Increase the sales of your website by taking advantage of the Internet’s most powerful marketing strategy “viral marketing”. 

  Word-of-mouth is the most popular way new patrons discover new websites everyday as they move about the internet marketplace.  Effective word-of-mouth marketing, known as “viral marketing,” is one of the internet’s greatest success stories in recent history.  Viral marketing takes advantage of a fact of humankind, the basic human need to socialize, intermingle in a network of personal friends and business associates.  No matter the size of the social network in beginning, viral marketing is responsible for turning unheard of small start-ups with no marketing budget into rock stars of the online universe.  Even the biggest names on the internet continue to use viral marketing as their number one marketing tool.

  Msn’s Hotmail grew exponentially simply by having satisfied customers spread the word around the world about their services.  By giving away free email service Hotmail was able to have their marketing message attached to every out going email their service provided, one customer talked to two, who talked to four and so on.

 Your small business can set up a similar e-mail marketing strategy without a lot of costs or having to climb a steep learning curve with new technology.  If you have a small employee pool, you can simply set up an e-mail signature with a marketing message that will automatically be attached to every company e-mail.  It is easy and simple to set up this on popular e-mail programs like Eudora and Outlook, look under the “Options” or “Preferences” tab for a signature option.  You can take this a step further by having your hosting company or Information Technology department attach a marketing message to all outgoing mail through a process called “mail routing”.  With more sophisticated mail routing, you can track the results, but assure that every outbound message will have the same look and consistent feel – and your employees won’t be able to alter that.  Full service Internet hosting companies can provide very sophisticated outgoing mail rerouting services that let you place entire graphic commercials in your out-going mail.

  The main point of the idea of viral marketing is to utilize the thousands of e-mails a company will send out every day to its most important audience; shareholders, customers, clients, suppliers, journalists or anybody who might be looking for the service or product a company is marketing.  These messages get passed on forwarded free of charge about the marketplace, stored for future use… and the company or product branding is prominent in each case and will continue to be so.

  Hotmail’s branding message was short and sweet: “Get free e-mail at Hotmail.com” This simple message was attached to hundreds of thousands of people who used their web-based e-mail daily, essentially spreading the message for free around the internet universe.  Besides this, Hotmail’s second primary factor leading to their success is that they offered something free: free is the most searched word on the Internet.  Everyone wants to receive something for free, give away something and the word will spread like a wildfire, bringing traffic to a site.  But most small businesses can’t afford to be giving away to many free products or services, so get creative and offer something free to the first ten customers to buy a product.  The point is to increase the amount a customer thinks they are receiving for the same service or product, without actually spending all the company savings.

  Start a message board or forum on your site, viral marketing techniques flourish on message boards and chat rooms, where the customers looking for a particular service talk and compare experiences.  This is especially true for the under 25 crowd who will want to discover something on their own, but will listen to those who have walked-the-path.  Remember how you felt to be the first one to buy the album of that upcoming band?  Or hear about the new movie featuring everyone’s favourite actor?  The new internet generation hates to be over-marketed to, which is probably why guerrilla marketing works so well.

  Think about the types of e-mails that get forwarded across the entire world and back each day, all the pictures, jokes, urban legends, funny movie clips, popular music, great flash animations and much more.  E-mail makes it very simple for us to share with family, friends, business associates and the world the message we maybe trying to get across to prospective customers.  If your business can somehow attach a marketing message to one of these infectious e-mails, you can create energy about your product, company or service and increase your visibility to potential customers.

  One final point to remember before you run out the front door and spread your company’s information through word-of-mouth across the internet universe though.  Make sure you pick a memorable domain name that will stick in the potential customers mind, is easy to spell and remember and relates directly to your product, this way people can easily tell others about your product or service.

  Once people find your website, it will be the quality of your site’s content that keeps them returning, and continuing to turn word-of-mouth into your number one marketing tool.

More and more businesses and people are conducting a large portion of their company’s dealings on the internet despite security being an issue.  Below we have listed a few of the ways today’s new breed of internet con-artist is fleecing sheep of their fur all the way to the loom.

