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Surfing on the net has been trouble some now a days because there are a lot phishing, fraud, syware, malware, trojans on line. I have been using this free online anti virus scanner for a while now and it has been a good help to me. I am sharing this to everyone so [...]

In the past few days I was solving a problem on a site and the problem was this; The site has an iframe virus, the site pings teleporn.net and most links redirect to ask.com or teleporn.net which is a banned site, the site was banned  because it installs a virus on your system without [...]

Spyware is a malware that is placed secretly on a computer. It tracks the user’s behavior and reports information back to a central source.  Some types of spyware are simply annoying because they cause increased spam or unwanted pop-ups, but others can go so far as to threaten the security of your PC and personal [...]

In a Windows XP system files computer security threats are not new to it. The damage caused by viruses can range from rendering useless just a few files to affecting your entire computer, possibly requiring you to reinstall your operating system and start from scratch.  And this is one sure thing that we don’t want [...]

What are file extension or file types?
File types are like embedded signatures, telling the operating system that this type of file can be opened by this  software or program and also to  associate with it properly.  A  file extension is one or several letters at the end of a filename. Usually three or four letters,  [...]

If you have problems on retrieving your of data or your data suddenly disappears, or you are having failure on starting up your computer. Then you must have a boot sector virus in your hard disk drive(HDD).  This needs an attention before all your data will be lost, you do not need any boot [...]

This is really true, i’ve tried this myself.

#1. An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!
Whatever you do, you can NEVER create a folder name as [...]