Internet Security Arlington 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

Maxxafe System
214-333-0293
3141 Hansboro Ave.
Dallas, TX
Nix Ben C & Associates
(817) 461-8541
1309A W Abram St
Arlington, TX
Ron Wright
(817) 483-3733
3400 Blue Forest Dr
Arlington, TX
True Source Investigations
(817) 465-6400
Arlington, TX
Jim Bearden & Associates Pllc
(817) 261-5297
1140 W Main St
Arlington, TX
Enviro-Tox Loss Services
(817) 561-0456
5628 SW Green Oaks Blvd
Arlington, TX
Spectrum Investigations Llc
(817) 861-2222
1148 W Pioneer Pkwy Ste A
Arlington, TX
Investigative Consultants Inc
(817) 469-1848
Arlington, TX
Randy Kildow
(817) 275-2035
1211 S Bowen Rd
Arlington, TX
Bearden Investigative Agency
(817) 460-3000
1140 W Main St
Arlington, 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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Featured Local Company

Maxxafe System

214-333-0293
3141 Hansboro Ave.
Dallas, TX
www.maxxafe.com


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