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Before you fall victim to the upgrade trap, just remember the current version of software you have will always continue to work fine as it is, just as intended. Don’t fall into the upgrade trap- it’s another marketing device aimed at convincing people to spend more money on a typically insignificant change of software.

As liberating as computers are, it’s terrifying when things go wrong. You’re left abandoned, even mocked!, by the tools on which you’ve come so heavily to rely. It’s like having your trusty accountant wipe a stack of forms to the floor, storm out of the office, and leave you to sort out your own taxes.

It is true that computer viruses are dangerous. Anyone who has lost vital information in their computers because of a computer virus will know how big a damage it can cause. But computer viruses are not these insidiously little pieces of code that could wreak havoc on the world. If you know what to do when you get a virus in your computer then you can definitely limit, if not totally stop, the damage it can cause.

How To: Remove a worm virus from your computer

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Make a New Year’s resolution: safer computing

Give the gift of safe Internet usage

MyWOT is another free program that has a rating for millions of websites and that tries to keep you safe from Internet scams, shady online vendors, spam, spyware, and viruses. It never hurts to have more than one of these programs running at the same time, you never know when one service might have a website flagged before the other one does.

The initial analysis of our March 2008 SPAM Survey results.

The Anatomy of a Vishing Scam

The scams in this case took the form of a type of phishing known as “vishing,” wherein cell-phone users receive a text message warning that their bank account has been closed due to suspicious activity, and that they need to call a provided phone number to reactivate the account. Victims who called the number reached an automated voice mail box that prompted callers to key in their credit card number, expiration date and PIN to verify their information (the voice mail systems involved in these sorts of scams usually are run off of free or low-cost Internet-based phone networks that are difficult to trace and shut down).