MySpace.com is a website where users register by entering personal information and a photo and then proceed to post more information and chat with others. In the course of carrying on what may seem like harmless conversations, many teens share …[Continue]
What Teachers Need to Know about Internet Safety
There are three important areas that teachers need to consider when using the Internet and teaching children to use the Internet. It is important that teachers know how to protect the computer from viruses and spyware while using the Internet. …[Continue]
What Parents Need to Know about Internet Safety
As computers become more important in the world, it becomes more important for our children to go online. Computers have largely replaced libraries as places to get information for school reports and projects. Computers have also enmeshed themselves into the …[Continue]
Five Things You Should Never Do on the Internet
It’s fun to hang out on the Internet but it also requires some attention. While there are lots of benefits to using the Internet there are some dangers as well. Misuse of the Internet can hurt or even destroy your …[Continue]
Tracking Internet Activity
Ever wondered why your Internet connection is busy while you are not doing anything on your computer? It could be a dozen benign reasons (such as an email program checking for email) or it could be malware. Netstat is a …[Continue]
Tracking Cookies
Cookies are small text files saved on your computer by websites. Some are used to remember your website preferences (such as your login username, or local zipcode for weather or movie listings.) Others are used to track your surf patterns …[Continue]
Browser Hijacking
When spyware takes control of your browser by changing the start page and the default search engine, it is called a browser hijacking. To thwart most hijacking attempts, many experts advocate using Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. If you …[Continue]
Alt-F4
Mischievous websites and spyware programs often open program windows that do not include the usual X button to close them. Rather than being tricked into clicking in the program window, Windows users can use Alt-F4 to close the current window. …[Continue]
