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#1 Understand What Services You Are Purchasing

Before authorizing any services to be performed, discuss what the consultant will do and how much it will cost. If you are purchasing more than $300 in services, ask the consultant for a written estimate or a fixed-price for the project.

#2 Repair vs. Upgrade: Understand the Differences

Ask yourself how much it would cost to just buy a new piece of equipment or software instead of servicing the old one. Because of how quickly computer parts are updated, it may be less expensive to purchase new hardware or software. Ask your consultant about the maintenance costs for the old product versus the new one and whether the new product would have any features you would be able to utilize.

#3 Determine What You Should Do and What the Consultant Should Do

If you are cost-conscious when working with a computer consultant, determine which services the consultant will perform and what you can do by yourself. For example, if you are adding a new computer to your wireless network, the computer consultant may install the wireless network card and set up appropriate security for the network. You may be able to save money by installing software and configuring basic services such as e-mail.

#4 Ask Your Consultant for Advice Before Making Software or Hardware Purchases

Most consultants offer free advice by phone or e-mail. When purchasing something new, ask the consultant whether it will be compatible with your system, what the warranty options are, which vendors offer the most robust products, and where to buy for the best prices.

#5 Choose the Best Support Method

Many consultants charge for phone and on-site support, but not for e-mail. E-mail is quick and easy because you will be doing the work under the consultant’s guidance. In many cases, if the consultant charges for phone support, it may be more efficient to schedule a service call because the consultant will be doing the work and can see the problem directly instead of giving you guidance over the phone.

#6 Get Training

Many on-site service calls can be prevented if you ask the consultant to show you how to fix the problem. For example, a router may drop your internet connection occasionally. If you know how to restart the router, you can avoid having to wait for a service appointment and paying for repair service. Printer problems are often repetitive and generate many unnecessary service calls. Don’t be afraid to learn about the details – it will often be much easier than you think.

#7 Determine Who Will Purchase Equipment

When purchasing parts for service, determine whether you or your consultant will purchase the parts. Often it may not be a good idea for you to purchase them, because your consultant may have exact specifications for the product that must be purchased and often will have sources to buy at the lowest prices.

#8 Determine How to Protect Your Technology Investment

Extended warranties are very effective for printers and laptops which break often but of little use for routers and desktop computers. Having proper firewall and anti-virus protection can prevent your computer from virus infection. Talk with your consultant about maintenance for your new software or hardware.

#9 Be Prepared for Your Service Call

Organize your original software CDs, usernames, passwords, and account information. If you do not have this information prepared before the consultant arrives, the consultant will spend billable time locating this information which will increase your service fee.

#10 Understand the Consultant’s Qualifications and Experience

For complex systems and niche areas such as Linux, Macintosh, Cisco Routers ask the consultant what their qualifications and prior experience are. This can make a huge difference in your bill because if you hire a generalist, you will likely spend money training them before they can do the job. If you hire a specialist, the hourly rate will be higher, but the work will be done faster and often more cost-effectively.

#11 Demand Written Documentation if Necessary

If you absolutely cannot have any downtime or another consultant or service provider may need to access your system, demand written documentation from your consultant for all work performed. This should include all technical specifications, system configuration, usernames and passwords.

#12 Understand the Consultant’s Policies

Many consultants bill a minimum of one or two hours for on-site service calls. Some charge for phone support while others don’t. Some offer fixed-price services. By understanding the policy, you can structure their work in a way that is most cost-effective.

Deryck Richards is the founder and managing partner of Desktronix. With an extensive educational background in computer information systems, Deryck currently manages hosting and data center operations for Desktronix. He also provides system administration and technical support directly to small businesses as he has since 2000. His areas of expertise include networking, Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems and he is the author of The Guide to Technology for Small Business. For more information, visit http://www.desktronix.com

SMS Marketing using SMS Software: The increasing mobile phone penetration globally has instantly resulted in SMS becoming an effective alternative to traditional modes of business communication. With over 1.2 billion mobile phones and increasing penetration among semi-urban, rural areas mobile text messaging (SMS) just cannot be ignored by marketing leaders.

SMS Software is an effective tool to send short, instant and personalised text message (SMS) to the target audience. Brand managers like to be in contact with their existing customers and prospects to inform them about new products, features and other value-added offerings for them using SMS Software.

Their main concerns for marketing leaders related to SMS marketing are security of their database, getting a flexible platform to run SMS campaign at a schedule convenient to them, doing the campaign effectively, irrespective of the numbers of messages to be sent.

