TECH STUFF

Free Programs
Podcast
PC Security
Educational Sites For Kids
Interesting Websites

SPORT

WestCoast Eagles
Fremantle Dockers
AFL
WAFL
Subiaco Football Club
Footy Goss

JUST FOR FUN

Bits and Pieces
My Photo's
My Model Railroad
The Funny Pages
Fish Bites
Webcams From Around The World
The Tandy TRS-80 My First Computer
Cricket Sites Around The World

SERIOUS STUFF

Serious Stuff

EXPLORER

Turn off third party cookies.
Tool – internet options – privacy- advanced – tick override automatic cookie handling under third party cookies, move circle from allow to block.
More information can be found at http://www.grc.com/cookies.htm

FIREFOX

Turn off third party cookies.
Tools-privacy-click on cross next to cookies. Tick on – for the originating web site only
Change keep cookies to – until I close firefox
Disable third party advertising
This may cause blank spots on a web page were the advert would have been. Advert or safer surfing? Web features – load images – tick for the originating web site only

HIJACKTHIS

Gives you a list of the Running Processes that are active and running in the background and/or foreground on your computer. Some start automatically when you start you your computer and others start when you have applications running. You can then view the list to see if any of them might be viruses or spyware. If you go to: http://www.hijackthis.de/index.php#anl you can put the log file created by highjackthis onto this page and it will give definitions of all the programs running on your computer.

General computer

Web Robots

Web Robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders), are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Search engines such as Google use them to index the web content, spammers use them to scan for email addresses, and they have many other uses.

HOST FILES

You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies , 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers . This is accomplished by blocking the connection(s) that supplies these little gems.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

These are only little files that can be downloaded at http://www.grc.com/default.htm there is also an explanation of what they are and why they should be used. This site is excellent for general computer security.
DCOMbobulator
Shoot The Messenger
Unplug n pray
XPdite

SPYWARE

The problem with spyware is when you get it on your computer it is very hard to remove. The spyware removal programs generally don't do a very good job. No one program will remove all spyware, so it is suggested that you run three or four programs. This still may not remove all the spyware. Beware that a lot of the main programs you use may be putting spyware onto you computer. I run Spywareblaster witch sits in the background and can stop a lot of spyware from being installed. Then check your system every couple of days with the spyware removal tools. These can be found in the Free Program section.