Presentation by Patric Welch of Noobie to the Scientech Club of Indianapolis on June 1, 2009.

1. AVOIDING COMPUTER HEADACHES
WHILE SAVING TIME AND MONEY
Patric Welch, Techie
Noobie, Inc.
www.noobie.com

2. AVOIDING SPAM EMAILS
 Most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) do a good
job of filtering out the really bad stuff
 Gmail and Google Apps get high praise for spam
filtering
 Use the quot;Report Spamquot; button
 Blacklisting vs. whitelisting

3. AVOIDING SPAM EMAILS
 Cloudmark Desktop, www.cloudmark.com

4. BACKING UP YOUR DATA
 Not a matter of if disaster will strike but when
 Good: Backing up to CD/DVD or external hard drive
 Better: Take backups off-site
 Guess what the problem is with the above two
approaches…
 You won’t remember to do them!
 Best Approach: Online Backup

5. BACKING UP YOUR DATA
 Carbonite, www.carbonite.com

6. ANTI-VIRUS AND ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE
 Are these really necessary?
 The Big Three: Symantec, McAfee, Windows Live
OneCare
 Dozens of free alternatives:
 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
 Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Edition
 Avast Home Edition – Free
 Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition
 Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

7. ANTI-VIRUS AND ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE
 Be careful when downloading free software
 Use a trusted source like CNET, download.cnet.com

8. ALTERNATIVES TO MICROSOFT OFFICE
 Open Office, www.openoffice.org
 Google Apps, www.google.com/apps
 Zoho, www.zoho.com

9. Q&A
 How to update NET framework; v1.14322 and
v1.0.3705? What does it do?
 Please comment on the Windows Live program that
Windows Update wants to install. What is Windows
Live and why might we want to use it - or not use it?
 Others?

10. PATRIC WELCH, TECHIE, NOOBIE, INC.
Email: pwelch@noobie.com
Phone: 317-509-6842
Web: www.noobie.com
Twitter: @mrnoobie