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7 Tips to Secure Your Home Computer

January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · How To Keep Secure, Security

Computers have become such an important part of our lives – for accessing information, keeping in touch with friends and family, shopping, working, and other activities – that it’s easy to overlook the risks of using them. We rely on computers so much that many of us neglect the importance of PC security to keep [...]

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Beginner’s Guide on Computer Formatting and OS Installation

January 18th, 2011 · No Comments · How To Setup, Maintain Windows

Whenever a new user or beginner thinks of computer format, or wants to format their pc manually, they might have many questions arising in their mind during the process of formatting and installation of new operating system in their PC. Here I would like to explain some highly important things about computer format and OS [...]

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How to Know My Computer Has a Virus

November 9th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Keep Secure

A virus attack on home computers these days is actually more of a rare occurrence than it used to be. A virus will easily infect a computer, if that computer has no anti virus protection or a very new type of infection is released on the internet, then picked up by your unprotected computer. Unless [...]

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The Different Types of Computer Viruses

October 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Security

The reason that viruses are constantly floating around the Internet is their ability to replicate themselves. They can make copies of themselves in various types of data files. A virus may start harming your computer the moment that the file that it has corrupted is executed. This can cause serious damage to your computer although [...]

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Computer Viruses – A Major Digital Headache

October 12th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Keep Secure

There are so many things you have to watch out for when you’re online, and one of the worst of those is the good old computer virus. Now that broadband Internet is almost everywhere it’s making things a lot easier for viruses to get to your computer quickly. This is why it’s very important to [...]

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Why Your Computer is Running Slow and How to Fix it Quickly

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments · How To Maintain

It is really boring and annoying if you find your computer is no longer as good as when you first used it. When your computer show signs that it took time before your windows can be booted, then your PC is suffering from “Computer running slow syndrome”. There are several reasons why your computer is [...]

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What is a Hybrid Virus?

June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Security

Sometimes referred to as a multipartite virus, the hybrid virus is one of the more difficult types of computer virus to bring under control. Essentially, the hybrid virus will combine elements of other virus programs in a new combination that will often slip past protections that would stop the original component viruses. Generally, a hybrid [...]

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What Is a Polymorphic Virus?

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Security

A polymorphic virus is a computer virus which is capable of mutating itself when it replicates, making it more difficult to identify with ordinary antivirus software. To effectively find such viruses, antivirus software needs to have more complex algorithms available to help it identify distinctive patterns which can betray the presence of a virus even [...]

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