The Different Types of Computer Viruses & What They Can Do
A common misuse of the term viruses lately has been used to refer to malware or spyware programs. However, computer viruses are malicious programs which are created with the sole intent of disrupting the operation of a computer.
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Security Malware and Your Computer
Computers are practically in every aspect of our lives these days and our reliance on them is heavy. They are used as tools for work, data storage, schoolwork, shopping, and entertainment. Because so much information is typically stored on our computers we must always make sure they are protected from that loss of information. Businesses [...]
Computer Security Measures and Vigilance
Nowadays, countless people depend on computers for executing their work, home assignments and for creating or storing essential information. Hence, it is of the utmost importance for this computer information to be carefully stored and well maintained. Besides, it is equally imperative for people using computers to protect them from probable data loss, abuse and [...]
Optimizing Startup Files
Introduction: Windows XP is a faster booting operating system compared with Microsoft’s previous releases. But after some days the booting time of the system increases due to increase in start-up files and services. Start-up files and services are the background processes which are executed during system booting. Some of these start-up files are daemon applications [...]
Recovering from a Crash
Your Windows Systems can crash due device driver failure, hard drive failure or corruption, buggy applications or application installer, possibly a problematic Registry modification, or a virus attack. We discuss a number of strategies and techniques for troubleshooting and recovering Windows NT, 2000, and XP. Driver or Service failing to load: This type of failure [...]
Registry Tweaks
Registry: The Registry is a database that contains all the settings for Windows and installed applications. Where is registry? In windows 9x the registry is contained in two hidden files in Windows directory, called USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT. But in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the Registry is in several Hives, located in the windowssystem32config and [...]
Optimization Tools
System optimization tools are useful to increase the performance of the computer. There are varieties of tools available over internet to optimize the system performance. But the optimizations are for various types of speed degradation. The reasons for speed degradation in a system are: • Boot time loading services and start-up, • Unwanted entries in [...]
Tweaking Windows Startup
The word tweaking means to fine tuning the system. Fine tuning a system makes it boot up faster and to attain peak performance of your system. There are some procedures to perform that will decrease the boot speed of the system. Booting time is normally counted from the system switch on time to availability of [...]
Why Backing up Your Email Files can benefit you in the Long Run
If you own a computer then you should know that backing up your e-mail is an essential part of the ownership process. This is especially true in cases where you have a lot of e-mail and personal files that you can’t stand to lose. There is simply no excuse for you to neglect to back [...]
Developing Backup and Recovery Solution
In this article you will learn how to develop a backup and recovery solution. Data has become a firm’s most valuable asset, and it is your job to protect this data from accidental loss. remember the fundamental questions to ask when developing a solution. What should be backup? What is the recovery point? What is [...]
Exchange Server Data Recovery
Microsoft exchange servers enjoy great popularity with many businesses, due to their expansive communication and planning features. Email communication forms the flesh and soul of any thriving industry because it proves to be indispensable in the corporate world. The mails may pertain to hundreds of important things. It may relate to meeting notices, memorandums, important [...]
Migrating to Exchange 2007 Today – Your Company Will Give You a Raise
Is it time to do an exchange 2007 migration? Why would you do a exchange 2007 migration? Of course if you are looking for new features this would be a great reason. Perhaps your Exchange 5.5 box or Exchange 2000 box is overload or you have a crashed server? Then migrating would be a great [...]
Website Backup – Selection of the Backup Software
A lot of businesses today depend on their web representation. No matter what kind of occupation you are in, in the world of quick information, your website is the foundation upon which your business is based and developed. Even a short server downtime can cost you thousands of dollars not to mention longer periods of [...]
What Files to Backup?
People invest a great deal of personal and business time into their work on a computer. If by chance the computer crashes or a virus attacks then all the efforts might be lost. To minimize the impact of this, backing up files helps the user to recover when a crash occurs. There are two main [...]
The Different Types of Computer Viruses & What They Can Do
A common misuse of the term viruses lately has been used to refer to malware or spyware programs. However, computer viruses are malicious programs which are created with the sole intent of disrupting the operation of a computer. Computer viruses are usually placed into computers without the permission or knowledge of the person who owns [...]
