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All Just about Computer VirusCan You Survive In An Online World?
by:
Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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Do you have the skills to do it in a computer driven, progressively online world?
Your immediate, knee-jerk reaction may be "Yes! Of course I have the skills.
I cognize how to send and obtain email and surf the web.
I can even as transfer
and install files."
Well, three or four years ago, email, Web surfboarding and downloading files qualified you as "electronically literate," but not any more! Computer and online survival skills now embrace more much than that.
Surviving in an online earth involves maintaining a high degree of "electronic literacy," which means focusing on and developing skills in the following areas:
** Personal Computer skills **
In the old days of 1998, the ability to use a computer, keyboard and mouse rated anyone as computer-literate.
In fact, you were a real pro if you could burn a CD, scan documents and manipulate digital pictures.
Fast forward to now and "personal computer skills" carries a whole new meaning. You must cognize how to maintain and update not only anti-virus, but "anti-spyware," and firewall software system too.
You besides need to understand how operational with Windows ME, or 2000, or XP wish affect your ability to use certain software system on
with specific safety precautions to avoid trouble from hackers.
** Computer network Skills **
In the bygone era of 1998, friends considered you an online genius if you possessed basic surfboarding and navigation skills.
They watched in awe as you used search engines like InfoSeek.com (a long-defunct search engine) to find and transfer
programs, pictures, and information on specific topics.
Now electronic skill means the ability to set up, upload, and maintain basic web pages and blogs.
It besides means understanding terms such as "RSS" and "news aggregator" because that's the next generation of how information wish get disseminated online (and it arrives for the masses this year).
** Email Skills **
Perhaps the most deceivingly simple of all the areas of electronic literacy, email really presents the most challenges for keeping up with the times.
Previously, clicking the "send and receive" button meant you were adept at exploitation email.
Now, because of spam, viruses and "phishing scams" (identity larceny schemes delivered through email), email requires a whole new set of skills, "street smarts" and software system simply to survive.
You must understand how to use an email "preview" program such as MailWasher.net to eliminate spam and virus email messages before they ever reach your computer.
You besides must discover to protect your identity and avoid "phishing scams" by learning to recognize and defend against online con-artist tactics.
** Buy or Borrow Expertness **
Though you should perpetually
upgrade your skills through personal education, cipher can do or cognize it all (except possibly your know-it-all bother in law).
The nice news is that you can always buy or borrow person else's expertness to solve any online challenge.
A prime example of outsourcing in the user
market is all the little stores pop up in strip malls to help you sell your stuff on eBay.
Through outsourcing, online survival skills can besides mean taking what was antecedently
the exclusive realm of computer geeks and devising it as easy as dropping off the dry cleaning.
Just about the author:
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