[PCWorld]

Post your comments for 10 Quick Fixes for the Worst Security Nightmares here

[Conservationist]

"If you choose to provide us with your personal information on the web, we may transfer that information within Qualys or to business partners for marketing purposes."

Only use the Qalys service if you want lots of spam.

[jnarvey]

Web security tools to stop hackers cold are already here. More organizations need to start using them to make the Internet safer for everyone.

[Mackel]

I don't understand how you can recommend downloading and using programs that don't work. I always look at the user comments before downloading anything and find most are trash. They either don't work or no one can figure out how they work. What's up with this?

[techgy]

The Gmail suggestion doesn't make any sense.
If I attached mymail to my current Gmail address any good browser wouldn't recognize the Email syntax. In addition, all someone would have to do to get around this would be to remove the "mymail" and peel it back to the base Email.
Am I missing something here??
Techgy

[techgy]

Fix #6 makes some good points on stopping junk mail, but I have a better one. Check out http://digiportal.com for their "Choicemail" product. I've been using this for years and I get no junk mail - nada, zip. It's guaranteed and it works.
It also permits you to create virtual Email accounts that can just be deleted and a new one created if it gets junk.
choicemail is loaded with features.

[techgy]

Fix #8 makes two suggestions for keeping a web site safe. One is an on-line scan using Qualsys. Unfortunately that site is only for commercial or business sites. They don't offer it for the everyday fellow's site.
The other suggestion refers you to an Hp web site that has a download that's supposed to scan your pc for security issues. I traced the information from the Hp site to another site and when I clicked on the final site, McAfee Siteadvisor had it flagged RED. The site details stated that their last check of the site indicated files for download that were either malware or spyware. Doesn't sound like a good risk to me.
I don't know how much effort goes into these suggestions, but I wouldn't trust them with a 10 foot cattle prod.

[ruddin]

This was a good article..which talked about things other than antivirus and firewalls..but i wud still say its for beginner users on windows...i mean people using computer already know about malware and spam mails..i would like it to go a bit advanced on security..anyways thnx alot!! :D

[ahawesome]

If you get software from a repository in Linux (or at least Ubuntu, I'm not sure about others), the system will automatically tell you when updates to the software are available, whatever the software may be. Kind of like fix #2. Of course, this is only made possible by open source. When will we learn...

[MichelMerlin]

PC WORLD never retrieves the level it had at the beginning. Sure some articles are good, but this one continues a trend of re-re-re-repeating old stuff without any attempt at verifying. Result is mostly outdated, unsafe or useless stuff.

Versailles, Mon 11 Aug 2008 07:54:50 +0200

[techgy]

After doing some investigating I find that Gmail will indeed recognize an address that's been modified as suggested by adding "+xxxxx" to the address.

An example would be: myemail@gmail.com modified to include "myemail+test1@gmail.com

If the above address, including the "test1" were used to send to an account at "myemail@gmail.com" then Gmail would let it through. A filter can then be set up in Gmail to look for any Email that's sent to "myemailtest1" and either delete it or label it with a specific label. Gmail doesn't permit additional folders to be created to sort Email.

Gmail appears to be the only webmail account that will accept mail in this format. I attempted to send email with this additional notation to a few other accounts and the Email bounced.

This might be handy, but it's also very easy to just drop off the "+test1" from the address and get around any filter, so this isn't a good security feature.

[wwarshaw]

Unfortunately, you can't always trust the user comments either. Many times they will be from competitors who want you to use their product instead of the one in question. The old reliable Google search usually works for me.

[kai7070]

Speaking of ESET, did anyone see their holiday website? Looks like they have a pretty good sense of humor, b/c the vids are incredibly funny...
www.santafraud.com
http://www.viddler.c...raud1/videos/2/

[pops1955]

bq. I just wanted to post a handy little program that sniffs out spywear and all the other bugs most other programs miss.
bq. This program found 11 4 bad apps. on my computer that Norten missed.I didn't see it lised on your site .
bq. it's called SUPPERantiSpywear.they have a free program,But it's worth the 26.00 dollars for the whole program .
bq. Please check it out. Billy Powers

[MLStrand56]

SUPPERantiSpywear OR SUPERantiSpyware?

[YEPYTZME]

The best solution for preventing sites from spamming you or bombarding your e-mail account when they ask you to provide them with your e-mail address is a site called: "bspamfree.org". You don't have to download anything. When a company/business/site requires you to give them your e-mail address before you can access information from them simply give them this address :"(yourname)@bspamfree.org". What you do is choose a name for yourself, like "dickhead" or "stunned" or even your own name although if you use your own name like "steve" then each and every steve out there can read the mail. This is what happens, remember you don't have to do anything, just give them your address, for example:" blobber@bspamfree.org " and that's it!. Then every so often check for your reply by going to the site (just type the URL "bspamfree.org"). The site will come up and in the right hand corner is a blank space where it says "check your mail". Just type in " blobber " (without the bspamfree.org...just blobber) and the company/business/site that you sent your e-mail address to will have responded to that site. If there's nothing there then they haven't replied yet. When they do you can reply using that site if you want or just read the mail and leave. This site does not know who you are, they don't want to know who you are and as a matter of fact they can't know because you don't download anything and you don't give them anything. The best part of this site is that all e-mails are automatically deleted after 24 hours so you don't have to worry about anything.

Try it. Using your own e-mail, send an e-mail to your(fictitious)self. Send an e-mail to (example) egassem@bspamfree.org (that's message backwards). Give it a couple of minutes, then go to the site bspamfree.org. In the right hand corner type in egassem. You will see that your e-mail was received. You can read it, reply to it or just leave it there. Close the site. Tomorrow, after 24 hours, go back to the site and type in egassem and you won't have any mail because it's been automatically deleted.

Safe, secure and secret.

[Tech4me]

Yepy.....Its very cool ...Thanks.

[mphenterprises]

Hi Yepytzme. Definitely good to know. I already have this site in my bookmarks. Thanks.