safe+computing

Safe Computing notes - things that I have had happen to me or I have heard about.
I carried my laptop (really another teachers) open and on. I carried it with one hand with my thumb over the Think pad logo. This is not a good thing to do. No I did not drop it but I broke it. The black case that is the labtop is plastic and very flexible. If you flex it to much the mother board or hard drive can be damaged. In my case the Computer thought that some one was trying to break into it (like a thief) and shut down. Every time we tried to start it back up we got a black screen with a lock on it. yes a picture of a pad lock. The computer had to have a district person reset the bios (wave a magic wand) and inspect the laptop. So please be careful how you carry or even jar your laptop.

Thumb drives- If you are using one of these start checking it with Trend Micro every time **before** you place any software on it or **take any software off of it**. Why? Thumb drives are carriers of virus. I have found several of our students Thumb Drives with infected files and yes a couple of teachers. It takes just a minute to check a drive. It can take hours to many days to remove a virus from your home-school-student computers.

These are not protecting your computer they are the Virus!! Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2009 WARNING these are bad news. If you have them on your home computer please do not transfer any files from your home computer to a school computer. If you do not understand how to clean these programs off of your computer and to clean your registry -FIND AND PAY FOR PROFESSION HELP.