Phishing: A growth industry for aspiring thieves

  You receive an e-mail that looks like it comes from the Better Business Bureau, with all the normal letterhead and all the bells and whistles one would associate with a message from the organization.  The message states that a complaint has been filed against the firm you work for and directs you to a site, which downloads a keystroke logger that picks up your personal information and relays it overseas where you can’t retrieve it.  Millions of people have been conned by scans like this, appearing to come from financial services, Internet providers, or retailers conducting daily business.  One of the most recent scans even hijacked the name of the Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for prosecuting e-mail fraud.

  According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group there were about 37,000 websites overseas conducting such scams in May and about 23,000 phishing attacks were reported in May.

  Internet thieves’ tactics and scams have gone from random spam to e-mails that look like those from a bank or Major Corporation, with professional writing, well crafted stories and better websites.

  Popular con-artist techniques that ensnare consumers include associating the e-mail with a holiday or event, such as the Super Bowl or World Cup; spear-phishing, where the sender appears to be someone inside the firm you work for; or telling you that your bank account has been compromised, and then urging you to enter personal information into a fake site that looks like the bank’s.

  The profile of Internet phishers is changing according to law specialists as organized crime has figured out phishing is a more lucrative way and less risky business than selling drugs and is making the switch.  Terrorists groups according to specialists are exhorting young jihadists to use the computer to knock the United States to its knees.

  To protect yourself from phishing always delete e-mail that asks you to enter any kind of personal information at a linked website.  Second always access accounts directly through a browser, using your bookmark or by typing the institution’s Web address instead of clicking on a link provided.

  The Bank of America and Vanguard currently ask customers to select a personal image or phrase to appear whenever they access the site to let them know that the site their on is the real deal.

Viruses: Changing threats

  Virus infections have held steady for the past year and this is a mark of progress for consumers and software producers because the threat of infection has become more and more challenging in recent times.  Postini a security firm in San Carlos, California recently acquired by Google that processes a billion e-mail messages per day estimates 1 in 500 e-mail messages contain a virus that could affect a computer adversely.  And security software provider McAfee says more than a third of malware they have neutralized was introduced during the past two years that the threats are not slowing down.

·         Botnets: Something new

  Botnets are networks of hijacked home computers (known as zombies) that criminals use to hide behind while sending out their nefarious spam or infecting other computers, one of the most lucrative and fastest growing threats to Internet security Botnets hijack a computer by depositing malware on a user’s computer.  McAfee has reported that its customers have indicated more than 20 million such invasions of computers since 2003, while Symantec says that up to 14% of computers in the United States are currently infected with bots.  EarthLink, the Internet service provider, reports that it blocks around 7,000 to 30,000 zombies per day trying to gain access to someone’s computer.

  According to EarthLink up to eighty percent of the spam now traveling across the Internet comes from a zombie attack trying to gain access to someone’s computer.  Botnets have also been used by criminals to conduct phishing and denial of service attacks that bring down computer networks by overloading them with traffic.

·         Rootkits

  Rootkits is a type of malware used by hackers to hide another piece of malware on a system, changing a system so it lies to the user, hiding files, processes, registry keys, and communication sessions.  McAfee reports a 10% increase in Rootkits from early 2006 and into 2007, most of it being distributed by spammers.

·         New methods of delivery

  Google’s recent surveys of 4.5 million Web sites found around 10 percent of them were downloading malware without knowing it.  And the malware rather than attacking the computer’s operating system has been designed to take advantage of weaknesses in applications like iTunes, QuickTime, Flash, and WinZip, according to McAfee.

·         Social-networking websites

  Cybercriminals have started using social networks to launch their malware, spreading concerns that malicious code may spread so quickly as to be uncontrollable.  The links that connect one person’s social-networking site to another’s make it possible to download malware onto visitors’ systems, especially since many people using social networks have multiple links to many other sites.

  The solution for the average user who might not spot a virus until it has infected their PC and possibly disabled it is to always run and update antivirus software, operating system, and applications whenever in doubt about a computers possible infection.

  Internet providers will continue to fight malware whenever they find it; EarthLink has recently added a premium service that claims to track almost 300 tendencies of malware and Google recently acquired a product that protects a browser from malicious downloads.

  Well that’s it for this hub, join us next time for more information on security threats your computer faces every second it is connected to the web.  Next time we will talk specifically about different types of computer viruses and how to prevent them as well as information on the legal situation today.

 Digital SLR’s are really in a class by themselves and it probably wouldn’t be fair to compare them to the other types of digital cameras we have reviewed, so these cameras have been compared against each other. 

