Computer Security Software

by William Brister
Today's market is cluttered with security software offering anywhere from 4 to 15 features. Which one of these software features is important? Which ones do you absolutely need? Which ones are already present on your computer? Almost all vendors sell a basic version and then have a premium package that costs more. Are the extra dollars worth it? Read on to find out.

The ones you absolutely, definitely need Anti Virus - Detects and removes viruses from your hard drive, emails, & downloaded files. Needs to update frequently and automatically to keep up with the newest viruses.

Personal Firewall - Blocks hackers and other malicious network programs trying to attack your computer and network. Monitors inbound and outbound network connections from your computer.

Anti Spyware - Blocks and removes spyware / adware which is a malicious program or code hidden in acceptable files. This includes the latest rootkit programs which are used to hide the malware, spyware from other detection programs.

The Good to haves Anti Phishing / Fraud Defense - Protects you from online scams designed to steal credit card and bank account numbers. This capability is already present in the most common browsers - Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Wireless Network Monitoring - Guards against unauthorized users invading your wireless home network. You can configure this facility in your wireless router with access IDs, passwords and network addresses.

Online Identity Protection - Guards against online identity theft. Again, most transaction sites provide secure authentication. Also most credit and debit cards today come with a online protection service with a full refund.

The Extras Anti Spam - Filters annoying and potentially dangerous email. If you use a web based mail service like yahoo, hotmail or gmail, they already provide this service. Even if you open a bad email, you should be protected if you have the other tools running.

Pop-Up blocker - Blocks annoying pop-ups and potentially dangerous scripts. The most popular browsers (IE & Firefox) already have this utility integrated into them.

More recently, security software has been offered with data backup and system performance software. These are extras, and should already be part of your operating system. Most security companies offer more or less the same features and capabilties. Everybody knows Norton & McAfee. A couple more to consider are Trend Micro & Zone Labs. Almost all of these have free versions to download and test. Another company that offers a good free Antivirus is AVG (Grisoft).

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Free Internet Security Software

by Dave Jacobs
There are amazing free internet security software products available in any category imaginable. If you select the proper combination of quality free products you will be provided protection as good as or better than that afforded by the purchased alternatives.

You must realize that there is a wide range in the quality and performance of free software, so you need to stick with products that have been tested and have an established track record or at least have been developed by an organization that has previously proven themselves. It is difficult to tell if most internet security products are performing as expected. For example, if a game is not working properly you will be able to immediately tell because the game will not play correctly. In contrast, if a firewall or antivirus program fail to function properly you may not have any idea until long after your computer has been compromised. This certainly is a risk that few of us can afford to take.

I like to think of internet security as a triangle with the three main categories making up the three corners and the secondary categories lying on the lines of the triangle or within the security triangle. The three corners are antivirus, firewall and antispyware. The differentiation between product classes has begun to blur and there are many combination products especially among those sold commercially. To simplify our discussion and allow us to look at a number of unique free products we will look at them as distinctly unique product classes. There is excellent free software to satisfy our triangle concept with this article focusing on a couple of the top products in each category.

There are about 15 free antivirus products that are worth considering with a few other specialized products that also fit best into this antivirus group. My favorite free antivirus product without question is Comodo Antivirus. Comodo is involved in the high end enterprise area of the internet and decided to provide this antivirus product free to help make all consumers safer while online. The bottom line is that Comodo gets a lot of goodwill and free publicity from making such a great product available free of charge. It is a win-win situation! This antivirus product detects and eliminates viruses from desktops and networks, protects with real-time on access scanning, uses proactive heuristic analysis to intercept unknown threats, has host intrusion detection to block malware before it can run, and provides automatic daily updates of virus definitions. The other free antivirus product that I will touch on here is from PC Tools well known for their Spyware Doctor and also Registry Mechanic. In this case there is also a paid version that has direct customer support and faster updates but the two products themselves function the same whether free or paid. PC Tools Antivirus Free Edition provides world-leading protection, with excellent database updates, OnGuard real-time protection and comprehensive system scanning to ensure your system remains safe and virus free. This product is Vista compatible.

