Fraudulent messages
We regularly receive fake messages through all kinds of channels. Key points to spot them quickly — phishing, advertising and data-harvesting messages — and the minimum precautions before handing over your data.
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Security
Privacy in Windows
Separate Windows accounts don't make your files private: a hidden administrator without a password, several admin accounts and easily reset login passwords all leave your data exposed. How to protect it.
Antivirus
"Antivirus" usually means a complete anti-malware solution, but strictly it's only one of the tools that protect us. Basic vs complete solutions, firewalls, the danger of cracked and fake antivirus, and the best antivirus of 2011.
Phishing
How a third party can intercept a password while you log in to a web service, what phishing is and how it works, and a few simple ways to spot fake login pages.
Malware
Malicious programs, malware… why not just call them all viruses? Because a virus is only one kind of malware. The main types, and how to manually clean a USB stick infected through Autorun.inf.
Passwords
Some special precautions for protecting our passwords from malicious programs — not how complex they are, but how to stop third parties capturing them, for example with keyloggers on shared computers.