Adobe recently announced what should be a vast improvement in its popular Adobe Reader. With its next release they will be employing "sandboxing" which effectively puts a shell around the software protecting it from being injected with code from malicious hackers. This move by Adobe has been long overdue seeing as the reader program has been one of the leading vehicles for hackers to inject code that can infect end-users when they happen upon a malicious PDF file.

I have been speaking out about this vulnerability for over a year now and imploring people to use alternatives such as the free Foxit Reader, which also take up miniscule amounts of overhead in comparison to Adobe, but have also had attempts to inject code in it as well.

Now we will have to wait and see how effective this measure is, but it is definitely is a positive step in ...

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Just got done reading this article this morning and it got my attention. PC vulnerabilities are increasing exponentially compared to last year. It is only July and we have gotten to 90% of where we were at this time last year. Which means there will most likely be twice as many as last year. 

Many of these vulnerabilities are coming from third party software vendors. The best way to remediate these vulnerabilities for end users is to head over to Secunia and let them scan your PC. It will look at all available software on your system and provide you with links to make sure you have the latest versions, which can go along way in preventing your PC from being hacked. You can also read their report for yourself. Take the time to patch your system!! If you are not comfortable doing this, by all means, we can help ...

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Mark this date...... Monday May 3rd at 7:00 pm EST.

Datasavers has been working on making a FREE webinar available to anyone who wishes to learn more about how to effectively secure their computer from the everyday vulnerabilities that are lurking on the internet. We'll cover basic things that anyone can do to accomplich better security whether on their home computer or at their business. Sign up today by visiting the link on the right of our homepage.... Datasaversinc.com and inputting your e-mail address to register. Participation is limited so sign up today! Also, if you can't make it, we'll make the webinar available so you can go out and watch it at a later date. Thanks and we look forward to meeting you!

Wow, very impressed with this utility and how quickly and easily it gives you a complete analysis. Everything you ever wanted to know and stuff you never thought you could get. Best part of all it's completely free. Highly recommended for the technical geeks who fix computers or for the curious who want to know what goes on under the hood.

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Wired online site has two very interesting stories yesterday. One involves Microsoft's recent legal action against the website Cryptome.org The website has been around for awhile and was gone in a heartbeat after they posted a document that Microsoft intended for law enforcement and government agencies. This document briefed them on what data is stored on their servers, for how long etc. But the kicker here is that there didn't seem to be too much there that would not be obvious. Where the mystery comes in is why they took such strong action against the website who revealed it. Now, the document is all over the place and the story has generated quite a stir. Questions being asked are, and rumors are flying regarding how easy it might be for these agencies to acquire data on individuals and organizations "without" really having the proper authorization to receive ...

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Have you gotten to the point where you don't know why your PC is slow and not responsive? I recently could not understand why my own PC was dreadfully slow when accessing the internet. I had tried everything I could think of short of blowing everything away and starting over. This is a good solution for many problems that are under the hood, things we can't see that throttle performance. Honestly, it's a major pain in the neck to undertake. I decided to try a valuable alternative, and it was a great choice. Its called Reimage and it saved me TONS of time and energy. I highly recommend this service another 5 *'s for this application.

You can get a free analysyse of your computers performance at their website which is linked here: Reimage PC Repair Online and on the side of this page  whee you see ...

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Interesting developments in Redmond. They have decided to go ahead with plans to include an update next week that will check your system to make sure you have a valid copy of Windows. Yes, they have done this before however, this time its different. They have decided to "nag" customers into purchasing a valid license for the software. I can understand their desire for people to legitimize their operating system. However I can see this as causing a good deal of grief and anxiety for users who perhaps purchased a used computer, or bought from a vendor who did not offer them a legitimized copy.

So, stay tuned on this one, there could be a good deal of backlash from this. Also, you can prevent the download by switching to manual download, and preventing update #KB970133 from downloading. If you do download it, there is no way to uninstall it ...

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Just got done reading a post on The Register about another of those pesky vulnerabilities on Internet Explorer that glorius browser people still seem to be in love with. I do work for a financial institution and we can say that there are still close to 60% of our visitors are accessing the site with some version of Internet Explorer. I find it not only frustrating to see this, but down right idiotic on the side of end-users. People would be much safer if they chose to at least access their online banking, or did their online shopping with a safer browser such as Firefox, Google Chrome, or even Opera.

What I see as a glaring issue here is that there seems to be no acountability on end users to properly secure their computers. When and if there ever is any accountability placed these issues may become less of a ...

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Just found out about a very good new tool that Google has developed caled Namebench. What it is designed to do is scour the DNS servers available to you and find the fastest one available. It uses data from your browser history. It does require you to go out ad physically input the DNS IP information that it provides you however. This is relatively easy. You can goto Google's website to download the FREE application:

Once you have downloaded and installed the application, you pick your browser and let it run. It does take some time as it's a pretty thorough search of servers. It will come up with the servers and how much faster your browsing will be once you change to the recommended servers. Your primary and secondary servers can be input then by START/My Netwrk Places/View Network Connections/ - Right Click on your current ...

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As the new year gets going one of your resolutions should be thinking about simple things you can do to protect your data on your computer and make it less likely that someone will compromise your computer. Here are some of the simple reminders of things you can do:

1. This is still the easiest and most costly way of having your data on your computer compromised: DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS ON E-MAILS OR VISIT LINKS IN INSTANT MESSAGES FROM PEOPLE YOU DON"T KNOW. Even if you think it came from someone you know, make sure by either sending that person an e-mail or calling them on the phone and asking if they sent you the link.

Why is there only one rule you ask? That's a good question. What I have found in doing my own research and observing the day to day activity of how average ...

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