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If your computer is behaving oddly, is slowing down, gets hung up in the middle of your work, or is bedeviled with “pop-ups,” then it is possibly infected with spyware.

Spyware gets into your computer due to  something you have done, like installing free games, clicking a button on a pop-up window, or  programs or software.

It is appraised that anywhere from twenty to fifty percent of online network traffic is accomplished by spyware. Read more . . .

It’s every computer user’s horrible nightmare.  You try to access your important data, only to find they’ve been accidentally corrupted, attacked, or deleted,  by a computer virus.

Hopefully,  this will not happen to you; but if it does, you can retrieve those lost data with free hard drive data recovery software.  These indispensable tools were designed and developed to help you recover your lost data and even repair failed hard drives, and they are available online absolutely for free.     Read more . . .

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You know you need security from spyware.  But what brand of protection should you get? There are numerous extremely helpful anti-spyware programs out there.  Take a peak at a few of them:

1. Windows Defender

Windows defender is an anti-spyware program you can use for free. It  protects your computer against slow performance, annoying pop-ups, and other threats brought about by spyware. With its “Real Time Protection,” Windows Defender can check and suggest actions that remove spyware. It even has a new interface that cuts down the interruption and makes user time more productive. Read more . . .

Web site security is a complex and perhaps even controversial topic. On one side, there are persons who regard themselves as the freedom fighters of the technology and information era; on the other side there are those who view this as a form of modern terrorism. Whatever the case and  without question,  breaking into a computer system without consent is a crime.

It is convention to use a protected connection when compiling sensitive data such as the personal information of a visitor of a Web site. The security levels of those secured connections currently in popular use are “none”, 40-bit, 56-bit, and 128-bit listed from lowest to highest level of page security. Read more . . .

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Who can forget the way the world was frozen with the damage of the “Millennium Bug”?  While people around the world should have been counting down to a phenomenal celebration, we were too busy preparing for certain doom and gloom beset by a computer virus.  But then, the clock struck twelve on January 1, 2000 and a new millennium quietly began, bug-free.

Those unfortunate enough to have had to deal with a computer virus knows all too well the threat that can be done.  From taking on annoying quirks, to completely obliterating computers or entire systems, to erasing files,  the Read more . . .