Summary. These days, most people have their  smart phones locked. This is good for security, but if the phone is lost and then found by someone, they won’t ever be able to get into the phone and find out who to return it to. These instructions describe how to create a custom iPhone lock screen image with your name and contact information.

Simple Method. The quick, low tech, easy, but not so elegant way to set owner information to display on your iPhone or any smart phone is to simply write your contact information on paper and then take a photo of it that is clear enough to be read. Then set that picture as your power-on lock screen. Provide your name, email, and an alternate phone number.

Using Notepad. You could also create a lock screen wallpaper image using the notepad feature in the iPhone by typing your contact information in the middle of the note and then taking a screen shot of it by pressing the power and home keys briefly.

Using Other Apps. There are a number of drawing and graphics programs for the iPhone OS and for desktop computers. Some iPhone drawing apps like Doodle Buddy or Draw Pad Pro let you create colorful images with text. Keynote and Pages for the iPhone or iPad allow you to type your name and choose an elegant backdrop. With any of these, you can create a custom home screen image that includes your name and contact information. Then, press the power and home keys briefly to take a snapshot of your creation (while viewing in full-screen mode).

Using Keynote. The instructions below show how to use Keynote to make a custom lock screen wallpaper image.

Step #1 – Set the presentation image size to 640×960 as shown below.

Step #2 – Disable any link information as shown below.

Step #3 – From the file menu, close to export your creation as a jpg image as shown below and then email it to yourself so you can save it to the camera roll on the iPhone. When you receive the image in an email, touch and hold it to save to camera roll. Then, from the camera roll, you can define it as your lock screen image (or do this from Settings).

Keynote Theme Samples Gallery. Below is a gallery of samples using some of the Keynote themes to vary the background and fond. The other images on the page are included as well. Click any image to zoom in.

Summary. Remote computer access support software such as TeamViewer, GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, and others make it very convenient to support users from a distance, or monitor your own computer while performing time consuming installations and updates. Below are instructions for configuring TeamViewer for maximum security.

Security Threats. Considering that about 90% of all companies say they’ve been hacked, including companies specializing in computing security, it’s probably a given that at some point remote computer access systems will get hacked. Most systems allow for the computers and passwords to be saved and accessed from a single login. For example, a technology support person might have 100 computers with passwords saved for remote access. If that one person’s account gets hacked (or their computer gets stolen), then all of those 100 computers are immediately compromised.

Best Security Practices. With the increased concern about computer security, it’s important to use best security practices with such programs. Here are some guidelines to follow.

• Maximum Security. The highest level of security would be achieved by leaving the software installed on a computer, but not running. In this way, it’s convenient for someone needing support to start the software only when needed. This will typically generate a random password.
• High Security. A high level of security would be attained by allowing the software to run each time the computer is turned on, but to generate random password for access. The password would only be given to known individuals when support is needed.
• Good Security. A good level of security is possible when the software is set to run each time the computer is turned on, and a strong password is assigned to the computer. This setting can be used in the initial setup of a computer since the installation of new software and required updates usually requires frequent restarts. However, when remote unattended access is no longer needed, it’s best to disable loading of the software automatically on restart and remove any saved passwords.
• For your own computers, if remote access software must be left running all the time, then always leave the computer at a login screen so any unauthorized access would not get beyond the login screen.
• Low Security. Most systems allow for the computers and passwords to be saved and accessed from a single login. This eliminates the need to enter login passwords for each computer and saves time when needing to access multiple computers. However, it leaves those computers vulnerable to a possible hack or rogue employees.

Password Storage. Instead of saving passwords in the cloud on with the remote computer access service provider, consider saving passwords inside of local password storage software utility programs such as Callpod Keeper.

TeamViewer Maximum Security. TeamViewer is one of the world’s most secure and trusted remote access programs. Below are the instructions to ensure that your installation of TeamViewer is set for maximum security. These instructions presume that your computer is currently set for low or good security as described above.

Start TeamViewer if it isn’t running already. Once TeamViewer is running, you should see the small blue TeamViewer icon in the system tray as seen in the middle below.

Right click on the TeamViewer icon to display the context sensitive menu as seen below.

Click on Options from the menu. In the resulting window, remove the checkmark (if it exists) to the left of the Start TeamViewer with Windows option. This option is for unattended access. Once done, click the OK button.

