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The cloud has never been a safe place to store any of your data. I say this for several reasons.

1. NO matter what the vendors says they own the systems and once you put your data on them they can do what they want with it. Check it out folks, several online storage vendors have folded and the data they held (in some circumstances) is lost. One photographer had his entire film collection and the vendor went bust with no one being informed and they just turned off the servers.

2. You do not own or have control of your data in the cloud, the vendors do.

3. Putting your data on the cloud is like playing russian roulette with your data.

So good luck with your cloud computing.

My first thought was “good idea”. But then I realized it was simply a MS scam. They peddle bug ridden software and expect everyone else to fix their problem.

The problem I have with it is the follow through. Sure it is easy enough for ISP to identify suspicious traffic and block it, then what. The ISP has to pay the cost of the support call to fix the problem? Works well for the M$ bottom line.

OK, granted MS isn’t the only one with buggy software but they have the market by a long shot.

Again you are not looking at the overall picture. MS makes no more buggy software then anyone else. They have the share of market so why would the bad guys waste time going after small shrimp when they can get lobster tails.

ISP’s already know what you are doing because they monitor the traffic so when they find bad news just isolate that PC, contact the customer and get the PC cleaned. No harm no fault.

Malware is a bigger threat then spam since it takes control of your PC in such a way that you do not know it until notified. Personally I have never had this problem since I am paranoid about the US government so I pay very close attention to what my PC is doing including reading the logs, which I understand but most users do not.

I also disagree with your recommendations (AVG and Zone alarm) on the security (you must be on their payroll) since what you recommended is bloat ware for what it is supposed to do. Get slick, trimmed down versions like Avast, ONline Armor, Comodo etc. AVG and Zone Alarm have lost their way and just continue to add features and making their programs larger and larger. At least Symantec has redone their Antivirus and trimmed it down considerly.

Well I went to get process hacker then found out that it is only good for 32 bit OS. Talk about a bummer. All 6 of my PC’s have Win7 64 bit.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.

Susan you said: “However, even Windows 7 fails to live up to Jim Allchin’s no-reboot promise.”

I reread you column and Jim did not promise no re-boot, he just said that it would require fewer reboots and my experience with Win7 has proven this out, fewer reboots.

As to lost work, do the patches when the workers are not there. I have my PC’s set to download the patches and once I have verified that the updates are ok I have the patches/updates installed during off hours.