FROM THE WEBMASTER - May 2010

2010-05-18T14:56:00.000-07:00

Congratulations! The SWIAHU Website is a very successful pres-ence for SWIAHU. During the month of April (4/1-4/29), the web-site received 3,597 hits! It’s interesting to note that users visiting our site are predominately Windows users. 63.7% of visitors are using a version of Windows Vista, while 30.1% are using XP. MacIntosh users account for .8% of visits…and believe it or not, there are still (a few) people using Windows Me and Windows 95. As far as browsers are concerned, a majority of our visitors use Mozilla Firefox (60.3%) while Microsoft IE is second (38.1%). Computer security is a primary concern for all that surf the web. Doing some recent research, I have determined that I will no longer be using McAfee as my anti-virus software. In addition to the fact that it is not free, it is a total resource hog, slowing your computer down and offering no better protection than other options. After I looked at several options, including Avast (http://www.avast.com/index) and the old stan-dard free version of AVG (http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage), I have settled on Microsoft Secu-rity Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/) for both desktop and laptop anti-virus. So far, MSE is very transparent and runs seamlessly in the background. If you decide this is a good option for you, be sure to download it from the official site (linked above). As always, if you have suggestions for improvements or changes to your website, pass your ideas along to info@swiahu.org and we’ll see what we can do.

SWIAHU is now blogging!

2009-12-22T11:06:00.000-08:00

Now you can make your voice be heard in our little world.