Rick Burns

My name is Rick Burns. I have been involved in computer repair, software development and consulting, and general computing for 25 years. I have been around since the days of the Radio Shack TRS-80, TI-99, Commodore 64, and all of the others which eventually blossomed to the PC which we know today. While it has been exciting to see the rapid developments and enhancements in technology in just the past few years, it has also frustrated me to see the amount of hackers, crooked corporations, and rank amateurs exploiting the security of others' computers by developing spyware, viruses, and trojans. As a result of this, I changed my focus a couple of years ago to PC security software consulting and development, and I chose to only focus on this genre so as to help new computer users avoid a huge headache in dealing with these rogue programs which can kill a computer's performance and functionality in a short period of time.