HP and Dell to Launch Windows 8 Tablets

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Speaking as someone who has had a pc since before Bill Gates released Dos 1.0 I have to call a bunch of BS. In the 32 years I have owned a personal computer I have never once been successfully infected with a virus. I have encountered a few in the wild but none ever managed to make their way in to my computer and infect or destroy data.

Do you know why? First it should go without saying that I learned how to operate my computer and keep it safe. Its sad to say but people should probably be required to take a course before being allowed to purchase and use a computer because they don’t have the common sense to know you need to understand the tech you are using before going wild with it.

Plug and play has been the best and worst thing that has happened to computers. It made people lazy and unconcerned toward learning about the technology they use every day. Thus we have millions of people squalling every day that their computers have a viruses that would have never caused them trouble if they only invested the time necessary to protect them.

If you want to keep your data and computer safe then here are a few common sense protections you should use. Notice: this is only a beginners list and should be considered the bare minimum of security precautions you should enact.

1. Stay away from website advertising free commercial software, movies, music, ebooks, and ringtones. The more popular a product is that is being offered free in an unauthorized manner the more apt you are to encounter viruses and malware the creators of such sites use to create an income. You really didn’t think they went to all that trouble for nothing did you?

2. Install adblocking software on your browser. Almost daily I get warnings in chrome about websites that have privacy issues with them and 95% of those warnings are due to ads being run on their sites that lead back to website who are doing something shady. Trusted ad servers like google do remove such ads quickly but other networks might not be so picky as along as money is going in their bank account.

3. Install a good / cheap av program on your pc and use it often. Place the settings as high as you restrictive as you can stand it and you will get better protection from the product. Add to this av a product called threatfire which has additional protective methods that most avs do not include and you will have a pretty good protection scheme as long as you add a firewall to the mix.

You might want to take a look at the suggestions recommended by the CIA computer security document with particular note about the white listing concepts. We all know there is no one as paranoid as the CIA is about security right?

If you do not take the time to do these things then you have no one to blame for computer incursions but yourself. Quit bitching and deal with it yourself, no one else wants to hear about it.