The Sick Day

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Amber Whitener

This has all the makings of a classic home movie:

✔ pj’s,
✔ bad hair,
✔ a stuffed elephant,
✔ and nose picking all in 3 minutes.

LOL, enjoy. ♥

Video diary from: October 30, 2009.

This is the first video I edited with Microsoft Movie Maker. It was pretty easy to use, but I got quite generic amateur results with it. I’ll try something new next time.

This excerpt is from the new virtualitassistants youtube channel:

Even when you are a work at home parent, you will probably have to work when you’re a little under the weather. However, when your kid is sick, you don’t have to send them to preschool sick. Bubba only had a small fever, but it got up to 101.8 the day before. The beauty of working out my own hours is, he could stay home and get better. And don’t worry, he did get to go trick or treating the next day after 24 hours of being fever free.

IP Address Spoofing

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Amber Whitener

IP Address spoofing will probably not be used in the scanning attacks where the attacker may need to see replies.

IP Address spoofing could definitely be used when you can compromise another computer on the victim’s network. By the time the victim traces the attack to the compromised computer, the attacker with have left after covering their tracks.

Distributed DoS attacks is a good example.

How Does a Worm Re-Infect a Computer?

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Amber Whitener

a.) If proper precautions weren’t taken to remove the worm from any servers the computer connects to, and then as soon as the computer connects to the reconnected server it could be re-infected again.

b.) It’s possible that another piece of malware reinstalls the files upon reboot.

c.)The other possibility is that you had not in fact removed all pc files that were infected with the worm.

This was a team question, I, Kat, Jake, and Ellen answered this one for you.

On a side note: Help Net Security does a decent job of writing a monthly top ten list of malware threats.

Immune System: The Defenders

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Amber Whitener

Content originally from the web address: http://www.thehumanbody.ecsd.net/immune_system.htm (I edited this content very little, because it was great to begin with. I was sad to have seen that the site was down. Last checked 9-27-2011)

The Immune System: The Defenders

by Emmett Underhill

The main job of the immune system is to protect our body from foreign invaders. The immune system does this by sending out different types of cells that kill germs.

What are germs?

Germs are bacteria, fungi, parasites, or viruses that make us sick. The cells of the immune system can usually protect us from them.

These are germs:

germs

Viruses

Bacteria

How do the immune system cells protect us?
1. Special cells called neutrophils and macrophages can eat and destroy germs.
This is called Phagocytosis.

In this picture, a large Macropyhage cell on top, comes down and surrounds and then starts to eat two germ cells.

Phagocytosis

2. Special cells called lymphocytes can attach to and kills virus infected cells. In this picture, the smaller lymphocyte on the bottom is killing the bigger cell.

MISSING PHOTO

What does the immune system look like?

These cells are produced in our bone marrow, thymus, and spleen and circulate in our blood stream looking for invaders.

MISSING PHOTO

Resources

Books:
- Cell Wars by Dr. Fran Balkwill & Mic Rolph published in 1991 by HarperCollins Pulbishers
Internet:
- No longer a valid link as is – > newscenter.cancer.gov/sciencebehind/immune
- www.cellsalive.com
Video:
- The Magic School Bus – Inside Ralphie

WLAN Security

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Amber Whitener

When a small business asks me for my professional advice on setting up WLAN security, I will advise them to use the more secure WPA technology when setting up their wireless network.

WPA offers a highly secure authentication mode and a less expensive but less secure pre-shared key mode. I would make sure they knew to limit access to most network resources.

I would advise larger companies (e.g. government, large corporations) to implement a Virtual Private Network connection to access the specific services and resources needed.

Reflect and Move On

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Amber Whitener

The September Work Smart Challenge at Work at Home Parents on facebook was:

Before the holidays creep up on you, your challenge is to FIND ONE TASK (or more if you’d like) that you are responsible for completing and find a way to AUTOMATE that task. Whether it be activating that free automated bill pay service that your bank provides with your checking account, or taking advantage of that appointment application that has always been on your cell phone to keep track of your dentist and hair appointments. Just find something that will make your life easier and do it. Working smart is all about forming good habits.

Discoveries that will hopefully to make life easier:

Researching Voice Recognition Software: Get voice recordings transcribed into text versions.

YouMail.com – subscription for the first 10-15 seconds per voicemail is 3.99 per month, and if you want the entirety of each voicemail transcribed it’s 6.99 per month. Each subscription is limited to 50 voicemails
Jott.com offers 40 full voicemail transcriptions to text for 9.95 per month.
MessageSling vs. YouMail – An older post at lifehacker.com compares these 2.

What is so cool about this exactly? My thoughts are: brainstorming. When I have a great idea for a blog post or even hear about something that I want to research, I either have to write it down on a piece of scrap paper (and then probably lose it), call myself and leave myself a voicemail or text myself and my cellphone is kinda past it’s prime and txting isn’t exactly easy. So inevitably I have to type it out later anyways right? Not if I have a good service that will do the typing and the saving for me! – So, that was my answer to the worksmart challenge.

September is over. Happy October!

Misc Work Smart Side Note: Learn Keyboard Shortcuts:
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Linux

The Virtual Assistant Journal

Yearly Archives: 2009

The Sick Day

IP Address Spoofing

How Does a Worm Re-Infect a Computer?

Immune System: The Defenders