How Your Can Keep Your Computer Safe from Viruses
Different steps and measures can be taken to ensure your protection and to make sure that your computer remains safe from computer viruses. By going through with these steps and measures you can easily protect yourself and save yourself from getting attacked by hackers. Get yourself high-quality virus protection software Lack of virus protection on [...]
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The Definition of Malware, the Types and the Threat they Pose
Malware is an acronym of the phrase “malicious software”. These types of software can infect your computer and damage everything within it. Different types of malicious software exist and these are the major types of malicious software that you want to protect yourself from. A number of other types may exist but these forms of [...]
The Evil that Spyware Can Do
Spyware usually refers to software that is created with the sole purpose of taking partial or complete control of a person’s computer without the permission of the owner of the computer. What spyware does is that it uses the resources in your computer to report certain information to someone else that you do not know. [...]
3 Top Tips To Avoid Spyware And Adware
Below are some tips on how you can avoid having spyware installed on your computer without you knowing. 1. Keep Microsoft Windows Updated Many users are still not quite sure why it is necessary to download software updates on a regular basis. Security holes in software products are *regularly* discovered, and must be fixed by [...]
Spying on Your Computer Unbeknown To You
We enjoy many conveniences with the internet. We can chat with our friends, shop through our browsers, pay our bills, and manage our bank accounts. But with all this convenience also comes the reality that there are those who want to exploit people through malicious computer acts. Some of the software that makes us susceptible [...]
Spyware Can Saturate Your Computer
Have you ever installed a plug-in to your internet browser only to find out that it renders your browser a nuisance to use? Does your computer system all of the sudden slow down for no obvious reason? It could be because of something known as spyware and many computers are very vulnerable to it. Not [...]
Why should you be Concerned About Spyware over Adware?
Spyware was introduced as a way for advertisers to get consumer information as it pertains to computer users and be able to target ad campaigns based on the subject’s computer habits. Spyware can also consume all of a computer’s resources such as processor and memory while it uses the internet connection to transmit statistics and [...]
Anonymous Web Surfing – One Way around Spyware
The problem with web surfing on the internet is that the process reveals way too much information about you. Advertisers latch on to this information and begin trying to pitch ads targeted at you. This scenario happens even when you don’t have malware on your computer. It is no problem for them to study the [...]
Another Form of Spyware – The Keylogger
Did you know there was software that can run behind the scenes of your computer and log all of the keystrokes you type? It is known as the keylogger and it quietly just makes a record of all the keys you type and then later an attacker invades your computer and grabs the information. The [...]
Computers on Alert with Intrusion Detection Systems
Integral to the strategy of an enterprise security program is the implementation of an intrusion detection system (IDS). But what exactly is meant by an intrusion detection system? Basically, as a general definition, an intrusion detection system is a system that alerts when the unauthorized misuse and access to a computer system occurs. You can [...]
Does it Seem Like Someone is Looking Over Your Shoulder?
Of all the threats out there to computer security, spyware has to be the one with the most recent impact and its impact continues to rise. Studies by the National Cyber Security Alliance estimate that spyware can be found on 9 out of 10 personal computers and this is only expected to grow. Spyware is [...]
A Brief Summary about Spyware
Spyware is software that has as its main characteristic an ability to take full or partial control of someone’s computer without the owner’s permission and even without the owner’s knowledge. It sends information about your computer and its resources to outside entities you have never met. It can send information about your internet browsing preferences [...]
Spyware Removal
Spyware is a class of malware that collects information from the system without the data owner’s consent. This data may include keystrokes, screenshots, authentication credentials, personal email addresses, web form field data, Internet usage habits, and other personal information. These data is delivered to online attackers who sell it to others or use it themselves [...]
Cyber Crime – Paying the Price of Technology
Computer networking becomes an ever-increasing part of our existence, and we pay for such advancements. There is an age-old saying that everything in life comes with a price tag. Take the example of telecommunications, which has taken giant leaps recently. Computers and the internet have become accessible to the majority of people worldwide and have [...]
Cleaning Junk Files
Computer programs often need hundreds or thousands of individual files to work. When a user loads such programs, obviously it creates some files that support the execution of the program and the data that it temporarily needs. Ideal software efficiently uses these temporary files and cleans them on exit. But there is no ideal software, [...]
