Don disappoints me with his rude comment about your grammar. I have a degree in communication disorders and believe he would benefit from some therapy in the area of pragmatics(social skills).

Yes. Grammar is part of my degree also. Keep up the awesome writing! You rock! Way to reign in the readers! Will definitely use YOUR information for my computer.

Happy Holidays! Cheerio! Emily

The router should block traffic on the NetBIOS ports, correct? That’s the main goal–getting the computer on a separate IP space, and blocking the ports the malware is most likely to be able to use to spread.

It’s called getting in a hurry and making a mistake, even though you know the difference. For some reason, when I do that as a writer it’s a much bigger deal than when I do it as a sysadmin.

But certainly for most things, just isolating the IP space is all you need.

I’d seen it recommended for a while, and when I started having trouble getting updates from AdAware, I tried MalwareBytes. Works a treat – quick and easy, and picks up things that AdAware and Spybot S&D miss (just as they pick up things it misses). Highly recommended to use at least two of them – too often for complacency one will leave something for the other.

As for the standard of use of the English language by USAmericans, David as a professional writer you disappoint me. All too often of late I have noticed that USAmericans can’t tell the difference between rein and reign, or if they can tell it they have forgotten when to use it. The term is free rein, as in letting the horse have his head, letting loose the reins, not reining him in. Altogether different from what you wrote, being a fan-boy of George III, and approving his policy towards the Americas and the Americans.