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Windows 7 : Email Phishing Protection |
Internet Explorer’s SmartScreen Filter works well if you stumble into a phishing site while surfing the Web. However, most phishing “lures” are email messages that appear to be from legitimate businesses, and they include links that send you to phishing sites where they hope to dupe you into giving up confidential information. |
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Windows 7 : Configuring Windows Defender to Scan Email |
The evil known as spyware usually infects a PC by luring an unsuspecting user to a malicious website that either uses a script to infect an unprotected browser, or uses a pop-up window to dupe the user into clicking a button that installs the malware (a so-called drive-by download). |
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Windows 7 : Protecting Yourself Against Email Viruses |
Computing veterans will remember that way back when the primary method that computer viruses used to propagate themselves was the floppy disk. A user with an infected machine would copy some files to a floppy, and the virus would surreptitiously add itself to the disk |
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Windows 7 : Managing Windows Firewall (part 2) |
If you need to open a port on your computer, you can’t do it via the Allowed Programs windows. Instead, you need to work with a Microsoft Management Console snap-in called Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS). |
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Windows 7 : Managing Windows Firewall (part 1) |
By default, Windows Defender is set up to perform a Quick Scan of your system every morning at 2:00 a.m. To change this, select Tools, Options, Automatic Scanning, and then use the controls to specify the scan frequency time and type. |
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