Chapter Four. Security!: Keeping Your Computer Safe

Security!: Keeping Your Computer Safe
Security!: Keeping Your Computer Safe

Allow? Don’t Allow? Continue? Cancel? I’ve got good news and bad news. Bad news first: get used to seeing the questions at the beginning of this paragraph. The world of online computing has a lot of bad people in it, and they all want to do bad things to your computer, or even retrieve things from your computer and use them against you. Now, for the good news: Vista was made with one main goal in mind—keeping your computer safe. Part of doing that is constantly asking you whether you really want ...

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