“My computer is acting funny! I think I have a virus! Why didn’t my anti-virus program catch it?!” First off, getting a virus is NOT the end of the world. To some this may seem to be the case. Warning screens, threats of potential file corruption or loss, and even total loss of peripheral control can feel terrifying when you are attempting to get something urgent done or have sensitive information residing only on that sole system; but from experience almost every infection, if not all infections are curable. In the rare cases where the system is severely affected by a virus...
“My computer got infected! How is that even possible? I don’t even visit any naughty sites!” There are a number of ways your computer can get infected. It doesn’t just have to do with what websites you visit – no matter how clean they appear to be. Every website we browse in this day and age has code embedded in it. It is also possible that within that embedded code is another section with more embedded code. Code-ception. Code inside of code inside of code… possibly inside of more code. All it takes is for a hacker to embed his...
It would seem like this question has an obvious answer. Of course anti-virus software is essential in today’s world where every device is always connected to the internet. However, real-time scanning anti-virus software suites are not the best solution to your home or small business needs. Anti-virus software suites that constantly run in the background during your normal computer usage can have negative effects on the user experience and can be quite expensive. Even on high end computers these suites can be a pain as they are taxing on the processor and the memory, in my experience many of them...
“Why does my computer boot up so slowly?! I can’t take it!” You’ve probably thought this before more than a few times while sipping on your morning coffee. Most computers these days should boot up within a couple of minutes, if you’re computer is taking longer than 3-5 minutes to fully boot you might want to try this. If you’re running on a Solid State drive your boot time should be less than a minute and this will have a minimal impact. Configuring your system’s startup programs is an easy tweak you can make to see if your computer is bogged...