Right click on the TeamViewer icon again, and this time choose Setup attended access.

The following window will appear. Click Next.

In the password window, make sure no password is entered (unless you’re planning unattended remote access). Click Next.

A confirmation window will appear. Click the Skip password button.

The following window will appear. Choose the option I don’t want to create a TeamViewer account now. Then click the Next button.

The final window will show the computer’s unique TeamViewer ID. This number remains the same. The password will be randomly generated each time the software is started. Click the Finish button.

The TeamViewer software will still be running. To close it completely, right click on the TeamViewer icon in the system tray and choose Exit TeamViewer.

Summary. This year has been busy for anyone involved in computer support and security.

Hijacked Computers. Computers are being taken over by viruses that turn them into remote controlled drones. In one group alone, more than 4.5 million computers that have been hijacked by hackers for their use. This is just one of many groups of drone computers being used as an army to conduct cyber warfare and cyber terrorism. Because these networked armies of zombie computers are self healing and self replicating, security analysts believe it may be nearly impossible to destroy them.

Computers and Accounts Hacked. About 90% of all companies say they’ve been hacked and over 22 million people have now had their online accounts hacked. These are only the known incidents of security breaches.

Better Security Guidelines. Given the current climate of security instability, here are some suggestions for better security.

1. Password Security. Use a password vault program such as CallPod Keeper to securely store your passwords. This will allow you to easily use different passwords for every account you have, and also use more complex (strong) passwords. Some password storage programs include automatically generated random passwords. If you’d prefer to keep a simple written list of passwords, then use a coding system that only you know. Here are some methods to create strong passwords that are easy to remember:

1. One method of creating an easy to remember, but complex passowrd is the formula Word + Interlaced Numbers = Password. So, using this formula, your password could be dolphin + 1234 = d1o2l3p4hin. All you would write down would be dolphin 1234. Nobody would know what the password is without the awareness of the interlacing system you’re using.
2. Another option would be Word + number + word = password. So, your password could be cricket491sunrise. Using words that have no association is probably better. Including upper and lower case is better. You could just write down the words without the number and let the number be a key you memorize.
3. Another option would be keyboard patterns. The pattern of qwerty is overused as a password and therefor not secure. However, other variations such as qazwsxedcrfv can be easy patterns for you to visually remember and type, yet not likely to be guessed by a brute force password guessing system. These are easy to type, and because they area based on patterns in visual space they can be easier to remember.
4. Another option would be to combine languages utilizing the above systems. So, a basic brute force password guessing system would need to use multiple language dictionaries.
5. Another option is to spell words backwards. So, your password list would be incomplete until the words were reversed.

2. The Cloud. Don’t leave large amounts of confidential data stored in the cloud. Instead, archive data into folders by year and store duplicate copies of those folders in redundant hard drives that are stored in different locations. Reducing the amount of information in the cloud can help reduce your exposure. Data in the cloud is typically synchronized back to your computer, so injected viruses and other undesirable content can be pushed from a hacked cloud account back into your computer. Online storage is useful for exchanging files, and working on shared files, but it’s best to keep files limited.

3. Remote Access Software. Remote access software, such as GoToMyPC or LogMeIn is very helpful when providing remote computer support. It’s common for technicians to leave such programs running by default and loading on startup. This creates a moderate security problem, since it could be possible for someone to try hacking into the computer. Typically such programs allow the remote user to save the password online. This creates an even greater security threat because if the account were hacked into, then all those remote computers could be accessed. So, a best practice is to only load remote support software on an as needed basis and don’t save passwords in any online account. For more information, read Best Security Practices for TeamViewer, GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, and other Remote Computer Access Support Software.

4. Backups. Computers continue to be susceptible to hardware failures and corrupted system files. So, maintaining a backup is essential. Most modern operating systems like Windows 7 and Apple OS X provide adequate backup software.

Summary. With the recent news of rampant hacking in the digital world, it’s not surprising that we’d see a rise in crime in our physical world.

When well financed businesses, organizations, and institutions are having their computers broken into, one begins to wonder how secure an individual could possibly be.

Commentary. Below is a commentary from Greg Johnson about the rise in cyber crime and other crime.

“I recently took my bicycle to the shop to have it cleaned and tuned for the summer season.

