When You Download From Microsoft Download Center…Be Careful It’s bad enough when developers stick PUPs and other garbage into their installers, or when sites like Tucows, CNet, Softonic and others take software belonging to someone else, bundle it with their own malware and PUPs and distribute it, but when big successful and rich companies like Sun Java and… Read More »
Should the Government Protect the Internet and Net Neutrality? We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United… Read More »
Your IP Address Your IP address is like your phone number. It’s a unique number assigned to you when you’re connected to the Internet. Your IP address can be static – that is fixed and unchanging – or it can be dynamic – meaning it changes every time you connect to the internet or semi-static meaning it changes from time… Read More »
Why You Should Care That The FCC Is Trying To Redefine Broadband (from Gizmodo) In the wake of the ongoing net neutrality argument, another equally important squabble between regulators and telecoms companies has been overlooked. The FCC is trying to redefine ‘broadband’ as “internet which is actually fast enough to use”, and telecoms companies don’t like that one… Read More »
Yahoo Is Worst When It Comes To Censoring Your Email Yahoo with its PUPs toolbar and other questionable products and business practices, is also the worst -by far – when it comes to delivering email addressed to you. Unlike other providers who may send certain email to a junk or spam folder, so the recipient can make the… Read More »
Emsisoft – you’ve done it again! Emsisoft finished #1 in the 4th quarter testing done by the well-respected independent testing lab Virus Bulletin making us even more glad that Emsisoft is our #1 choice for computer protection. We’ve yammered on and on about how great Emsisoft is, but here’s something you have not read — Virus Bulletin’s Choice… Read More »