The critical questions related to SMS marketing, from the perspective of marketing leaders, are as follows:

* Whether the platform provided by service providers is secure?

* Is the delivery being carried out using reliable channels?

* Are the message delivery service levels measurable and is the client data is confidential?

* Is there enough transparency e.g. online delivery and real time reports?

SMS Marketing using client application software:

A flexible and high throughput service using client software is the solution to marketing men woes. Companies such as ValueFirst Messaging Private Limited (www.vfirst.com) provide highly effective SMS Service solution to marketing companies, advertising agencies to carry out in-house SMS marketing campaigns. In fact, such companies provide an end-to-end service using its software products for complete marketing activities which can be done on SMS.

The user is able to devise his own campaign and carry it out without any involvement of the service provider. The client software application products are installed at client premises and campaigns are carried out with clients getting on-line MIS. Delivery reports which are provided by the service provider help the user in cleaning-up his data-base. It is easier to do small campaigns, run contests and advertising agencies can use the platform to carry out simultaneous campaigns for multiple-customers.

SMS limitations: While SMS users enjoy several benefits like sending an instant, personal message which is always read, there are limitations associated with SMS. It is nothing more than 160 characters of text, devoid of sound, pictures and special effects of traditional print media. In spite of the limitations SMS has its own specific uses which help marketers give specific information to their customers. Incoming SMS on 4-digit or 5-digit short codes in conjunction with conventional media has become the most effective tool for generating leads and carrying out contests for promoting brands.

About the Author:

This article has been contributed by (Mr.) Vijay Shukla, Country Head, ValueFirst Messaging India (http://www.vfirst.com). Vijay has over 10 years of industry experience of management consulting and mobile data services. He can be contacted at vijayshukla@yahoo.com

Windows Defender (formally Microsoft Antispyware) Beta 2 has been released. Downloaded, installed, scanned with it, first impressions are it looks a lot nicer, cleaner simpler interface.

Windows Defender needs Automatic Update service running to get definition updates, and downloads them directly through the network connection for Generic Host Process for Win32 Services. Not sure if I like that. It scans a lot slower, especially when scanning archives. It took forever to get through my Call of Duty 2 and Battlefield 2 program folders. Those game installs are loaded with huge archive folders for maps. Only 8.4 gigs on this drive and it took 23 minutes to scan with a full system scan, spending like 22 and a half minutes on just this drive. It went through my other drive with nothing but 9.5 gigs of mp3 files very quickly. Windows Defender REALLY wants to run all the time now like an anti-virus. Even when I disable Windows Defender real time protection, which it has loads of check points for, and close the window, it leaves no icon in the tasktray, but still has two running process’s, (MSASCui.exe and MsMpEng.exe), one using 15 megs of memory and the other 5.

I, personally, don’t want it running all the time. I don’t need it running all the time. It didn’t find a single thing because I never get any spyware. I just want it to do the occasional full scan when I tell it to.

It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to shut Windows Defender down. It installs a whole new service, Windows Defender Service. Maybe if I just stop the service and set its startup type to Manual, and remove the startup entry it created too, ok rebooting to try it, ok not starting with system. Failing to start service when running it, must manually start the service. Ok I manually started the service, running ok now, must manually stop the service to shut it down again, and then end task on the 1 process it still leaves running (MSASCui.exe, using 5 megs of memory) even after shutting down its service.

I’m gonna have to manually start Windows Defender service everytime I want to use it, and then manually stop its service, and kill the extra process it still leaves, when I’m done. Cause I just don’t need it or want it running all the time if I’m gonna scan with it once a month at most.

It really wants to be integrated and run all the time. I don’t think I’ll mind when its preinstalled into Vista, but this aint Vista, and it should shut down when I want it to. Thats ok I know how to shut it down and how to get it started again when I want to use it.

Pretty impressed with Windows Defender even tho I don’t like how badly it wants to always run. Its Software Explorers thing in its Tools section, and also places a shortcut for in the windows control panel, is pretty impressive. Gives loads of info about everything, every startup item, every running process, every open network connection.

I like Windows Defender, now that I figured out how to tame it. It has no license expiration date anymore in its about box either.

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Few topics are as controversial as outsourcing. This is understandable. To state obvious, jobs are a fundamental part of our ability to lead a happy and productive life.

