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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Malware is nothing new to computers especially Microsoft Windows as the Operating System. Though is vastly spread on the world wide web, there are tools that can help the prevention and removal of these pests on our computer. Here are some of the most effective tool that can surely help: 1. Lavasoft Ad-Aware. You can visit the site here 2. Eset NOD32. The most secure Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware software used for Microsoft Windows OS Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

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 [...]

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 “Con”, You wanna bet? Second, do the following Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet [...]

How do we delete undeletable files in windows? There are files that windows don’t allow us to delete especially when the file is currently being used.  This is a good thing  if it isn’t a malware or any virus.  The question is how do we delete windows files that does not allow us? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post