Volunteering is important

Good morning fellow readers!!

I saw something on Twitter that has set me off this morning so yes this will be a bit of a rant.  J

North Charleston is suggesting that some of us volunteer to pick up trash on the side of I-26 and make our roads beautiful. 

Before I go any further I do pick up trash along with the rest of my co workers on Bohicket road just outside of Kiawah Island.  I am not happy about doing it however it is a requirement of businesses on Kiawah to provide this community service. 

I believe that volunteering our time in the community is important and that all of us should try to do that when we can and our schedules permit.  On the other hand I believe that there are a lot of things that need to be done in our community and are not getting done because there either is not enough people to do it or not enough money to pay the people to do it.  I am sitting here wondering why our city and state governments do not utilize the manpower that our tax paying dollars are supporting.  I am talking about the thousands of inmates that are incarcerated in our city and county jails.  I vote that while we are feeding them and providing them with free medical care and room and board that we establish a program that puts them all to work for 8 hours per day doing community service such as picking up trash on the side of our freeways and other things that they are certainly capable of doing. 

While I am thinking about it how about all of the welfare recipients in our state that are either unable to find a job or even worse have decided that they are too lazy to work and would rather milk the system for anything that they can get.  No, I do not believe that all welfare recipients are lazy people who do not want to work but I will bet you there is a small percentage of them who do.  I vote that while we are supplementing their income that we provide them with an opportunity to give back to the same community that is helping them.  I have a feeling that some folks that receive city, state or county assistance would be more than happy to lend a helping hand and for those that decide they do not want to do something in return for the assistance might be motivated to stop getting assistance and go get a job. 

Ok, rant over…  Back to my regularly scheduled tasks…

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Antivrus Live

Good morning

Antivirus Live spyware is a “profile specific” program that only affects the logged on user. A “profile” is what is created when you log on to a Windows XP workstation with your user id and password.  All of your computer desktop and application settings are stored in that profile which is located in c:\documents and settings\username.

 Antivirus Live does NOT infect the entire machine.  To cure this problem all you have to do is save your MS Office data to a backup folder on your hard drive and then delete the profile that is infected. You also need to turn off System Restore so that your machine is not re infected when the new profile is created.  Turning off System Restore DELETES all system restore points and therefore gets rid of any infected files that might be in there.

 Antivirus Live is transmitted via a website AD that you might click on.  The AD contains a picture file that gets infected and then gets uploaded to the web site web server.  At this time there is no known way to detect that an AD on a website is infected.  All we can do is our best to keep our network and machines as clean as possible and do due diligence by doing regular scans and keep the AV and AS definition files up to date. 

I am telling you all of this so you will be aware of what is happening and so that you can also be better prepared to protect your home or office computing environment as well.

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