There have been many changes in the category of free firewalls with a number of popular free products no longer available and a few new arrivals to take their place. There are about 15 free firewall software products that I feel are worth considering. The two free firewalls that I prefer are Zone Alarm Free Edition which now is Vista compatible and has been a #1 choice for a number of years. It has proven itself as real winner practically defining the firewall class. The other free firewall I would like to mention is the Comodo Firewall, which like their antivirus software mentioned above, is fully functional yet free. The Zone Alarm Firewall is a reliable but basic product that lacks some of the features of their higher-end retail products. This is not to say that there is any type of reliability or quality issue just that it is feature limited. Comodo's firewall on the other hand is in no way a limited feature product in fact it has some of the most sophisticated features of any firewall free or paid! Many reviewers consider it the best software firewall in existence.

There are almost two dozen good free antispyware products available. One feature of antispyware software compared to antivirus and firewall software is that more than one antispyware product can usually be used at the same time. I currently use Windows Defender from Microsoft, Spybot Search and Destroy and Spyware Terminator all running at the same time. They work fine together on my particular system with no performance hit or other problems.

Picking any one product from each of the three primary groups above should give you a more than adequate triangle of internet security protection.

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Earn Money While Online

by Ezekiel Haynes
If I asked the question "Who wants to make money from home?" I'm sure everyone's hand would go up including mine. As you can see my blog was designed to meet new people, sharing ideas and making money while doing it. Today we have access to the world and many companies are providing tools to make money online. But yet and still there remains the idea of fraud. I'll be the first to admit I'm new at this and just like a lot of bloggers, I'm searching for mentors to make my way easier. In the process of doing this I came across a lot of useful info.

Genuine ways of earning money while online, get some form of mentoring. These individuals and companies want to make money online, in order to do so they need to show you how to make money. Without mentoring you will most likely fail. You need some assistance so you can properly understand earning money online and what you need to do to be successful.

A lot of credible people have clearly drawn out instructions on the tasks you will need to perform, they provide resources to help you succeed, and normally there is someone you can contact to ask questions. They will not leave you hanging. If you are at home feeling lost and very much alone you may not be working with a legitimate online blogger(business).

Bottom line, the more information you are given the better. Do thorough investigations to find out as much as you can. Ask questions, not just from the owners of the website but those who have joined it. If at any point you are feeling that something is wrong, are getting vague answers or if its just too good to be true, don't give up but continue looking because there too many people that have done it. And remember what ever you give out you receive back many time over. So if its information, money, or love let it go!!

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10 Tips to Get Out of Credit Card Debt!

If you are like you me and most people you have probably had or have credit card debt. Being in debt can be an overwhelming experience and will definitely keep you up late at night if you are thinking about it too much. Below I have listed many tips to try and help you get out of credit card debt, and try to enjoy life even more. So grab a cup of coffee or a cold drink and sit down and take a read through of these tips because you might just learn something.

1. First off, only use your card for emergencies and not for all small purchases, use cash or your debit card if possible.
2. Pay off your credit card each month and try to pay more than the balance to progress faster.
3. Get a Credit Card with low interest rates, not just a starting low rate that will increase dramatically soon after.
4. Go ahead and move all your credit cards with balances on high interest rates to a card with low interest rates.
5. Make a plan that shows you what you need to do each day, week, and month to get you credit card debt down
6. Try Renegotiating your debt, consolidating debt, and debt settlement.
7. Save cash on the side if you can and start investing your extra money that could be stocks, a business, or hire a financial advisor to help you.
8. Use your assets, like your home, to help you get control of your debt
9. Start a small business or get a second job to earn extra cash, but put it on paper first to plan to see if it is realistic and profitable.
10. Finally, if you find yourself in an extremely serious debt situation, you can fill for bankruptcy.

So now you have 10 tips you can use to help you to get out of credit card debt, remember inch-by-inch is a synch; yard-by-yard is very hard. So take a deep breath and make a solid plan, and be patent knowing you are making progress and taking action, just this alone will separate you from millions of people who ignore their credit problems and debt.

