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Embalm Your Computer, or..?

© Arnvid Aakre

Larger fines for driving without safety belt was recently introduced in Cairo, back in my "old country" similar fines was introduced long time ago.

When it happened in my "old country", it was one of the comedians who presented traffic security in the television. He said there was only way to introduce safe traffic and should demonstrate this.

A test person came on and took place in a car seat on stage, and the person in the seat was then totally wrapped, so in the end he looked like a mummy. The comedian was then asked: "but he can't drive now?", and got the logic answer "there you see how safe it is!".

With all virus popping up and dropping in to our computers - there is of course only one way one can totally be sure of not getting virus, and that is by not using the computer.

For most of us that's not a valid alternative, so protection is the second best alternative to embalming your computer I guess.

We have just talked about data protection, and Firewall protection is another - but driving a computer without security belt is not even dangerous, it's plain stupid (at least if you don't do anything after reading this article).

So what's this to do with travel?

As more and more travel are found and purchased online, it has absolutely to do with travel.

We have virus that can make some email program to send out mail and data - it could be your data.

You could end up not finding a room at the hotel you ordered when you arrive, as the agent lost all data in a virus attack - in short, the number of bleak options are endless.

Let me start by eliminating any excuses for not having anti virus program in your computer by referring to my friend Brian's article Dodos and Dinosaurs which list three very much alive FREE anti virus program.

Then let's go to the world of shareware anti virus program, and to another issue Brian bring up in same article.

Okay you purchased anti virus program for all the computers in your travel office, and then comes update after update after update after update... That's in my book another kind of virus, I call it the "pay upgrade or die" virus.

To quote from Brian's article:

"It is therefore in the vendor's best interests to keep you "running scared" so that you will willingly put your hand in your pocket whenever they want you to. It is a well known, and documented, fact that the biggest scaremongers are the commercial AV program sellers."