Final Blog

First i would like to say that i think this course should be mandatory. I am so glad that i chose to take this course because personally i knew nothing about designing a website or blogging prior to this class. I am graduating next weekend and i feel confident knowing how to use these types of programs etc. I also suprisingly am keeping our book because i enjoyed reading it(easy read) and learned alot more in this course that will be useful as a comm alumni. I really cant say anything negitive about this class. I think the blog assignments are a grwat way to keep everyone up to date on the material and the projects assigned were great because it taught all of us at least one thing new about the different programs Thanks for a great class Mr. King!

Chaper 9 & 10

1.) Some methods to maintain your computer include: Downloading Disk Medic, WinPatrol, Ccleaner, Disk Cleanup(c).

2.) I actually bought the Disk medic to maintain my computer, I also clean the c drive and cookies. t

3.) Data scrubbing involves not only earsing the files but writing over them with ones and zeros so the magnetic particles that stores the information lose all records of what they held. It is important so that if the computer is sold or anyone gets into it they can blakc mail or even do worse..you never know

4.)COokies are files the when you go on commerical web sites they embed a little text file. Some web sites use this to know your name and show your information which is responsable, but some web sites save your information saving it so it will show what sites youve visted in the history. Now we have big web sites with great cookie mangment like Internet Expolor, Firfox, and opera.

5.) Key Loggers are program that record every key stroke you make and email the file to the hacker who will sift throught the logfiles and passwords, banking information, ceridt card numbers. One recommended prgram is LAva soft Ad Aware Personal, Windows Defender.And make sure you check the product at symantec.com which is a company that monitors malware threats.

6.) Phishing is a scam letter people send out in order to steal your money. The preditor send out hundreds of the same email hoping to catch a fish. Pharming is a type of identiy theft that is committed when you land on a phoney web site. Alot have gotten great and made spoof paypal web site so you enter your information and have no idea fraud is happening. Both of these types of theft are my worst fear about using the internet, becasue its so easy to be taken advantage of. People who arnt educated have this occur to them everyday, thankfully this has not occured to me yet.