Thank you for visiting, and happy computing!

Since I started learning computers in 1995 due to pressure of computers taking over jobs at the place I worked, I found that people like me needed help with thier computers as I did while I was learning and I pitched in where I could to help them with thiers.

The main place I helped at back then was at VOP http://www.voiceofthepublic.com which has since been reborn but is not the same site as it was back then.

Steve Gibson then started his OptOut program/utility and he "enlightened" the internet users of what we now call spyware and other names, before we called them uninvited problems and removed most manually. Steve Gibson retired his OptOut program and told users to seek out Urizen's (Nicholas Stark) AdAware program which was in it's infancy at the time but was a viable program. At the time, VOP hosted help forums to aid in the betterment of AdAware, then there was a rift betweeen AdAware and the owners of VOP. Lavasoft created thier own forums and site at that time.

This led to me helping with Lavasoft (owners of AdAware) for a while then building the TomCoyote website partially at the time to mirror Lavasoft while their site was constantly being bombarded and brought down due to attacks.
TomCoyote was created about that time frame
and the forums there also
Nick Coyote was my user name there

After parting company with Lavasoft I had helped a lot at SpywareInfo which is owned by Mike Healan, a friend that I have grown to know over the years we have been fighting these problems and I am still an admin at his forums. SpywareInfo Forums and my user profile there is located at:
my Nick there is Coyote.

After a while it became apparent we needed to do more to help users and train better people to help the users, while a user named cnm approached some with an idea to teach by personal message, I wanted to take this further and create a forum for learning so that many could learn and interact at once. So I opened the TomCoyote.org Classroom at TomCoyote and started private teaching with the help of selected volunteers whom saw this same benefit would help so many in the long run. After some success with this, it is now a trend that many have tried to take on at their own forums, some with success, others with less progress towards it however in the long run I think this will work across the internet for the betterment of all users.

I am also co-founder of ASAP, (Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals):

This venture started after my site got DDOS'ed off the internet and I figured along with Maddoktor2 that we should as forum and site owners band together and share information and resources to combat these problems hitting the anti-problem sites such as ours.
Nick Coyote, not sure if the general populas can see admin profiles there.

This has been a pretty good success on a lot of levels but there is still a lot more to grow with it as of yet.

As always I look for talent across the web and have helped quite a few people learn and grow into being viable helpers across the internet and some have gone on to build their own help sites.

Our main focus on all this is to help the user of the computer get past any of the problems of the internet, not just hijacks and slyware.

I also host chatrooms in which users can get help on posting and other problems as volunteers have time to answer questions:
Chatrooms at AntiSlyware

I have been awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the last two years now and I am proud to have gotten this award.