Internet Security Acworth GA

Internet advertisers want to bombard you with pop-up ads. Hackers might need to "borrow" your computer to mount an attack on another server. Or they might be "phishing" for credit card numbers. Or not.

Local Companies

Private Investigator
(706) 861-1984
74 McAfee Rd
Rossville, GA
Watters Investigation
(912) 729-8003
Saint Marys, GA
Baysearch Investigations II Inc
(706) 379-1021
1850 Linda Ln
Young Harris, GA
Jjk Security & Investigations
(706) 965-4137
85 West St
Ringgold, GA
L G B Incorporated
(912) 576-8292
140 Lake Blvd
Saint Marys, GA
Turner Ron & Associates Inc
(770) 460-1174
Atlanta, GA
Edgewood Investigative Group
(770) 209-1823
3091 Governors Lake Dr
Norcross, GA
The Atlanta Investigator
(404) 355-9405
1720 Marsh Trail Cir NE
Atlanta, GA
Yunker's Investigative Services Inc
(770) 928-3065
Atlanta, GA
Wilson Private Investigations Inc
(770) 536-7675
2816 Cleveland Hwy
Gainesville, GA


Internet advertisers want to bombard you with pop-up ads. Hackers might need to “borrow” your computer to mount an attack on another server. Or they might be “phishing” for credit card numbers. Or not. A good percentage of Internet mischief is nothing more than kids somewhere testing their programming chops. No matter what they want, your information is at risk.

Get thee behind a firewall. Windows XP SP2 enables a firewall by default. Zone Alarm (www.zonealarm.com) is free. Hardware routers with built-in firewalls cost less than $100. There is no excuse for not protecting your information (and that of your clients) with a firewall.

The evils of HTML e-mail. Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) e-mail looks nice, but it can deliver such things as “Web bugs” (as in “bugging” your phone line), which connect with a remote Web server, allowing it to deposit a tracking cookie on your computer just as if you had surfed to the site on your own. Outlook 2003 offers the option of converting all incoming e-mail to plain ASCII text.

Scan and scan alike. Nearly every anti-virus and anti-spyware utility worth mentioning is available for download at www.computercops.biz. But some malware is so aggressive that even the most sophisticated scanners won't catch all of it. HiJack This (available at the above site) creates a log of everything running on your computer and is often the only way to figure out the problem.

Turning back time. Symantec's (www.symantec.com) GoBack ($4

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Featured Local Company

PrePaid Legal services Inc

404 664 0995
1383 Dalewood Dive
Atlanta, GA


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