If you're outfitting a student with a new computer for the coming school year, don't forget to keep it protected. A good friend of ours learned firsthand just how important this is. 
When she graduated high school, my husband knew that her mom was helping her shop for a new laptop. He told them that we were going to give her a graduation gift, but that she'd receive it right before she headed off to school.
The week before her departure, we invited her over to receive her gift. We purchased a subscription to a good antivirus service, and my husband installed it on her computer. Each year until she graduated, we renewed the service.
That gift paid off the second she arrived on campus. She unpacked her laptop and plugged it in to her dorm room's internet connection. Within minutes she was happily surfing the internet. At the same time, nearly every other freshman on her floor had a brand-new laptop full of brand-new viruses.
Make sure that when your student arrives on campus, he's protected with a good antivirus subscription--and make sure he knows how to regularly update it.
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