It’s not a very expensive bicycle, but I decided to lock it, and my bicycle cart, with a very secure lock and four cables securely fastened to each component of the bike.

I put it in a well lit and highly visible area next to the police station that gets a lot of pedestrian traffic and is regularly patrolled by police. Despite my many precautions, the bicycle was stolen.

When I arrived to find only the cut cables and u-bolt lock still attached to the bicycle rack, for some reason, it didn’t phase me at all. My thoughts lately have been focused on the numerous banks, government agencies, and security agencies that continue to be hacked almost daily.

Between the intentional yet random maliciousness of people and the arbitrary destruction of nature, it seems that nothing we have in the physical or digital world is safe anymore. That was an awareness I had before I found my bicycle stolen.

Floods, fires, hurricanes, tsunamis, earth quakes, and other natural phenomenon are causing billions of dollars in damage as devastation ravages homes, schools, businesses, and levels entire communities.

There are now over 4 million computers in just one of the groups of computers that are presently controlled by hackers. The top security analysts in the country now say it’s likely impossible to stop these armies of drone botnet zombie computers. [source]

So, my bicycle getting stolen by someone cutting through numerous thick woven reinforced cables, presumably in broad daylight, surrounded by armed police, somehow, just doesn’t surprise me.

It was time for a change anyway.

Summary. This document provides some retail solutions as well as do-it-yourself solutions for computer usage reporting.

Monitor. It’s sometimes helpful to know computer usage over a given period of time.

For example, when evaluating the use of shared or public computers, one wants to know the utilized value of those computers compared to the cost of maintaining them.

Perhaps ten computers are maintained, but only five are regularly used. Or, perhaps ten computers are maintained, and they are so heavily used that purchasing more would be justified.

System Log Files. Using system log files is perhaps the cleanest and most secure method of tracking the basic usage of computers. To do so, follow these instructions.

