Below we will outline the basics of securing your computer. The Internet although fun and informative has become a dangerous place. On one side you have loads of useful information, games and other great content. But with all the fun cool stuff out there the net does have a darker side with bared teeth. So we are putting this info together to help you protect yourselves and your computers from those teeth. Not to mention also showing you ways in which you can protect your children from seeing and getting to content that you do not want them to see. As much as we feel children and adults alike should not have to have a harness. The net has become a place where parents need to take more responsibility with what they allow their children to come in contact with. And bare in mind that there isn't a single piece of software out there that can protect you and your computer 100% that is merely the nature of the thing. And something I wish would be remedied, but we wont see that any time soon. But not only that the hardware too changes so quickly software companies can barely keep up with it all. So, with this combination you create a sort of paradox.

For instance say I designed a program around the Intel Platform. Even if I had designed the software completely bullet proof for those instruction sets, 6 months from now it wont matter as the hardware will be upgraded on 60% of the computers I designed the software for. So, to keep up I patch the old software to work with the new hardware software combination. And because I need to get the patch delivered on or before that hardware release (deadline) it becomes harder to make sure the patch is 100% compatible. So, development ensues because I can not test every single combination of software and hardware out there. So on a few combinations the patch ends up having an exploitable flaw. Unaware of this at the release time of this patch many folks find that this flaw is indeed exploited. Opening the end users machine too who knows what kind of attacks, from virus' to data mining spy ware. Which in turn creates a problem and security risk. So, until I fix the patch the problem persists. And this also creates a problem I then patch the patch to fix the flaw only to find that the new fixed patch now breaks other hardware and software combinations and creates yet another flaw. And the process repeats in a never ending cycle. Sad thing is that even if the software I had designed was given away for free it still can become an issue.

In other words just because you bought a machine everyone says is un exploitable this is not the right statement to be made. Just because a certain hardware and software combination hasn't been exploited yet doesn't mean it is bullet proof. 9 times out of ten it just means the folks who attack choose not to attack that certain combination. So simply to the point there is no 100% bullet proof system out there no matter what anyone says. The real sad thing about all of this is that the problem is only getting worse not better.

So, below we will list the things we are aware of that you can do to secure both you computer your Internet Connection and your children. As new information comes available we will add it here as well.