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June 07, 2009

Warning: Have you been "Tagged"

Have you received email with a subject line such as: "John Sent You Photos on Tagged :)" -- except instead of "John" in my example, it is the actual name of someone you know?

If you were the suspicious type, and you should be, you would have sent an email to that friend or relative or business associate and first asked them if they actually sent it. If not, then you probably need to do the following things immediately:

1. Write to the person and tell them about the email you got.

2. Advise them to send out a real email to all the people in their email address book warning them not to open any such email (because it didn't come from them) and not to click on any links in such an email and definitely not to fill out anything on the website that link goes to.

3. Advise them to make sure their anti-virus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware programs are up-to-date and to scan their computer.

4. After you've done that, you will want to follow the exact same advice yourself.

5. In the future, you (and they) will hopefully be more careful and suspicious.

Additional notes:

Some folks who went so far as to click on the link and de-selected the entire list of email ids that this site captured from their address book thought by doing so no one else would get spammed. It appears that is not the case, since the site already has that information and has apparently used it to spam everyone in that address book.

Please be careful. And while I have your attention, if you are one of those people who forwards chain emails or things that really seem just too good to be true, please stop immediately. And even if you are forwarding real valid emails, unless it is in a work environment where showing who has been involved in the communication chain has some value, just cut and past the relevant part -- don't include the hundred other email addresses buried in the email. That's another way spammers get valid email addresses to use. And when sending email to a group of people who may not all know each other or wish to have their email shared with the world, use the BCC option.

Richard L. Kuper
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June 28, 2007

Update: AVG Internet Security Suite

Richard Kuper
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In case you missed the earlier review of Grisoft's AVG Internet Security Suite, you can read it here.

Nowadays, many product vendors give you only one choice in purchasing their product: download it from their website. Well, that creates several issues. First, you must dedicate time and space for downloading the files that will then be used to actually install the product. If you want the install files to also be available on CD, in case your hard drive dies or the computer one day decides not to work anymore, then you need to create this CD yourself. This can be very time consuming and inconvenient, and for the less sophisticated user, something they just cannot do or are afraid to do. So when a company also is willing to continue to make their products available on CD for purchase, I applaud them and encourage them to continue to provide the choice.

Grisoft has released a retail version of the AVG Internet Security Suite on CD. Note, however, that the CD is the only item in the box. The only printed instructions (which are pasted onto the CD sleeve), are to insert the disk into the computer, and what to do if the disk does not automatically start. There is no printed user manual or quick reference guide. My recommendation to all vendors is to at least include a printed quick reference guide of the most common tasks one might perform using their product.

So if you want to get this recommended product that will help keep your computer protected from the various forms of malware out there (spam, viruses, spyware, etc.), you can purchase it either on a CD or you can download it directly. Just click on any of the Grisoft links in this article for the downloadable version or an occasional special deal that will include a CD. Otherwise, you can find the CD version at many retailers, such as some of the stores found at ThisIsMyStore.com.

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