The Langa List: Fred Langa is the dean of freelance computer/web authors, whose current primary work, The Langa List, reaches an audience of over two million readers per month. A former Vice-President and Editorial Director of Windows and Byte magazines, Mr. Langa has also won a number of prestigious National Magazine awards.
Twice weekly, Mr. Langa’s newsletter (available free, and one day in advance of publication, through e-mail subscription, as well as on the Web, and now just a click away on the front page of VanRamblings, on the right hand side of the page, under Weblogs) provides invaluable information to everyone and anyone who employs a PC in their day-to-day lives.
Available as a link under Web/Tech to your left, as well, click on the Langa List now, and make reading this invaluable IT resource a regular part of your time in front of your computer each week.
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Given the proliferation of the MyDoom, Blaster, Welchia and Dumaru worms, and the myriad other worms and Trojans which impact on your ability to surf the Net with some degree of safety — not to mention, the thousands of pieces of adware, spyware, malicious cookie and programme hijackers, and variants of each of these malware intrusions into your computer — if your computing experience is to be anything approaching satisfactory, you are going to have to protect yourself.
Read below to learn more about the minimum set of conditions for surfing the Net so as to protect yourself, and everyone else, on the information highway …

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