This article is dedicated to my friend Pam Rock in NC, who each year calls me so I can walk her through a major clean up of her computer. In the early 2000s, I helped Pam redecorate her office and back up her computer. She had purchased a new computer and had yet to use it. She needed her files backed up (and deleted) ecause she was going to give her old computer to an employee. It turned out that the computer had at least 4 years of files on it – none of which was in any sort of order. And nothing had ever been backed up! EGADS. So I went to work cleaning out

Two years ago a laptop was stolen from a NYS agency that included my personal information. For months I didn’t know it had happened — not until they sent me a letter. And to rectify the problem months after an article hit the newspapers about the theft, the agency paid for 1 years membership for thousands of people to monitor our credit reports, costing them thousands upon hundreds of thousands of dollars. You’ve probably heard of other situations like this; maybe your information was taken, lost or “whatever”. With more of us dragging around our laptops AND with so many home businesses AND with acts of God happening more and more, it’s possible you’ll loose all