Wear the Badger of Privacy We think “Do Not Track” browser features and browser add-ons are pretty much worthless – they assume that everything and everyone is tracking you for evil purposes and thus block everything without regard to what it is, who it is , or if it may be beneficial. Yes, indeed, I tells ya… sometimes… Read More »
What is a VPN? This article was revised on May 9, 2017. VPN is short for Vampires Prowl Nightly. So if you plan to go out when it’s dark we suggest you carry a large cross, a mallet and a big wooden stake. Your best bet is to stay indoors when it’s dark, keep a lot of lights on, and lock your… Read More »
Do ad blockers really help keep you safer? Our friends at Emsisoft wrote a blog about how ad blockers keep you safer (which you can read here). Most always we agree with Emsisoft’s blogs, but his time we think they got it wrong. The most common problems most people have with their computers are PUPs and Malware. Most PUPs and… Read More »
A last fall we published an article showing how a download site can manipulate search engines, capitalize on the hard work of software developers, and roll up software that belongs to someone else in a nasty installer full of PUPs and malware. This site is called Softonic and it’s one of the biggest, most popular download sites, not… Read More »
Check a site for cookies without visiting it While we have an ambivalent attitude toward cookies, many of you seem to be concerned with cookies and no amount of words by us are going to get you to stop worrying about cookies. Therefore in the spirit of capitulation, we offer to those cookiephobics among you a Web site… Read More »
Emsisoft stops trojans most other security software can’t stop We have been recommending Emsisoft for quite a while now. We’ve gotten to know the Emsisoft team pretty well. We knew after we spent months testing antivirus and anti-malware software that we’d found a winner: Emsisoft. Over the months and years now, Emsisoft has never let us, our readers… Read More »