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It’s no longer safe to use Internet Explorer

If you have any version of Microsoft Windows since 1995 (can there still be people out there using Windows 3.x? ), then your computer is sure to contain a version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). After the browser wars of the late 1990’s, Internet Explorer became ubiquitous on Windows PCs (and even made a dent in the Mac world!).

Unfortunately, people have identified innumerable problems with Internet Explorer and are now using them to infect PCs with all manner of viruses, spyware, trojans or any type of malicious software.  Read more »

A pair of articles at ZDNet have highlighted the current threat that spyware/malware poses to computer users.  Read more »

Let’s first address the traditional favourite of the computer user: anti-virus software.

Nearly everyone who buys a new PC these days gets at least some free trial of a popular antivirus program, whether it be Norton AntiVirus, McAfee’s VirusScan or any other software in existence. The supplied program is invariably installed when the computer is first set up and everything is well and good. A year passes, the user’s annual subscription to the software’s updates has expired, and the software is left impotent against newer and more virulent threats. Unfortunately, this is the state in which the software remains for the term of its (un)natural life. The program is left to rot in a state of limbo, only mildly less useless than having no protection at all.  Read more »