-8 characters mixed with letters and special characters that do not make up real words.

If your password is a real world, it can be broken within seconds by the average computer user that wants to bypass your security.

Watch out for keyloggers

Don't let people install computer programs or software on your computer without your knowledge. A small program known as a key logger will track all your typing and send this information to other people without you knowing.

All in all, ensure you have the latest antivirus software installed and keep updating to prevent old viruses getting through weak defences.

Then make sure you do not download or open any files that you do not know or understand.

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Avast Antivirus Real Time Protection - Review

Written by the same firm that offers AVG Anti-Virus Software, Avast is like turning up the volume on your iPod to the full 80 watts per channel in a four-channel system so that you can literally blast any nasty stuff back to where it belongs.

If this were a motorcycle or racing track, you would find that Avast would probably be the pole sitter (starting car) and would lead the race through out as it passes trojans, links, bots, link kits and rootkits as if they weren't even there.

In their way, you have a system that performs much better and is much cleaner. In fact, the level of clean is amazing. One of the key features of the Avast software, another piece of thinking or "heuristic" software from AVG is its level of anticipation. Every time you are installing a software, it pokes around within the software package itself to see if the software may be bugged and if it is, it offers you two options, one let it go through - if you already used the software and know what it is there's no reason why not - but if it is new software, you can safely let it kill the intruder and you can find another piece of software to use.

Believe us when we say that if you found one piece of software to install, we mean that you will find that piece again or something similar with more features and with better protection, as well. Indeed, if it isn't well protected, then you won't be able to install it. This could sound frustrating and it could be over the long haul, but it is better to have a working PC that is virus and trojan-free than one that is so loaded with malware and other nasties (other names for trojans and things) that your system will slow to a crawl and other systems will refuse your requests to connect.

Using a special engine, Avast can look inside archived software that whose files may be sent in ARJ, ZIP and MIME formats, as well as MAPI (a Microsoft Outlook package) and other forms compressed file formats such as DBX, RAR, TAR, GZIP, CAB, BZIP2, ZOO, ACE, ARC, LHA/LHX, TNEF, CPIO, CHM, RPM, ISO, 7ZIP and SIS.

There is also support for packages that create executable compressed files. Names that come to mind include PKLite, Diet and UPX, among others. From the list, you can see Avast is at the top of its game and aims to stay there.

One feature you are sure to like is Avast's ability to provide you real-time protection for the your operating system and its kernel code. Avast's code looks at what is going on inside the operating system and if it does agree with that should be there, it won't any software through that will infect the root of your system.

One of the ways that this can happen, believe it or not is through a very innocent-looking email. All it takes is opening the email and without Avast in the background, your system will be in trouble.

And, in a recent development, the bad guys have figured out how to intercept and use IM (instant Messaging) code to spread their viruses, but the programming team at Avast is on top of this one, too, as it keeps your system clean and IM's free of nasty software.

Avast is also offered with "free" version that works quite well.

Roberto Sedycias works as an IT consultant for ecommUS

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In a World Without Borders Your Computer Needs Protection

"A world without borders"

This has been a utopian dream for centuries. People all over the world living and working together in peace and harmony. A consummation devoutly to be wished for!

Well, the internet is going a long way to creating a world without borders where people all over the globe are living and working together.

The peace and harmony part is still a little shaky, suffice to say.

I am constantly amazed at our increasingly global society. I work with colleagues from all over the world. They can keep in touch with their friends and family with their cell phones and communication software like Skype as easy as if they were just down the street.

Maybe easier.

A generation ago, barring a pay phone, you still had to be at home or in the office to receive a phone call. My Dad paid $4/month to lease a home phone back in the mid 70's. Recently, while my Android smartphone was being repaired, I bought a nice little Tracfone for $11 to tide me over.

A couple of Christmases ago I bought an amplified microphone for my 11 year old son. He wanted an expensive model, at least $120. I figured whatever I got him would be broken or destroyed in a few months no matter what I spent, so I was pleased to find a cheap but adequate used mic on eBay for about $20 plus shipping.

I was a bit startled when it showed up in the mail badly wrapped with a hand written return address from Hong Kong. Regardless, my son was pleased with his present and someone in Hong Kong was happy to have made a sale!

The internet and the web are driving an increasing commercialization of the world.

