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Keep Your Computer Running At Its Best - Part 3 - Remove Malware

As all my clients would testify there is one program that I install without fail on everyone’s computer. Malwarebytes.  I wouldn’t be without and neither are my existing clients.

Cleaning malware off computers is a large part of my daily work.  People phone me up and tell me that their computer has slowed down, isn’t working properly – or sometimes specifically state that their computer “has a virus”.  Of course, for the techie amongst  you, you will know straight away that a classic virus is rare these days.  It’s more likely to be a trojan or other spyware or malware.

Malwarebytes isn’t fussy about what you call it – if it’s undesirable Malwarebytes will find it.

A question.  How many of you have an additional toolbar that you don’t remember installing on your browser that takes you off to somewhere strange

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March 19th, 2011 | Category: Computer Performance | One comment

Keep Your Computer Running At Its Best – Part 2 – Tune It Up

It happens to us all.  You spend a lot of hard earned cash on a shiny new computer.  It works wonderfully for a few weeks, making you realize just how slow and bad tempered your old one had become.  Then slowly the performance of your new computer starts to degrade.  Then the inevitable happens – your first crash.

Of course you restart the computer and all is well for a while – until it crashes again. Crashes become a cumulative process.  The more your computer crashes, the more its performance decreases and so, inevitably, the more it crashes. Installing and uninstalling programs also contributes towards slower performance.

Unless a program is totally uninstalled traces of it are left behind, in the registry or as fragments of files that point nowhere and are attached to nothing. Each time your computer crashes, Windows tries to

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March 19th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Computer Performance, Computer Tune Up | Leave a comment

Keep Your Computer Running At Its Best – Part 1

I spend a lot of my time removing malware from my clients’ computers and speeding up computers that are running slowly.

It never ceases to amaze me how people will continue to use a computer that is running erratically or has slowed to a crawl!

I’m like an over-anxious mother with my own computer.  It only has to do something unusual and I scan it with a range of software in an attempt to keep it running properly.

This is how I look after my own computer.

Top Priority – Do Your Backups

Protect Your Computer Files-BoxI can’t stress this loudly enough or often enough.  It’s one of the first things I say to most of my off line clients – “do you have a backup of your files?”  You’d be

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March 7th, 2011 | Category: Computer Performance, Online Backups | Leave a comment