Rothman rides to the rescue
Being the IT support for the family is a fairly regular occurrence. And now days, a lot of that involves security issues. For instance, just last week my sister-in-law decided to get satellite Internet at her house in back woods Mississippi (they had been using dial-up at my parents’ house on their computer, but the speeds were about 26.4 baud on average, and that was getting old). So she called me up and asked what she needed to do.
The first thing I asked her was how long it had been since her computer had been on the Internet. She said about 3-4 years. I knew at that point that I would have to make sure her PC had SP2 and was fully patched and firewalled before she even connected to the Internet, or she was going to be part of a botnet before she could say “malware.”
Plus, now that she is making the connection and it is going to be fairly speedy, she will probably be making the transition over to shopping on the Internet, paying bills on the Internet, yada, yada, yada…
But one of my favorite people out there, none other than Mr. Mike Rothman, has come to the rescue. He has written something that I think just might take off some of the burden from my back and the backs of so many geeks out there. He has written a guide to Internet security for the average Joe and Jane that are not in the business of worrying about security 24 hours a day.
Now I have not read this yet (I didn’t receive an advance copy, so I guess Mike doesn’t love me anymore 
), but the description makes this a very promising book for the masses. Good luck with it Mike. If I can get a copy, I’ll recommend it to my family! Otherwise I’ll buy a copy and distribute it. How do you like that! 
Oh, and yes, I stole the title from Alan. OK? I admit it! I couldn’t think of anything better!
Vet
