One of the biggest threats everyone faces who likes to surf the net is viruses. The nasty little programs can actually cause irreparable damage to your computer. Having a method of checking whether your computer is affected is important. If you don’t have virus software installed on your desktop or laptop computer, you can […]
Luckily, the advancement of antivirus software has kept pace with current virus threats. Antivirus software is essential to a computer’s ability to fend off viruses and other malicious programs. These products are designed to protect against the ability of a virus to enter a computer through email, web browsers, file servers […]
Protecting your computer from a virus is getting harder and harder each day. While it may border on the paranoid, it goes without saying that you can’t leave your guard down for one second. Even corporate giant Microsoft has found its own systems compromised on more than one occasion.
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You’ve received an email. You may or may not know the sender, but it seems friendly and innocent enough. So you open it, and there is an attachment. You open the attachment, and find it is nothing terribly interesting or important, so you delete it.
Unfortunately, you’ve also installed spyware software on your computer, and […]
Malware. An odd sounding word created to lump all malicious software programs, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, and other malevolent codes into one cause-your-computer-serious-hurt category.
In 2005, Computer Economics released a report on malware. The good news was that for the first time since 2002, the total worldwide financial losses […]