Jimmy Kimmel’s Flaming Yoga Pants or Syria: What Climbs Your Firewall?
Thanks to my teenage son and a gaming site, I spent five hours last Saturday removing a virus from our computer. “Conduit,” was a crazy search-engine device that refused to leave, breezing past my security software. The kid had let the intruder in disguised as an update of Adobe Flash that was “required” on my computer.
A good friend was startled to see a scary warning of a virus on his computer–so he clicked the large red “Remove Virus” button and thus began infecting his hard drive.
With “tears in my eyes” and begging for money from a US Embassy in London, a modern Odysseus, disguised as me, wrote to hundreds of my contacts. Most didn’t fall for the scam but a few did write … Read More…
