As I have said before, I spend a lot of my time fixing problems like printers that don’t print and spyware and malware infections.
And then I have days like today where everywhere I went I was able to do something that made things just a bit easier for the client. 
And it is on days
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I had another geek moment the other day.  I was sitting in my spa looking up at the wasps nest that had been getting bigger every day and thought how cool it would be if I could share this with my friends and the world at large.
I ran a few ideas through my head and
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A few years back I met my friend Matt Moran online.  We were both answering questions on a tech forum and started an online conversation that lead to a phone conversation.  We have actually met face to face quite a few times as he lives (lived) not too far from my Mother in Arizona.
We discovered
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I’ve written a few posts about Anti-Virus software and the problems with spyware and malware.  Unfortunately, this problem is not going away anytime soon. 
My apologies to Saturday Night Live – and to my friends who remember the early days of the show, but:
SPYWARE BEEN BERY BERY GOOD TO ME
I spent a lot of time,
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I have gotten quite a bit of grief from friends and clients since I posted about not needing anti-virus software any more.  People have been programmed to think they need this software to be safe.
I have to admit that for years I was the one doing the programming.  I suggested to every client that they
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I made a bold statement in my last blog post that I knew would cause some to become uneasy. I stated that I didn’t think that antivirus software was as beneficial as we thought it was and that I had a hard time recommending to my clients that they upgrade to the latest
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I spend a good deal of my time fixing computers that have been infected by spyware/malware.  I don’t think I have had to fix a computer that was infected by a virus in quite a while.
Way back in the day, twenty something hacks spent all day in their mother’s basement trying to prove to other
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I am still working on a Twitter strategy for my business.  I post things every so often on Twitter and those posts are published on my Facebook page.
I have 56 followers, most of whom I believe are real people.  When I get an email telling me that someone is following me, I check to see
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I wrote a previous post about paying me now to help you prepare for a disaster, or paying me later when the disaster hits.
Over the past week I have encountered the System Security 2009 malware/spyware program on 3 systems at 3 different clients.  This rouge software is downloaded to your computer either through a web
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