Sorry about the audio in part 1, part 2 has been fixed up a bit.

Chris Nickerson is the guest on the SMBminute.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/tkrabec/SMBMinute-nickerson-SMB_part_1.mp3

In this episode Aaron Myers and Tim Krabec invited Anthony Gartner of Securabit in for a discussion on updating your computer.  The audio is a bit on the bad side, I will apologise in advance.

 

-- Tim

This some of the audio from the post interview recording with Michael Santarcangelo

Here are the 5 simple things anyone can do to help make their computer more secure and less vulnerable to data loss. These are the 5 basic things that can save you time, money and keep you from getting frustrated. As we delve into these topic with greater detail it will become clear to you why you need to do each and every one of these on both your home and office computers. It will also become clear why some preventative measures and spending some money upfront can save you a great deal in the future.

1.  Update operating System and Applications

2.  Firewall

3. Anti-virus and other protection

4. Regular backups

5. Non-administrative user with good password

Tim Krabec & Aaron Myers

 

 

 

 

We talk with Michael about the break in of his RV and some of the lessons learned.

Aaron & Tim Discuss
http://www.Opendns.com
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

Please Bear with us as we're new to podcasting.  We are aiming at one episode per week.  If you have any questions, comments, or topics you'd like to see discussed, please email us at SMBMinute@gmail.com

Thanks
Aaron & Tim

In this episode Aaron and Tim discuss a recent event that Tim's dad encountered when doing some research online.  He encountered a trojaned PDF, which caused his machine to be infected with malware.  Tim and Aaron give a few quick tips on how to help mitigate this type of problem.