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Exposing Some Surprising Tech Myths

Nikole Smith-Toptas
By Nikole Smith-Toptas, Marketing Manager, CDI Managed Services

Think your Mac computer is safe from viruses? How about the recycle bin? Believe that whenever you empty it you’ve forever deleted files?

Think your Mac computer is safe from viruses? How about the recycle bin? Believe that whenever you empty it you’ve forever deleted files?

And then there’s private browsing; assume you can surf to any Web site on your company computer and never find yourself in trouble? If you’ve answered “yes” to these questions, then you’ve fallen for some of the more common technology myths.

Not hacker-proof

Caroline Moss, writing for Business Insider, recently published a column exposing some of the more common technology myths. And one of the most prevalent? That Mac computers are somehow virus-proof. The reality is that Macs can get viruses. And now that these computers are becoming widely used you can expect an increase in the number of hackers targeting Apple’s operating system.

The recycle bin

You’d assume that moving a file to your computer’s recycle bin then emptying the bin would definitely permanently delete that file. You’d be wrong. Doing this frees up the space that your file had used up on your hard drive. But it still leaves fragments behind that, Moss writes, can be restored.

Less private than you think

Then there’s private browsing, which is less private than you might think. Just because you’ve told your browser to go incognito doesn’t mean the Web sites you visit are not recording details from your stay.

And whenever you download files when in private-browsing mode, these files will remain on your hard drive when you return to regular browsing mode.

Nikole Smith-Toptas

Nikole Smith-Toptas, Marketing Manager, CDI Managed Services

Nikole Smith-Toptas, marketing manager, CDI Managed Services, is a seasoned sales and marketing professional with over two decades of experience in business and project development, training program management, customer service and managing multi-functional work teams. She is an avid participant in sales training courses, workshops and seminars that helps her keep current with business trends. She also hosts Silver Lining in the Cloud, an Internet live streaming talk show featuring business executives discussing the challenges and solutions in the B2B sales cycle. As a member of numerous local professional organizations and various women’s executive networks, Nikole believes that building a strong contact network ensures business success. Her goal to impact an organization’s productivity for long term gain is bolstered by her vision of bringing purpose to a team in order, to foster healthy and productive relationships. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering at children’s hospitals, senior centers and bible study groups. Nikole and her husband Mike have been married for 15 years and live in Johns Creek, GA. Together they enjoy traveling, fishing and developing new cuisines from their vegetable garden.

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