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With millions of websites in search engines we can never be sure that the sites we are visiting are not harmful.  Some search engines like Google helps us detect websites that can cause harm to out computer.  Some search engines do not have this feature which makes us vulnerable to to exploit attacks especially for those that are webmasters.  We must always make sure that we have computer protection such as anti spyware or even the basic antivirus software which can be [...]

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 that you will also have some ideas on how to make sure the site you are visiting is safe and you can also help contribute in reviewing [...]

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 knowing it. This problem has bothered me most of the time because I am having a hard time where to fix the teleporn.net redirection. So how [...]

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 information. Spyware can act like a peeping tom or, at worse, a geeky thief. There a lot of things that a spyware can do, spyware [...]

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 to happen. Here is one important thing that you should also remember that not all computer problems are caused by viruses. Even though your computer, [...]

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,  Filename extensions usually follow a period (dot) and indicate the type of information stored in the file.  One good example is “Warcraft III.exe” the [...]

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 sector virus removal tool all you need is an installer of you windows XP. A Boot Sector Virus is a virus that resides in your hardisk’s [...]