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Do you have conversations over the phone that you do not want others to hear? If so, then it may be necessary to protect yourself from cell phone bugs. Cell phone bugs are just as high tech as many other bugs, and can pose even more of a threat, since they are harder to detect. Depending on the bug that is used to listen to your conversation, you might not even realize that someone nearby can hear every word crystal clear.

Even if most of your conversations are of little importance, it is a good idea to make sure that you are well protected against cell phone bugs when you make a vital phone call. It is possible to decrease your chances of being listened to if you follow a few simple steps to avoid eavesdroppers.

Go somewhere where you know you’ll be alone. Some cell phone bugs intercept signals being sent. A person who looks like she or he is speaking on a cell phone has a special device that allows him or her to hear what you are saying on the phone. Additionally, make sure you are in a place where you can watch for newcomers.

Beware the charging or forgotten phone. Many cell phone bugs look just like they are charging or like their owner forgot them. If see a cell phone charging or lying nearby unattended, go someplace else. Someone may be listening in via the innocent looking phone.

Don’t accept new cell phones as gifts. The latest in cell phone bugs is a phone that works like a regular phone, but has a secret access number. If someone gives you a cell phone as a gift, be aware that he or she may be able to dial the phone and not only listen to what you saying while you are on the phone, but activate the cell phone’s microphone in order to hear anything that is going on inside the room.

With a little vigilance, you can avoid eavesdroppers through cell phone bugs. Best of all, if you use ingenuity you can “plant” false information for eager ears. You can outsmart surveillance and the use of cell phone bugs.

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A spy cam can be a great tool for protecting your home. A spy
cam, properly placed (Or more than one for better coverage of
your property) can provide you with visuals of people
approaching your house. Additionally, it is very good to use if
you have had vandals ruin some part of your property. With the
help of a camera, you can more easily identify these criminals.
Also, if you have one or two conspicuously placed cameras, they
can act as deterrents to would-be burglars who will move on to a
less protected target.

But before your outdoor spy cam can be effective, it is
important to take some common sense measures to make sure that
your camera is protected. After all, if the camera does not
work, it does not do a great deal of good unless it has been
working as an effective deterrent.

First, make sure that you have outdoor spy cam casings. There
are plenty of camera protector’s available at most reputable spy
shops and online retailers of spy gear. These camera boxes are
weather resistant and protect the camera from snow, wind, and
rain. Additionally, it is possible to get these camera holders
outfitted with fans. This ensures that during the summer they
are adequately cooled, protecting the cam from overheating.

Another thing you should remember is that you should have a spy
cam or two that is not visible to others. While having on or two
cameras prominently displayed can act as a deterrent, they can
also become targets. Make sure that you have back up cameras
hidden behind bushes or in trees, or even place inside an upper
window, out of sight. If one of your visible cameras is disabled
by someone who thinks to disguise him or herself, then your
hidden cameras will still be able to identify the perpetrators.

An outdoor spy cam can be a great comfort to you and your
family. It is nice to know that you can identify intruders and
that you can help catch criminals who damage your property. As
long as you take precautions in the use of your cameras, there
is a lot that can be done for your home by a spy cam.

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If you surf the internet you have to take precautions so that
your computer and the data does not get compromised.

If you buy items online, surf the internet or use email then
here are several tips to keeping your computer and your personal
information secure.

Many people find it very easy to safeguard themselves by
installing antivirus protection. Most antivirus protection
software protects your computer from known viruses and Trojan
horses. If a new virus is detected, your virus software will
automatically download the new definition so that your computer
will be safe.

Trojan horses are tiny programs that are downloaded
inadvertently from the web. These small programs look for
personal information and secretly upload it to a database. Many
computer users have lost personal and financial information with
the use of Trojan Horses.

One of the most damaging of all malicious software is the back
door Trojan virus. Unlike many other types of malicious code,
the back door Trojan virus is designed specifically to take
advantage of vulnerabilities in the operating system such as
Windows. The virus uses a back door into the computer too steal
personal information, wipe files, or do other types of damage.
To make matters worse, some of these back door Trojan horses
disguise themselves and hide from anti virus software. Some are
even intelligent enough to disable and render unusable your anti
virus and firewall software.

You should also protect your computer from Spyware. Spyware is a
tiny program that is downloaded usually when you download
another program for free off the web. Spyware can be very
irritating. Spyware keeps records of what your search for online
and then sends you advertisements. Spyware can be difficult to
erase.

It is also vital to protect yourself from Spoof emails. Spoof
emails look like real emails from Ebay, Paypal, Banks and big
credit card companies, but they are fake. Most spoof emails ask
you to provide a website with financial information and then
they steal this information. If you receive any emails that ask
you for financial details, shut your browser, open up a new
browser and contact your company’s web site personally to see if
there is a message for you.

Steps you can take to avoid problems with viruses and Trojans
include being vigilant and paying attention to how your computer
appears to be running. If you notice a decrease in performance
that cannot be easily explained, or if you see an icon you do
not recognize on the taskbar, it is a good idea to scan your
computer and look for problems. Paying attention to your own
computer, and using your own common sense, is one of the best
ways to protect yourself and your computer.

