A web bot is a virtual robot. Usually it is a program someone has designed to do repetitive tasks on the internet. They can surf the net looking for something specific and then perform some type of action based on what it finds. Google uses web bots to collect data from web sites to [...]
Tags: bot, captcha, Carnegie, digitize, OCR, security, spam
Posted in Free software, New tech
Is it really getting this bad?
How would you feel if someone took your thumbdrive off your keychain to look for subversive material. They’d need a warrant, right? Wrong. Anytime you cross a border or get in line to board a plane, agents of the Department of Homeland Security can confiscate your electronic equipment. In fact [...]
It seems every other day I have to advise someone on antivirus and malware protection programs. For several years now, every chance I get to work on someone’s computer, I try to leave it with Grisoft’s AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Lavasoft’s Ad-aware.
AVG will control viruses. Rarely will you need to manually remove a [...]
Tags: Ad-aware, AVG, cnet, security, spybot
Posted in Free software, Video
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