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Question from Deidre: I have a Smart TV and my mom told me she heard on the news that viruses can infect smart TVs and we need to run virus scans on them.
I didn’t even know a TV could catch a virus.
Is that true? And how do I run a virus scan if it is? [Read more…]
Question from Pete: Every now and then I open the Task Manager on my Windows 11 laptop and quickly scan the running processes just to make sure there’s nothing out of the ordinary running.
I hopped out of bed this morning, turned on my laptop and did one of those checks. I was surprised to see there were numerous lsass.exe processes running when there’s usually only one. [Read more…]
Do you depend on Windows’ native Microsoft Defender security app to protect your PC from malware?
If so, you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft also provides native ransomware protection with both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Every owner of a personal computer and modern gadgets knows that the Internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous space.
Despite the active work of antivirus software developers, a huge number of people are exposed to cyber attacks every day.
At the same time, there was an opinion that this applies to everyone except owners of devices on the iOS operating system. Let’s see if this is really the case. [Read more…]
The security components of both Windows 10 and Windows 11 include a very important tool called Windows Defender Firewall.
In a nutshell, this firewall helps protect the PC from Internet-based attacks by blocking incoming traffic that could potentially pose a security risk.
The thing is, your PC’s firewall protection becomes useless if it happens to get turned off for some reason. [Read more…]