Spyware Prevention Tips – Can’t We Just Avoid Spyware In The First Place?

by Dale Powell on February 27, 2010

Sometimes I get discouraged when I keep seeing computer after computer come into the shop with yet another malware infection. Its all I see! Is anybody listening! I don’t run some super CIA/NSA/NCIS/CSI/WhiteHouse/FBI/Secret Service/NASA firewall on my everyday computers and I surf the internet and download more stuff than most people.  I don’t get infected. [...]

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Quick Restore Maker – Creating System Restore Points with the Quick Restore Maker

by Dale Powell on February 12, 2010

Welcome to Quick Restore Maker
If you ever managed to create a manual System Restore point, you know it takes about 7 clicks to do so, because the path to the shortcut is several levels deep, and most people don’t even know how to browse to it. If you do, then you are really going to [...]

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Spyware Prevention Tips that Can Prevent Premature Hard Drive Failure

by Dale Powell on February 10, 2010

I wrote a short article at EzineArticles about the reasons Hard Drives might fail early in your computer’s life. As it is, around 10 percent of the desktop and laptop computers our customers bring in for virus and spyware removal also have a hard drive that is going bad or already in cardiac [...]

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Heeding Spyware Prevention Tips Don’t Provide 100% Data Safety

February 9, 2010

We All Lost Data at One Time or Another
Even I have a lost a bit of data in the past. I should know better, but I didn’t take the time to back-up my most recent work while I was on the road. Whatever the reason you find yourself in a data recovery situation, DriveSavers has [...]

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What Does Your Online Reputation Say About You?

February 9, 2010

I just wanted to share a page with a video about whether online information affects your reputation?
See what people in the United States and the U.K. say about managing their privacy and online reputation.
http://www.microsoft.com/privacy/dpd/default.aspx

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Google Web Master Tools Site Verification

February 4, 2010

Hopefully your computer has remained spyware free so you can get down to using it for business and pleasure without any headaches. Many of our customers are home and small business owners and some only have “one” computer.  With internet threats on the rise more than ever before, these businesses are very vulnerable by having [...]

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3 Mistakes to Avoid Getting the Koobface Virus in Facebook

January 9, 2010

The Koobface Virus spreading through Facebook is catching Facebook users off-guard by deceiving them into clicking on a message that supposedly contains an embarrassing video of themselves. The message even appears to come from a Facebook friend. Listen to the audio below by Dale Powell about the 3 mistakes to avoid to prevent getting this [...]

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DoubleMySpeed.com – CyberDefender Review

January 1, 2010

Many people have seen the popular DoubleMySpeed.com TV Commercial and can relate to the frustration of having a slow computer. But are the commercial’s claims true, that their software can actually double the speed of “your” computer?
Take a moment and listen to the DoubleMySpeed audio review by Dale Powell (aka the SpywarePreventionGuy) and decide for [...]

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Can Windows 7 Get Viruses?

December 14, 2009

Yes, Windows 7 gets chased by viruses and can in fact get both virus and malware infections! In fact, we have already started to have Windows 7 based computers carried into our shop for virus removal. The spyware prevention tips you have been learning for previous Windows versions still apply for Windows 7.

But in defense [...]

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How Did My Computer Get a Spyware Infection?

November 9, 2009

In my role as a computer grief counselor, I hear customer after customer cry out “How did I get infected, I’ve got “that antivirus program from the yellow box?” While I’m not going to make this article into a smear campaign about how I don’t like that antivirus program in the yellow box…or the [...]

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