Protect Your PC
This is a plea to all computer users to practice safe computing — have up-to-date virus protection software, use a firewall (I recommend Zone Alarm) and regularly run Windows Update to make sure the latest security patches have been applied to your Windows computer. Why bother? Because all it takes is one worm or virus, and your computer may be useless. You may lose all your important data (which should be backed up anyway), but even if that doesn’t happen, you run the risk of having to spend several hours re-installing everything on your computer. Your computer can infect others (you don’t want to do that, do you?) and then other people won’t like you. Please, people, if you’ve been ignoring all the warnings about safe computing, start paying attention and taking action. We’ll all feel better. If you don’t want to practice safe computing, get off my Internet, thank you.