Get your Free Superantispyware Lifetime License — Cybersecurity Awareness Month

I am going to give out 5 License for anyone who might want one. These license are good for a lifetime.

How do you Enter Contest?

This is going to be a very simple.   There are going to be 3 ways to enter and I will pick winners on October 16, 2010:

• You must follow me and have this in you tweet: (One License will be given away)

Just entered the SUPERAntiSpyware Pro License giveaway. You can win by following @laforge129 and retweet http://bit.ly/cR95ge.

• Leave a Comment and tell me why you need it.   I will use Sign up for my Newsletter and confirm your subscription. I will never sell your information or spam you. This newsletter is to get to know my readers and give you even more exclusive content that you wouldn’t  get on my blog (2 Licenses will be given away using Random.org).

You can tweet that once a day and increase your chances of winning. The more ways you enter the better chance of getting one of those lifetime licenses from Superantispyware. You can read my review of Superantispyware and decide if you want to enter. I will tell you I have been using this for quite some time and am thoroughly pleased with it!!  Do you have enough security on your system?  If not you really should enter to make your system is more secure!!  Thanks to Mike Duncan for the 5 Licenses.

Good Luck, And you will find out the Winners October 16, 2010

The Free Giveaway is ended and the I will be posting Monday 10/18/10 on who the winners are!!   Thank you everyone who entered!!

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Some Important programs to prevent yourself from having viruses and Malware!!

This post is in response to Alertscan.net and how many people have seen my page. If you would like to protect yourself from the possible hi-jacking of your internet or Computer there are some programs to consider using:

[ad#ad2-left]If you would like to scan your system right now without downloading any files go to:
Kaspersky Lab Free Virus Scan

Firewalls:

• Commodo Firewall


• ZoneAlarm For Vista


• ZoneAlarm for Windows 2000/Xp

Now these are free but I tell you. You will only need one firewall even though windows has a firewall this helps as a better protection to know what is coming in and going out.

Anti-Virus:

• Pctools Antivirus Free Software


• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503


• Avast Home Edition


• Clamwin Free Antivirus

Again these files are free but you will only need one of these. If you install more than one you will most like start slowing your system down to much!!

[ad#ad2-right-1]Spyware Removal:

• SpywareBlaster


• Spybot Search and Destroy v1.5


• Ad-Aware 2007 Free Edition


• Hitman Pro

If these load automatically in windows when you set these up unselect them. I only use one or two of these when I think I need to. You can download more than one of these programs to do the job. The only warning I have is make sure when you install them to unselect the startup when windows starts.

Rootkit Removals:

What is a Rootkit?

• Aries


• F-Secure Blacklight


• AVG-Rootkit Revealer and Remover


• Panda - Rootkit Remover

Other Utilities:

• CCleaner


• HiJackThis


• FireFox Mozilla - Safer than IE 7

Now if you start using these programs that I suggest you will be a far better off then when you started. I will not say you are a 100% protected but will say you are like 50% protected or something to that nature. It is how you explore the web, that causes the most problems some tips to remember:

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1. Never Click links directly - Always go there manually typing in the address(Some links can be phished or Hidden from site!!)


2. Anything you get in emails Consider who it is from and how much you trust them(Remember though people still can send viruses to you in a multitude of ways)


3. If in doubt Google search to see what the web has to say about a particular idea or website. If they are a serious website there will be good reviews, and you know the opposite of that.


4. Be kind, Don't forward emails when someone says please forward. Most of them are either scams or just trying to clog up the email servers.

I hope all this helps you to be a better user on the internet. If you have any questions, please feel free and go to the miketechshow forums and post your questions. Someone there will be more than glad to help!!

Free software from Microsoft are stopped!!

Remember yesterday when I told you that you could get a boatload of free software from Microsoft, including Vista and Office, for allowing them to track your computer usage for a few months? Well, apparently a lot of you jumped on it, as Microsoft shut down the offer yesterday afternoon. Too slow? Sorry pal, I'd be happy to spy on your computer usage, but I'm not promising any free software for the honor. [ComputerWorld]

[Via Gizmodo]

Goodness, I didn't think people would jump on the Vista bandwagon. If anything they just want to sell it for some money!!