Newbie on the Net Blog

Tuesday was busy. After spending more than an hour on the phone with Technical support I made the outrageous suggestion that they were blocking rather than delivering my emails. This was stoutly denied.

Quarter of an hour later, it started. First in a tentative way, the emails came. Then in a hot blooded head first flood. Hundreds and hundreds of emails flooded into my inbox.

“What a shame they’re not Paypal emails”, I thought. A few hundred or thousand emails pouring money into my account would come in very handy. But no, the flood continued for about an hour. Rapidly abating when the mail server had done its job.

This was the mail I should have received over the previous year; it was a mix of subscriptions, sales promotions, reciprocal link requests and of course spam.

Once the “horse has bolted” the padlock has to be inspected and replaced. So I duly researched Security Packages. I found that Consumer Reviews are mostly superficial and do not give you crucial information. For example, many security packages gobble up so much Processor time, memory and computer resources that your computer is massively handicapped.

I found that “Techies” use a virus killer called “Nod32″, but that it does need a fair degree of tweaking to get the best out of it. I looked a little further and found a Security Package called “Bitdefender 10″