1. Apple users, skip to step #2. For Windows computers, click the Start Menu, right click on Computer, select Manage. Navigate the structure from Computer Management (Local) > System Tools > Even Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > User Profile Services > right click on Operational and then choose Save All Events As. This will allow you to save the event log to a file. For Save as Type choose CSV (Comma Separated Values) and provide a file name, saving in a location where you’ll find it easily.
2. For Apple computers, follow the instruction guide to Creating Apple Login and Logout Scripts to Track Computer Usage in Console System Log Files. Then continue to step #3. Or, alternatively, refer to the document Using Apple Mac Console Event Log Files to Report Login and Logout Times for Calculating Computer Usage. Then skip the remaining steps.
3. Use Microsoft Excel to open and sort log entries. From the File menu, choose New Workbook. Then, from the File menu, choose Import, select CSV file, then click the Import button. You will then be at the Choose a File dialog box.
4. Remember that you’d previously exported the user-profile-service log file as a CSV formatted file, so it will be visible and can be opened. However, you will need to select the All Files option from the drop down selection to the right of Enable, in order to open the usertracking.log file. The All Files option allows you to see all files, including those not normally recognizable by Excel. Click on the log file you want to import, and press the Get Data button.
   1. Apple users can use the usertracking.log file crated in step #2 to calculate the time differential from the login and logout times.
   2. Windows users should look in the user-profile-service log file for Finished processing user logon notification and Finished processing user logoff notification as the login and logout markers.
5. In the Text Import Wizard – Step 1 of 3 choose Delimited as the original data type, and then click Next.
6. In the Text Import Wizard – Step 2 of 3, under the Delimiters heading, Comma should be the only item checked, then click Next.
7. In the Text Import Wizard – Step 3 of 3, it’s necessary to indicate the data format for each column. The date and time column should be set as Date DMY. To do this, click on the column with the date, and then choose the Date format above, then click the Finish button.
8. In the Import Data dialog box, select New Sheet and then press the OK button.
9. Apple users, skip to step #10. Windows users can now cleanup and organize the user-profile-service log data by following these steps
   1. Use Column A as the column to put your computer name, in case you have more log files you plan to merge, then each computer’s data can be distinguishable. The column heading name might be something like “Level” — replace it with the word Computer. Replace the word Information in Column A with the name of the computer. Do this by typing the computer name in cell A2, then press Enter. Then, click on the name you just entered. Then press Shift + Control + Down Arrow. This will select all data in column A. Then press Control + D to fill down the name you entered in Cell A2. Now all records in this sheet are labeled as coming from that computer.
   2. Column B should be the Date and Time. Columns C (Source), D (Event ID), and E (Task Category) can be deleted. Highlight them by clicking the mouse on the Column Heading C and dragging it to the Column Heading E. Then, from the Edit menu, choose delete.
   3. Select Column B and C, then from the Insert menu choose Columns. This will insert two blank columns B and C, with the date now as Column D and column E being the event log details. Type Details as the column heading under E. Beneath column B type Minutes and beneath column C type Hours. This is where you can display the time used in total minutes or total hours for each session.
   4. Select Row 2 by clicking the “2″ with your mouse. Press Shift + Control + Down Arrow to select all rows of data. From the Data menu, choose Sort, and choose to sort on column E by selecting Column E under the Column Selection heading, then click OK. All the data will now be sorted alphabetically by details.
   5. Delete all data that isn’t described as “Finished processing user logoff” or ”Finished processing user logon.” Select rows sequentially above and below using the Shift + Control + Up Arrow or Down Arrow as previously described, and delete them as needed. Now you’ll be left with a spreadsheet showing login and logout times.
   6. Sort all the data again, this time by the date/time column. This will place all records in chronological order from the oldest record of a logon and logoff.
   7. In Cell B3 place the following formula to calculate the number of minutes the computer was used during a session =IF(DAY(D3)-DAY(D2)<1,((HOUR(D3)-HOUR(D2))*60)+(MINUTE(D3)-MINUTE(D2)),(((DAY(D3)-DAY(D2))*1440)+(HOUR(D3)*60)+(MINUTE(D3))))
   8. In Cell C3 place the following formula in the hours cell =B3/60
   9. You can format Column 3 to not have so many numbers after the decimal. Select the column, then right click on it, choose Format Cells, select Category > Number then 2 decimal places and click OK.
   10. At this point, you have the basic formula to be used for all logout calculations. To copy this to the other logout records, sort all data by Details. The formula results will now say #VALUE! because the source data has moved. However, the formula is still valid. Copy the formula down for all logoff records, by selecting the formula and all cells below it down to include all logout records, then choose Control + D to fill down. Then sort the data again by date. Now, you can use the SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, and COUNTBLANK functions to calculate the total hours, average hours, and number of logins and logouts.
10. Apple users can follow the general principles outlined above under step #9 to create formulas that will calculate total time used. Or, refer to the document Using Apple Mac Console Event Log Files to Report Login and Logout Times for Calculating Computer Usage. Then skip the remaining steps.
11. If you have more than one log file, you can combine them, but be sure the columns are the same and for each data set add a column with the computer name and fill down the name.

Software for Computer Monitoring. Software programs are available to track computer usage. For example, PC On/Off Time by Neuber is a program that calculates computer usage based on system log files, and then displays that information in a three-week 24-hour graph. More detailed analysis, including individual program usage, can be tracked and reported using programs like Visual Time Analyzer by Neuber.

Internet usage monitoring programs are used by parents to watch over their children’s online activities and employers to track the productivity of all Internet activity. However, these programs don’t typically track computer usage.

Some computer monitoring software pushes the limits of computer usage tracking and surveillance by recording every screen viewed, every keystroke, and even passwords typed. In addition to the privacy and intrusion concerns, these are potentially dangerous because some include remote viewing and management capabilities that could be exploited. Having a detailed history of all confidential data on a computer, including passwords typed, leaves the computer vulnerable to hackers who would only need to download the keystroke recordings to gain access to everything. It’s not advisable to use any such software unless you are fully confident in the trustworthiness of the developer and vendor.

SpectorSoft.com is a developer and provider of computer and Internet monitoring software. Some of their products work on Apple as well as Windows computers. Their products have received positive mention in the press and professional awards. Their products Spector Pro for Mac 2011 and Spector Pro for Windows 2011 make it possible to use the same program for multiple platforms.

Summary. Hackers have recently been manipulating search engine results and content ratings.

On 3 June 2011, we saw an example of this on YouTube. Under the Most Viewed category for This Week, in position #12 with 4.8 million views was a 31 second commercial for Dish network. Click here, or the image to the right, for an enlarged view of the top-12 listings.