Unfortunately, jobs exist within context of volatile global markets. growth of Outsourcing is result of developing nations reaching a point in economic evolution where y have skills to compete in higher-skill domains traditionally served by rich country workers. Same cost advantages offered to lower-level manufacturing are now being brought up value chain to software development.

In United States, a number of congressmen have proposed bills which would protect American IT workers from foreign labor competition. Fur more; though few are as overtly anti-trade as Dick Gephardt or Dennis Kucinich, it is increasingly clear those Democratic Party contenders for U.S. presidency view foreign competition as a potential winning issue in 2004 race.
Don’t deny that Western IT workers will have to make adjustments to accommodate new global reality. However, as I explain in this article, outsourcing is not jobs catastrophe its opponents make it out to be. Fur more, is a number of practical reasons to maintain an open market position which have ramifications for future health of Western economies. In short, like it or not, Western nations need outsourcing.

Don’t overestimate threat my first job as a programmer was with Price Waterhouse. My memory of that time includes a frightening amount of airplane food, as I made weekly round-trip flights to client destinations from my home “base” (at time, Dallas, Texas).

Reason for this was that Price Waterhouse assisted clients in creating custom software–and this required close interaction with client. Whole teams of developers would be flown to site to gar requirements, generate prototypes and write code. Real world Custom Development is often a trial and error process, something that works best when developers on-site can respond instantly.

Maintenance work, however, does not require such close interaction since broad outlines of application have already been laid out. This development was often performed off-site, reform, saving client airfare and housing costs.

Custom Software, even under best conditions, often must contend with “fuzzy” requirements. Likewise, most software is of ad-hoc variety, and often is “temporary” in that actual code written has a short life span. This means that most software will need kind of close client interactions Price Waterhouse provided to its customers. Such interaction can’t occur when consultants are sitting in an office in Hyderabad.

Fur more, people best qualified to work with American or European clients will be or Americans or Europeans, given shared cultural context co-nationals share with ir fellow citizens. In or words, most custom development will call upon local citizens, because ir ingrained “skill” at dealing with local clients cannot be replicated.

Maintenance, however, can be performed off-site, including at offshore locations. This was central to arguments made by Rahul Sood and George Gilbert in ir recent article. y noted that one of best way to use outsourced labor is as a place to offload maintenance tasks, freeing up domestic labor force for higher-value new Software Development.

Even so, this doesn’t mean that domestic IT staff won’t face jobs pressure. In long term, however, it pays not to underestimate power of software industry to create new jobs.

Rise in demand for software developers in 1990s was result of industry’s attempt to digest changes introduced by spread of Internet. Technology continues to advance, however, and it is my opinion that we have only seen tip of iceberg in terms of integration of computing power into our daily lives. I spoke of software opportunities created by adoption of RFID technology in a previous article, but also consider advent of smart phone technology, or even growth of wearable processing power (SPOT watches being a good example) to be areas for future growth and jobs.

Technological advances in se and or areas will drive demand for new categories of software, and that demand will pick up any slack those results from expansion of global pool of developers to include citizens of developing nations.

Lastly, large economies are often ir own biggest markets. Exports account for 10 percent of GDP in United States (which is currently world’s largest economy), compared to 43 percent in South Korea and Switzerland, 36 percent in New Zealand and 28 percent in France. This position is mostly a function of America’s size, at 300 million people, and its wealth, with a GDP of 10 trillion. As China’s 1.3 billion citizens grow in affluence, Chinese companies are bound to find that China is its biggest market.

As Asian economies grow, programmers are going to be too busy serving ir own markets to offer much competition for American or European software projects. It is in interest of Western programmers, refore that Asian economies develop as fast as possible.

Company competitiveness matters. Many who oppose outsourcing offer no alternative means to make up for cost savings missed by a refusal to outsource. This matters, because modern companies compete on a global stage. Unless every company in world decides to forego use of lower-cost software developers, companies that fail to outsource will make selves less competitive.

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Jim
Tatvasoft - Software Outsourcing Development Company
303, Naindhara Compalex, Bodakdev
Ahmedabad - India

Spyware is like the new technological nuclear weapon on the internet. Spyware can not only damage the health of your computer but it can also steal your personal identity other personal information. Spyware is software that is hidden inside legitimate downloads that you come across on the internet. An example would
be the growing number of file sharing programs and free mobile ring tone advertisements that you come across on the internet. If you have teenagers in your household, it’s imperative that they know the dangers of using these programs as what takes 2 minutes
to download and listen to, can take a good few hours to remove the damage left behind after being infected with spyware.

