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Do you always get a warm, fuzzy feeling after your latest malware scan responds with “Scan complete. No malware found!“?
Most folks do, and I must admit that I feel pretty good about those kinds of reports myself.
But I’m going to share a little secret with you…
Question from Judy: A while back I decided that I needed a new laptop and since it was to be used for work I wanted one that was pretty fast.
Based upon the recommendation of a friend I ended up buying an almost new refurbished Dell with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 1GB hard drive and Windows 10.
For a while the new laptop was lightning fast, but then it slowed down to a crawl. And it happened virtually overnight. [Read more…]
Do you depend on Windows’ native Microsoft Defender security app to protect your PC from malware?
If so, you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft also provides native ransomware protection with both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Every owner of a personal computer and modern gadgets knows that the Internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous space.
Despite the active work of antivirus software developers, a huge number of people are exposed to cyber attacks every day.
At the same time, there was an opinion that this applies to everyone except owners of devices on the iOS operating system. Let’s see if this is really the case. [Read more…]
Adware, viruses, trojans, spyware, ransomware and rootkits are everywhere these days, and keeping our PCs free of malware is a constant struggle.
Regardless of how diligent we are at preventing malware infections they can still manage to make their way onto our hard drives and into our computers’ memory banks.
Once a PC is infected, ridding it of every scrap of malware can be extremely difficult.
But it can be done! This post explains how, step-by-step. [Read more…]