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Video: OnlineFamily.Norton

by Matt on February 22, 2010

More information about OnlineFamily.Norton

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OnlineFamily.Norton

by Matt on December 23, 2009

OnlineFamily.Norton surveyed a whole lot of parents and put a great deal of thought into the core features needed to provide a robust communication-based tool that aims to bring you and your family closer together as you work to manage your online lifestyles.
Key features of OnlineFamily.Norton include:
Personal Profiles
Your child is unique. You can manage, update, [...]

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Security Bulletins: 11-17-2009

by Matt on November 22, 2009

New attack fells Internet Explorer
A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.
The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it [...]

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Free Online Virus Scanners

by Matt on November 16, 2009

You should always have an up-to-date virus scanner installed on your computers.
If, however, you find your computer has a virus with no virus scanner installed, please use one or more of the following free online scanners.

Norton Security Scan, Free Virus Scan
BitDefender Online Scanner
Kaspersky Free Virus Scan
Trend Micro HouseCall
Panda ActiveScan 2.0 – Free Antivirus
CA Online Threat [...]

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pcmag.com has reviewed, “half a dozen security suites from the 2010 crop.”
Here are the ratings for the 2010 Security Suites that have been released so far:
2010 Security Suites Ratings Chart
Which one is the best? Check out the first round of reviews at PCMag.com.

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Online Scams

by Matt on June 24, 2009

Alissa Atkinson reports on nine online scams used by scammers to con Americans out of millions.
The scammers are so successful is because of the high number of unsuspecting victims and because of the amount of information available on the web.
“The problem now is that so much information is available on the Internet,” FBI spokesman Richard [...]

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OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security services that make the Internet safer for your home, school, or business by integrating Web content filtering, anti-phishing and Domain Name Service (DNS).
Apart from being free, OpenDNS provides a simple yet powerful interface that allows parents to customize the Internet for their family.
OpenDNS provides more [...]

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KidZui, The Internet for Kids

by Tregaron on May 27, 2009

I have five children, aged from 5 to 13.  They are all pretty tech savvy and we have several computers in our home that they use.  One day some type of paper came home from school that was advertising KidZui.  It mentioned that it was free to try and my wife and I had been [...]

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Pete Cashmore from Mashable is reporting that some Facebook users are receiving messages with links to goldbase.be and other .be websites with the subject line of “Look at This”.
DO NOT click the links to any of these sites:
goldbase.be
greenbuddy.be
silvertag.be
picoband.be
According to Mashable, if you receive any of these Facebook messages you should delete the message, clear your [...]

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Online Protection Basics

by Matt on May 3, 2009

You and your family use the internet for education, entertainment, research, social networking, communication, shopping, and myriad other valuable reasons.
When you connect your computer to the internet, it is immediately vulnerable to countless threats (malware) including adware, keystroke loggers, rootkits, spyware, virus, worms, etc. The intent of most of this malware is to [...]

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