Category Archives: Security

UK ISPs in new depths of customer hatred

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Tim

BT, Virgin and Talktalk broker deal with Phorm.com, who intercept internet traffic, set anonymous cookies and deliver targeted ads… There are lots of comments on this Guardian article, including this one from martinusher: I had a quick look at this … Continue reading →

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Evil popups are back

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Tim

Grrr. I thought we’d seen the last of these, but I had noticed the odd popup lately, in both Firefox and Safari. It seems that those dirty advertisers have found ways to get around the popup-blockers present in most modern … Continue reading →

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Yet another reason not to use Windows

Posted on August 20, 2003 by Tim

I use a mixture of Mandrake Linux and Windows 2000 on the small LAN I have set up at home. I was unaffected by Blaster/Lovesan because I patch my boxes regularly and run a firewall. But this is no reason … Continue reading →

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Keep hackers at bay

Posted on August 18, 2000 by Tim

These guys do a free personal firewall: Zone Labs.

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Free Antivirus software for Windows

Posted on August 18, 2000 by Tim

Free Antivirus software for Windows 9x/NT/2000: InoculateIT Personal Edition

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