Are You Safe?


In the last article I wondered how one could answer questions as "Is it Safe?" - and ended up by answer the question with another question (always the "safe" way):

"We never know (if it's safe), but I believe it's far more dangerous for our planet if we don't travel. If we don't travel we would be staying home with our "home video's" channel of fear turned on - and would that not exactly be what terrorists of any kind would like us to do?"

Still safety is not only related to standard terrorism. As an example; in travel the online tour operator should know how to protect the traveler's data and credit card information! So to start with a different breed of "terrorists" I would use the opportunity to highly recommend Brian and Dee's articles: Spyware & Scumware and Mystery Tours!

Important: part of your safety is not "out there" - it's right in front of you, in fact in the box you got very close to you now while you are reading this. In other words, it's your operating system - and if you are sitting in a tour operators office, that's the operating system inside every "box" on every desk...

What happens if the system inside your box just crash?

Okay, if you are lucky - you may have backup of your data. Still would you not prefer to feel a bit more safe than just to hope "it will not happen"?

Don't we sometimes take the car on a pit stop to change oil and make sure all is working well? Yes you may say, but it's expensive to take a computer all the time to a "pc pitstop", as it cost to have someone to check the pc on a regular basis! To that I answer, not any longer - it's free!

Go to PC PitStop (which is online in association with PCWorld.com), and check the health of your hard disk, Internet connection or do a full PC test (last is highly recommended). Most problems showing up after the test can be fixed either manually or more automatic through some brilliant scripts named "AutoFix".

Up to now it was only possible to test your computer at PC PitStop if you had Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher on your system. PC PitStop has solved that limitation, so with a new plug-in you can now execute the tests with Netscape or Opera as well. Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP operating systems is supported, so far...

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