Spyware can slip past anti virus programs and firewalls as it is created to look exactly like an innocent part of the download you just requested. This low down trickery allows the spyware publisher into your computer. Once the spyware has installed itself on your machine it can reap havoc in many different ways. Spyware can cause your computer to crash and attack other programs on your computer similar to the way a virus does. Spyware’s most common task is to record and report back you internet surfing habits, like what sites you visit, how long you spend on the sites, what you download etc. One of the most frightening aspects is that spyware can actually record what information you type into your internet browser, this includes
your credit card details, user names and passwords. Having access to this information allows the spyware publisher to commit identity theft pretty easily.

Spyware removal software should be installed on every single computer. The software is programmed to scan deep into your computer in search for any spyware parasites it has a record of in its database, this is why it’s important to keep you software updated as many new spyware threats are being released every week. Spyware can be virtually anywhere on your computer and is usually disguised as integral parts of your computer. You need spyware removal software on your computer as it acts as your ally
in the spyware battle. The software can detect these parasites and remove them from your computer.

The best way to stay protected from this ever evolving threat is to always have up to date spyware removal software on your computer and have at least some understanding of how spyware operates. Get knowledgeable with small chunks of useful information by visiting Spyware Advice where we provide free up to date information on what moving in the spyware world.

Before being able to choose a secure Internet communication system, you need to understand the threats to your security.

Since the beginning of the Internet there has been a naive assumption on the part of most email users that the only people who are reading their email are the people they are sending it to. After all, with billions of emails and gigabytes of data moving over the Internet every day, who would be able to find their single email in such a flood of data?

Wake-up and smell the coffee! Our entire economy is now information based, and the majority of that mission critical information is now flowing through the Internet in some form, from emails and email attachments, to corporate FTP transmissions and instant messages.

Human beings, especially those strange creatures with a criminal mind, look for every possible advantage in a dog eat dog world, even if that advantage includes prying into other peoples’ mail or even assuming your identity. The privacy of your Internet communications has now become the front line in a struggle for the soul of the Internet.

The New Generation Packet Sniffers:

At the beginning of 2001, most computer security professionals began to become aware of an alarming new threat to Internet security, the proliferation of cheap, easy to use packet sniffer software. Anyone with this new software, a high school education, and network access can easily eavesdrop on email messages and FTP transmissions.

Software packages such as Caspa 3.0 or PassDetect - Ace Password Sniffer automate the task of eavesdropping to the point were if you send an email messages over the Internet with the phrase “Credit Card”, it’s almost a certainty that someone, somewhere will capture it, attachments and all.

(Caspa 3.0 - from ColaSoft Corporation, located in Chengdu, China http://www.colasoft.com ,PassDetect - a product whose advertised purpose is to sniff passwords sent in email, over HTTP, or over FTP from EffeTech Corporation, http://www.effetech.com )

A good example of this new class of software is called MSN Sniffer, also from Effetech, and it highlights the “party line” openness of today’s LAN and Internet environments. Just like old telephone party lines, MSN sniffer lets you listen-in on other people’s conversations, just like picking up another phone on a party line.

On their web site, Effetech advertises MSN Sniffer as:

“a handy network utility to capture MSN chat on a network. It records MSN conversations automatically. All intercepted messages can be saved as HTML files for later processing and analyzing. It is very easy to make it to work. Just run the MSN Sniffer on any computer on your network, and start to capture. It will record any conversation from any PC on the network.”

Just as the Internet has been flooded by a deluge of spam messages after the introduction of cheap, easy-to-use spam generation software, the same effect is now taking place with sniffer software. The major difference is that, unlike spam, Internet eavesdropping is totally invisible, and ten times as deadly. How much of the identity theft being reported today is a direct result of Internet eavesdropping? Its hard to tell, but with the every growing dependency by individuals and corporations on Internet communications, opportunities to “capture” your sensitive data abound.

Most FTP transmission are unencrypted!

