BACKING UP

I am often amazed that many people do not back up their computers.  Especially that valuable email address book.  How many people keep email addresses written down in an address book? Not many.

You really ought to copy your address book occassionally to somewhere other than your computer.  On to a memory stick is best but there are plenty of places on the net where you can back up for free, or save files.  Dropbox; Google Docs are just two.

A popular (if that is not an oxymoron) virus is one that attacks your address book. I know of al least two freinds who have lost their very old and very large email address books by an attack from  a virus that simply emailed all their freinds with the virus attached and then destroyed the address book it has just used.

Think about it.  What would you do?

Make a copy TODAY

WINDOWS UPDATES

I have just been to a friends house.  She had purchased a Memory Stick because the nice man at a well know PC shop said she needed one to back up her photos.  Well I suppose that was OK but he should have told her how to to the back up and 4GB is not very big.  She had over 1000 photos on her laptop and the stick is now half full.

I noticed that she had not been downloading her Windows Updates.  Very dodgy that.  I explained here anti-virus software depended on Windows being up-to-date and she should download the updates.  So we spent an hour getting her laptop up-to-date, something that only taken minutes if you keep accepting the update as they come along.