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<\/a>For the past few days, I’ve been battling a virus and bronchitis which has caused me to miss a few days of work and slowed my usual frenetic pace to a near crawl. Last week this time, I was battling a different kind of virus—W32.Spybot.Worm<\/a> to be specific. That little bugger, along with a few other strains of various and sundry spyware, malware, adware and trojans which infected my laptop January 2nd had slowed it to a near crawl as well. Frankly, I’m not sure which is worse, bronchitis or computer viruses.<\/p>\n

Now I do the best that my feeble non-technoweenie mind can manage when it comes to practicing “safe-surfing” on the web. But frankly there are lots of nerdy bad guys out there and they are tanked up on Coke and Cheetos and working overtime to make you and me miserable. So despite my best efforts at protecting myself, I still end up fighting an occasional battle against those pesky “computer snatchers” who manage to slip through the latest and greatest defenses and hijack my system.<\/p>\n

But rest assured, there are also a lot of good guys as well, and I’d like to introduce you to one of them–my guru Ed. Since the purchase of my first Gateway system in 1995, Ed has rescued my keister out of the computer frying pan so many times I’ve lost count. Whenever I’ve called or emailed him in a panic, he always seems to have the wits and know-how to guide me through my latest computer crisis du jour.<\/p>\n

With a little prodding from yours truly, Ed is starting a series on “Practicing Safe Surfing”<\/a> over at his blog, Albedo 0.39<\/a> that I know is going to be worth checking out. There’s a lot going on right now in the world of computer “microbiology” and Professor Ed will be lecturing on all the latest information you need to guard your system against infection. You don’t want to miss it.<\/p>\n

By the way, Ed had just the right suggestion for finishing off W32.Spybot.Worm last week and I’m back up and running at full speed. Now if he can just help me kick that bronchitis, I’ll be good to go!\n<\/p>\n

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