Defending your computer against worms and viruses

Dannica

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Beyond trying to protect your computer from worms, viruses, etc -- BACK UP what you write on an EXTERNAL hard-drive. Consider emailing a copy to yourself, assuming you use an email program that allows you to retrieve old emails from any computer. Or you may want to put your most important files on a CD or DVD and place them in a safe-deposit box.

Aside from bad computer programs, which frankly I don't know what joy the person who writes those evil things takes -- there are so many other ways you can lose data on a laptop, that you should never have something you've spent days and days writing, just in one location. You could have a fire, a hard-drive failure, a flood, a spouse who steals your laptop..... the list is long. Make extra copies that aren't all in one place!

Okay, I'm getting back off my soap box now.