Blogging from the Bog

   The depths of winter will soon be upon us as November comes to a close, the daylight hours will continue to dwindle for still another month, and already the leaves have abandoned the trees here in the bog.

   Most cultures in the Northern Hemisphere mark the dark season of the year with some sort of event or celebration in either a spritual or natural way and have done so throughout the millenia.  Many of us today will spend time this season visiting friends and family, exchanging greetings cards and gifts, enjoying the fruits of the year’s labour, and looking forward to the rebirth of nature in the spring.

   A lot of us will also spend more time on the PC and Internet over the winter months what with emails, blogs, social networking, online poker, and alas even work for those of us that cannot hibernate like Grizzly bears.  Usually each winter I also contract at least one monster cold or virus that turns me into a bear for at least a week or two.  With all the online communicating going on this winter there are other viruses to watch out for…the computer ones.

   There are few in CyberSpace that have less knowledge than me when it comes to things technical; but, you don’t have to be a physician either to know the effects of pneumonia.  A dear friend of mine is struggling with one such virus now, it is called  NewDotNet and it is raising havoc with her Word documents.  I also found on Charnell’s blog a post about the Storm Worm virus which is a curiosity in that it causes no apparent harm to your pc but it is slowly accumulating millions of linked computers into it’s network and apparently under it’s control.  What would they do?  What could they do, with millions of linked up computers?

   One vector for the Storm Worm is through blogging and another is EGreetings cards so be careful this winter, drink lots of fresh juice and pay attention to suspicious emails and blog entries!