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What is Phishing?
Phishing is an attempt to obtain your personal information like user name and passwords for PayPal, your email, and access to your online banking. They lure you to a replicated site of one that you are familiar with, like say PayPal, you don’t check the address in the browser and think that you are logging into the actual site. They log all your authentication information that you use and then give you the impression that your attempt has failed. The fake site may then redirect you to the official website and you attempt to login again with success. Read the rest of this entry »

Free broadband is not the answer, with poor customer service. So called bundled free broadband in a recent survey of 50,000 has shown that most customers are unhappy with their suppliers.
USwitch reported that there were 10 million UK broadband users in March, and predict that this figure will rise to 11.7 million by the end of this year. That will be even more less experienced users needing better customer service.
Please be wise when choosing a broadband supplier, do not just look at the price, especially if you are a business user.
If you would like any futher advise please contact us at CertainIT so we can help you choose the right solution.

On Tuesday Microsoft plan to deliver several security updates, and will finally patch the Microsoft zero-day XML flaw . They are not giving specific information about all the updates.

There will also be a new malicious software detector released so please be sure your automatic internet updates on.

With all the new anti spam tools and controls to try to combat spam today, how is it that we still receive so much?

Many Internet Service Providers have made strict changes to stop these mass mailers, which also makes users’ lives more complicated having to change the way their email client works.

Here at CertainIT, we help businesses combat the problem using the latest technology and have great support from MailProtector. The main cause of the recently high volumes is Trojans running on your computers in the background sending emails out from your machine without you even knowing.

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ScanSafe’s analytical data demonstrated that Web viruses dropped down 47 per cent in September even though Microsoft vulnerabilities appeared high-profile recently.
This analytical result surprised ScanSafe as they thought that they may see an increase when they paid attention to Microsoft vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits.
The internet virus disaster didn’t happen in September.

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Internet Explorer 7 is available now, but i would recommend that you wait a while before installing it. Read the rest of this entry »