I have heard a lot of websites promote Firefox and they said that it was better than Internet Explorer because of several features which Firefox has — they often state that Firefox is better than IE because it is “more stable” and “more resilient to spyware and viruses.”

But why? This is the question that they never seem to answer. The fact that it is is a great reason to go Firefox (and the price is right.) But what makes it more resiliant and more feature-full than Internet Explorer? What did Mozilla corp do right that Microsoft failed to do? Continue reading →

My sister-in-law is going to be attending her first year of college this year (yay!) But that lead to the need to purchase a computer which lead to the following question:

Should we purchase a warranty from the college technology department on a laptop that we bring there?

My answer: waste of money. Continue reading →

The first thing I usually do on a tech support call is to check to see that the computer I’m working on doesn’t have spyware active on it. Many computer problems seemed to be caused by spyware and the world would be a better place without it.

When I run this sweep the people I’m working with usually ask me “What is spyware?” This is what I answer: Continue reading →