Posts by: Pieter Arntz
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware protection modules
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro vs Free? The Pro offers a protection module that utilizes different methods to stop malware, before it can hurt your system or compromise your data.
What is Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) and how does it work?
Malware today is so numerous and diverse that security professionals have known for some time that signature based solutions would no longer be able to cut it alone. Not only are there too many new malware files each day, some of them are able to change their shape and signature as they go along. But,if…
Surfing by proxy
Proxy (the authority to act for someone else) is a term that we use, when related to computers, to describe using a third party between the user and the internet. Looking at the reasons to use a proxy will help us further on, when we look at the different kinds of proxies, and related methods….
Hoaxes
A hoax ( to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous ) is the word we use for a fake warning. Since they are not only annoying and confusing, but sometimes even potentially harmful, they deserve some attention.
Law Against Cookies
In May 2011 the European Union changed the law that covers the use of electronic communications networks to store information, e.g. using cookies, or gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user. One year later, in May 2012 the law was updated in the sense that implied consent was…
