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7Aug2012

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Don’t Get Caught by a Phish

Yesterday malware was the word of the day. Malware is harmful software that can be downloaded onto your legal nurse consulting business’s computer simply by visiting a “poisoned” website or even clicking on a link in a fake advertisement in your search engine results. By using the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool and setting your computer to automatically update Windows and all your Microsoft products Certified Legal Nurse Consultants can cut your risk appreciably.

6Jul2012

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip on Friday: If You Can Read This It’s Not Too Late – But Next Week It Might Be… Don’t Let This Tech Tip Be Your Last – Ever

Today is a good day for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants to be reading my Tech Tip in real time – because if you don’t, next Tuesday you might not be able to access the Internet. On July 9th the Federal Bureau of Investigation is going to take the drastic step of preventing computers infected with the so-called “DNS Changer” Trojan horse from accessing the Internet. Whoa dudes and dudettes! In short, on Monday July 9th, 2012 if your computer is infected with DNS Changer you won’t be able to connect to the Internet until the issue is repaired.

19Jul2011

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Wow – Is That You in that Sizzling Hot Legal Nurse Consulting Video?

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants are probably aware that the reason viruses and malware proliferate on the Internet, Facebook and other places is because people click on the darn links. The reason spam proliferates is not just because it’s cheap to send out 200,000 emails with one click of a mouse, it’s because people actually click on the links and buy the fake drugs or whatever else is being peddled.

30Nov2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Patch the Patches on Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business’s Computer

The Internet has brought an age of convenience for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. It gives you the ability to market and research that is unparalleled in history. With that opportunity comes some danger and today, one of the safest forms of communicating with attorney-clients has been turned against us. Documents created in the super-hand portable document format (PDF) used to be the safest form of sharing documents. Everyone could open them, read them safely and we’d all see the document exactly as its creator intended. Life with PDFs was good.

5Oct2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Are You Blind to Yes or Making Rational Choices?

Owning a computer for your legal nurse consulting business means installing software. Installing software means that you’ll be updating it sooner or later. Anytime you install software you’re going to run across a license agreement that you must accept or decline before you can complete the installation process. But, my CLNC^® amigos, do you blindly click “Yes – I accept” or do you make a rational choice and actually read the license before you do that?

2Mar2010

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Trust Your Web Browser with the Web of Trust (WOT)

One thing I know for sure about Certified Legal Nurse Consultants is that they all use different web browsers and different versions of those browsers. I like to keep up to date in my software and have blogged on the importance of updating the software on your legal nurse consulting business and home computers using automatic settings where possible. But once you’re a CLNC consultant out on the information superhighway doing research for an attorney-client, how do you know which websites are safe and which are insidious purveyors of malware? You don’t. Not, at least without some outside help.

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