How Do You Make A Computer Virus Disappear?

I should also have had a sub title to the effect “And How to Stop A Virus Dead In Its Tracks”.  Reading posts on protecting your computer should be a daily ritual but this one particular post just may save you from the get go.  How do you make a computer virus disappear taken literally doesn’t happen but you sure can fight back with the same type technology that you received it in. Read more »

Just How Many Computer Virus Names Are There?

Computer virus names aren’t based on the alphabet like they do hurricanes.  In fact if they did then we would probably run the gamut of the alphabet 2 or 3 times over in a single year.  No, the best that one can do to identify computer virus names is to name the categories that they fall into.  That identification trait is a bit easier to handle than individual computer virus names. Read more »

What Computer Virus Precautions Can You Take?

There are plenty of precautions that you can take to insure that you never ever get a virus into your system.  What computer virus precautions are not hard to implement, they’re not even complicated in nature to invoke.  This post will outlay some of the more common routines that you can start instilling into your daily online life and have the peace of mind that you can avert computer viruses. Read more »

Why It Is So Important To Keep Your Computer Virus Protection Current

As we get smarter and wiser in life so do programmers of malicious code.  It seems that on a daily basis there are leaps and bounds in technology and no one could imagine what we can do with computers today that we couldn’t even imagine 5 or 10 years ago.  It may seem that it’s harder to protect our information on pc’s because of the sophisticated viruses that seem to pop up but you can rest assured that antivirus software is also keeping pace with these malicious scripters. Read more »

How To Keep Your Computer From Spreading The Latest Computer Virus

No one but no one wants to be the victim of a computer virus.  But imagine if you were the one responsible for propagating it into a network system?  Imagine that you inadvertently had downloaded the latest computer virus and you didn’t even know it?  How would you feel about that?  Well if it happened to your own PC then it’s limited to your PC only.  But what happened if it got into a server network at your place of employment?  Now what will be the outcome? Read more »

The Type Of Problems Computer Worms Can Cause At School

Just as nature can have perfect conditions for a perfect storm such is the case in this one true scenario.  This is a case where a computer worms have caused so much havoc that it just boggles the mind on how many things have went wrong because of malicious script code entering their computer system.  As you will see computer worms can cause a lot of heartache and trouble for everyone involved. Read more »

Just What Is A Melissa Computer Virus?

All computer viruses are different because they affect different parts of the PC system.  Some affect operating systems, some affect email addresses, some affect data, some affect programs and some even affect all of the above.  But this particular virus named Melissa because it has been related to email servers. Read more »

Part 2 Of A Computer Virus List

The computer virus list goes on in this part 2 of an ongoing series of identifying the most problematic of computer viruses that have affected computers and networks worldwide. Read more »

Part 1 Of A Computer Virus List

A computer virus list is never ending but there are some viruses that have definitely caused problems worldwide.  To be sure there are companies borne to eradicate these viruses for a premium charge but they are well worth the money spent.  Whether or not these computer viruses attack the vulnerable windows operating system or the more secure MAC operating system, a virus is a virus no matter what. Read more »