Friday, April 23, 2010

Common Problem with Hard Drives

Problem with hard drives often arise from time to time, so you need to be aware of them and basic troubleshooting. Hence, you can avoid serious problems and ensure that you can enjoy using your computer free off any error.

The most basic and common problem with hard drives is when your computer is unable to read the hard drive. When this happens, you must shut down your PC and remove all cables. Then, open the computer case to see if there is some fixing required for the internal cables. You need to be patient and careful when handling this problem since managing the hard drive cables is a bit tricky.

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Viruses on Different Platforms

Most of the viruses are written for windows operating systems in general, that is because of its popularity and the large user base that windows has. Also we can notice that many viruses are written of DOS environment. And some viruses like the boot sector virus, are capable of attacking multiple platforms and they do not attack a specific operating system in general.

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Harm Done by Viruses When They Activate

There are many kinds of viruses, and there is a common feeling among the people who use the internet that every virus causes damage to the data on the computer, but the truth is that not all viruses aim to damage your computer. Some viruses just aim on spreading on as many computers as possible.

When they are spread they do not activate at all. And some viruses are created by people who what your actions to be modified or do something without your permissions. For example, when you open a website you might be redirected to another website whose content might not be suitable to you.

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Signs of Viruses in a Computer

We just tend to think that there is a virus on our computer when it behaves strangely, when we can’t explain the behavior of something we say that it might have been caused by a virus. The truth is that even installed programs can be responsible for strange behavior and we mistake them for virus, when we run an anti virus program we can observe that they was no virus found.
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Taking Appropriate Action against computer Viruses

What to do and what not to do when a computer is affected by viruses

When a virus is found on a computer, users will normal take extreme steps like formatting the infected computer, but that might not be the cure, it will only harm the data present in the computer which is not required at all. One thing you have to ensure is the back up your data regularly, if it’s not possible for you call your system administrator.

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Stay Protected From Viruses

Learn the ways to stay protected from viruses

There are many tips that you can follow to stay protected from computer viruses. You can find many anti virus program that offer you protection from viruses; you can just invest your money on the one that you can update daily (or frequently) so that they offer protection even from the newest viruses.

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Unmountable Boot volume Error or Blue Screen Error

What the normal user thinks about Unmountable Boot volume Error or Blue Screen Error
is that it is caused ‘suddenly’ when everything was working fine. The users see the blue screen error saying something that they don’t understand, and this incident is very frustrating as they know absolutely nothing about it.

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