To Fix the thing… or to Dump the thing… That’s the question we often ask ourselves when faced with a computer behaving badly. Unless you work for a company where the choice isn’t yours to make, different circumstances call for different responses. Because we want to educate our visitors, we’re going to recommend that you take an unusual approach.

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Unless you’ve subscribed to our newsletter, you’re going to have a hard time keeping up with all the latest security threats. In our educated opinion, the most protected computer user is the most educated computer user and that’s why we’re describing the most popular email threat that’s cropped up over the last seven to ten years. So pull out your pencils and pads of paper. You’re going to want to take notes.

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In another blog post, we introduced “phishing” - the act of soliciting personal information by pretending to be a well-established and reputable business. In this post, we’re going to introduce worms. Note that phishing and worms are similar in nature though neither have anything to do with a relaxing afternoon at the lake.

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Some of our visitors ask us for the difference between a virus and Trojan or a virus and malware. To help all of our visitors understand confusing PC security terminology, we offer the following:

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Buying and using pre-owned computers is great for the environment. If you’ve decided to purchase one of your own, we congratulate your ethics and thank you for reducing pollution.

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In its beginning, spyware was promoted as a positive way to track online consumerism, children activities, employee use of the Internet or spousal cheating. Whether you agree with the intentions of these particular uses or not, we contend that the destructive tools they’ve become now were only a matter of time. Today, what may be been designed as a simple monitoring devise in the past has bloomed into a full attack on our credit account numbers, our passwords, and our identity.

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