Read This First

Read This First!

Follow these basic tips to keep your devices running smoothly:

Install antivrus and security software on all of your devices and keep it updated. Mac users, too. I recommend the following free products:

Sophos Home - Simply the best FREE stuff out there. For both PC and Macs.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware FREE Edition - I always tell people to download the FREE edition and run it whenever their computer seems to be running slowly or is acting up.

Sypbot Search and Destroy - The other tool used to detect and remove malware and viruses. Use with Sophos Home and Malwarebytes to have the ultimate in protection.

Patch and Update Regularly - turn on the automatic update features in Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Search Google for instructions on how to do so for your current version.

Back up your data - Get a large USB flash drive, or better yet a large external hard disk and use it.


Windows 8 and Windows 10 Users:

Windows 7 Users:

Don't Run Windows XP! - You are just asking for trouble.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Today's Tips - 1/14/2016

What’s worse than stale coffee? Stale Java.

How to enable Click-to-Play in Adobe Flash.

There's no bigger preventable security and privacy threat today than the continued use of Java and Flash. For most users, Java is not even needed anymore as the Internet is moving from technologies like Java and Flash to HTML5. If you must use these, please keep them up to date by allowing the "Auto-Update" features to be enabled. In the case of Java, until recently, installing a new version of Java did not remove the old version. You may need to do this manually. If you need Java, I recommend removing ALL versions of Java currently installed on your computer, then visiting http://www.java.com and installing the latest version. The current and future versions of Java will remove older versions that are found.

Whatever browser you decide to use - Keep it up to date!

This goes hand-in-hand with keeping your device's operating system (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, ChromeOS) updated. Luckily pretty much any modern operating system and browser can automatically apply updates. The instructions to turn on automatic updates for  Windows and OS X are in the "Read This First" section above. Here are some resources to help you make sure that automatic updates are turned on for your browsers:

Internet Explorer and Safari - These are updated as part of the operating system as long as you have automatic updates turned on.



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