Good computing habits

Once you get the hang of it, working with computers can be pretty easy. However, there are a few things you should be doing to avoid potential disaster.

The internet is a fun and informative place. However, like any public environment, there are bad-guys lurking, watching and waiting for an opportunity to make an easy buck or even just to try to mess up your life just for the fun of it.
1. If you are surfing the internet, you should have a good firewall installed and up-to-date.
2. You should also have anti-virus, spyware, adware, and mallware software installed and up-to-date.
3. Numbers 1 and 2 are especially important if you are have a cable or dsl internet connection.
Hotline Computing can recommend, install and configure these applications so that you can have trouble-free, safe online experience.

4. If you have data on your computer that you don't want to lose, you should be making regular backups of that data. The bottom line is that all of your data is stored on the hard drive on you computer. That hard drive has moving parts that will fail eventually. When it does fail it can be difficult, and expensive, if not impossible to retrieve data that is on that drive. As such, you should be backing up (making a copy) of that data as often as possible. If it's extremely important data, backups should also be kept at a different location; a loved one's home or a safe deposit box for example.
Hotline Computing can help with this quickly, elegantly and affordably.