Internet Security Alice TX

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

Infofax Investigative & Information Services
(713) 432-0343
6750 West Loop S Ste 500
Bellaire, TX
Veridicus
(210) 344-5505
1603 Babcock Rd
San Antonio, TX
Lone Star Legal Services
(903) 596-8840
719 W Front St
Tyler, TX
Kade Investigations
(936) 295-9552
350 Broadmoor Dr
Huntsville, TX
Texas Investigative Network Inc
(713) 807-8811
5225 Katy Fwy
Houston, TX
Kellough & Associates Inc
(432) 570-8668
Midland, TX
Executive Services Investigations
(972) 235-4877
Richardson, TX
Mission Crime Stoppers
(956) 581-8477
1200 E 8th St
Mission, TX
Boswell International Inc
(817) 737-3777
Fort Worth, TX
Grieve Robert International Inc
(713) 963-9916
4900 Woodway Dr Ste 550
Houston, TX


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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