Defragmentation
Defragmentation: Defragmentation is one of the best ways to increase system performance. Disk fragmentation means the storage of data is on physical disk in non contiguous locations and scattered through on the disk. The inability of the physical medium to provide contiguous storage is called as fragmented storage. The inability of storage controller causes two [...]
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Why it’s Essential to Back up Your Computer
It is important that everyone who owns or uses a computer should take the time out to make backups of any important files or programs they have which are resident on their computer systems. These programs should usually be backed up as well in order to prevent these computers from suffering from the adverse effects [...]
What Hackers Know About Your Network – That You Don’t!
Whether you call them hackers, crackers or cyber criminals doesn’t matter. What does matter is whatever you call them – they’re looking for a way into your network! You may not realize it but hackers are scanning your Internet connection looking for an opening. What will they do if they find one? They’ll launch an [...]
Identity Theft Issues and Social Networking Sites
Social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and digg.com where share lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are grouped together (and other applications) are growing in popularity. And so is identity theft among the social bookmarking users. What happens is that people rush to sign up for the social bookmarking sites. They register and mindless begin filling out [...]
Is Stealing Personal and Credit Card Information So Easy?
If you didn’t know this before, know it now. Hackers on the internet can steal your credit card details and use these details to buy anything they want over the internet. If you’re someone with a small credit card limit this might simply be a minor embarrassment or inconvenience. On the other hand if you [...]
Some Important Tools that Will Keep Your Computer Safe from Harm
Computer users and computer owners have to understand the necessary tools that will keep your computers safe from harm. Different forms of harm exist and this includes different forms of viruses, spyware, malware, spam and other dangerous forms of software. If you are unaware of the safety level of your computer you may want to [...]
A Primer on Adware and Spyware
Adware is a term used to describe software that will display those advertising banners you see popup when you are on the internet. Adware programs are many times designed to also collect information about a user on his or her pc. Information collected can include browsing habits or sites visited while on the computer. Adware [...]
A Few Techniques To Keep Spam Under Control
Everyone at some point in there life has been affected by the big “S” when it comes to the Internet. No I don`t mean surfing or another four letter word that I can`t use here. I am specifically talking about spam, and I do not mean that canned processed meat you can find at your [...]
Cleanse Your Personal Data With Hard Drive Wipe
There are often questions asked when changing or buying a new computer about the process of Hard Drive Wipe. The process for wiping or cleaning your personal data is quite simple as one might think. To completely wipe off your data you will have to write over the data. Simply reformatting the drive or just [...]
Some Major Types of Computer Security Products
People who have a computer should make it a point of duty to buy some of the best computer security products on the market. There are a number of such products such as antivirus software products, anti-spyware, pop-up blockers and a number of other programs. A number of popular programs exist in each category of [...]
Keep Your Information Under Wraps
Nowadays, it is quite essential to take necessary safety measures to safeguard you as well as your products from the risk of stealing information, since it is becoming far easier for persons to share their digital products. Now information theft is akin to a computer security risk. It refers to lifting a person’s private or [...]
Creating Recovery Options
Sometimes the valuable information in your system may be lost due to system crash. In order to recover the valuable information from the system the recovery options are much helpful to get back his information. Sometimes people delete their files out of hesitation and then need the file back, at that time it is usually [...]
Cyber Crime
There are two sides to a coin unless it is a magician’s coin. Like a coin almost all aspects of life has two sides. You have to experience one side to know the other. The advent of technology that has carried mankind forward by leaps and bounds is not without its misgivings. The crime that [...]
The Essence of Protecting Your Wireless Network Router
For people who have wireless router in their homes or their offices, it is absolutely essential that you ensure your computer is protected by securing your router as well. You really don’t want to leave your computer open and accessible to people who want to violate your privacy and steal whatever it is that you [...]
Spies in Your Computer
We all know about the spies who operate covertly within the war-torn areas of the world and other international strife zones. But spying is no longer just for the cloak and dagger guys and gals anymore. Spying is taking place right on your computer today and what the “spies” find gets reported to some secret [...]