  Welcome traveler to our last hub on digital cameras for now.  This hub we will discuss the five best digital SLR’s in the world, their individual features and abilities and how they compare against each other. 

  Word of note, the advanced compact digital cameras in our hub “The six best advanced compact digital cameras in the world” come closest to matching the capabilities of an SLR, but their overall print quality scores aren’t really directly comparable against an SLR’s image quality scores.  In addition, SLR’s have no shutter lag to speak of and none of the models below include rechargeable batteries.  Our reviews indicate the Canon, Fuji, and Nikon have been the most reliable SLR brands in consumer surveys over the past few years, so if you’re looking for reliability these are generally the best bet.

  Well here we go; the models below represent our picks for five of the world’s best digital SLR cameras.

1.       Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT The 8 megapixel Canon EOS Rebel XT provides marginally better image quality then any of the models on this list, they all provide excellent quality.  Weighing in at a hefty 27 ounces, the Canon Rebel XT should probably be used with a porter to carry between shoots, if you’re a photographer who never carry’s their own bags.  With a flash range of 12 ft, and included battery charger for the rechargeable batteries which will provide around 250 shots before needing recharging, you’re ready for the toughest photo opportunities around.  The Canon Rebel XT has a light sensitivity range of 100-1600 for all the different times of the day or cover that might be disturbing the lighting of a shot.  Included with this model is a Canon 18-55 mm EF-S lens and all for a price of $600.

2.       Canon EOS-30D The8 megapixel Canon EOS-30D provides about the same image quality as its brother the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, but weighs 7 ounces more at 34 wet ounces, so maybe that porter we were talking about above is starting to look a lot better.  With the same 12 ft flash range as the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and included charger for the rechargeable batteries, you will need to purchase by the way, this model will also provide about 250 high quality shots before you will need to recharge the batteries.  The area where this model rules is in it’s light sensitivity range (ISO) of 100-3200, which gives it a versatility of lighting conditions matched by only one other digital SLR on our list, the Canon EOS-20D.  Canon has included a Canon 18-55 mm EF-S lens with this model, the same as with the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT above and all for a price of $1,250.

3.       Canon EOS-20D The 8 megapixel Canon EOS-20D comes in third on our list to its companions above, but they all provide about the same image quality with the tip of the hat going to the Digital Rebel at number one.  Weighing in at a heavy 36 ounces means this model isn’t a camera to carry everywhere with you, unless you plan on hiring a baggage handler.  With the same 12 ft flash range as the first two models our this list, the charger also included, and a battery life of about 250 shots, the differences between the models isn’t to be found here.  This model has the same light sensitivity range of 100-3200 as the Canon EOS-20D at number two, so both these cameras rule in this category.  This model also comes with the same 18-55 mm EF-S lens as the first two Canon models on this list, but at a price of $950.

4.       Nikon D200 The 10 megapixel Nikon D200 has a slightly better pixel rate for sure and about the same image quality as the first three on this list.  Weighing in at a staggering 41 ounces, the Nikon D200 isn’t for the weight conscious photographer, but that’s why we always bring a friend on our shoots.  An 11 ft flash range is a foot shorter than the first three models, but we doubt you will notice the difference.  The included battery charger will come in handy after you take about 250 shots with the full batteries you buy for this model, since their once again not included.  This model has a light sensitivity range of 100-1600, but it will be adequate for just about all conditions.  Nikon has included the AF Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-55 mm lens with this model, an excellent all around lens.  The one area this digital SLR rules, that maybe they wish they didn’t, is in the price at $1,330.

5.       Nikon D50 The 6 megapixel Nikon D5 lacks a few million picture elements compared to the other models on this list, and this certainly shows up in the image quality, but this model still provides some of the best image quality available for a digital SLR.  It has a flash range of 14 ft, weighs about 37 ounces and will take about 250 shots before you will need to use the included battery charger to once again charge the batteries you will buy.  With a light sensitivity range of 200-1600, you might occasionally find a difference between this model and the other five on the list, but only occasionally.  Nikon has included the same AF Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-55 mm lens as with the Nikon D200, but all at an amazing price of $580, the cheapest model on this list.

  Well that’s it for our hubs on digital cameras; we hope you found what you came here looking for and thank you for being with us today.  If you enjoyed these hubs we invite you to check out the additional hubs on a variety of products and subjects of interest to people living on this shrinking planet.

