You ever see the result of a social game where a group of people, the more the better, all sit in a circle close to each other.  A one line statement is given to a person in this circle on a piece of paper.  Something as simple as “the price of bread will be more because of the cost of gas”.  That message is given to the next person only by word of mouth and only by whispering .  That second person then relays that same message to the third person and so on until the last person announces what he  or she had just heard.  Most of the time, let me say all of the time the message has been so skewed it’s hilarious.  The ending message might come out that there will be an earthquake and the price of bread will triple because there will be no trucks to deliver the bread. Read more »

These days we hear so much information about a computer virus that I’m here to set the record straight to tell you just what the definition of computer virus is.  Plain and simple a computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself inside your computer and destroy your data, your programs, steal information or even in some cases start initiating programs without your knowing.  These programs are introduced into your PC without permission and sometimes without your knowledge. Read more »

Viruses come in all shapes and forms but one of the most popular piggyback methods is contracting a computer virus from downloading a song.  There are so many songs paid and free that people download that people have exploited this and have created ingenious ways to create a virus within the song itself. Read more »

So you upgraded your system to the latest Windows Vista software and you want to make sure that you don’t get a computer virus.  Ironically this article is about how to get a computer virus but aptly should be named how not to receive a computer virus. Contracting a computer virus is relatively easy to do it’s removing it that becomes a problem. Read more »

I know this seems like a never ending thread on the identification of computer viruses but this information is necessary for you to understand as I get into different type categories of viruses that plague PC’s on a daily basis.  As fast as these viruses come out there is also defense code to circumvent them.  But this requires a vigilant eye and insuring that we have proper anti virus software installed and are kept up to date with the latest patch code. Read more »

Following up on the previous post of knowing the basic kinds of viruses that can attach to our home PC’s and to computers linked in a server based configuration there are additional types of viruses that need to be exposed and for you to be aware of. Read more »

Computer viruses can reside inside our computer in a number of different ways.  These viruses can originate in a myriad of ways that are only stopped by the imagination of the creator of these viruses.  We can certainly classify them into categories but within those categories there is a myriad of different types of viruses that we all must be aware of. Read more »

This blog will give you the information that you need in order to stay on top of viruses as it relates to computers.  Viruses are created by people meant to disrupt our online lives.  There are many protection issues surrounding this topic and this blog will attempt to identify what is being done to circumvent this trend of people trying to hack online websites and blogs.

For whatever reason this phenomena is occurrng we must be diligent to keep our computers free from unwanted virus programs.

That’s what this blog is all about so stay tuned for the latest information concerning viruses.