As of November 2003, the majority of corporate FTP transmissions are still unencrypted (unencrypted is geek speak for “in the clear” ) and almost all email communications take place “in the clear”. Many email and FTP transmissions travel over 30 or more “hops” to make its way from the sender and receiver. Each one of these hops is a separate network, often owned by a different Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Any Idiot in the Middle

Even a well run corporation must still primarily rely on trusting its employees, contractors and suppliers to respect the privacy of the data flowing over its networks. With the new sniffer technology, all it takes is one “idiot in the middle”, and your security is compromised. It could be the admin assistant sitting in the cubical next to you, or a network assistant working for one of the many ISPs your data will travel over, but somewhere, someone is listening. Maybe all he is looking for is his next stock trading idea, or maybe he wants to take over your eBay account so he can sell a nonexistent laptop to some unsuspecting “sucker” using your good name. its all happening right now, at some of the most respected companies in the world.

Access to your network doesn’t have to come from a malicious or curious employee-many Internet worms, Trojans and viruses are designed to open up security holes on a PC so that other software can be installed. Once a hacker has access to one computer in your network, or one computer on your ISP’s network, he can then use a sniffer to analyze all the traffic on the network.

So I’ll password-protect my files, right?

You’re getting warmer, but this still isn’t going to do the trick. It’s a good way to stop packet sniffers from searching for key words in a file, but unfortunately it is not as secure as you might think. If you ever forget a Zip, Word or Excel password, don’t worry, just download the password tool from Last Bit Software www.PasswordTools.com, it works very well. There are many other packages out on the Internet but Last Bit’s tool is the most robust and easy to use, if a bit slower that some others.

So what can I do about it?

OK, so now that you understand the threat, what can you do about it?

Stop using the Internet? - More than a few professionals are returning to phone calls and faxes for all their important communications.

Complain to your IT department? - If you have an IT department in your company this is a good place to start. But did the spam mail stop when you complained about it to your LAN administrator? Unfortunately he is almost as helpless as you are.

Encrypt your communications with PKI, etc. - For email this is a bit drastic, and can be very expensive, especially since you will need to install a key on each PC and coordinate this with the receivers of your email messages, your IT organization, etc.

Use FileCourier - This is by far the easiest and most cost effective way to protect your email attachments, or replace FTP transmissions. It takes out the “idiot in the middle” with a very clever solution.

The FileCourier approach to Security

I believe that FileCourier is the easiest out-of-the box secure communication system available.

FileCourier approaches Internet data transfer security in a unique way. Until FileCourier was first released in December of 2002, all secure email and file transmission systems relied on encrypting the data during the tried and true method of “upload, store, and forward”. When you send an email, it and any documents attached to it are first transmitted to one or more intermediate servers. These mail server store the documents and then attempt to forward it to the receivers email server. To secure the transmission of the email requires either the servers to use extra encryption software technology, or forces the individual sender and receivers to install encryption software and their associated keys, or both. Not only is this a costly and time consuming exercise but it also often fails to protect the data over the complete path of the transmission.

What do you do if the receiver is in another company and doesn’t have any encryption software installed? What if his company is using a difference encryption standard? Ignoring the complexity of existing secure email and FTP systems their biggest failings continue to be the “idiot in the middle”. From a nosey email or FTP server administrator, to a hungry co-worker, to an incompetent who lets a hacker have free reign of their server, if your sensitive documents are stored on a server maintained by someone else then that person, or his company, can view your documents.

The FileCourier approach is creative, yet simple. FileCourier utilizes existing email and instant messaging systems in the same way you use an envelope to send a letter thru the US postal service, as a wrapper for the real content. We assume that EVERYONE can read what is in the email, so we don’t send your documents in the email at all. In fact your documents never leave your PC, until the receiver of the email requests it.

How it works:

FileCourier lets you ticket the file you want to email, and then instead of sending the file in the email, sends a “FileTicket” instead. The file is only transmitted to the receiver of the email when he opens the FileTicket and is “authenticated”. After the receiver is authenticated the file is transmitted through an SSL (secure socket layer) tunnel directly from the sender’s PC to the receiver’s PC through our secure relay servers. SSL is the same security used by banks and is impossible for packet sniffers to penetrate. With FileCourier each packet is encrypted using a 1024 bit key and is delivered to your receiver through his browser. FileCourier lets your communications go un-detected by any sniffer, and removes the “idiot in the middle” threat by never storing the data on an intermediate server. More over, FileCourier is the easiest way to secure your sensitive data transmission in both an Internet and corporate LAN environment.

Take Action Now!

