Regardless of who you speak to, everyone has either had a laptop virus or knows of somebody who has more experienced the agony of making an attempt to get rid of the problem. Computer viruses are a hot topic that seem to have an effect on everyone who owns a pc system, whether or not [...]
A bot is a crucial factor that a laptop uses when on the Internet. A bot is an application that works to run automated activities for maintenance and protection when the user is on the Internet. There are some instances of where bots can be dangerous. Therefore, how will you tell if your pc is [...]
Protecting Against A Power Surge: Your computer is an expensive investment; you should protect it from a power surge. If a sudden rush of electricity hits, a surge protector will blow the fuse or trip the breaker, this is what saves your computer. You should be sure to use a surge protector with a phone [...]
Now that spyware is the single most dangerous threat to home computers connected to the internet today, getting your hands on some sort of spyware and adware protection is critical. Spyware has outpaced computer viruses in its prevalence, and in the kind of damage it can do to your system. If you plan on using [...]
The most important things you can do for your computer right now is to install adware and spyware blockers. Everyone is aware of computer viruses and run an anti-virus program to guard your computer against them. But only a fraction of computer users are running any kind of adware and spyware blockers software. It is [...]
While several preventive maintenance software manufacturers offer free trials for their products before charging a fee, some companies offer their products for free. Free preventive maintenance software is rare, and is sometimes less thorough than software that must be purchased, but it can be a good solution for a new or struggling business. Often a [...]
If you are reading this thinking that in this article we are going to discuss “computer viruses” don’t read further. “Viral Systems and Technologies” have nothing to do with any computer virus though the “underlying event” that causes both of them to spread is almost the same. So first, to the uninitiated, we should explain [...]
Glieder (Win32.Glieder.AK), Fantibag (Win32.Fantibag.A) and Mitglieder (Win32.Mitglieder.CT) are not names of a modern day version of The Three Musketeers. These are Trojans engineered for a hacker attack that will infect computers and open them for use in further attacks. “Combating computer viruses is essentially a game of hide and seek,” says Govind Rammurthy, CEO, MicroWorld [...]
In recent days, I was one of the unfortunate persons to receive the “Mydoom” worm emails. Not just one, but at least forty appeared in my popserver mailbox. As frustrating as it was deleting all of these nasty little boogers, I realized that some of these “worm” emails even came from persons I knew – [...]
