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With last week’s discovery that Barack Obama’s helicopter plans had been leaked onto a P2P file sharing services, now is a great time to talk about why kids and adults are using Limewire to share, trade and download files.
What is [[Limewire]]?
LimeWire is a free peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) client
Why is it risky to use?
Talking to your kids about Limewire
Creating business policies for staff and around P2P filesharing applications
Ways to protect home computers
- OpenDNS.com
- Install a Router between your computer and the internet
- Current Antivirus with weekly scans/updates
- Updated spyware protection with weekly scans/updates
Ideas from the show
Daylight Savings patch from Microsoft
Recommended Antivirus for home users? Avira
Recommended Antivirus for business users? Anything but Symantec and TrendMicro
How laptop viruses are like STD’s in humans
How teaching proper computer use to kids is like sex and drug education
Classes for kids and parents to attend, Learn about computers?
Hi Adria,
Your show regarding Online Safety: Keeping Kids and Barack Obama out of Limewire was very helpful. I’m glad I bought an iMac!
Do you think OpenDNS will do a better job of Internet filtering than what’s already built into the Parental Controls of the iMac OS X (Leopard)?
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Adria Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Gary,
I’m glad to hear that! OpenDNS centralizes the controls of what sites people can access. You can manually allow or block specific sites and view recently visited sites.
I am always for tools that save me time.
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