Oct 30
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
When you’re the de facto tech support guy for most of your family and friends, you quickly find yourself making a lot of house calls. But if you’re not being summoned to help install memory or a new hard drive, there are plenty of tools you can use to diagnose and fix computer problems from afar. Free remote administration tools like UltraVNC and TightVNC have been around for a while now. But when you’re trying to help someone who barely knows their way around a PC, it’s best to keep things simple. And it’s difficult to find a PC remote control program that is simpler to set up and use than LogMeIn Free. LogMeIn Free is a simple, gratis program that lets you remotely access a Windows PC from any other computer connected to the Internet. Basically, you connect to the remote PC via LogMeIn.com’s Web site, which encrypts [...]
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Oct 26
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Big three credit reporting bureau Equifax on Wednesday detailed its plan to offer certain consumers the ability to freeze their credit files as a means of preventing identity theft. The offering provides a clearer picture of how the credit bureaus are likely to deploy this process. Earlier this month, the other two credit bureaus — Experian and TransUnion — said they would offer credit-freeze rights to consumers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In announcing its offering, Equifax said that beginning Oct. 31 it would start offering credit freezes to consumers in the 11 states (and Puerto Rico) where there currently are no security freeze laws in place. In those areas, the company plans to charge consumers $10 to place, thaw or remove credit freezes, while offering them for free to confirmed identity theft victims. For consumers in the 39 other states (and D.C.), Equifax will continue
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Oct 25
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Mozilla has shipped an update to its Firefox Web browser that corrects at least eight separate security flaws, including two that Mozilla flagged as especially serious. Firefox users should have already received an update that brings the browser to version 2.0.0.8. The update went flawlessly for me on all four of my personal machines, but I’d be interested to hear from readers if they experience glitches with this latest version. Mozilla says it is aware that this update may caused minor problems for some Mac users. As always, the Mozillazine Forum has some useful tips and frequently asked questions that may help Firefox users diagnose any glitches with updates or other browser weirdness.
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