Staying ahead these days means staying abreast of a constantly changing world. Technology affects so much of our lives and business practices. Wading through the glut of information is bad enough; making sense out of many technical issues is harder. Virus attacks, hoaxes, and scams... what's the best way to promote YOUR business.. now to make your communications stand out from the competition.. avoid becoming a casualty in the search engine wars...

"Gotcha!" or How the Pop-up ads try to fool you -- and how to avoid getting caught by Jj, Vision IPD

Get Real Customers to Your Website by Jj, Vision IPD

Vision IPD January 18, 2005 — This is a reminder to keep your anti-virus software up to date and to be cautious when opening unexpected email attachments, even when they appear to come from a trusted source. There is a new virus threat being spread via an email with a Tsunami Relief subject line. http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/tsunami.asp gives information about the virus attack. Snopes is a valid and reliable source for information on virus threats as well as other scams and urban legends that are transmitted by email.

If you do not have an active anti-virus program, we are currently recommending AVG Antivirus free edition and are running it on our studio machines. http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

Safe Computing - for "Newbies" and the Not-So-New by Jj, Vision IPD

They’re still “Phishing” – Don’t Get Caught! by Jj, Vision IPD

The Ten Commandments for Online Business Success by Jj, Vision IPD

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Notes from Elsewhere

Spyware Barely Touches FireFox 2-9-06 Yahoo News/Techweb.com - Internet Explorer users can be as much as 21 times more likely to end up with a spyware-infected PC than people who go online with Mozilla's Firefox browser.

Address-form glitch proves an easy scam 10-21-04 MSNBC- Credit-card thieves find sneaky way to beat fraud checks NOTE to Online Merchants - Check second line in billing/shipping address CAREFULLY

Essential Keyboard Shortcuts 8-4-04 PC World - Twelve shortcuts that are more efficient than clicking a mouse and dragging a pointer.

Consumers still falling for phish 7-28-04 MSNBC News - Fake e-mails fool users 28 percent of the time, study finds

Info Sources

Anti-Phishing Workgroup - gives advisory alerts about new schemes to extract personal information for purposes of identity theft

Email Threat Info Center - details on the most current "phishing" and fraudulent pop-up schemes

Federal Trade Commission SPAM info page - consumer and business info and resources

Tips on Avoiding Computer Worms (in addition to using anti-virus software, of course!)

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