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How to Enable the Guest User Account in Windows XP

{ Posted on Sep 03 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : How To, Security, Tips
Need to share your computer? Make sure you only have access to your own account. For everyone else, let them use the Guest user account. What's a guest account if you may ask. Its an existing (dormant) account on Windows ...Read More »

How to Enable or Disable Your Windows XP Firewall

{ Posted on Aug 31 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : How To, Security
Here's a guide to show how you can enable or disable the Windows XP firewall. This will come in handy if you need to troubleshoot your network or if there are applications that needs to have the firewall disabled. To access ...Read More »

How to Disable Hidden File Extensions on Windows XP

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : How To, Security
I've shown you earlier the potential danger of hidden file extensions in Windows XP. This time I'll show you how to disable this behavior to make your system a tad secure.1. Open Windows Explorer and click on the Tools menu.2. ...Read More »

Potential Danger of Having File Extensions Hidden

{ Posted on Aug 27 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : Security, Tips
Question. Why is it potentially dangerous to have your file extensions hidden? For the sake of answering this question, I'll provide an example. For this demonstration, I've purposely enabled hiding of file extensions on Windows Explorer, which is the default ...Read More »

Need a Password Management Program Try SurfSecret KeyPad

{ Posted on Aug 26 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : Blog, Security
This is a password management software review for SurfSecret Keypad. Often times we have a lot of login credentials for the different web services that we subscribe to. Believe it or not, its not easy to remember all your passwords ...Read More »

How to Identify a Phishing E-mail

{ Posted on Aug 14 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : How To, Security
Phishing not to be confused with fishing, is an illegal means of obtaining somebody else's sensitive information such as credit card details, user names or passwords. The way phishing works is that a legitimate looking e-mail is sent to an ...Read More »

How to Disable USB Drive Autoplay to Protect Yourself Against Viruses

{ Posted on Aug 13 2009 by Jeedo }
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Categories : How To, Security
For the benefit of those who don't know, the Windows autoplay feature is actually a security risk. The default behavior of Windows when you insert a CD into a drive or insert a portable drive (USB drive or USB hard ...Read More »