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Computer or PC Tips InformationLooking after your Computer
by:
Iona D'Souza
If you are going to activity and do a lot of browsing on the Internet, the 1st thing you need to discover is how to take care of your computer.
It is far better that you take the trouble to look after your computer regularly, rather than have it freeze or crash once
you lose everything on it, at which time you’ll have to pay out a lot to have it fixed.
Here are several tips to prevent disasters:
1) Set your virus checker to update itself automatically. This way, it is always updated with the latest protection.
2) Scan your computer daily once
you stop working on it.
3) If on a certain day you happen to transfer
many a pages, software, programs, zipped files, exe files, etc., at once after downloading everything, scan your computer. This way, simply in case a virus existed in thing
you downloaded, you wish catch it in time before it infects your entire Hard Drive.
4) Use your online scanner to scan your computer once a week.
5) Use your adware/spyware checker once a week.
6) Do not open any attachments in emails from folk you do not know.
7) Do not open any attachments even as from folk you do know, if you are not expecting thing
from them.
8) A virus could replicate itself to everyone on the address book and send itself out by email, without the owner even as knowing this has been done.
9) Do not transfer
free music on the Cyberspace – these free sites are always infected.
10) Do not transfer
any free games from the Internet.
11) Adult sites are particularly prone to viruses.
12) Back up all your data on a daily basis. Use floppy disks, flash drives, memory sticks, zip disks, CD-Roms, etc.
13) Print out contracts, payment forms, agreements and all legal documents and file them away in a ring-binder.
14) Try not to support thing
to do with your finances, payment details, payment processor passwords, credit card details, etc. on your computer.
15) A hacker could easily access all these details, if they are anyplace
on your computer.
Sadly, despite all these precautions your computer power still get infected, as the folk who invent these malicious programs are deed even as sneakier.
When this happens, the easiest way to rid your computer of a virus is by rebooting your computer. This is not as difficult as it may sound, and if you discover how to do this yourself you could save yourself hundreds of dollars in repair bills.
Click on this link to find out how to bring up your computer step-by-step:
http://www.ecourses-for-newbies.com/vp.htm
Just about the author:
Iona D'Souza is an editor and author of several popular books online. Here are several of her books: "How to Write your eBook and then Publish, Promote and Sell it Online" accessible at http://www.ecourses-for-newbies.com/ebn1.htm
"How to Support your Computer Virus Free" accessible at
http://www.ecourses-for-newbies.com/vp.htm
"Super Directory of Free Resources" accessible at
http://www.ebooks-for-newbies.com/ern.htm
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