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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Computors and the Internet

Computers and the internet are becoming almost a necessity for our dance community in every day life on Oahu. There is a wealth of free information on the Internet today. We email and chat with friends and family far away. We watch our favorite shows or how to videos to troubleshoot a problem. A lot of us even bank or shop online. But we still must be very careful.

“Perhaps we should not believe things because they make our lives better,
we could believe them because they are true.” 


"Do You Hear What I Hear" by Willie K.

Whenever you’ve connected to the internet, you are opening up your private information to the world. Once online, the crooks and their computer viruses and malware find ways to infect your computer without your knowledge. Antivirus software provides the best virus protection and will remove most of these but we we must still be very careful. Many of the anti virus hucksters actually are guilty of installing malware on your computer. Then they offer to remove it for price. This should be illegal but we know the republican congress. Crooks all of them. It's the money, Sonny.


"The Lights Of Home" by Don Ho

Viruses, spyware, and adware are all malware with distinct differences. All of them do damage to legitimate computer users but they fall into different categories depending on the intent of their attack. Viruses are a bit of malicious code that is secretly included in an application you decide to download. It replicates itself to infect other computers. Eventually, the virus is activated for its purpose: deleting important files, corrupting information, or randomly shutting off your computer. And Microsoft programmers do not have the capability of stopping them,

   
"First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Jimmy Borges

Spyware is malicious software that gets installed without the user even knowing about it. This is usually the most dangerous form of attack. It invades your Internet security to find sensitive information from your computer and sell it for a price on the black market. The programmers at Microsoft are helpless against these people. The complicaters at Microsoft have taken over from the simplifiers.


Adware, on the other hand, is a unique form of software specifically written to produce popup ads. The popups can start as the user uses a certain application, when they visit a particular website online, or simply as soon as they boot up their computer. The most deceptive form of adware shows a popup telling the user their computer is infected and that they need to install antivirus software.Theirs of course.

“In our dance: there is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action,  and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique."

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