Software is at or near the heart of every modern business (and even quite a few not-so-modern businesses) today. Most of what we use we buy from known vendors for established markets. Need word processing and spreadsheets? Microsoft Office is an excellent choice, though the free and increasingly ubiquitous OpenOffice is also available. What about
So you’ve started a new company, and you’re pretty sure you don’t need the geek squad to milk you dry to setup your office computer network. What do you need? Computers of course. And a network. Now what? What’s a network anyway. And what’s a server and why do I need one? In the modern
In Part 1 and Part 2, we discussed some preventative measures you can take in order to lower your risks while working on your computer. The assumption is that you do the things most folks do these days with their computers. You visit websites, send and receive emails, download things, laugh at kittens … those
You’re infected. You know it for sure. Maybe all of your icons are gone. Maybe you’re getting strange messages popping up telling you you’re infected and if you just pay one time fee, the software you don’t recognize will clean things up for you. Perhaps your system has slowed to a crawl and you have
In Part 1, I talked about two ways you can compute responsibly; using the lowest permissions needed to perform your day to day tasks and making sure to run anti-malware applications as needed. What else can we do? Remember how I said I had several “simple things”? Well, the list goes on. The next thing