Crimes, scams, and untruths are as common in the moving business as elsewhere. Each year thousands of complaints are registered with DOT and are awaiting justice. Moving is a business in which there is tough competition and there are many movers that are not reliable and whose operations are suspect.

Bad movers are those fly by night operators who conduct their business without proper infrastructure or licenses. Common scams in practice are tricking you to selecting them by giving a low quote and then using loop holes in the contract to get you to pay at least 3-4 times more than the estimated amount. If you refuse to pay your consignment will never reach you. Other bad business practices are sub-letting the assignment, not carrying enough insurance, refusing to pay for damages, and not coming through with the services promised.

Be prepared to lose your consignment, to paying more than estimated, to suffering breakage, and frustration created by tardy service. Inexperience movers also hire workers who are not trained in expert packing or moving techniques. Some movers’ change their contact numbers and addresses so often that you just cannot get in touch with them. Don’t be surprised but when your goods are weighed the weighing scales are most likely to have been tampered with such that your goods will weigh much more and as a result you will have to pay a larger bill.

If you read a mover’s contract carefully you may come across terms like accessory services and such these are loop holes which the company uses to make sure their profits are larger. If you find out from the market what packing materials cost wholesale and retail you may find that what you are paying the mover for packing materials is a “big” mark up.

Sadly there are no regulations or stringent laws that can keep movers in check, so often the bad NYC movers outnumber the good ones.

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There is far more to antivirus software than just opening the
box, inserting the CD and installing software. To be properly
protected you may actually want to do a little more than that.

You see, a good antivirus program does a lot more than you might
think. In this article we will be discussing features of Norton
Antivirus 2002, one of the best and most full featured programs
available. Similar functions exist in the other major scanners.

The first thing you must do in this day and age is purchase and
install antivirus software. If you don’t have this installed you
are literally living on borrowed time.

Some of the common features are described below.

Auto Protect

Perhaps the most important feature of all is auto protect. This
feature allows the antivirus system to perform it’s tasks
without manual intervention. This is critical as then you can
relax and do what you need to do, without constantly worrying
about checking for viruses. Keep this turned on without fail.

Checking for email viruses

This is one of the most critical features of a modern antivirus
program is the ability to scan email messages as they arrive or
are sent. Scanning of this nature is relatively new and long
overdue.

DO NOT TURN THIS FEATURE OFF.

It’s very important to remember that the most destructive
viruses arriveas attachments in email messages. I know, I know,
you would never, ever open anything that even remotely looked
like a virus, would you? But how would you know? Do you want to
take the chance on destroying your system?

Scanning disks for viruses

Most virus scanners will occasionally scan your disks for
anything that looks like a virus. In Norton Antivirus, you can
schedule this scan for as often as you like - in fact, many
people turn it off entirely. After all, while the scan is
running your system will be slower than normal. It can be quite
annoying.

Turning off the automatic disks scans is, however, a big
mistake. These check your disks for any viruses which may have
gotten through the front line defenses. How does this happen?
You could copy a virus to your hard drive from a CD ROM, a
floppy or perhaps across the network. It will be just sitting
there, waiting to explode in your face. Scanning the disks finds
these little time bombs and eliminates them.

But wait, if you have your antivirus program running won’t it
catch and stop any viruses that you happen to open? Yes it will,
but you could still copy it to someone else, or another person
could grab it over the network (if you are in a company, for
example). Or perhaps for some reason you turn off your antivirus
program, then you could accidentally open it up and destroy your
system.

Scanning for viruses in scripts on web pages

Believe it or not, you can catch a virus from a web page. All
you have to do is view the page and bang, you are infected.
There are not many of these yet, but you can bet there will be
in the near future. These are particularly nasty because, well,
you don’t have a choice about executing the virus.

These are not like the email viruses, which require you to
actually open an attachment. They are not like other viruses,
which require you to execute a file. These simply require you to
view them. Pretty scary, if you ask me.

Thus, as you can see, it’s very important to keep this feature
enabled at all times. That way you will catch and destroy these
things before you get hurt.

Regular updates

Be sure to subscribe to and use the regular virus updates. You
see, new viruses are found all of the time, and if you don’t
update your definitions you will be vulnerable. In fact, after a
few months of no updates your antivirus software becomes
virtually worthless.

Conclusions

The features of your antivirus software are put there for a
reason. My advice is to enable everything. Turn it all on. These
days you cannot be too careful - or, if you prefer, you can
disable something and perhaps lose your data. It’s your choice.

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What would you do if you switched your computer on tomorrow
morning, only to see an error message and to find that some of
your important files had become corrupted? You may no longer be
able to open some files - or, even worse, files might have gone
missing without a trace.

Welcome to the world of data loss!

If you rely on your computer, then this would be a total
disaster. If you run any kind of web site or online business,
things would get worse before they got better.

