Anyone who uses the internet for any use, even one as basic as email, shopping, or conducting a business, needs to utilize an effective and up to date antivirus and spyware monitoring system to protect their personal, business and financial data. Although credit card theft is the number one form of identity theft, computer theft crimes rank in the top five dangers of identity theft.

There are three main ways that identity theft can occur from your internet usage:

-Phishing. You receive an email from one of the more well known online services or your bank, warning you with the message that your bank or other account may have been compromised, then asking you to clink a link and “log-in” If you follow those instructions, you end up providing a third party with your account information and access. I have most often received this type of message from a group alleging to be “PayPal,” however I have also received it from an entity pretending to be a local credit union.

-Spyware: You may not even know that this is on your computer without a spyware detection system. This software is used to record keystrokes to obtain either personal and financial information whenever you shop or bank online. It can also be used to access confidential information on your hard drive.

-Spoofing: A legitimate internet site will be “hi-jacked”, redirecting people to a fake internet site where they are asked to provide confidential information.

It is important when shopping for your anti virus software to make sure that it contains protection against these dangers and includes regular updates. One of the many antivirus systems currently available is PC Security Shield 2008. This system, like many others, offers: anti virus, spyware and adware protection, personal firewall, automatic daily updates, your choices of real time, and/or scheduled scanning, as well as parental controls. You may complete your purchase of the software online or via telephone and then download the anti virus software to your personal computer.

However, what is unique about this service is:

1. You may purchase your service either monthly or yearly; with most services you must purchase one full year.

2. If a virus does occur, Security Shield provides a “patch” within 2-3 hours and a complete repair of the virus within 5 hours. According to PC Professionals Security Shield, using F-Secure technology responds 3-4 times faster in repairing viruses as well as updates customer’s service with the latest antivirus protection “twice” as often as other anti virus software systems. (PC Professionals, Issue Aug. 2006)

3. The software uses a Bayesian filter as well as a “blacklist” of sites that send unsolicited email for use in phishing schemes and stores these emails in a separate folder for your safety.

4. With the PC Security Shield 2008 Parental Control features, parents can not only block web sites that contain specific content, such as pornography, weapons or drugs, but they can also set specific times of day when the internet may not be used. This is especially important for those late nights or directly after school when parents may not be present.

5. No additional or hidden charges for the technical support services assistance, in contrast to other businesses whose anti virus programs charge an additional amount to correct virus or spyware damage either per minute or per event.

Technical support for this system includes an online product guide, instant chat, email and telephone support as well as a Frequently Asked Questions site. However, the telephone support does not have a toll free number. The chat online support responds quickly, however you should have your product codes available. My hold time via telephone support was a little more than 5 minutes, which is longer than I would like to hold, but I have held longer for utilities and cable. Be sure to check the website for system requirements; however, they seem to be the standard for any anti virus software system that you may be considering for purchase.

The cost for this service is currently $39.99/year after a $20.00 mail in rebate. The rebate is offered after 90 days of service and after ending your pre-existing anti virus software support with any one of those listed by PC Security Shield. You may also purchase a monthly service program for $5.99 a month for one computer or $9.99 a month for up to three computers.

My favorite feature with this service is not only the ability to control web content, but also the ability to change the times that my children are permitted to be on the web according to my schedule. The other feature of note personally, is that it protects emails from spy ware, phishing, and key logging types of emails through two different services, the one being up to date research and the other by compiling a log of “bad” sites that may attempt to hi jack your personal information.

To purchase this service, you simply register online, choose either monthly or a yearly subscription, confirm your purchase via email, obtain your key code and download your anti virus software system. Setting your preferences is intuitive; however, the online chat is quite helpful in providing direction.

This may be an anti virus software program most likely of interest to parents, especially with the offers of multiple computer coverage, no additional charges for technical support and the excellent extended parental controls. It protects your PC and personal data from theft, making it worth considering.

