I remember it was the week after Christmas last year when my son and I were “stuck” while playing his new XBOX360 game. After hours of frustration from not getting to the next level, I went to the family laptop and typed in “game cheats” and found a “helpful” site. Oh my word, I would have never guessed what happened next – popups, automatic downloads, and who knows what else happened. Needless to say, in about two months time we found ourselves getting a new laptop – it was never the same.
While in our world we all know the importance of email security, sometimes we forget the need to be careful and utilize web security tools and practices. McAfee reports that the most dangerous search terms were “free music downloads” (20.7 percent average risk), “game cheats” (16.7 percent), “word unscrambler” (16.1 percent), followed by “lyrics” (14.8 percent). Also included on the list: “screensavers”, “free games”, and “work from home”.
So, in need of copying some old cassette tapes to my hard drive this afternoon (yes, I have some tapes from 15 years ago), I find myself back to the internet searching for free audio recording software. When I saw the search term report it brought back some bad memories and reminded me to be very careful.
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