Videos making it into the top 12 list would usually have 90% or higher positive ratings. This one had 93% negative ratings, yet it continued to be featured as a popular video.

Much of the authenticity and usefulness of the Internet is based on ratings that allow quality content to rise to the surface. It’s how we find meaningful information that’s relevant to us. Whether a person is searching Google, or looking at the most popular photos and video content, they expect to get quality content.

Getting your video to show up in YouTube’s most viewed list is very valuable. It’s still unclear how hackers plan to use this new found skill. Will they sell ranking positions? Or, perhaps, they will charge fees to manipulate the top 10 listings of different sites by pushing some content higher while also being able to drag other content down in the listings. Hackers often have a message they are trying to convey to the world. Being able to record a message, and broadcast it to the entire (connected) population is a powerful ability. Presumably, a rogue group of hackers could get top bidding on YouTube to have their video manifesto or message conveyed to the world.

Another similar technique is to put a popular photo on a malicious web page. Then get that photo to the top of Google’s image search results. When people click on the image, it takes them to the malicious web page.

Summary. This page provides guidelines for evaluating friend requests on social networks like Facebook. While this document refers specifically to Facebook, these guidelines apply to just about any online social network.

Background. Some online discussion boards and special interest groups are moderated to filter out fake requests to join. This helps eliminate spammers and hackers. However, with social networks like Facebook, you become the moderator to your own online presence. The social network culture of Facebook creates some peer pressure to have a large number of friends. Presumably, the more friends you have, the more popular you are. For this reason, some people are inclined to accept all friend requests that come their way.

Dangers. There are many potential dangers in accepting friend requests from people you don’t know.

1. Trust. By signing off on the person (or social network malicious software robot), you are telling your genuine friends that this person is okay — making it more likely that your friends will accept this person and have their accounts vandalized by them.
2. Privacy. A person (or automated virus-like program) posing as a genuine friend can create chaos for you and those who genuinely are your friends and family. They can scour your profile for personal data with the intent of using personal information to guess the answers of your login security questions for Facebook or other sites.
3. Phishing. Because people generally trust their friends more than strangers, they are more likely to follow links and postings on their wall. However, these links can be to malicious websites with viruses or phishing schemes. A recent malicious automated campaign ravaged its way through Facebook appearing to be genuine posts from “friends” — such as, the person you accepted a friend request from, but you didn’t really know them. The posts were enticements to visit another website used to get names and passwords.
4. Stalking. For those concerned about privacy and stalking, it’s important you know who is being granted access to your Facebook data. Letting an unknown, but seemingly benign person become your friend is basically allowing anyone in the world to have access to your data. Remember that your “private” facebook photos, data, and posts could easily be copied by any fake friend and then reposted to public websites, or used to build up the personal information databases used by hackers.

For these reasons, it’s important for all Facebook members to really check the authenticity of friend requests. We are the police of our own social network world. Not only is it important to “keep it real” with regard to our own user account, but also it’s important to ensure our friends are real as well.

Friend Approval Guidelines. Here are some general guidelines to help you think about the legitimacy and authenticity of Facebook requests.

1. Make Contact. Perhaps the easiest and quickest way to determine the authenticity of a friend requests is to simply write the person and ask them how they know you or found you. Ask them what your shared interests are and why they are friending you. If the requests is an automated hacker robot or malicious person, they likely won’t respond.
2. View Their Profile. Find out a little bit about the person who is asking to be friends. Does their profile seem genuine and authentic? Do their friends look genuine or fake? Are they posting to their own wall, or is theirs a zombie account (setup only for the person of hacking). Does it appear to be someone you’d actually want to be friends with?
3. Shared Friends. Is this person a friend of someone you know? If not, be a bit more leery of accepting the friend request. Even if they are a friend of someone you know, you shouldn’t just accept the friend request without further investigation. Since many people just accept friend requests without any thought, it’s likely the person who appears to be a friend of a friend really isn’t.
4. Avoid Automation. When you join Facebook, and at anytime after joining, you can upload your address book from one or more popular online email services and social networks. When you do this, invitations are sent out to those people. The invitations look like they are personally sent from you. The invitations will ask the person to be a friend. You may end up with friends you don’t really know. Depending on how your email service or program works, it may have harvested email addresses from every email message you’ve ever received. As a result, you will have unwittingly launched a huge bulk email marketing campaign. Everyone you’ve ever written or who has ever written you will get an invitation, and then numerous annoying reminders to join Facebook as your friend. People will think you are stalking them by sending repeated requests. You won’t even know this is going on until you get a few angry emails from people saying, “Stop emailing me about joining you on Facebook!” If you’re the kind of person that burns a lot of bridges along the way, the automated friend request system will reconnect you with everyone you’ve ever upset.

