Computers: Alien Intruders!

Alien Intruders!

Written by Seamus Dolly

You probably didn’t casually invite, or extend a formal attendance request to, these undesirables known as viruses. Regardless of your opinions, these cyber-nomads may call on you, complete and active, with their destructive payloads. So what is a virus? A virus is a program that can self replicate or reproduce itself. A boot sector virus is probably repparttar

worst in so far as it will upset repparttar 107724

normal loading of your operating system and therefore, disable your computer. That’s never a good thing but not repparttar 107725

end of

world, however it seems. You can get this virus, without warning but check out repparttar 107727

following. A friend of mine rang me last week in a distressed state, with news that her I.S.P. was threatening to shut down her e-mail account because her computer contained viruses affecting her outgoing mail This message seemed to come from her provider but in fact was created by a worm (type of virus). The e-mail was complete with repparttar 107728

providers U.R.L., instructions to open its attachment (which it claimed that it contained a free virus cleaner) and even a password to access repparttar 107729

attachment. This password could ”swing” some cautious people to believe that repparttar 107730

attachment was legitimate. Indeed there was only one mistake and it was that repparttar 107731

e-mail in question was addressed to “Dear account holder” and not her specific e-mail address. Attachments are potentially dangerous. You should train yourself to look for such things, and not exclusively this. If you have a suspicion, ignore them. If it seems an awful lot more important that account closure warnings (family matters), then simply ring repparttar 107732

addressee in question. Surely most other matters can wait until office opening hours in cases where 24-hour telephone support is not an option. Incidentally, repparttar 107733

described worm is a BAGLE variant and is currently in circulation and though it can be cleaned, can also be disruptive.

Data Backup For Beginners

Written by Niall Roche

It's 10pm. Do you know where your data is?

Data. Small bits of information clustered together to make Word files, documents,pictures, MP3s, HTML etc. We work on our computers every single day never sparing a thought for all those millions of chunks of data spread all over our hard disks. The data is there and it does it's job.

Until of course repparttar data is not there anymore.

72 hours ago I suffered from massive data loss. There were no hackers involved. No power surges or lightning strikes. Just wear and tear on my hard disk. 20 Gigabytes of business and personal information gone forever. Passwords, HTML files, ebooks all gone. I didn't lose any sleep though. Why? Simply because this was my secondary hard disk that was only used as a backup drive. All my critically important data is safely stored elsewhere.

Picture this scenario. You sit at your computer, turn it on and nothing. Dead. You've just lost everything you've worked on for repparttar 107723 last 12 months. All your Adwords campaigns, website templates, ebooks, Excel files. Everything. How do you feel? How do you go about recovering?

======================================== 70% of companies who suffer serious data loss go out of business within 12 months. ========================================

The truth is that most people never recover from losing all their data.

What can you do to prevent this happening to you? Backup.Backup. Backup. Use a backup system.

How do I backup my data? You could use a zip drive, a CDR/DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service. Using any of repparttar 107724 above is far better than using nothing at all and hoping for repparttar 107725 best.

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