Even More Security

I know these postings are lacking variety but security of your electronic devices is important enought to warrant the attention.

Major software vendors that we are alll familiar with operate their own websites to distribute or sell their own software.  Use a major vendor's site to download their software, (e.g., Microsoft, Apple, Google). 

Even open-source projects typically have their own websites where you can safely download the software.  First search for favorable references to the project or developers from sources like industry news and review sites or software publishers you've worked with in the past. 

More to come......

And Still More Cyber Security

Download software only from reputable websites.  Software downloads are a great way to disguise malware.  There are numberous sites that serve as repositories for independent developers and/or open-source softwarek, which makes validating the source of the software and the download difficult.  Without knowing where the software or download originated, you could expose yourself to some very harmful software. 

Next:  What can you do?

Still More Cyber Security

Which antivirus software should you use?  Want to know who the best is?                                      Visit http://www.av-comparatives.org.  They run many different types of tests against various AV vendors' software and on different types of platforms.  Check it our and see what would work for you!

More on Cyber Security

One of the top methods of computer attacks comes from malicious software (malware), to the extent that there are tens of millions of new pieces of malware each year.  Malware can be transmiotted to a computer from file downloands, e-mail attachments, USB thump drives, and other removable media.  To make matters worse, malware is often disguised as something safe or even helpful like antivirus software.

More on this in a couple of days......