Just following these four simple rules will ensure that your Facebook friends are genuine. This will make your online experience more authentic and safer for you as well as your friends and family.

Summary. On 13 December 2010, Microsoft released a critical security update (14.0.2) for their Microsoft Office 2011, the Apple Mac version of their office suite.

A few days prior, on 8 December 2010, Microsoft announced a critical security update (1.1.8) to their XML File Format Converter for Apple Mac.

An enduring bug in the Microsoft Automatic Update process may cause the installation of these updates to fail with an error message, ”The installation failed. The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail.”

Problem Cause. There’s apparently a problem with the Microsoft Installer causing it to fail if some background processes are running. Rather than just automatically closing those processes, which presumably are Microsoft software anyway, the install just fails.

Problem Resolution. Microsoft has a support page for this update bug. In summary, their advice is to start your Apple Mac in Safe Mode by holding the shift key down after you hear the startup sound. Lift up on the shift key when you see the progress bar on the screen. Once started in Safe Mode, the installation should complete normally without any errors.

Commentary. Below is a commentary by computer support consultant Gregory Johnson about this issue.

“I find it unusual that Microsoft wouldn’t fix this glitch in their automatic update that’s existed now for months.

What’s a bit more disconcerting is that their support page has repeated typos and inaccuracies.

In two places it’s stated that you should ‘exist to Safe Mode’ and they provide instructions on how to ‘exist to Safe Mode’.

The instructions state incorrectly that ‘the progress indicator looks similar to a spinning gear.’ This is not true. If you see a spinning gear on startup, that’s something else entirely. The progress bar is a horizontal bar toward the bottom of the screen that seems to fill or progress from left to right.

The other really odd thing is that the error message states states that the user should ‘Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.’ Yet, the install file was written and delivered by Microsoft. Why not just say ‘contact us’ for assistance. It’s almost like they had a third party write the install program.

Based on these typos and inaccuracies, it seems that Microsoft may have outsourced their content writing to the lowest bidder, and simultaneously fired their editors and content reviewers.” ~ Gregory Johnson

Summary. BrowserPlus by Yahoo is a browser plugin that allows sophisticated programming on top of a simple website making it possible to launch programs written on the BrowserPlus platform. It is similar to Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, and Adobe Air.

Because BrowserPlus can potentially allow access to your hard drive and other computer components, it could potentially present a security or privacy risk.

Removal Instructions. The removal instructions for BrowserPlus offered by Yahoo are incorrect, at least for anyone using Apple OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. The removal instructions offered by Yahoo state that the removal script can be found in the user’s home folder [users/yourname] under the following directory path: Applications > Yahoo! > BrowserPlus. This is incorrect.

• Users of Snow Leopard should go to their home folder [users/yourname] and look for the removal script under this directory path: Library > Application Support > Yahoo! > BrowserPlus. This is where you will find the BrowserPlusUninstaller script. Double click on this file to remove the BrowserPlus software.

Summary. We research and implement best practices regarding website security and stability. In addition to preventative measures, our site is scanned and monitored regularly by multiple redundant internal and external automated systems for any unauthorized content changes that may indicate the presence of malware on our site. We also scan our site manually multiple times a day and sometimes conduct non-stop visual code assessment monitoring to detect and observe malicious activity. This provides for more effective digital forensics and site hardening.

If any malware is discovered, the site is taken down immediately and restored to the most recent clean backup to reduce or eliminate the possibility harm to our site visitors.

Security Tools. For your own assurance, you can scan our site with McAfee Site Advisor, Norton Safe Web, and Sucuri.net scanning services to confirm the safety of our site. AVG AntiVirus software for Windows will evaluate sites before you visit them and warn you of sites known to contain malicious code.

For your privacy and security, we do not collect or store personal or financial information on our site. Instead we rely on trusted third-party service providers like Amazon and PayPal.