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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Avoiding Scams and Snoops

Charities

Americans are famous for being big givers, however many organizations and charities may be keeping much more than they give.  Your state Attorney General is a good place to start if you want to be sure.  It is a good idea to see who the solicitor is and how much of the gift they are keeping. A list from can be found at:

Charitable Soliciations Financial Chart

This is just one extensive partial list of organizations.

Wireless Home Connections

How secure is your home network?  Many people are now setting up their networks at home without realizing how vulnerable they can be.  Most setups are done via 802.11 connections which are now being used by many libraries and others who allow insecure public access.  If you have the wireless setup you should make sure you also have the WPA ecryption setup correctly in your Windows XP. 

Go to : XP connection Update

Norton security suites or other approved software which guards, spam, hackers and offers privacy service.

Stan Miastkowski of PC World gives a step by step approach in the May 2004 edition.  You can link to the how to article at:

 

Step by Step Build a Safe Network

 

You can go to newsletter  May 04 to see original article

 

 

 
 

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