Many users do still use an administrators user account in Windows XP instead of a more secure limited account. It is comfortable to work as an administrator all the time but successful attacks will be more devastating that way either. Instead of working with a limited account most of the time and an administrators account [...]
Check Exe Files on Your Computer
If you ever open up your task manager and navigate to the processes tab, you will see a bunch of entries with the extension ‘exe’. While entries with application names on them tell you exactly what they are, you will also find entries with names that have no real identifying characteristics.
Let’s say you’re curious to [...]
Type Text with your Mouse to increase security
Keyloggers record anything that you type and where you type it on your PC in a log and transfer those logs to the person – better thief – who did install the keylogger on your computer. He can then find out all the urls you visited, the passwords that you entered on those websites and what you did there as well.
Document viewers: one to rule ‘em all
Now seriously. Have you ever received a document (a clean one) with an extension you never heard of and didn’t even know what application you were supposed to use to open it? That’s not a problem any more due to applications and online services that can understand varied file formats and display the contents of those files for you. Of course, you can’t edit such files with viewers because their only purpose is to display the contents of the document. But hey, better that nothing, ain’t it…
