Ed Howland wrote: >I need your help. > >A bud's wife lost ALL! of her pictures of her two kids over the last 3 >years. This is a somewhat sophisticated computer guy (her husband.) He >should have at least known better. We got a fair amount of them back, >but when we checked her PC, it was loaded with malware and hadn't been >patched. > >Taking a cue from Stephen Covey, there really isn't a general >OS-agnostic guide for the average PC user. >So I'm writing one. I have 6 so far. I am asking y'all to help me out. >We can make this a "good thing" that people can remember. > >Why 7? 7 +/- 2 is the optimal number of things people can remember at >one time, as posited by Miller in 1956. 7 digit phone numbers, 7 items >on a form, etc. > >Any others? Any changes? > >Backup your stuff >Save your stuff often >Keep your system patched >Avoid Microsoft products (Windows, IE) >Use common sense for password security >Use common sense when going online (email+surfing vs. crummy low-life scum) >? > >TIA, > >Ed > > >_______________________________________________ >CWE-LUG mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.cwelug.org/ >http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ >http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > > > #2 check those backups
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