'virus' Tag
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Apr122010
How to Protect Your Files FromThe Computer Virus
How safe is your computer? Could you be in danger of getting a virus on your system? Just how real is the danger? What steps should you take if any?While visiting with a one of my students, I became aware that her anti-virus software was over seventeen months old and had never been updated. Upon [...]
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Apr032010
How Profits Motivates Virus Creators
The motivation behind hackers has evolved noticeably over the last couple of years. Developing harmful viruses is less about oragging rights?or satisfying the creator’s ego and is becoming more and more about generating profit or commercial return. The destruction of data on your computer or corruption of programs you use is a common side effect [...]
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Mar242010
14 Household Ways To Protect Your Computer From Viruses
Computer viruses are deadly. They often spread without any apparent contact and can be a nuisance, or even worse, fatal to your computer. Individuals who create these viruses, estimated at 10-15 new ones a day, are the electronic version of terrorists. Their goal is to inflict havoc and destruction on as many people as possible [...]
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Sep182009
What Is a Trojan? What Is a Worm? Are They Different?
People may resent viruses, trojans, and worms, but if you really look into them, computer virus, worms, and trojans are really a masterpiece. They not only prove that we are definitely prone to catastrophe as computer users, noting that a most lethal virus not only can ruin information network with multi billion dollars loss, and [...]
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Sep142009
Computer Virus That Spreads Through Psychological Appeals
I guess you have been in a situation where you are convinced to buy certain goods but regretted later when you’ve got home. I have. I usually categorize that kind of marketing as high pressure psychological selling, because the salesman usually applies high level of psychological pressure on the prospect to finally succeed in selling [...]
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Sep092009
Apply These 5 Points and Enjoy Secure Computing
Although you have the best security tools installed, is your system constantly getting infected by viruses or contracting trojans and worms? The following details is comprehensive and practical to the application to secure your system.
You can protect the system as well as the computer from threats on your security and privacy only by implementing the [...]
