There have been a lot of scams going around online recently, some of which seem frighteningly real and are completely fake – designed to scare the average computer user into forking over money to ‘fix’ a ‘problem’. Some recent examples would be: the FBI/ICE Virus, or ‘Microsoft Windows’ technicians actually calling over the phone. These…
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Adobe Products
Adobe has several commonplace programs out that you more than likely already have on your computer. These are primarily Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader. Flash is very prevalent on the Internet, with many websites having Flash components, Flash games or advertisements, and Flash-based tool sets. Reader allows you to open and view PDFs (Portable Document…
What is malware?
A malware is a program that tells your computer to do something you dont want it to do. A virus or any other malware can be very hard to detect or not very hard to detect. No matter what the circumstances all malware make your computer run less efficient in one way or another. A…