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If you're anything like me, you've got more and more files on your computer. Keeping track of exactly where you saved something can be a bit of a nightmare, even with the best folder/directory structure in the world. Well, some of the big players in the Internet Search Engine business are looking to give us the same sort of service looking for our own files on our computers.
I heard about this on BBC World's ClickOnline Programme. (Thanks to my sister Julia in Cardiff for pointing me towards thi…
Are you protected?
I was with a client this week whose computer - a new-ish one running Windows XP - was running really, really slowly. I ran a full scan of her virus guard which did pick up one virus but this made only marginal difference to the speed of the machine. Then I ran a programme that looks for other nasties like spyware and such things...
It came up with 384 nasties! Fortunately, the software also got rid of them. But that's not all.
To stop too many more of these nasties getting onto this computer I l…
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