The group discussed various
ways of safeguarding our privacy and securing our data while using
our macs, while at the same time not making it unreasonably cumbersome.
15
Ways to Secure Your Mac - Tom briefly discussed and demonstrated
how to do most of these suggestions from an excellent article by
Ryan Faas in ComputerWorld.
Web
of Trust (WOT) - Jerry demonstrated a great add-on for your browser
called WOT (Web of Trust). It helps identify safe sites as well as
suspicious ones.
Tom
demonstrated how to use the free anti-virus application called ClamXav.
Tom
demonstrated how to use1Password
3. This app will work with most browsers and allows you to log-in
to secure websites with a single click. Use 1Password
2 for OS 10.4 Tiger ($39 with free trial).
Bonjour
Browser - free app to locate all Bonjour activity on your Mac
- OSX 10.8 or higher - (download 191k)
Adblock
Plus - Jerry recommended this last meeting. Download
link for Firefox
Add-Ons for Adblock Plus 1.3.3 - You
will also need a free subscription list of ads to block - recommended: Fanboy's
List.
Sophos -
free Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition (download 74mb)
SOME OTHER WAYS TO STAY SAFE
Set
up a Standard Account (Non-Admin) in Sys Prefs as your main account
EMAIL-
avoid forwarding to multiple addresses - use BCC or Group Mail - see how.
Filter
SPAM with on-line e-mail accounts (i.e. Gmail) forwarded to your ISP
account in Mail.
Use Secure
Erase Options in Disk Utility to clean off a HD before selling
a computer
HARDWARE
Eton
Clipray LED Light -
handy crank-powered flashlight (1 minute =10 minutes of light) has
USB port for charging a cell phone as well - $15 +7 shipping)
Spokeo.com -
not your Grandma's white pages. Look up your name to see what data
has been collected on you.. (Of course, then they will know your IP
address as well).
TOPIC: Privacy
and Security 
Tom
demonstrated how to use the free anti-virus application called 
Tom
demonstrated how to use
