Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Kim Komando has a very informative article about the Conficker worm, due to strike April 1st. Conficker is a worm lying dormant on an estimated 2 to 12 million computers. It’s programmed to recruit these infected computers and do something unknown (as of yet) on April 1st. Most of the infected computers are in China [...]

I spent the better part of the weekend in computer repair work. I helped my pal in Virginia clean his computer of a nasty virus (we did it through long distance telephone, that was fun :-p). And then I had my own problems to fix. Last week, a lot of my software programs got “updates” [...]

Every computer should have an anti-virus software program running, as well as a firewall. Back in the early days of the Internet, before baddies like trojans, worms, and viruses were invented and dispersed, security wasn’t much of an issue. But as with all things, people have taken the benefits of technology and have twisted them [...]

Ouch. That’s gotta hurt. Some of my favorite blogs are with the Today.com network, and they make up a good percentage of my Entrecard friends and droppers. Entrecard is rather unstable these days, deciding one day to commence monumental changes to the community (like forcing bloggers to accept advertisers on the widgets), and the next, [...]

I was scrabbling through my desk drawers the other day, in search of an address label for some mail I was sending. I haven’t sent mail in a while, and hadn’t noticed I was low on those address labels. Because I have my own small business, I try to make my correspondence look as professional [...]

I’ve been running quite a few articles and posts about the benefits of maintaining your own web hosting and not relying on the free hosting offered by companies like Google/Blogger and WordPress.com. I’ve heard reports of blogger’s seeing posts and comments deleted, wrought by both Google and WordPress.com. Free hosting gives you very limited rights [...]