So stay focused on the solution, and use the tips to help. Only use you credit card for emergencies, pay off more than the minimum balance, get a card with a low interest, renegotiate you debt, save cash to invest, use you assets to help, start a small business or a second job, and if need be fill for bankruptcy. Good luck and you can do whatever you put your mind too.

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Make Money Doing Simple Offers Also 100% Free To Start, Treasure Trooper Review, Is It A Scam?

Ever wondered if there was a site that pays you to sign up and do offers? Well now there is one and its called Treasure Trooper, which is a site that literally pays you to sign up for offers and take very simple surveys. Does this site pay? Yes this site does pay and its 100% Free to start making some cash with it.

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To prove it, there are forums with photos of happy users and their cheques that they received in the mail(These are updated daily with users who have received new cheques). I have also received my cheque for a decent $30, that's pretty good considering I just started and I also live in Canada. Basically how i started was just doing simple sign ups with a new hotmail account that I could afford to have spammed with junk. These sign ups ranged from 2 minutes to 15 or even 20 minutes but the longer ones also tended to pay much more.

Want to see the proof? Click Here and you can see the latest cheques of happy Treasure Troopers!

To top it off with whipped cream and cherry, every time you complete an offer you get a chance to win a pearl in a game where there are 3 clam shells and you have to pick the one with a pearl. The pearls can be traded in at Mabutu's trading hut which can get you some nice rewards. One reward i particularly liked was the "Pearl Friendship Bracelet" which made two unrefered users go under you, therefore allowing you to earn referral bonuses from them. That was a pretty nice deal for me and made me some more extra cash.

To sum it up, this is definitely a great way to earn some extra pocket money and can be fun at the same time.

5 Ways to Make 8 Million Dollars in China in the Next 90 days

by Raven-Dance
Chongqing is the ultimate gold mine for Entrepreneurs

My Papa kept singing "Try Chang King for your beautiful body..." over and over -- said it was an old TV jingle he liked, while we were walking the streets of Chongqing today. Chongqing is like a hyped up Long Island in New York - millions of people- huge brand-new skyscrapers and set to jump up to 100 million people in the next 10 years! It's the only big city for everyone in the western and central part of China to dream of reaching for their one big travel trip or their escape destination for a better life.

It's a goldmine for the entrepreneur. With the new "3 Gorges Dam" finishing up in 2009, freighters and cruise ships will finally be able to come an extra 1,500 miles into the heart of China - "Chongqing"- for the first time ever, and boy is this area going to explode! As of today there isn't even a Chongqing.com site! Can you believe it, with over 30 million people living there and not one person has a site up yet. It'll get over a million hits a day, just from the Chinese alone! They love to travel within their own country and not one person has set up a Chongqing.com site yet, in any language! So go for it (and spend 200 bucks to get it translated into Chinese) and make a million this year in ad clicks alone. Smile!

If you're not into setting up travel sites, then how about... "Kids indoor play lands"? There isn't one indoor play land in all of Chongqing! Actually I think there are only about 15 indoor play lands in all of China! And those are little McDonald's play lands on the east coast, I mean really little ones with just some padded mats and small plastic slides. The Chinese love their children to the point of Obesity and they need some serious indoor play lands. The first one to set them up will be playfully rich and you'll make allot of people (like a billion Chinese) very happy- everyday. You can even copy places like "Chuckee Cheese's" in America, wow -- would that be the biggest smash in Chinese family entertainment history! Call it "Pappy's Spring roll's" or something springy for the kids!

If you're not into play lands then how about English movie schools! People were lining up to practice their English with us on the street and to take pictures with us - not many of us foreigners in this part of the world. Want to be a movie star? Want to set up "Hollywood English" where students memorize scripts and film each other? Go to Chongqing!

If your into big projects... they need bridges and small single apartments like you wouldn't believe, hundreds of thousands are moving in each day! This might become the biggest city in the world in the next 10 years! And you heard it from me first! Maybe that jingle my Papa likes, will have a comeback! I'm sure the Chinese would love to learn it in English!