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It happens everyday in households around the world, your relaxing to your favourite album when your children start blasting hip-hop music around the house or on action-packed HD movie. Instead of resorting to a war of decibels, keep the peace around your palace by handing out sets of state of the art headphones to your little miracles.

We recommend trying headphones before buying them to judge the comfort as well as the sound quality for yourself. Online shoppers should be sure to check out return policies. Sites such as headroom.headphone.com and www.crutchfield.com have a wide selection and offer refunds within 30 days of purchase.

                                           Get the Message to You’re Customers 

  The wheels of a business are the customers that purchase its products, nothing happens until a sale is made.  The vehicle of your business is the mode of transport you use to get your message out to your potential customer in the global marketplace or your marketing plan for the more conservative type.  The biggest difference between you and your competition could be the number of potential customers you reach with your product message and not the quality of the product you sell.  If you’re not driving your business vehicle through the global marketplace everyday promoting your product to potential customers, your competitors are and their selling to consumers that could be buying from you, if you’re marketing-vehicle had been visible in the global marketplace to potential customers?  In today’s fast paced global economy the most visible product, the one that is seen by the most potential customers, is the one that will potentially sell to the most consumers, especially if were talking about the impulse buyer who is the target customer for many businesses on the global marketplace.

  People often ask me how much a small business trying to compete in the global marketplace should spend on the marketing-vehicle to make it effective, yet not to waste resources on over-marketing their product.  This is usually because they don’t understand how marketing works, why we market a product and have always conducted what we will refer to as ‘Shotgun Marketing’ for the purposes of this discussion.  ‘Shotgun Marketing’ is when you only purchase advertising when you are slow or when a media representative walks through the door and has been proven to be ineffective for businesses trying to compete on a global marketplace.

  There is no easy answer to the ‘how much’ question, different businesses need to spend varying amounts depending on customers buying habits, on how long they have been conducting business, and the marketing vehicles used by the competition.  The one consistent factor here is that customers buy when they want to, not when you want to sell them something, so it is more a facilitation of a consumers desire to buy when it appears and not because you have a product you want to sell. 

  Occasionally when trying to figure out if you need to spruce up your marketing vehicle, you can see warning signs on the side of the road as you drive along the global highway in search of customers.  If you see any of the four following signs on the road as you drive down the global highway, then you may need to stop by the media-shop to spruce up your vehicle for the coming battle with your competition.

1. If you are selling your product or services after you have lowered your price on the marketplace, then you need to find a better vehicle to reach your customers because they are only finding you because of the lower price advertised for your product.  This is certainly a short-term financial gain, but in the long run will erode a businesses ability to compete financially in a profit driven, highly-competitive, global economy.

2.       If you have to do sales gimmicks to get people to purchase your product, such as value-added incentives, free draws, or something that has nothing to do with the quality of the product.  Then you need to over-haul you’re marketing-vehicle to make it more visible to the available consumers looking for the product you have to sell, because your marketing plan isn’t reaching enough of the potential customers on the global marketplace looking for your product or service.

3.        Have you ever had a customer you dealt with for years say to you, “I didn’t know you sold those?  I didn’t know your company offered that service?  When did you start selling these, I’ve been looking for these for months?”  Or worse, find out a steady customer has been purchasing a product you sell from your competition for many years.  If this has happened to you or someone working in you’re business, then you need to re-evaluate the message you’re marketing vehicle is sending to your potential customers.  The plan your using isn’t reaching the potential customers available on the global marketplace and until you change the looking of the vehicle you use to transmit you’re message to the customer things aren’t going to get any better.

4.        Have you ever been to a cocktail party or networking function for your company and met someone who falls into your target audience demographics and hear them say, “I haven’t heard of your company?  This is a sign that you need to give you’re marketing vehicle a brand new paint job to attract the eye of the potential customer when they want to buy.

There are some guidelines used by marketing-gurus when they decide how much marketing their particular business or product requires.  For a chart of industry standards of percentage of gross income invested in marketing visit: www.wowcommunications.ca/m_buy.htm.  These are guidelines to give you an idea of what your industry is doing to market their products on the global marketplace.

