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Who's to blame for all this?

Well... that depends... do you mean "Who's to blame for writing malware?" or "Who's to blame for this site?"

Malware

Nobody knows for sure who's to blame. We catch a few now and then, but the problem is that there are so many "script kiddies" out there (see definitions), it's hard to catch them all. The technology to catch them gets better all the time, but the malware writers get better all the time, too.

This site

Ah. That's a different story. I'm Nick Francesco. I'm the Systems Administrator for The E. Philip Saunders College of Business of The Rochester Institute of Technology. I run Ask Nick! (which you should definitely visit), a Web site where I answer people's computer-related questions. I cohost a weekly radio talk show on computers called Sound Bytes, and host a TV computer show for Time Warner Cable's R News that is available on Digital Cable's Rochester On Demand channel. I also write a weekly computer Q&A column for Gannett's Democrat and Chronicle each Sunday, and a monthly column in ComputerLink Magazine.

On Sound Bytes, many questions seem to have the same answer - check for viruses, spyware, etc., etc. At some point, I jokingly referred to it as "The Security Tango" (because, like a tango, you can't skip any steps), and that name stuck. I put up a page on both Ask Nick! and the Sound Bytes Web site about the Tango, but I got tired of updating two pages every time things changed. Also, people continued to have more questions about this stuff than a single page could encompass. So I prevailed on the truly magnificent folk at CLSS Enterprises to set up this site, where I'll try to concentrate all the information in one site.

However, as we all know, it takes a village to make an idiot. My original instructions clearly needed tweaking, and my good friend Bill Bateman not only created a whole first step, but kindly tweaked the rest. Then the wonderful Lori Lynch (email her) smoothed life for folks after that first dance.

If you want to make contact with me regarding anything here, please email nick at this site. Please, please, please - no questions! I get enough of those everyplace else! But if you have suggestions for programs I should put here, or corrections to data I've got here, I welcome them. Thanks!

I'd particularly like to thank the hardworking and generous members of both Ask Nick! and Sound Bytes for all their hard work and expertise in getting this information to me.

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Tango Links: Home Let's Dance! Nick's Blog Get the CD Definitions Security News Blame, Credits, etc. *Windows Links:* Antivirus: McAfee Security Symantec (Norton) Grisoft's AVG CA's eTrust Panda Software Firewall: ZoneAlarm McAfee Firewall Norton Firewall	Who's to blame for all this? Well... that depends... do you mean "Who's to blame for writing malware?" or "Who's to blame for this site?" Malware Nobody knows for sure who's to blame. We catch a few now and then, but the problem is that there are so many "script kiddies" out there (see definitions), it's hard to catch them all. The technology to catch them gets better all the time, but the malware writers get better all the time, too. This site Ah. That's a different story. I'm Nick Francesco. I'm the Systems Administrator for The E. Philip Saunders College of Business of The Rochester Institute of Technology. I run Ask Nick! (which you should definitely visit), a Web site where I answer people's computer-related questions. I cohost a weekly radio talk show on computers called Sound Bytes, and host a TV computer show for Time Warner Cable's R News that is available on Digital Cable's Rochester On Demand channel. I also write a weekly computer Q&A column for Gannett's Democrat and Chronicle each Sunday, and a monthly column in ComputerLink Magazine. On Sound Bytes, many questions seem to have the same answer - check for viruses, spyware, etc., etc. At some point, I jokingly referred to it as "The Security Tango" (because, like a tango, you can't skip any steps), and that name stuck. I put up a page on both Ask Nick! and the Sound Bytes Web site about the Tango, but I got tired of updating two pages every time things changed. Also, people continued to have more questions about this stuff than a single page could encompass. So I prevailed on the truly magnificent folk at CLSS Enterprises to set up this site, where I'll try to concentrate all the information in one site. However, as we all know, it takes a village to make an idiot. My original instructions clearly needed tweaking, and my good friend Bill Bateman not only created a whole first step, but kindly tweaked the rest. Then the wonderful Lori Lynch (email her) smoothed life for folks after that first dance. If you want to make contact with me regarding anything here, please email nick at this site. Please, please, please - no questions! I get enough of those everyplace else! But if you have suggestions for programs I should put here, or corrections to data I've got here, I welcome them. Thanks! I'd particularly like to thank the hardworking and generous members of both Ask Nick! and Sound Bytes for all their hard work and expertise in getting this information to me.
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