Scared? Insecure? NEVER!

Happy Halloween!

… And for those of you who don’t celebrate Halloween, happy last-Friday-of-the-month!

It can still be a spooky last-Friday-of-the-month, right? Even without celebrating Halloween. Spooky but happy, we can do that.

Speaking of spooky, and according to my sources, file insecurity is ulser-iffic!

After reading different articles around the web, it seems to me as though we have a rather wide range in views regarding data and Internet security. Some people are secure, some people are not. Some people think the Internet is great, and some people are too busy pulling their hair out, fearing that Internet Explorer is going to magically deliver their bank account numbers to homeless people on the other side of the planet.  No, these hairless people aren’t extremists; just extremely-scared-ists.

But we, on the other hand, are secure and sane humans, are we not?

Of course we are. We are Mac users and we can run Windows as safely as we can run OS X. We have free Kaspersky protection included with our Parallels Desktop software. That means any time you boot into Windows using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you won’t just benefit from running two operating systems at once, you’ll benefit from the full protection Kaspersky grants you against viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware by scanning all of your Internet traffic and stored files, including all e-mail attachments.

If that weren’t enough, Parallels Desktop also lets you take snapshots just in case you feel like tinkering with your Windows system. I’m sitting next to tech support right now and apparently a gentleman on the line thought it would be fun to install .NET Framework 3.0 during an electrical storm. Good news is:

    1) He survived the lightning.

    2) The Mac is still in one piece.

    3) He made a snapshot in Parallels Desktop last Monday.

Within 10 minutes he was as right as rain (minus the charged ions), all thanks to his snapshot restore.

Lastly, as many of you know our latest version, Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, is in the works. I can’t tell you much about it right now, but let’s just say if the version 3.0 software package were the equivalent of a steel door of file security, the version 4.0 package is a steel door with a steel beam across it, and an eight foot tall Ogre guarding from the outside.

Yes, there’s even a doorbell for the trick-or-treaters.