Mad Scotsman Publishing

First let me say a belated Merry Christmas to everyone, and to all a Happy New Year.

If you have been participating in any of the free giveaways that are going on this month, be sure to have your anti-virus up to date. So far I’ve come up with 3 files that contained either a trojan (2) or a worm (1). I don’t believe it was intentional on the part of the person giving the file away (2 different people, but not sure who exactly), but you can never be too careful.

You should be especially careful with executables. It’s way too easy for somebody to decompile your file and insert code that you don’t want in there.

That’s why I make ebooks in pdf format, they’re much easier to secure against tampering. Plus .exe ebooks seem to rely on being connected to the internet, and it’s really annoying to click on a link and find the site gone. So if you do ebooks, pdf’s are the way to go, because they can be used by anybody regardless of operating system.

New giveaways are coming up, I’ll update the page soon, so stay tuned for that. And Wordpress just released a new update. Apparently this one fixes a security exploit, so check your hosts in the next week to make sure you get the latest version. Or go the WP site to get it.

Just remember to check your files when you download them, or you’ll end up calling some guy like me, who’ll charge you $75.00 or more per hour to fix your system for you.

Once again I hope everyone has a Happy New Year, and here’s to all of us being successful.

Cheers,

J.R. Batson