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For an added level of protection while surfing, download and install a program that locks out all attempts to alter your system. Two free programs stop Web malware in its tracksĮven with the most recent, fully patched and updated versions of your browser and security software, malware can still wheedle its way onto your PC. Still, there are some critical updates that warrant application as soon as they're available, although you can't always take Microsoft's word for which of its updates are indeed 'critical.' Once again, keep an eye on CNET and other tech-news sites for information about these must-have Windows patches-especially around the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month.

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This post from July 2008 explains how to reset Windows Update to wait before applying patches, and another post from a few months later describes how to check your Windows Update history. That way I can wait a day or two after the updates are released to monitor the Web for reports of update-related woes. Because some Windows updates can cause their own problems, I choose the option to download but notify me before installing the updates. It (almost) goes without saying that you must also keep Windows itself up-to-date. One of the new features in the update is tighter integration with both Internet Explorer and Windows' built-in firewall. Microsoft recently released the beta of a new version of its free Security Essentials program.

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In addition to a secure browser, you must also make sure you keep your firewall and antivirus software updated and active. And just last week I reviewed Zscaler's Search Engine Security extension for Firefox that helps prevent Google, Yahoo, and Bing from serving up malicious links in their search results. I described five Firefox privacy add-ons in a post from last month. In a post from last November, I compared the security approaches of these five browsers.įirefox users benefit from the many free security add-ons for that browser. The latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari provide plenty of built-in security features, including the ability to warn you automatically whenever an executable program attempts to download and run. Perhaps the best defense is to use an up-to-date browser.

Keeping your software current is de rigueur Fortunately, there are simple ways to reduce the risk of infection when you surf the Web. Regardless of the final tally of infected sites, malware in being spread increasingly to people who simply open an infected page in their browser. Network Solutions says this figure is 'inaccurate' but hasn't yet estimated the impact of the infection. The widget has been removed, but Wayne Huang, co-founder and chief technology officer at security firm Armorize, claims in an August 14 blog post that more than a half million of these parked domains are infected. The widget was also placed on sites 'under construction' that Network Solutions hosts. As Elinor Mills reported in her Insecurity Complex blog, malicious code was added to a widget on the site of Web-hosting firm Network Solutions. UPDATE: Softonic appears to do this as well.

I'm going to have to monitor our apps that mirrors and pull them if they try this with our stuff. We've excluded both those methods from the Format and won't let a publisher distribute an app that attempts to get around that restriction package in our format. Similarly, the 'Recommended Software' pages in local installers can result in quite a bit of revenue, so I can see why a lot of freeware and even open source projects have added them in.

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Once we explain the fact that we do software that's primarily used on portable devices and many users don't even have the right to install software on a local machine, they usually just respond with: 'Oh.' I was surprised by how much money those things can make a company like CNET. has been approached multiple times by different entities trying to convince us to use them. Tucows and a couple other major download sites use them now as well. Apparently these types of downloaders results in quite a bit of additional revenue.

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