Your security is only as good as your software
Who owns your computer? The obvious answer is “I do,” but each time you turn on your machine, you might be rekindling a secret battle, one that will determine who owns your computer.
How much control do you really have over what happens on your machine? There are estimates that hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of computers are members of remotely controlled “bot” networks.
One of the greatest threats to your computer is spyware: Spyware is nothing more than someone else trying to own your computer. These programs steal your computer’s resources and monitor your online behavior, reporting back to their real owners, often without your knowledge or consent. What information do they send? What ever they want.
There is an inherent security threat within software that tries to own your computer. It allow someone other than you to decide what information you are sharing with them, and possibly turn your computer against you by offering control to other outside interests.
If left unprotected, your computer will become much less useful by letting outsiders limit what you can do with it. Your computer much less reliable because you will no longer control what is running on your machine, for what purpose, and how the unknown components interact with your valid software. Eventually, it may completely dominate your computer’s operation, or make it useless to you.
You can fight this danger by only using software that you trust. Only install software that has been checked for viruses, spyware, adware, backdoors and other insidious attempts to subvert control of your computer.
We will test every software title we recommend to make sure it does what it claims to do. We only provide links to its original homepage so you can safely get it from the source. We also verify that major software sites that we trust, such as Tucows have done their testing to make sure the software is not spyware, virus infected, or a front for adware.
Spyware and adware are hot topics, because of the privacy and performance issues they create. We hope that the software and information sources we recommend can help keep your computer and personal information safe, as well keep unwanted parasitic software from draining your computer’s performance.
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I think you are confusing us with DataDoctors.com which is based in AZ and does a radio show.