Comments on: Never check your computer on a plane http://billso.com/2008/05/02/never-check-your-computer-on-a-plane/ Bill Sodeman writes about management, mobile computing and information systems Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:27:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3046 hourly 1 By: Resource Management Software http://billso.com/2008/05/02/never-check-your-computer-on-a-plane/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 Resource Management Software Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:11:40 +0000 http://billso.com/?p=1612#comment-1898 Very interesting how they managed to track it down - scary! Very interesting how they managed to track it down - scary!

]]> By: Resource Management Software http://billso.com/2008/05/02/never-check-your-computer-on-a-plane/comment-page-1/#comment-1493 Resource Management Software Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:11:40 +0000 http://billso.com/?p=1612#comment-1493 Very interesting how they managed to track it down - scary! Very interesting how they managed to track it down - scary!

]]> By: <img src='http://billso.com/wp-content/plugins/rpx/images/openid.png'/> billso http://billso.com/2008/05/02/never-check-your-computer-on-a-plane/comment-page-1/#comment-1251 billso Tue, 06 May 2008 19:49:32 +0000 http://billso.com/?p=1612#comment-1251 Software won't help you much if you LOSE your computer on a plane... a link troller had posted a comment promoting their Windows software. I took down their comment. Such is my power. <p> There's lots of free scanning and security software available. For Windows users, I usually recommend <a href="http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html" rel="nofollow">Avast</a> and <a href="http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html" rel="nofollow">SpywareBlaster</a>. AdAware is OK, but the shareware version didn't seem as effective as <a href="http://winpatrol.com" rel="nofollow">WinPatrol</a>.</p> Software won’t help you much if you LOSE your computer on a plane… a link troller had posted a comment promoting their Windows software. I took down their comment. Such is my power.

There’s lots of free scanning and security software available. For Windows users, I usually recommend Avast and SpywareBlaster. AdAware is OK, but the shareware version didn’t seem as effective as WinPatrol.

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