Keep in mind that if you’re a start-up business, you generally don’t have an established reputation, and you will probably have to spend a bit more to get the message out to the world.  If you have been around for awhile it maybe time to create a fresh image for your product and company and to do this you will need to spend more on sprucing up the marketing vehicle you use to reach the potential customers for your product.  You should relate the amount you spend on marketing to how much your completion spends on their marketing vehicle?

Questions, questions, questions; in business if you don’t know, don’t guess.  Successful businesses selling in the global marketplace know there is too much riding on selling their product to rely on guesswork.

In our survey of cell-phone users, Verizon emerged from the pack in nearly every category in the 20 metropolitan areas surveyed, and this is as it has been for past surveys conducted. New kid on the block Alltel, a relatively small carrier that primarily serves the midsection of the country, is shortening the distance between them and Verizon every day and is emerging to be a serious contender for the title of best cell phone service provider. T-Mobile is also battling Verizon fiercely for the title and your shekels, having improved performance of their network in many areas.

Your phone network choices

                      And they said let there be options and more and more features to choose from

  Today’s flip-open cell phone was without doubt originally inspired by the creators seeing Captain Kirk pull his communicator from his back pocket and flip it open so he could say “Kirk to Enterprise, come in Enterprise”, in Star Trek (the most popular science fiction series in the history of television).  And just as Captain Kirk’s communicator could do more then just allow him to communicate, the cell phone/Smartphone that is so popular today comes with a bevy of possible additional features to excite and entertain users, depending of course on the model you buy and unfortunately how many shekels you have to spend.  Carriers have responded to the feature-rich windfall by launching a series of new fee-based services to rake in the golden trinkets for their corporate taskmasters.  Below we have listed some of the services you’re likely to run into if you’re buying your first cell phone or when you decide to trade your old cell phone in for one of the new space-age Smartphone’s.   Pricing will vary for the services because many services come as part of a bundle depending on the provider.  Almost all will require you subscribe to an extra-cost “data plan,” which includes Web access, in addition to your basic phone service.

  GPS-based location services, currently available only on certain high-end models, use a homing device located in the cell phone to track the phone’s whereabouts, allowing a lost person to be found or allowing a parent to locate their child.  The location is shown on the “parental” phone or a Web site in the form of a map.  The price of this service varies between $5 and $20 a month added to the cost of a plan and are available mostly from CDMA carriers, such a Spring (Family Locator); Disney Mobile, which uses Sprint’s network; and Verizon (Chaperone).

  A growing number of cell phone models today, mostly on CDMA networks, now have navigation systems providing real-time, turn-by-directions to any address based on their current GPS coordinates, like the ones we use while driving to keep from getting lost.  The location information is provided by third-party companies, such as MapQuest, to most of the major carriers providing this directions service.  There are a few carriers but two of the best are Verizon’s navigation service VZ Navigator and Cingular’s called TeleNav.  Cost of course will vary on the carrier and original plan but generally they charge between $5 and $10.

  Text messaging (also called SMS or short message service) has become by far the most popular cell phone feature outside of talking live to someone.   SMS allows you to tap-out a message on the phone’s keypad and send it to another cell phone.  Many older cell phones and almost all of the newer models have this feature included along with the accompanying fee.  Normally this is about ten cents a message, $5 a month for a basic plan, or up to $20 a month for unlimited text messages, depending on the plan and the provider.  In our survey of the plans available Sprint and T-Mobile both offer unlimited text messaging for $15 per month, not bad if you’re an incurable tapper.

  Today’s cell phones allow you to beautify text messages with photo’s, sounds, and 30-second video clips of your more adventurous moments.  Costs are actually pretty standard with all plans averaging about 25 cents per message.  The best deal we found was with T-Mobile, which doesn’t charge extra for multimedia messages if you already have a message package.

  Many of the older cell phones and almost all of the newer models produced today have web browsers, which are needed for e-mail or to access many services involving data transfers.  Cell phones are so popular many Web sites, including the search engines Google and Yahoo, automatically simplify their sites appearance for cell-phone based browsers.  In addition to text messaging, most wireless carriers provide access to instant messaging from AOL, MSN and Yahoo.  Costs vary from $6 to $20, depending on the carrier, for web access, 10 cents to send an e-mail message, and 5 to 10 cents to send an instant message.  We shopped around for the best deal for our greedy selves and ended up at T-Mobile, which offered us unlimited Web access for $6 a month.  Well that’s it for this hub, I have some surfing to do, so  join us next hub as we talk about a few things you should know before you go to our hub “The Best Web Browsing Cell Phones in the World” to find your new communicator.