Imagine losing your entire ezine subscriber base. Need I say
more? Backing up your data on a regular basis is not an option,
but a necessity - for the sake of both your business and your
sanity.

Consider the following statistics, which show the most common
reasons for data loss:

42% Mechanical Failure 34% Human Error 15% Software Failure 6%
Viruses 3% Natural Disaster (Statistics taken from The Security
News)

Repeat out loud: Backup, backup, backup!!

Now that you’ve got the message, you’ll need to know how to go
about backing up your data. There are several options available,
but for the purpose of this article I want to concentrate on the
different methods of online backup available over the internet.

Basically, there are two types of online backup services. With
the first, once you have downloaded the software and installed
it on your PC you just connect to the backup provider’s server
and away you go. Just select the files you want backed up and
then transfer them over the internet, rather like using FTP to
upload your web pages to your web host.

This option usually entails a monthly fee of anywhere from
$5-$20. The software is easy to use, and restoring your files is
just as simple as backing them up in the first place. You can
back up as many files as you wish and even your entire PC if you
like, although this will take quite some time.

If the worst happened and you lost everything, you could just
restore all of your files back onto your computer. As this may
take a while, some services will provide you with a CD
containing everything you have backed up, though often there is
an extra charge of about $20 for this.

The second option is to use a web-based backup service. You can
do this from your browser window and, as with web-based e-mail,
you have access to your files from any computer with an internet
connection. This kind of service will generally provide you with
10-20 MB of file space and is most often free. You can’t back up
quite as much using this system, but if you just need to back up
the odd file or two, then this could be the best option for you.

Top Tips For Backup:

- Know where your important files are located. - Keep your
backup disks safe. - Keep several copies of important data. -
Store disks in different locations. - Decide on a backup
schedule and stick to it. - START TODAY. Remember, it’s better
to be safe than sorry! - Replace backup disks regularly.

The following are a number of different backup services. Have a
look through the list - you should find something that works
well for you. Remember the key is in having a simple system and
putting it into practice.

Repeat out loud: Backup, backup, backup!!

Connected http://www.connected.com

FreeDrive http://www.freedrive.com

X Drive http://www.xdrive.com

Driveway http://www.driveway.com

Maxisafe http://www.maxisafe.com

Managed Storage http://www.sgii.com

E-store http://www.e-stor.net

@Backup http://www.backup.com

StoreActive http://www.storactive.net

BackUpNet http://www.backupnet.com

eVault.com http://www.evault.com

MySpace http://www.freediskspace.com

How secure is your computer? Most of us have virus protection
and probably feel pretty safe. But how many know that there can
be many individuals out there who may be trying to snoop (or
actually snooping) around your hard disk all day long? I would
venture that there are not many sitting at their computer right
now who have even thought about it!

High speed access to the Internet, i.e. DSL, cable and a couple
of others have opened the doors to our work areas. I had even
recorded attacks on my computer when I was using a local dial up
service. The high speed access capability is great, I know that
from personal experience. But it does open you up to extra risks
since your Internet connection is probably open all day, even
when you are not using it.

Intrusions on the Internet are common because hackers do
frequent scans looking for systems they can break into. A
typical hacker may scan thousands. He or she isn’t targeting you
personally. In the hour preceding the writing of this article I
had three attacks on my computer through my cable hookup. Two
were hackers probing to see if they could get in and the other
was a hacker checking to see if I had a specific Trojan program
that might have compromised my system so that they could get in.
This is a regular daily occurrence. Luckily my system has a
software (firewall) program that detects and stops any attacks.
It also logs in the attacks so that I can see what they were.
The program is called Black Ice Defender,
http://www.networkice.com and cost me about $40. It was well
worth the price. There are a number of programs out there and
one that seems to be generally recommended along with Black Ice
Defender is ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com which happens to
be free (free for personal and non-profit use).

A while back I had read several articles in PC Magazine about
these risks and that was what made me get a copy of Black Ice.
By the way it is easy to install and use. I don’t know about
ZoneAlarm but from my readings it appears it is also fairly
simple. One of the ezines I subscribe to recently had a short
article about a site called “Shields UP!” where you could go to
check your computer security for free. If you are interested go
to: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

These tests are for Windows systems. There will be two buttons,
“Test My Shields” and Probe My Ports”. These tests take a couple
of minutes each and they will give you a full report. When I was
finished, I felt pretty good for the moment since they couldn’t
get into my machine. In fact they evaluated it as “appearing
that my computer didn’t even exist”.

You can sit there and say that you are only a little guy or gal,
who would even try? Well that may be so, but on the other hand,
do you know exactly what you have saved on your computer -
credit card numbers, account numbers, personal information…?
You would be amazed at the number of files that are saved on
your machine by windows and other programs that you aren’t even
aware of.

I have had to change credit card accounts twice in the last year
due to some large well known companies who’s systems were
attacked and credit card files were compromised. So it can
happen, even to the big guys. The software is out there to help
you, it can be free or relatively inexpensive. Why not feel a
little more secure?