It is now possible to relax at home and carry out all your shopping from the house. There are a number of online stores out there that have been kind enough to allow people to shop from the comfort of their homes. Some of the online stores are mentioned below and you can also read through some of the best online shopping reviews to guide you on how to shop smartly online.

Shopping online is actually advantageous for many reasons. If you are busy or stay far away from the actual stores you want to buy from; you could consider online shopping. It is quite faster than actual shopping, you get to pick anything you want from that shopping site, and finding any item you want is fast and efficient. From some places on the net, you can view other people’s reviews on certain products from the best shopping reviews online.

You can keep in mind that using this shopping method, you do not have to wait in any till line. Remember that all products from any shop you want are also online, and that the prices are usually the same if not lower. When buying online, you are usually also required to pay online. Luckily these days, there are so many ways in which we could pay online, you use one that you think suits you best.

With online shopping, there is no one to persuade you into buying something that you do not want, you can change an order whenever you want, and you shop for as long as you like. This is a good way of shopping.

Some of the places that offer online shopping are Amazon.com, Shopzilla.com, Thefind.com and many others. These places have their own reviews regarding the best shopping reviews online.

Let us look at Amazon for instance, it is a comparison and review website which is ideal for shopping online. You can compare and review the prices of products and their quality against each other. It has great shipping policies and shipping rates. The only disadvantage is that shipping is charged per purchase even when being delivered to the same address. There is no discount for bulk purchases on shipping.

Thefind.com is also another comparison and review site that you can use when buying online. It also has discount coupons that you can use for purchases. They have a number of promotions and competitions that they run with the buying of certain products. If you are lucky just buying a product qualifies you to enter a competition. With Thefind.com you can actually save your shopping for future purchases if you do not want to purchase immediately. The disadvantage that it has is that it does not have clear shipping rates and policies.

The other online shop mentioned is Shopzilla.com. This one merely connects customers to a number of online retailers who have the product that a customer is looking for. The good thing is that you can compare the price of a single product available from a number of different shops. The disadvantage is that you are not able to track any of your orders or purchases once you have placed an order.

Other shops that you can also use in addition to these are Overstock.com and Onewayshopping.com.

Diana, Princess of Wales was born on July 1st, 1961 and died on 31st August, 1997. Princess Diana was an international style icon of the 1980s. Her looks and her life were the reflection of consistent work she did on herself as well as the development of her personality. As she matured, she became more attractive. She was indeed the most photographed woman in the whole world.

Things that she wore including her shoes, handbag, jewelry and hat were commented on. She had established a contemporary and appropriate style of royal dressing. Before, Princess Di’s engagement, her dress style and make up style was not sophisticated. As a young England Kindergarten assistant, she wore clothes that suited her position and made her feel comfortable. After her engagement, things took a different turn and her image became traditional and very British. In the beginning, it was difficult for her to follow what kind of clothes she was expected to wear and was often criticized for her dressing style.

Slowly, she found her way into a new world of ceremonial costumes, occasion dressing, coordinated shoes, tiara, hats and handbags. She used to take advice and help from the deputy editor of Vogue and experiment with new designers. Her public life in the beginning was too coordinated and she even mentioned, “Clothes are not my priority.” Having learnt to master the art of dressing, Diana became conscious of dressing. She wore bright and cheerful clothes whenever she visited children at the hospital. She felt that wearing such bright and cheerful colors had positive effect on the children. Over a period of five years, she wore those colorful clothes frequently to hospitals as she knew children loved those colors very much. What made Diana popular was her modern approach towards life. She had the ability to appear chic and cool even in the simplest attire.

Things began to change after her divorce as she became an independent woman. She added a different sense to her fashion style and started wearing designer clothes including Valentino, Versace, John Galliano, Lacroix and Ungaro. Her new image was that of a young and confident woman. Her sense of style was shining and everything about her dress sense and body language pointed to a self confident woman in total control of her life. Her use of color became subtle and her hairstyle changed to modern and sophisticated. Diana had a style, a star quality that was natural.

