Blogging will stop for IBA 1 and 2 Classes

Due to the amount of work many have to do. Blogging will stop for the IBA classes.

Check Your DBAs

both Classes should check their DBAs for asignments.

Friday's Work

IBA 2:
follow your DBA's

IBA 1:
Go to your H drive, and open Word Project 1 Lab Test A. Complete and Print on the color printer. Turn in for a grade.

Once finished, be sure you have finished all assignments from the past week. Play only approved games on the H drive or complete other homework frmo another class.

No Blog Today

There will be no blog today as I am trying to catch my IBA 1 class up.

IBA 2 Class:
Continue with your DBA's for Thursday, if you are behind...be sure to catch up before moving to Thursday. DO NOT GO ON TO FRIDAY! Make sure directions are read as to what to print and not print!! Points will be taken off for improper printouts.

IBA1 Class:
1. Finish any Word Project one Labs or Applying your knowledge. Be sur eto only print lab 2 and the applying your knowledge. Save everything else.
2. If finished with all your labs, move on to cases and places on page WD71-72. Do the following assignments:
a. Case 1 - Do NOT print, save in your G drive
b. Case 3 - PRINT and save in your G drive
c. Case 4 - Do NOT print, save in your G drive.

If there are any questions, feel free to ask. The cases are more or less yuor creation using the information that they give you. Have FUN and be CREATIVE!!

Begin Working on The following

1.Students who have not finished their Word Project One practice test need to do so.
2. Complete Word Project 1: Applying Your Knowledge(Print)
3. Complete Word Project 1: Labs 1-3. (Print Lab 2 and turn in) save the rest in your G Drive for further instructions later.

Are you safe from Hackers??

We don't use E-gold very often since most of our online business and customer sales are conducted through our online merchant account. However, we occasionally have someone who will request paying by E-gold so we keep an account there for this reason. Once a month or so we withdraw the funds and decided to do so yesterday. Imagine our dismay when we logged into our E-gold account yesterday and found our balance to be a big fat ZERO! We had checked the balance just a few days ago so we knew this was not correct. After investigating the history of the account, we found that a spend had been made to another e-gold account user WITHOUT our knowledge or authorization. We had been hacked! Since we have up to date anti-virus and firewall software on our computer, we assumed we were safe. Not so! It seems this is not enough to keep away the hackers as the software does not prevent "Spyware" from being installed on your computer. "Spyware" is software that gets onto your computer and literally "spies" on your activities. The spying can range from relatively harmless use of cookies tracking you across multiple websites... to extremely dangerous "keystroke loggers" which record passwords, credit cards, and other personal data. That data then gets relayed to the person who put the software on your computer. Spyware gets on your computer in one of several different ways. First, it rides along with software you download from the 'Net and install on your system. Second, they come as email attachments (much like viruses) and automatically install themselves on your computer when you open the email message. Third, hackers find an open port on your computer and use the "back door" to install basically anything they want. And fourth, the more malicious types, like keystroke loggers, can even get installed by someone with direct physical access to your computer such as an employer, suspicious spouse, business competitor, or someone who wants to know exactly what you're doing. So how do you protect yourself against these malicious hackers? You need a program that specifically scans your system for the tens-of-thousands of existing spyware programs along with the new ones appearing daily. Below are two programs which specifically check for and remove spyware from your system: "Spybot Search & Destroy" - www.safer-networking.org "Ad Aware" - www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ You may have spyware lurking on your computer right now so protect yourself today by downloading one of the above programs! As a point of reference, we contacted E-gold and informed them that we had been hacked. We provided them with the account number of the person who received the funds and asked for a contact e-mail address on the person. E-gold informed us that they could not provide that information without a "court order" and that basically there was no way of getting the money back! Take action today to protect yourself from this growing threat! The bottom line is: - Keep your anti-virus program current - Install a firewall- Carefully screen software before installing it- Scan specifically for spyware weekly- Stay current on this growing threat.

Comment on how this article makes you feel on your safety on the computer and your identity safety. Plus the safety of your money though out banks, websites, and stockmarkets.

Begin DBA's

Pick up DBA's on Wednesday, and continue the work at the bottom, when finished with practice test, begin working on thursdays work!