Internet Security Blue Springs MO

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

Joiner & Hayes
(816) 421-7377
2420 Pershing Rd Ste 400
Kansas City, MO
Triple A Investigations
(636) 949-8772
1529 S Old Highway 94
Saint Charles, MO
Metro One Investigations
(314) 533-0010
4225 Laclede Ave
Saint Louis, MO
Third Strike Investigations
(417) 831-0565
901 E Saint Louis St
Springfield, MO
Hulver & Associates
(816) 537-0900
Greenwood, MO
Kuticka Fire Investigations
(417) 743-3041
174 Petunia Ln
Clever, MO
Midwest Accident Reconstruction Services
(660) 463-7006
110 S Main St
Concordia, MO
Ameriguard Inc
(816) 444-6886
8500 Ward Pkwy
Kansas City, MO
Buretta Ron R S Associates Inc
(314) 291-1515
3550 McKelvey Rd Ste 204B
Bridgeton, MO
Diversified Solutions & Investigations Inc
(636) 669-0508
1529 S Old Highway 94 Ste 104
Saint Charles, MO


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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913-406-9280
9003 Carter Circle
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