| Backspin: Fixing the privacy joke
The whole idea of privacy has become a joke. On one hand we have consumers who will give away their personal details to random Web sites (as well as to Mrs. Sikiratu Seki Adam, "a widow to Late Saheed Baba Adams") at the drop of a virtual hat, and on the other we have businesses losing personally identifiable information and transaction data with wild abandon … yes, I'm talking about you Heartland Payment Systems. (Heartland lost data on more than 100 million transactions although it is hardly alone — check out the data loss database at the Open Security Foundation). More Gearhead and Backspin: TiddlyWiki is amazing, fantastic!
Every now and then you stumble across a truly great idea and, as often as not, don't get it at first. Then you fall over the idea a second time and click! The light goes on. Such was my finding and re-finding of TiddlyWiki, a personal wiki system created by one Jeremy Ruston. Mr. Gibbs, let me introduce myself
First of all this week I wanted to correct something I wrote last week: I discussed the technique of "freezing" PCs to prevent malware changes and mentioned a previous version of Faronics' Deep Freeze, which does just that, had been hacked. The current version, which has been out for four years, has not been hacked. Faronics also has an enterprise version, which I plan to look at in a future Gearhead column. So, where was I? Oh yes, talking about malware. The reader feedback continues. Place your bets against malware
The response to my recent Gearhead and Backspin columns on malware has been amazing! And the range of suggestions has ranged from admit defeat, wipe the system, and start again to fight the good fight and don't give in. Giving in to malware
Gibbs thought he'd fixed his problem with malware on a Windows XP system, but as it turns out, he just made the malware work better. Here's the sad tale. Malware hunting
One of Gibbs' Windows XP machines is acting up. Again. Looks like he's got a case of malware but it seems to be a little hard to find. Malwarebytes finds pesky Trojan
The last Gearhead column wherein Gibbs discovered that his Windows XP machine was acting weirdly generated a huge amount of reader feedback and one recommendation -- using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware -- worked where many others hadn't. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: One American Express gift card worth $250 from Global Knowledge; One Microsoft training course worth $2,995 from Global Knowledge; 15 copies each of the hot book titles Voice over IP Security, and CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide and 15 copies of Exchange Server 2007 How-To: Real Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Administrators. Get all the entry details here. | 
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How to protect laptop data at your local Wi-Fi hot spot.
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