Sometime you get a link -- via email or on the web -- that you are just not sure about. First let me say that you should be VERY cautious about any link sent to you in email -- especially one that you don't recognize.What spammers, scammers and thieves often do is to make a…

A MAC address is akin to a serial number -- every networking component has a unique MAC address, or "ID". One of the best ways to secure your wireless router is to enable MAC Address Filtering. MAC address filtering allows you to restrict access to your wireless network to all computers unless they have their…

Having a wireless network is great, but you must take every step to secure it from intruders, hackers, etc.  Here is a checklist of what you need to do to maximize your router security: 1. Change the default router  password.  Here's a post that explains how to change the default  router password. 2. Change the…

My readers know that historically I haven't been a fan of online backup services for one main reason:  privacy.  The way I see it, data is only as secure as the server that it's on, and while you can encrypt from here to the moon, your encryption is no good if someone else has access…

I’ve been a big fan of SyncBack Freeware for a very long time, and for a very long time it handled everything I needed to do when it came to keeping my laptop in sync with my desktop machine and my external hard drive. As my business has grown (which is a good thing), the…