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Backing Up Data in Vista

Published 13 September 7 11:3 AM | Essential Computer Security

Back up your data!!! With more consumers relying solely on digital cameras to capture life’s moments, entire photographic and video histories are stored on computer hard drives. If you don’t back up your data, it could all be gone in the blink...

Filed under: windows vista, backup, windows live onecare, data, Norton 360

Beware The Monster

Published 6 September 7 8:42 AM | Essential Computer Security

It seems like there are so many data breaches these days that the news of such events is more or less brushed aside. The public is becoming de-sensitized and just says “oh, another one of *those* new stories”. Recently, it was discovered that...

Filed under: data, identity theft, breach, monster.com, compromise

Managing Hard Drives in Vista

Published 30 August 7 4:15 PM | Essential Computer Security

I used to regularly remove programs I hadn’t used in the past 30 days or any data that was more than a week old in order to salvage every last byte of hard drive space. That is no longer necessary. Now computers come standard with 250 Gb or larger...

Filed under: partition, Vista, data, hard drive