The company was founded in 1985 when it was taken over by Frank Sloot who got rid of the previous company and name and brought the company’s product line into compliance with FDA regulations. The company is now one of Idaho’s largest privately owned companies. The company has established the Melaleuca Foundation, which is currently supporting an orphanage in Quito, Ecuador. So I can see that the company has a caring heart.

Melaleuca is also the name of a type of plant that has an essential oil called Ti tree (aka tea tree). Some people misspell it as “melaluca” or “malaluca”. I have used tea tree oil products for many years on my horses as a topical treatment since it has great natural antibacterial and antifungal effects. Tea tree oil can be purchased from most any drug store or pet store for just a few dollars. One interesting fact is that the melaleuca plant is a valued plant in Australia and Hawaii, but is an invasive weed in some areas such as Florida where it is costing the state of Florida hundreds of thousands of dollars to try and remove.

The Melaleuca Wellness Company line of products includes over 300 items. These items include household cleaners, personal care items, candles, hygiene products, nutritional products, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. The company claims to have great environmentally friendly products.

Products

First let me state that this review is NOT a scientific review of the Melaleuca products.

I don’t doubt that the Melaleuca Company is a great company and that they have some really nice products that are better than your average drug store products. I do not think that Melaleuca is a fraud or a scam. I just do not feel that their dietary supplements are for me and my family. Even EPA certified environmentally safe does not mean that a product is biologically safe. A past university pharmacy professor of mine once said that “what is safe for the environment can sometimes be extremely toxic to humans.”

When I looked at the ingredient list for the Melaleuca health supplements, I saw some chemicals that made me cringe. Each supplement that I looked at the label of, including even their children’s health product line, had bad or even toxic chemicals. I saw ingredients such as

sucralose (not to be confused with sucrose) fructose silicon dioxide ! chromium chloride !
Chromium Chloride is so toxic that it is on the Hazardous Substance List! It is known to exhibit genotoxic, mutagenic, teratogenic (reproductive hazard) effects on the body. If you check the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for chromium chloride you can find it has a LD50, referring to its lethal dose in order to kill 50% of a mouse population in studies. So could their child vitamin kill your kid if your kid got into the bottle and ate too much?

Silicon dioxide is found in many supplements from any store. It is not “toxic”, but I found it interesting that ALL of the supplement labels for Melaleuca that I looked at…had this ingredient. Even the kids products had this ingredient. Silicon dioxide is the chemical name for SAND, just as sodium chloride the chemical name for salt. Now silicon dioxide is not harmful, but I don’t understand why the need to put it into all of their products. One interesting fact about silicon dioxide is that it is the active compound in scouring cleaners, and is also used to make computer chips and many kinds of glass as well.

While I was on the Melaleuca official website, I found that they have a letter that lists the products that do not contain any ingredients found on the prohibited substance list published by the World Anti-Doping Code. Since not all of the products were listed, it means that in some of their supplements they do use ingredients that are on the World Anti-Doping prohibited substance list. This does not necessarily mean that those supplements will kill you, but if it is internationally illegal for an Olympic athlete to use some of the Melaleuca supplements, then that should say something.

Business Opportunity

Their compensation plan was not for me. Among many companies, I looked into Melaleuca at one time as a possible money making opportunity so that I could earn a residual income, since so many people are looking for ways to work from home. But when I found out that you have to have over 2500 people in your organization in the Melaleuca Company in order to make a six figure income, I lost interest in the business opportunity immediately.

I found another opportunity to work from home that pays a whole lot more for my time and is a lot easier for ordinary people to do successfully.

My Conclusion

I can safely say that Melaleuca nutritional supplements were not for me and my family. I found a better supplement that I am extremely happy with. I have friends that use the Melaleuca products and I feel that the Melaleuca vitamins are better than your health food store vitamins and minerals, but I know that there are better out there. Why not use the very best?

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