Install a antivirus program on your computer. Norton and McAfee are two of the more popular software programs. When you purchase a computer one of these programs will be installed on the computer. The license will only last one year. You will need to pay for renewal after one year. The cost of the renewal is worth the security knowing your computer is safe from a virus. If you have more then one computer in your home then select the multiple pc for multiple years option. You will save money over the long run.
Run a malware program on your computer. There are plenty free versions on the internet. The program will search your computer for any malware that needs to be removed.
Set up Windows Internet Explorer to take advantage of some built in features.
- Delete browsing history on exit every time.
- Turn off pop-up blocker
- Review Microsoft security center. Is firewall turned on. Is automatic updates turned on. Is virus protection turned on.
An optional step is to install a utility program that helps keep your computer organized and running effectively. There are several products on the market. These programs help remove any unnecessary files that may remain on your computer, help fix errors that occur over time from using your computer daily, help improve system performance.
Develop a habit to run these programs on a daily/weekly basis. Virus and malware are always looking for opportunities to infect a computer.
How to Keep Your PC Virus Free
How to prevent your pen drive from getting infected with Virus ?
Friends many of your PC/laptop's normally gets virus because of Pen Drives or USB devices (Even PC's who are not connected to network ). Some Virus like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads mostly by the Pen Drives . In such a case what can you do to prevent your PC from getting infected with Virus that spreads through USB devices or Pen Drives ?
You can protect your PC by just following the simple steps below . It won't take much time.
* Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer .
* Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options as shown in the figure.
* Don't choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel .
* Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Promt window .
* Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. ( E.g. If it is written Kingston (I
* In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter .
* Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter.
* You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the following do exist .
1. Autorun.inf
2. New Folder.exe
3. Bha.vbs
4. Iexplore.vbs
5. Info.exe
6. New_Folder.exe
7. Ravmon.exe
8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .
* If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
* Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) .
* That's it . Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus .
Now Unplug your Pen Drive or USB device and Plug it again to your Laptop/PC . Before removing your Pen Drive from others Computer , Don't forget to search for .exe files using the Windows search and remove them .
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Make your Windows XP talk as you type..
Open a text file in notepad and write:
copy from here:-
Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak msg
Save the file with a (*.vbs) extension, it will create a VBScript File.
Then after clicking the .vbs file, it will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.
Enjoy..
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50 things that are being killed by the Internet
The Internet has been touted as one of the most useful tool for the last two decades, and has had a huge impact on our lives, but along with its benefits, the World Wide Web has also had some negative impacts on people.
While tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have become redundant.
The Telegraph has compiled a list of 50 things that are in the process of being killed off by the web and other tools of modern communication, from products and business models to life experiences and habits.
These things are:
1. The art of polite disagreement
2. Fear that you are the only person unmoved by a celebrity's death
3. Listening to an album all the way through
4. Sarah Palin
5. Punctuality
6. Ceefax/Teletext
7. Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase
8. Telephone directories
9. The myth of cat intelligence
10. Watches
11. Music stores
12. Letter writing/pen pals
13. Memory
14. Dead time
15. Photo albums and slide shows
16. Hoaxes and conspiracy theories
17. Watching television together
18. Authoritative reference works
19. The Innovations catalogue
20. Order forms in the back pages of books
21. Delayed knowledge of sporting results
22. Enforceable copyright
23. Reading telegrams at weddings
24. Dogging
25. Aren't they dead? Aren't they gay?
26. Holiday news ignorance
27. Knowing telephone numbers off by heart
28. Respect for doctors and other professionals
29. The mystery of foreign languages
30. Geographical knowledge
31. Privacy
32. Chuck Norris's reputation
33. Pencil cricket
34. Mainstream media
35. Concentration
36. Mr Alifi
37. Personal reinvention
38. Viktor Yanukovych
39. The insurance ring-round
40. Undiscovered artists
41. The usefulness of reference pages at the front of diaries
42. The nervous thrill of the reunion
43. Solitaire
44. Trust in Nigerian businessmen and princes
45. Prostitute calling cards/ kerb crawling
46. Staggered product/film releases
47. Footnotes
48. Grand National trips to the bookmaker
49. Fanzines
50. Your lunchbreak (ANI)
The evolution of blogging
'Do you blog?' was one of the most happening questions a couple of years back. You were considered cool if you had one, and still cooler if you had one in a regional language! What made blogs happening? The fact that you could connect with a number of people scattered all over the world who'd know you for your words took the online world by storm. But then, you may ask are all blogs written by anonymous people? No, they are not. From celebs to common people, from cooking recipes to politics and space, there are thousands who blog about a zillion things under the sun and beyond it.
In a span of less than 5 years, blogging has evolved from being an online journal to sharing your thoughts from anywhere at any time. You can fix templates, update them and even blog from your mobile phones. And this, in a way gave rise to micro-blogging, with Twitter being first on the scene. So what exactly does one do on Twitter, you may ask. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on your account, visible on your friends' profiles, those that decide to 'follow' you. You can also tweet up links to your photos or videos. This is perhaps the quickest and chirpiest way to keep in touch with a lot of people.
But what happens if you are in a mood for writing more and not really as much as you would in a blog? Enter the concept of macro-blogging. This is a blogging concept that doesn't restrict your thoughts to 140 but doesn't let them go beyond 1400 characters. The most popular macro-blogging platform out there today is Woofer. But here's the catch - your macro-blog posts have to be exactly 1400 characters long. Talk about precision.
And that's not all - there's nano-blogging (less than 14 characters) and meso-blogging (lies somewhere between macro and micro-blogging, though we really can't comment on what multiple of 14 it is) as well. For the poetically inclined, there's Haiku blogging, via Japan's nano-blogging platform, Chuitter. And if words are not your chosen mode of communication, you can choose to spread your message via photo blogs or even video blogs.
We're waiting with bated breath to see what form blogs will take next.
