PC and Internet Security is a Complicated Mix of Software and Human Habits, How secure are you?
Why be concerned? Maintaining PC security has become increasingly more difficult in the past two years due to a continual onslaught of viruses, worms, spyware, spam and less-than-perfect Operating systems. While Linux, in its various forms, may become a viable player in the desktop environment some day, today, its best suited for the enterprise server environment. At Competitive Network Solutions, we’ve been involved in fine-tuning PCs for over 18 years, some can be “cleaned”, others are so infected that the best route is to salvage user data, format the drive, and reload it from scratch. While this may seem drastic, it is a proven way to effectively recover from an unstable system. Users who have loaded and run programs such as “Weatherbug”, Kazaa, Napster, WinMX, or any other peer to peer file sharing software, are typically the most vulnerable to attack. Some websites even download applets that have been found to “HiJack” unprotected systems. Further, and the obvious, infected email
