Protect Your PC on the Road

Staying connected while on the road is essential for many travelers, business or otherwise.

However, it's hard to hold on to the good life when you pick up a computer virus on your journey.

Using a computer at the airport, in coffee shops, hotels or other public places can complicate your life, not save it, if unprotected wireless computing gets you or your business in hot water.

Travelers are especially ripe targets for computer bugs, as they hop from unprotected networks around the country or overseas.

Email, Email Everywhere

In this multitasking world, we don't always have the luxury of avoiding the office when traveling for business or pleasure. And if you're pounding the pavement for your company, staying connected is most likely a requirement of your job. Wireless web-connected devices -- laptops, Palm pilots, BlackBerrys, PocketPCs and cell phones -- are ubiquitous, giving us no excuse not be connected.

And that number is going to increase. Internet guru and Google (GOOG Quote) vice president Vint Cerf says the pervasiveness of Web-enabled devices will triple the number of worldwide Internet users from one billion to three billion by 2010. ...