WOW...This has been a long and trying trip.
As I was not born with computers and such
technology, I am still learning.
I've learned alot through this process.
One of my favorites was the firefox. And it's add ons.
I never knew there were so many things out there.
And that there was an option for Internet Explorer.
There were some of the 23 things that I could not
complete due to firewalls, or virus protections. I need
to learn how to turn these off. But is it safe. Like you tube.
I won't use it as my daughter got a virus on her computer,
and the hard drive had to be wiped to correct it.
So my question is how do you know what sites to trust?
Even my email was hit, they got my friends list and have
been sending emails with my name as sender with all kinds
of junk mail, and some things that are not appropriate. I
didn't even open up an attachment, just the email from someone
that was on my friends list that had already gotten hit.
So how do you prevent this, and if you get something like
this, how do you stop it. Maybe this is something that
should be included in the 23 things.
During the process of getting these things done, I have gotten
way behind. It took me longer to get them done as I'm still
learning about the internet. I've NEVER blogged before. Maybe
a few more instructions on how to do these things for those of
us that are internet illerate.
I did enjoy all the things I learned. The internet is endless.
Something new to learn every day.
I have not heard of many people getting viruses from YouTube. I believe each is checked by Google. Moving to Firefox will help. Also, make sure you are running a virus scanner and that you keep it up to date. Sometimes people drop their updating when they run out of the initial period but it is important your virus definitions are kept up to date. Never open an email you suspect even a little and dont go to sites you dont know.
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