Internet communications security is one of the most important privacy issues we face today. It might feel a bit paranoid for a law-abiding citizen to encrypt his email communications and computer document transmissions, but would you send a customers contract thru normal mail without an envelope? How would you feel if your employer sent your next pay stub to you on the back of a postcard? Use FileCourier, just like you would use a envelope for regular mail. Download the no obligation free trial today at www.filecourier.com and send 50MB of data securely for free!

About The Author

Mark Brooks is a software architect, internet entrepreneur and founder of CanDo Networks Corporation. CanDo Networks Corporation makes easy-to-use software for communicating large amounts of data securely and privately over the Internet. Its flagship product, FileCourier (www.filecourier.com), is used by thousands of legal, medical, and computer professionals to securely deliver files over the internet, to anyone, anywhere

mark@candonet.com

The final version of Office 12 is slated for release in mid 2006. Although Microsoft is yet to confirm what the final version of Office 12 will include, the broad areas that have been the focus of change are productivity, handling of business information, managing of documents, and enhanced user friendliness.

1. All programs like Word, Excel, and Power Point have a new look. The new user interface has a ribbon of frequently used commands and operations which will enhance usability instead of drop down menus.

2. The server based capabilities include document rights and work flow management.

3. In the case of the revamped Excel, it will support SQL Server 2005, and have much awaited features like greater spreadsheet capacity, tools for sorting and filtering, as well as extensive data visualization capabilities. The user will be able to access, analyze, and share information securely and easily not just within the system but between databases and enterprise applications.

4. The new system will support sharing of workspaces and exchange of information across corporate boundaries. Incorporating P2P capabilities, the system it all set to take a giant leap forward.

5. One aspect under consideration is “out-of –the-box secure enterprise instant messaging.”

6. Deeper incorporation of XML will make the system a development platform. Developers will be able to create software that interoperates with the system without hitches.

7. Specially designed Contextual Command Tabs. These will only appear when a user is all set to modify a document or Excel sheet. Just clicking on the page will call up the Command Tab with relevant tools for making changes.

8. Galleries is an innovation that is promoted as the ‘heart’ of the redesigned applications. In this the user will be able to see how his document will shape up. This will simplify the process of creating professionally layed out documents.

9. A system known as Live Preview is a brand new technology that will enable the user to view in a gallery the editing or changed formatting executed on a document.

10. Faster document authoring will be possible with incorporation of custom built layouts and slide libraries. Through SharePoint the user will also be able to store their personal slides and layouts in this function. The system is designed so that it can be accessed offline.

11. Rapid email and document searching will become feasible through the Fast Search technology in Vista (Longhorn).

12. Using new innovations in integrated technologies the system will support multiparty audio, video, as well as data collaboration.

The system is designed to run on Windows XP Service Pack 2, or Longhorn client, or updated versions of windows with at least an SQL server 2000. Office 12 will support x64 platforms but it is not certain whether the support will be shipped with Office 12 or separately.

The very purpose of Office 12 according to Microsoft is to make life easy for users with better presentation, organization, and capabilities.

Paul Wilson is a freelance writer for http://www.1888SoftwareDownloads.com, the premier website to find Free Software Downloads including free anti-virus software, free spyware detection software, free toolbars, free chat software and more. He also freelances for http://www.1888FreeOnlineGames.com

Now a days you can’t imagine how important it is to acquire Software for a School to run it smoothly. With the development of cutting edge technologies, it is very important for any organization to be up to date with the current trends. One can not afford to waste the precious time to do the paper work while deviating from the ultimate goal of its organization.

For a School, its main objective is to teach and train a student to groom in all dimensions. If a school devote most of its precious time and manpower to maintain the paper work, its a great loss to the students studying in it. The students need special attention and time of teachers to improve their teaching standards.

In order to minimize the paper work and quality time of manpower, the only solution is to implement ERP software in the school. The Software will take care of the administrative paper works, thus minimizing the time required to carry out the things manually.

The Software helps the school in more than one ways. With its implementation, the queries of the gurdian/parents can be replied in more systematic and methodical way. Parents will find it more useful to see their child’s improvement reports in a statistical way.

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Will malefactor steal your most private information right now? Or will he wait for tomorrow?

The relevant issue of privacy protection is important today like never before. Malefactors are hunting users for their personal information, inventing new intricate ways of stealing it.

You may think that there’s nothing wrong with giving away such ‘innocent’ info like your email address, for instance. Well, that’s where you have to think again. By finding some bits of information malefactors are always able to find out more. They may find a way to get into your system and fish out some data which you didn’t even know existed!

