Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Joe Hatch: Computer Survival Skills

Joe Hatch gave me many insights while he was telling us about the importance of the program, Cisco Clean Access. One of the main key words he said was that this program scans our computers for specific threats. I realized then that this followed the Network Protection Policy.
I also learned about Winn 103 and I am planning to visit it sometime soon to ask some questions about my computer.
Another aspect Joe Hatch mentioned was spam and everything to it. For example, what is it, how it works, where does spam start. We get spam emails usually when we subscribe to other websites, and the owners of these websites have a contract with other companies to sell our emails to them. Our emails are in the hands of this company which sends spam emails. Spam emails can contain spyware and eventually can access personal information sucha as Social Security Numbers or Credit Card information.
Personally, I learned a lot from Joe Hatch's visit and I hope to see him soon in our class again.

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