Episode #10 Protecting your pc with guest Jared Reed
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News
- Java Joy in Coffee Study - Men who drank more than six 8-ounce cups of caffeinated coffee per day lowered their risk of type 2 diabetes by about half, and women reduced their risk by nearly 30 percent, compared with people who did not drink coffee, according to the study in Annals of Internal Medicine.
- http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/17/uofmich_quantumchip/ - It's much too early for AMD or Intel to start looking over their shoulder, but the University of Michigan has developed a quantum chip that contains one cadmium ion.
- No mobile phone tumors - A new study from the UK's Health Protection Agency, the largest of its kind, debunks the association between cellphone use and brain tumors.
- http://slashdot.org/index.pl?issue=20060119 - "Microsoft has published the due date for Windows XP SP3? (Service Pack 3) on its Windows Lifecycle Web site. The preliminary due date (the latter half of 2007) for the next collection of fixes and patches for Microsoft's desktop operating system is as more than a year later than many company watchers were expecting."
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Protecting your computer
- change your web surfing habbits to help with this check this out:
- Site Advisor - SiteAdvisor? helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser-based attacks, phishing, online fraud and identity theft.
- run some kind of antivirus like AVG
- Do not use IE! use Firefox or Maxthon instead
- Use multipule antispyware programs: Spybot S&D Adaware Microsoft AntiSpyware
- Use a software or a hardware firewall like Smoothwall
