 The Battle Against Spyware & Viruses
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Acquiring Basic PC Skills
For those that have decided to walk into the world of technology, they may be overwhelmed by the types of knowledge that are available. There are several code languages and words as well as different areas that you can move into. If you are a beginner in technology, you can find programs that will...
Adobe Desktop Publishing Certification
The main purpose for IT Certification with desktop publishing is to show that you have adequate skills to take on consulting projects in the area of computer graphics or layouts. The first type of concentration you can have is with delivering effective presentations for your business area. You can ...
Auditing Your Computer Systems
The Computer Systems Auditing field has really exploded in the last 15 years and this is due to the rise in systems being used at the small business level, handling three times as much data as before. If you are a small business with a network, you should have some type of computer audit program in ...
Careers As An Object Oriented Programmer
IT Certification also provides courses in object-oriented design and analysis as a computer language. This class will first take objects that are available through software and analyze how they work with specific computer languages. It will then allow you to take this analysis and create your ow...
Careers In Fiber Optics Technologies
For those that are looking into fiber optics technology technology, they may also be noticing that there are several routes to take. You can get a security certification in fiber optics technology. There are several training programs that can allow you to get IT Certification in fiber optics, all ...
Changing Web Hosting Services
Backup Your Files – Most people don’t perform backups of their files on their web servers. That’s bad because if something does happen, you lose everything. Make sure that you backup your files before you switch providers. Don’t forget to copy some files, designs, graphics, databases, or emails prio...
Develop Your SOHO Network
If you have a SOHO and you use more than one computer in the home, you don’t want to get two DSL connections to hook other computers up in the home with. Your husband might prefer to work in the basement while you work in the home office and your children might want to surf the net all at the same t...
Do People Know Where Your Are on the Web?
The question is, “can you be tracked down on the internet?”
Your IP address is no secret. It's a basic part of internet communication protocols to send your IP address whenever you connect to another site, request a web page, chat, play an online game, etc. Without your IP address, the computer on ...
Don’t Let Your Domain Name Expire!
It’s easy to lose your domain name if you don’t pay attention to the renewal notices that come in your inbox. Usually, web host companies start sending these notices about 90 days from the date that the domain name is to expire. It’s a bad feeling to go to your site and all you see is a 404 page....
Feasting On Cookies
A “cookie” obtains information sent by a web server to be stored on a web browser so that it can later be read back from that browser. This becomes useful for having the browser remember specific information about a visitor to a particular website. The cookie is a text file that is saved in the brow...
FTP Is not for Web Hosts Only!
The letters FTP stand for File Transfer Protocol. It allows you to transfer files from place to place. In fact, FTP is the fastest way to copy large files across the Internet. There are many sophisticated FTP client that you can use to get files to and from site hosts. There are several benefits to ...
Gaining Certification In Programming Languages for the Internet
Programming languages in computers are designed to communicate with the computer in order to define what is needed. From this communication, the computer will then be able to perform a variety of functions. This will help to manipulate the computer into doing what it needs to for your business or ...
Getting Rid of Pop up Windows!
Where can you go to get a pop up blocker for your computer? Pop Up Windows are annoying and worse than that, they are dangerous for your computer. Pop up ads can cause viruses or put spyware into your computer without your knowledge. So to cut down on or, hopefully, completely rid yourself of pop up...
Getting Rid of Spyware
No matter where you go on the web, someone is trying to infiltrate your system. From web sites placing simple logon cookies, to paid advertising tracking your movements on the web, to malicious software that is designed to record your keystrokes and discover passwords, Spyware and Adware have togeth...
Handling Hard Drive Crashes
The hard drive in our computers stores all data, and our computer could not function without it. Since hard drives are so important, a hard drive crash is without a doubt is a major crisis problem that someone could face on their computer.
Hard drive crashes can happen for a lot of reasons, and...
How IT Certification Can Help Boost Business
Businesses are always trying to find new ways that they can expand and allow their company to grow. This is not only to provide the best customers to service, but also to allow an easier work load for the employees and add more innovation to your business. If you are debating whether you should be...
If you are interested in getting IT Certification so you can understand how the computers of IBM work, then there are also several options that are available for you. IBM offers several levels of hardware certification, each which can help you to become more proficient in understanding how the te...
Is Your Web-Site Configured Correctly?
Site design and structure is a lot of work. One of the most important considerations is often overlooked by first-time site owners is content management and structure. Where to put it and how to display it? What is the message that you are trying to get across?
If you don't consider content manag...
IT Security Certification…Who To Choose
If you are looking into information and security technology certification, or IT, there are several vendors that are available for you to get the right training. Each of these will have different applications and possibilities for you to get the training that you need. Some will focus on a specifi...
Microsoft IT Certification Programs
Considering an IT Certification program also includes knowing what is available to you and what the specialization will allow you to do as well as limit you to do. There are several providers that will offer specialized programs that can affect the qualifications that you have. One of the provider...
Networking for an IT Certification
Whether you want to know technology for home or for work, you will need to know what the options are as well as the best route to take. One of the options that are available is learning how to network through technology. This can help you in several areas as well as allow you to gain credentials t...
Offline and Online Identity Theft
These are some basic steps to take to prevent online and offline identity theft:
In the case of Credit cards, Debit cards, and Credit reports:
1. Reduce the number of credit and debit cards carried in your wallet. While using debit cards take advantage of online access to your bank account to mo...
