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Every year during Iditarod I seem to get a computer bug or two while jumping around from site-to-site and page-to-page seeking information and having fun while enjoying the race. This year seems to be ripe for malware with all the "controversies" being bandied about.

I now plan to update and run all of my computer security programs, back up my files to an external source, run windows update, etc. -- then reboot to a "clean" start (as clean as I can make it).

I will attempt to avoid unknown sources and "stories" posted by unknown sources no matter how tantalizing and inviting the "headline" may be.

TXbennett

That sound like a very good idea and something that should be done on all times!

I have that problem also tx, every year so my DH says. so this year he took my computer to a friend who fixes these things and he said it was clean, so if I get something now I'll know it came from following the race.

The worst I had it is the one year when the one Iditarod Rookie (he scratched his rookie year though) went over and did real well in a Russian dogsled race - I got the big bad virus trying to click all over the Russian websites finding information on that race!

John

WATCH OUT for click bait trolls with enticing captions and/or photos. I think there may be even more trolling with malware this year by some anti-dog-racing fanatics targeting dog-race-fans.

TXbennett