Reflecting back on MEIT 510

This class has been a little of a learning experience for me. When I first started the class I was a little intimidated because I'm not a teacher and I feel I have to work harder than others.  Whenever I met with my teammates, I felt comfortable, I was not as nervous and I have been in the past, well when I first started this course.  But to reflect on this class, I remember doing some of this work in my undergraduate studies for my major in computer science.  I did learn more about Ubuntu and Slax.  I don't recall learning about those two operating systems in my undergrad course.  Doing the under the hood project was fun for me! I enjoyed doing that five years ago, it brought back memories.  I found watching Triumph of the nerds video interesting.  I think it's crazy that I never heard of those videos before.  This class had a lot of work to do, but it was well worth it.

Triumph of the Nerds and Social Network

Happy Monday All...

So this weekend, Saturday I decided to relax and enjoy some "me" time.  While my daughter is away and it was a beautiful day I ordered "The social network" on demand.  I started laughing while watching the movie because it reminds me of and assignment we had to do in our MEIT 510 class.  When I watched the last version of Triumph of the Nerds I thought it was interesting to find out that people that artist were stealing ideas.  That's the same thing that happened here in The Social Network. They said that Mark from facebook stole some guys ideas from school.  I just think that's crazy how people say it's stealing.  What he did was take their idea but made it better and added a lot more to it.  They called Mark the next Bill Gates and he's the youngest billionaire.  I believe he's the next Bill Gates.

I just thought that was interesting to me.

:::.....Security......:::

This week in class we talked about Internet security.  I watched all the videos that the professor in our class offered us to watch.  It talked about why security is important, and how to check to see if your computer is safe/free from viruses.  If you would like to check it out yourself, here's the link to it.  To run the audit on your computer to see if it's virus free we used this link as well.  I ran the audit on my mom's computer and I can't wait to go home to find out the results.  When I was walking out the house, heading to work, so far she had one infection that required attention.  I thought that was funny because she currently has Norton 360 on her computer.  I came with the conclusion that either my mom has not ran her audit check using Norton or Norton is failing.  I think it's nice for Microsoft and other companies to provide free services to check your computer. 

Security is a really high risk when working with computers. There are plenty of ways to detain people's information. I actually seen those (rogue) type of messages on the home and work computer. It's very freaky how it happens. They are forcing themselves to copy one of your hard drives on your computer and downloading the fake "anti-software". I say fake because they are getting all of your information that's on your hard drive, but they tell you your computer is at risk and they are downloading the latest security on your computer.   It's very disturbing and scary. Sometimes you may become eerie about going on certain sites and you don't know if it contains a virus or not, if it's real or fake. The first thing I learned in high school about malicious malware and viruses, was to check for spelling. I have noticed if you read it very fast you won't notice it.

I remember I became a individual of fraud from a fake google offer. I received a job offer that told me to go to this google website and fill out the application. You must pay $25 dollars to start and you will receive a packet in the mail. (It was a work from home offer with Google). I was desperate for a better job, just graduating from college and working for Google would be a great dream coming true and a great company to work for. I remember hearing something or seeing something about it being fake. I couldn't sleep that night either, I kept telling myself something is not right about that ad. I called my bank the next day and they cancelled that pending transaction and also sent me out a new card with a new number. It was a scam that was going around. I was terrified about it. The computer I was using didn't have any protection on it either. I blame myself for that incident though. You will experience it one day, but don't be surprise when it happens. Hopefully you will be prepared for it.