Whatever you do, this city needs some serious western thinking in entertainment, they have the money and the people and a heck of allot of Chinese restaurants and some rinky dink shopping malls, but that's about it for entertainment - fly over and take a look at the biggest city -- Secret in the world! Or go to "Google Earth.com" and take a peek, at this ultra modern Chinese Long Island. As of today you have zero competition and an unlimited market... if you're a capitalist this is the city for you!

You can introduce any first world entertainment or convenience ... such as Automatic trashcan lifting trucks into the city, and you would be a huge overnight success! You would have to introduce garbage cans first, but that would be another huge financial success for you while you truly help the people living there. They want your help and anyone who has lived in a first world country can easily give it to them, they will gladly pay you for it. As is, you had better buy a kite when you arrive because that's the only fun you'll have in this beautiful growing city.

If you have no interest in entrepreneurial stuff at least tell your broker to put a sizable percentage into Chinese Commodities (they have no limit to the needs of basic commodities) and join my family at the Olympics in Beijing this next summer, I guarantee you it'll be an exciting time!

I'll be at all the diving event, if you ever want to stop over and say "Hi"!! Look for my family, we'll all be dressed in white - can't miss us! And if you made more money than Midas in Chongqing this year because of my heads-up you can buy me an Olympic souvenir! Like a diving teddy bear!


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How much have you invested in an Internet Business? Have you made a profit?

by Michele Ferris
At some point in time, you must have been introduced to the world of online business. And since then you have seen so many opportunities that were suppose to make you $200 per day right? Don't be shy; you can admit that you did waste a bit of money trying out some of these businesses. I know I have. With so many opportunities bombarding you, how do you know which ones are legit, and which ones actually work? I have come across so many different opportunities. But one thing you should be aware of is that they may not all work, but if none of them worked, then the industry would be dead. So if you're serious about starting an online business, there are a few things you should keep in mind:

1. Zero times anything gives you zero. Simply put, if you intend to make anything, you have to invest something. Don't expect to find free or cheap ventures and make millions from them. You cannot start a store without merchandise to sell right? It's the same thing with online businesses.

2. Make sure you fully understand any business that you decide to try. Their sales pitch may tell you one thing and then when you sign up, it's a different story.

3. Don't be fooled that you don't have to put any time and effort into making money online. That's just not true. There are times when you'd have to dedicate several hours a day especially to set things up.

4. If possible, explore multiple streams of income. Don't just stick to one source.

Now, you may be wondering, "How the hell am I suppose to know these things"? And you're right. In the real world, when you started your job, you got a job description and you had some kind of training right? So why should it be different with working online? You took a computer class to get the skills you have right? So why not take a course in making money online? I have to tell you, I've come across the best system that I've seen on the internet in the few years that I've been exploring online business. When I started, I didn't know what an affiliate was. I signed up for an affiliate program, but what next? Then I signed up for a data entry program where they set up a website for me but I don't know how to edit a website and I couldn't afford to hire a webmaster. You can check it out now http://www.prodigysupplies.com. Its still sitting there because I had no idea what to do with it.

So when I came across this program called Forex Enterprises, again, I was skeptical, but something about the pitch made me try it. I paid $47.00 to sign up for the data entry program and $49.95 to sign up for Forex. Let me tell you, Forex is worth at least $200.00. You're not only given an online course, but they set you up as an affiliate in about seven different programs, and set up a website for you that you can manage and edit (without knowing any fancy code).

The online course teaches you every lucrative way there is to make money online. They even start out by teaching you the right mindset to have. From paid surveys to selling on eBay, this course covers it all! They teach you how to write ads, recommend legit and reliable companies, and tell you what not to do. Why would they do this? Simple: if you make money, they make money, so they make it easy for you to make money. And the best part of this is that there's a 30 day money back guarantee. I know this is no bluff because on my website, I can see that my earnings don't get finalized until after the 30 day period. Now, remember that dead end website I told you about? Well, check out the website that I got when I signed up for this program - http://www.amsessentials.com and my blog - http://www.amsessentials.com/blog. I'd say its worth checking out. Try it today!