E-Marketing While finishing dinner a friend of mine heard her 12-year old son’s express this while he was completing homework for tommorrow. She thought he said ‘there is a fly on my desktop’ and politely told him ‘tell your father and he will fix it’. Of course he knew that dad doesn’t touch computers and said ‘ but mom it’s a spy, not a fly’. That’s when I got the phone call - she lives right around the corner in the city of richardson texas - about what to do, did you check your virus/spyware software - ‘it only fixes viruses, not anything else and what is spyware anyway? That is when the phone call got a little bit longer than expected. Most parents have the notion that if there are no viruses everything is smooth sailing, they have done their part for kids and family internet security . But there are more things than viruses, browser hijack objects, rootkits, malware and spyware to constantly attack every computer in our homes today. The list I just mentioned is not complete in the tools of attack that hackers use to disable or destroy desktops all over the world. And if you don’t have the preventative software installed then your kids and family internet security for your home computers are at risk from attack or being used to attack other computers. (more…)