Optimizing Your Computer Speed
When you first buy your computer, it seems quite fast. But with the passage of time and advancement in technology most PC users complain that the performance of these machines keep on deteriorating slowly. There are basically two low cost solutions that can effectively speed up your machine. And the...
PayPal Is The Way To Go!
Personal: For your personal shopping use. You cannot accept debit or credit card payments, but sending and receiving money is free.
Premier: For buying and selling under your name. You can send payments for free, with low fees for accepting money.
Business: This is perfect for your online busine...
With every invention known to benefit man, you’ll always have a counterforce trying to destroy or take advantage of its benefits to the user. By now, if you’ve ever used or owned a computer, there is a certain problem that you have to constantly protect yourself from and that problem is viruses....
Most viruses come through attachments and downloads from the Internet. Many people don’t use the common standard of file recognition. The file recognition rule states that if you are not aware of what the extension or document is; do not download it at all.
An attachment can be a document, .EXE...
There’s nothing worse than getting on the internet and using your browser only to get 10 pop up windows in a row. It seems like someone on the other end is controlling your windows and what you see. If you do have that problem, then somewhere along the way, a spyware program that throws pop-up ...
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Patch It Up
Most of us have been in relationships that haven’t been too good. Somewhere, something got in the way (sometimes it’s another person) which caused everything to go haywire, If you’ve ever had the feeling of things in your life not being in sync, losing sleep and wondering about wh...
PC Security
How to Categorize a Computer Virus
Many computer users don’t understand the categorization of computer viruses. They are many different viruses and these viruses are generally found in three categories. Some people say that their computer got hit with a Trojan Horse, b32 Worm, Phyllis, or Bomb ...
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The Funky Worm
Back in 1974, the funk group, the Ohio Players made a song called “Funky Worm”. What inspired the group to write this song may have been prophetic vision or just plain luck. The “Funky Worm” was similar to what a worm virus does to a computer system
The Funky Worm was a bad co...
The only thing good about SPAM is that you can have it with anything. It’s really good with potatoes, grits (if you’re Southern) rice or on a piece of bread cooked real good. SPAM has been around for years.
So it baffles me that the computer gods would define something good as SPAM as unwante...
You’ve paid a lot of money for your computer system and the majority of your business documents and information is kept on your computer. Wouldn’t it be wise to take physical security measures to protect your system and the data that is on it?
If you are a SOHO business owner that has a syste...
Security and Fiber Optics Certification
For those that are looking into information technology, they may also be noticing that there are several routes to take. You can get a security certification in fiber optics technology. There are several training programs that can allow you to get IT Certification in fiber optics, all which will i...
Software Certification With IBM
With the growth of technology are a variety of vendors, products and hardware the link to IT Certification programs. One of the vendors that offer a completely different product than other companies is IBM. From their own computer language to hardware that is offered, they have different types o...
It’s great to know that you have your physical computer systems (desktop or laptop) computer secured but what about the customers’ data?
Many SOHO business owners never think of backing up their own data as well as customer data. Back ups are important and they save a lot of time and headache...
Web based conferencing can now be used by organizations large and small. Its a cost effective way to overcome geographical obstacles and meet with individuals or groups no matter where they are located.
Sales demonstrations and presentations can reach a large group of buyers quickly You can gener...
The Difference between UNIX and Windows Hosting
What platform should your server be on? There are a number of different choices out there but the main two are Linux and Windows web servers. For the majority of people it will be far more important to choose a really good web host that will meet their needs
Microsoft has the Windows OS System. Lin...
The Need for an Information Technology (IT) Certification
If you are working as a IS consultant or technology specialist, having IT Certification will help you in several ways. By understanding why you would need IT certification, as well as the benefits that it will have for you, you can then determine whether it is the best move for you to take.
IT...
SEO Copywriting is called search engine optimization copywriting or search engine copywriting. It’s writing web page content that reads well for your visitors and includes specific keywords or keyword phrases so the page will rank well in the search engines.
SEO Copyrighting not only includes...
The “Skinny” On Laptops.
If you’re a business person that’s on the go and not into mobile computing systems, you may want to look into buying a laptop. While the price of laptops compared to desktops has shrunk recently, you will still pay slightly more for a laptop. With laptops reasonably difficult to expand or upgrade,...
The Use of Firewalls
Firewalls work by implementing various access control policies. It's also important to recognize that the firewall's configuration creates its policy based on the parameters you provide in your security control policy.
If you have a network in you SOHO business, you need firewall protection on th...
There Are Other Web Browsers Out There!
So you think that Internet Explorer is the only browser out there? Actually, there are other browsers out there that are better and more efficient than IE. Let’s examine the following:
Safari:
Safari is the browser of for most Mac users. It’s faster than Internet Explorer and contains a built-in ...
The final categorization of viruses is the mighty Trojan Horse.
The Trojan Horse is pseudo like software that appears harmless but once you install the software, look out! It causes more problems than you could ever think of!
Trojan Horse viruses try to emulate software that is legitimate fr...
Types of IT Certifications
For those that are considering an IT Certification, they may have found that there are several types to choose from. Before deciding on a particular IT Certification, it is important to know what choices are available to you as well as what will be included in each of the types. Following is a lis...
Where Viruses Hide
This article is to show you the various places where virus can hide. So if your computer is acting crazy, you might want to take a look at these “hot spots”.
START-UP FOLDER - This is the most logical place! Windows opens every item in the Start Menu's Start Up folder. This folder is prominent in t...
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When
formatting a hard drive there are many possible approaches
and thus many ways of screwing things up. I will cover with
a great deal of detail all the aspects of what formatting
hard drive really means.
