Tony Piltzecker

Vista’s Windows Defender Vista’s Windows Defender provides continuous security against malware, and if it detects anything suspicious, it will alert you of what it finds. It does this by using three specific tools: • Internet agents Internet agents are used to monitor changes to Internet access settings, as well as to stop unauthorized connection attempts […]

Q: If a company has a good firewall installed, won’t that protect it from all these attacks? A: No. Firewall products are very useful for controlling what comes into or goes out of a network. But a firewall is like a computer (in many cases, a firewall is a specialized computer); it does only what […]

IE 7 and Vista Improvements With the release of Windows Vista, you can expect to use the newest and most secure version of Microsoft’s Web browser to date. New features in Internet Explorer 7 help to prevent the inception and spread of malware. To help protect a user’s personal information and the security of Vista […]

Vista Malware: Prevention and Response Before we get into how Microsoft’s new products can help you reduce the threat of malware, it makes sense to discuss prevention and response first. As mentioned earlier, staying secure is a two-step dance. You need good software that protects you, and the mindset to protect your surfing habits. Protecting […]

“Phishing” is when an e-mail is sent with the intent of extracting personal information from the recipient. Typically, the information being sought is both personal and financial. As such, the authors of these phishing efforts typically disguise the e-mail as a very professional and courteous correspondence from a trusted source such as a bank, insurance […]

Windows Mail is fundamentally a new application. Though it is clearly perceived as a successor to Outlook Express and even maintains some of the look and feel, beneath the hood nearly everything is different. Microsoft has taken its built-in mail client and converted it into a JET database-driven application that is so tightly integrated with […]

It would seem that everyone on planet Earth has received spam. In fact, it is probably not unrealistic to think that spam has been somehow transmitted across the wireless waves in space to our yet undetected cosmic neighbors who can only conclude that we are obsessed with online meetings, free prescription refills, and miraculous growth […]