Information on the sites you visit, what you buy, where you buy it, how you pay for it are like a golden-road to riches for users of spyware and adware.

  Spyware infections are down compared to past history according to surveys done by industry professionals including Consumer Reports; currently the chances that you currently have one on your system are about 1 in 3 and of suffering significant damage about 1 in 12.  Spyware and adware, programs downloaded to your computer by sites to track all your online activities for use by marketers planning how to get more of your shekels, still are rampant according to industry experts.  Experts say this is because the big advertisers still use distributors who install software that displays pop-ups on users’ computers.  Currently a class action suit against Yahoo alleges that Yahoo used spyware to show ads, but part of the case against this huge advertiser is in mediation and the final results aren’t in yet.

  In January of 2007, the New York State attorney General’s office finalized a deal with Priceline.com, Travelocity.com, and Cingular Wireless in which the three companies agreed to cease using ad distributors that install adware without adequate notice or consent.  The three companies had been using DirectRevenue, a service that the state attorney General’s office sued last year for such practices (the suit is still pending before the courts).

  According to legal officials spyware has been showing up at some sponsored links in search-engine results that you have most likely used.  McAfee, using its Site Advisor service, which identifies dangerous sites and notifies the user, recently, completed a study of such sites using the top five search engines and found that they led to more than twice a many dangerous sites than nonpaid results did.  The risks included spyware and scam sites with deceptive claims or bait-and-switch billing, used to obtain personal information on habits.

  Developers of anti-spy software are hitting back against the tide, but they also risk being sued by companies their product labels as spyware.  Recently Zango, an online ad distributor sued PC Tools for labelling their product as spyware, although the courts did deny Zango’s motion for a temporary restraining order.

  How can you protect your system against these invasions?  Make sure you always run a good anti-spyware program on your computer (check our the hubs to come on our picks for the best anti-spyware programs on the market), or even two or three programs since they shouldn’t interfere and will provide extra coverage in case one program doesn’t recognize the spyware.  In addition anytime you visit a site your not sure of, make sure to check with the FTC for violations by the site in question after visiting the site and if there is a problem immediately fix the problem and notify the FTC.

  The Federal Trade Commission has brought 11 spyware legal actions to the courts in the past two years against companies running spyware operations and big state-based legal actions have continued during the past year as well and the future will probably hold more of the same, at least until some of the more subjective legal issues are figured out.  The I-Spy Act, passed last spring by the U.S. House of Representatives, enhances the criminal penalties for spyware activities of culprits, such as downloading damaging programs not approved by the user, but we are still waiting for the vote on the bill to see if it passes.  

  The Spy act, approved by the House of Representative in June, requires opt-in practices and notice to the user to be given before implementation of spyware; it deals mainly with the civil penalties given to those not following the rules of conduct trying to be set up by concerned government officials.  The effectiveness of the bills is up for debate according to industry and legal officials and they don’t appear to be going in the right direction, but many industry officials think this maybe for the best in the end as they point to the fact that these bills could do more harm in the long run by validating business practices that are no good to consumers.

  Industry professionals aren’t sitting still as several initiatives are currently under way to help provide better security for the Internet and its users.  These include e-mail authentication programs used to verify the author of an e-mail and this spring, the Internet Engineering Task Force, which sets all the Internet standards and protocols, approved its first proposed authentication standard for the World Wide Web.

  Congress recently passed the U.S. Safe Web Act, giving the FTC more authority to work internationally to protect consumers using the net.  In anticipation of its up coming battle, the FTC even requested an increase in its consumer protection budget for the next year.

  While these additional initiatives will help make the Internet safer for all in the coming battle against advertisers in the years to come, most of the responsibility should fall on individual consumers to protect themselves.  If we take every step we can to make it harder for cybercriminals targeting us then they will look for easier marks, because they are always looking for the easy way to accomplish their goals.

  Well that’s it for this hub on spyware on the Internet, what we can do to combat it personally and how legal officials are attempting to prevent such attacks.  Join us next time as we will talk about social networks operating on the net and the risk they could pose to your progeny.  Until next time hubber, happy hubbing!