The following are just some examples of how your personal data may be used by frauds.
Spammers make use of your address book for sending annoying unwanted letters to you and all of your acquaintances. Phishers masquerade as a trustworthy person or business and send you an apparently official email trying to find out your bank account details or your credit card pin number. Hackers use your login and password for stealing your Internet traffic or sending exploits into your system thus turning your computer into their slave. Not exactly something you’d like to be a part of, is it?

The main problem is that most users don’t even suspect they might get ripped off in such a malicious way. They are naive enough to think that their personal information is perfectly safe the way it is without any extra measures taken.

But please consider the following. Your personal private information might be in danger, if:
- you ever used any of the web-services
- you ever filled out any of the online registration forms
- you ever used any online messaging services
Which basically means that you are in the risk group if your computer is connected to the Internet. And that would be almost all of us!

So what you need now is to find out how to deal with this problem. Many articles have been written on this subject, and many words have been said. But the number of attacks grows with every day, and so does the users’ alarm. What a user really needs nowadays is not talk but some REAL protection of his PRIVACY.

When you input any information into your computer, you trust your system to protect this data. But unfortunately it is you who has to take measures and turn your PC into a SECURE STRONGHOLD, inaccessible by any malefactors.

If you wish to find out how to do this, just read on.

First of all, let’s get to the root of the problem. Why is it that you need any protection in the first place? What exactly puts you into a risk group?

The thing is that your Operating System collects and stores data about you personally and about your computer’s configuration. This is mainly done to facilitate the process of you getting customer’s support in case any problems occur. Many user’s applications do the same. So when you contact the program’s Support, all you might have to do is to click one single button in the application’s screen rather than to scan your system manually, trying to find the needed information. Rather convenient, isn’t it?

The other reason for the system and applications storing your personal information is you using web-services. Many applications store information about your e-mail address, your passwords, your credit card number or your bank accounts in order to speed up the process of your registration at some websites or your buying and selling stuff via the Internet etc.

Now, please note that by personal information we don’t mean any of your files or documents. It is only the data collected by numerous applications and the Operating System that we talk about. Such data is stored in your system separately from any user’s files and usually does not affect the work of the applications themselves.

While all those features of collecting and storing information about you and your system are meant to help you, sometimes they turn into your worst enemy. There are many many malefactors that will try to take advantage of your system’s leaks in order to steal your personal information stored by your OS and applications. Thus instead of making your life easier, the storage of your private info brings you nothing but potential problems.

Now don’t you think that you should be the ONLY one to decide whether you want to share any of your data? Well, exactly! It should be only up to you to determine who should know what about yourself! After all, it is YOUR information!

So we defined the problem and we know you want to solve it. The question is how.

There are several ways of protecting your private information. Nowadays there is a great number of software solutions that will help you deal with the problem of privacy protection.

First of all you may choose to install some kind of a firewall that would prevent any hacker attacks. Modern software market offers a great deal of such applications to choose from. But note that setting up these programs is usually a rather complicated process. In order to customize the application you’d have to specify what actions it would take for virtually any event. Besides you will have to download base updates if you want to be sure that you have the best protection available (than means you have to download them daily or hourly even). Considering the fact that malefactors daily invent hundreds of new ways of getting into your system, firewalls might not be just the best solution to keeping your private info safe.

This does not in any way mean that firewalls offer bad protection level. It’s what we should call an ‘insufficient’ measure.

Keeping this in mind you might ask yourself: What if I don’t want these applications to store any info about me in the first place? And that’s exactly right! No one will ever steal something that you just don’t have!

Now the problem arises how to clean up the information stored in your system. You may, of course, do that manually by locating system files and settings responsible for storing user’s data and then cleaning them up. But this requires advanced user’s skills and knowledge, as you may accidentally erase something that will cause your applications work unsteadily. Besides, manual clean-up takes time and patience and is not always possible to perform as many applications encrypt your info (so you may have trouble finding it, let alone removing).

And what now? Is that impossible for a common user to protect his own personal information? Well, of course not! Luckily, there are some programs in the market that allow for automatic safe clean-up of all your privacy leaks. You can easily find such applications in search engines, searching for ‘personal data protection tool’, ‘privacy protection tool’ or ’system-stored personal data search and removal’.

And remember this: No one but you has the right to access your personal information! So take the necessary steps to prevent your private data from being stolen! Do that before it’s too late, as some of the malefactors are attempting to rip you off at this very moment!

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