Money, markets and employment are no longer limited by borders.

The problem is that in the worlds of money and politics there are both good actors and bad actors. Today's technologies are nothing short of a playground for the bad actors. They can easily operate globally from remote countries where the legal authorities are weak or look the other way.

Internet technology is cheap, standardized and ubiquitous. This has led to a boom in global communication and business, but provides an open door for the 4Ms: Mischief, Malice, Malfeasance and Mayhem.

Not to mention good old fashioned fraud. Worst of all, you could be part of the scheme.

A common technique of hackers and internet evil doers is to enlist unwitting computer users into participating. They create a network of so-called bot computers by infecting and controlling a user's computer. Such "botnets" are the number one source for "click fraud", sending spam email and Denial of Service (DOS) attacks.

Click fraud is a scam where the bot computers are used to drive up advertising revenue that are based on the number of mouse clicks on a web advertisement. The use of these computers makes it difficult to trace the original source and the computer owners may not even be aware that they are being used.

And this is no small matter.

Several botnets have been discovered where the enlisted computers numbered in the millions. The largest botnet discovered was the BredoLab botnet based in Romania. At the time it was dismantled in 2010 it consisted of an incredible 30 million bot computers managed by 124 command and control computers worldwide, according to thetechworld.com.re

Denial of Service attacks tend to have a political agenda behind them. So called "hacktivist" groups such as "Anonymous" and "LulzSec" have become famous for targeting corporate and government agencies that they disapprove of and disrupting access to their web sites.

If "war is politics by other means", as Clausewitz taught us, then computer viruses and Denial of Service attacks are war by other means.

Over the past two month cyber-attacks have been launched against major US banks including JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America. The attacks include efforts to disrupt their networks and bring down their web sites through Denial of Service (DOS) attacks that flood their networks with messages.

Senator Joe Lieberman (I) is quoted as saying that he feels this was not independent hackers but a sophisticated effort by the Iranian military to disrupt key components of the American economy.

Iran has denied they caused the attack, but it is widely believed that the Iranians have stepped up the cyber capabilities since they were the victim of a computer virus that attacked their nuclear facilities, known as the Stutznet Virus. The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has asserted that they are prepared for a "Cyber War" that he believes could cause more destruction than a "physical confrontation".

How concerned should you be?

There are an estimated 40,000 new viruses and other malware released each day. Anytime you visit a web site and download a file you could be at risk. How do you know who operates that site with those Kate Middleton pics?

Last year, the web security firm Armorize identified over 6 million pages on e-Commerce web sites that have been infected to serve malware to page visitors,

The consequences to your computer range from running slow because you are part of a botnet, having your hard drive erased, your monitor disabled to being the victim of identity threat and financial fraud.

What can you do to protect yourself in this chaotic new world?

The good news is that most victims of viruses and network breaches could have avoided the problem by doing the basics.

First, you must protect your computer with Antivirus software. Many people disable their AV software because it defaults to running in the background all the time. This can kill performance, using up memory and processor time.

If so, you should still be able to set it to run a full scan once a day at a scheduled time when you are not around. For example during the day when you at work or at night when you are asleep.

Second, when you visit a web site where you have to provide personal information always make sure that the site is running the Secured Socket Layer (SSL). SSL provides a secured, encrypted connection between the web server and the browser. You can tell the site is using SSL because it will have "https:" instead of "http:" on the URL address line and there will be an image of a padlock displayed.

Third, if you operate a web site that handles sensitive information, such as an e-commerce site, it is critical that you use SSL and Signed SSL Certificates. Signed SSL Certificates authenticate your web site for the user, ensuring that your users will have confidence in your site. Without this feature, even with SSL, the user could be supplying personal information to a scammer that will use it against them.

Last and not least, be vigilant.

Don't open emails or click on links in emails unless you know and trust the sender.Don't download anything from a web site unless you know and trust the site.Don't ignore signs that your computer has been compromised. Unexpectedly slow performance, disabling of virus scanning, freezing and unexpected reboots could be signs that you have been infected.

In a world without borders you need to throw up few yourself to protect your computer. Make sure you use a firewall and antivirus system. Never provide information on a web site unless you double check that it is running SSL. If you are a web site operator, make sure you protect yourself and your customers with a signed SSL Certificate.

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