Michael Horowitz - Personal Web Site

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The personal web site of Michael Horowitz

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	Blog: I blog on at Defensive Computing for Computerworld. RSS Feed Some recent postings:
	Resurrecting restricted users December 8, 2009 What your mother never told you about VPNs September 10, 2009 How to change the font size in the Firefox address bar August 6, 2009 About the Lenovo ThinkPad USB Secure Hard Drive June 4, 2009 What Consumer Reports didn't tell you about netbooks May 4, 2009 The best defense against software problems: disk imaging April 19, 2009 Advice on updating the Adobe Flash Player (What Adobe doesn't tell you) February 28, 2009 Make Firefox flag secure web pages as green February 19, 2009 The best way to disable Autorun for protection from infected USB flash drives January 30, 2009
	Blog: From July 2007 through November 2008 I wrote a Defensive Computing blog for CNET. Here is a list of all the CNET blog postings in short summary form.
	eSecurityPlanet:
	Simple Data Security Solutions about an encrypted external hard drive December 23, 2009 Online Banking: Taking Issue With The New York Times December 8, 2009 (alternate link) Two Approaches to Securing Autorun and AutoPlay in Windows November 18, 2009 Also at Datamation Check (All) Your Windows Patches: Secunia November 5, 2009 Also at Datamation Windows and Online Banking: A Dangerous Mix October 19, 2009 Sandboxie: Blocking Web-Based Malware From Your PC October 5, 2009 Being Secure on Public Wi-Fi networks: VPN, Firewalls, File Sharing September 21, 2009 The Best Security for Wireless Networks discusses WEP, WPA and WPA2. September 8, 2009 Re-published at Wi-FiPlanet as How to: Secure Your WLAN The Safest Way to Protect Sensitive Computing Files August 24, 2009 Consider Linux for Secure Online Banking August 11, 2009 Introduction to Firewalls July 27, 2009. Also at wi-fiplanet The Best Way to Remove Viruses and Malware: Part 1 May 19, 2009 \| Part 2 June 16, 2009 \| Part 3 July 20, 2009 Are Chinese Hackers Attacking Your PC? July 1, 2009 Defending Firefox from Interest-based Ad Cookies April 27, 2009 Datamation: Living with a Netbook: Battery Life to Screen Resize (April 2009) One Guy, 3 Netbooks (November 2008).
	Website: My Java Tester web site reports the version of Java used in your web browser stats
	Website: I am the webmaster for The Personal Computer Show on WBAI radio stats
	Classes: I used to teach half-day classes: Buying and Owning a Laptop Computer, So you bought a new computer. Now what?, Backing Up Your Computer, WiFi Wireless Networks and Get Your Own Domain
	Classes: I used to teach 6 week classes: Defensive Computing and Computer Networking For Homes and Small Businesses
	Defensive Computing Links: Viruses, Malware (Spyware and Adware), Defensive Email, Why You Need Defensive Computing, And More...
	Defensive Computing Info: Links that Lie, Removing Spyware, Secure Web Pages, Bad emails
	Blog: My first blog, a freebie at Blogger, ran from January 2007 through July 2007.
	Website: I am the webmaster for the NYPC User Group and the Mood Disorders Support Group
	Software: I wrote a Backup Script and a TimeKeeper program (and just started with PHP).
	Writings: a Comparison of Linux and Windows, my opinion on the Best Backup Scheme and a review of NASLite. And finally, photographs I've taken.
	Website: I am the sole griper behind the Computer Gripes web site, but haven't been updating it in quite a while.

michael [at] michaelhorowitz.com		Last Updated: January 4, 2010