Business: Have You Invited A Spy Into Your Computer?

Have You Invited A Spy Into Your Computer?

Written by Maria Marsala

Yes, it's true. You may have inadvertently invited a spy into your computer. This spy is known as "spyware, adware, or trojans", and once it is in your computer it starts taking statistical information as you travel repparttar

Internet. In some cases, it may send you pop-up ads and slow down your computer. A wired.com article, mentions it "could even collect your credit card information".

How did you invite repparttar 102860 spy?

Maybe you visited a website you knew and enjoyed only to find that it was recently purchased by a pornography site. The new company has imbedded "spyware" into repparttar 102861 home page and now, in many cases without your knowledge, it is on your computer.

Maybe you downloaded a free or paid program and as part of repparttar 102862 package you were provided with an added secret bonus – a “spyware” program. Spyware may also be placed on CD’s you purchase, too.

Maybe you agreed to it! You could have downloaded a program and checked repparttar 102863 box to allow repparttar 102864 program to take statistics from you "for their own use".

Maybe someone sent you spam, especially porn spam, and that spam created repparttar 102865 spy. Spys can easily be placed, without your knowledge, in pictures or HTML email.

What you can do?

Purchase a firewall program and it should let you know if a program is about to download from repparttar 102866 website you are at. Note repparttar 102867 word "should".

Or you can learn all about spyware, download an anti-spyware program, and schedule time in your weekly calendar to run an anti-spyware program. The first time I conducted a ”clean up”, on my 18-month old computer, I found 2 porn and 42 other spyware programs. Then a week later, I had 4 new spyware files appear.

To further reduce repparttar 102868 amount of spyware that ends up in your e-mail Inbox, create a "rule" or "filter” that will move any e-mail containing "certain adult words of your choosing” directly to your delete or spam folder.

Norton and MacAfee repparttar 102869 virus protection specialists, have added anti-spy programs to repparttar 102870 list of maintenance programs they sell. However, according to information I’ve seen on email lists, they’re not as anywhere as good as repparttar 102871 Ad-aware program from Lavasoft.

OTI Choose PRONTO ERP as Standard for Clients

Written by Tom Verzi

OTI, Optimization Technology Inc., located in Mississauga Canada, has been developing and implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems since 1984. The Canadian VARs (Value Added Reseller) customer base appreciates repparttar

features built into their legacy systems which focused on individual manufacturing and distribution requirements. With repparttar 102859

advent of GUI (Graphical User Interface) it became too difficult to add some of repparttar 102860

new productivity features OTI and their clients wanted.

According to Dave Airey, VP of Sales and Marketing at OTI, “We started looking for a way to move our application to a GUI “look and feel,” but after two years of investigation it became obvious that it was not a practical goal. As an alternative we investigated upgrading our legacy application to a new product.”

OTI’s requirements for a new system revolved around their customers. After many years of custom changes, repparttar 102861 legacy system was geared to client requirements.

Airey noted, “OTI’s initial search took us to repparttar 102862 major ERP players, but none had repparttar 102863 features we required to support our loyal customers.”

Finding an ERP System with Strong Functionality:

The search for a new ERP system ended when OTI was introduced to PRONTO North America (www.PRONTOerp.com). According to Airey, “We were introduced to Pronto and were immediately impressed with repparttar 102864 rich functionality. One important feature was that Pronto is fully integrated. We had engineered our legacy system to be fully integrated so this was of major importance.”

The Rationale for PRONTO ERP:

oFully integrated oUser definable options to tune repparttar 102865 systems functionality oA support system to back up our customers oFunctionality oGUI look and feel built using a 4 GL tool oEquipment rentals and tracking oService maintenance oBoth Manufacturing and Distribution in one package oEmail & Fax capability oMultiple SQL platforms including MS SQL

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