Keeping Your Computer Quick And Secure

For this article, I thought I would give some tips as to how to get rid of Viruses and Spyware and keep your computer running smoothly.

Is your computer running slower then it should be? Do you find yourself dealing with Spyware a lot? Do you have computer Viruses on your system? These are some problems that many internet users face. You would be surprised just how many people ask me for advice about these subjects. And this includes Grandma calling because she has over 50 viruses on her system, no joke lol. I decided to write this article and explain the best way to keep your computer running smoothly and Spyware/Virus free.

Note: I wrote this article with a focus mainly on computers running Windows. Not all of the programs mentioned in this article may have a Mac or Linux version.

Many times, when people go about searching for programs to fix their computer, they often make the problem worse. The reason is that many security software programs may actually be Spyware in itself or otherwise do a really poor job at removing the Spyware and Viruses from your system.

- First off, if you have any computer Viruses on your system, you need to get rid of them right away. The same goes for Spyware. For getting rid of Viruses, I would recommend you download the free version of AVG Anti-Virus. After you download it, make sure and update it before doing a full scan.

- Now, for getting rid of Spyware, I would recommend you use Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware. I recommend downloading them both and running a scan. Again, make sure to update it before you do the scan though. I have found that sometimes one program detects something that the other did not. By using two separate scanners, you will have a better chance of getting rid of the Spyware.

Now that you have gotten rid of the Spyware and Viruses on your system, here are some ways to increase the speed of your computer.

- Run Disk Defragmenter on your computer. This is something that many people forget to do. I could go into a long explanation about what this does, but the short way of saying it is that the time the computer takes to access files will be reduced. I recommend doing a Disk Defrag once a month.

Most people already have Disk Defragmenter on their computer. If you are on windows, you should be able to find it under (Programs - Accessories - System Tools). If you don't have DiskDefragmenter. Try going to Download.com. There are many great Disk Defragmenters available to download there.

- Clean your computer registry. But please don't do it yourself. Use software designed for this. You can really mess your computer up if you don't know what you're doing in the computer registry. There are many registry cleaners out there. Unfortunately, they all cost. However, here is one registry cleaner that I have found to be good. It's called Regdefense. They even offer a free scan so you can see just how much your registry may need to be cleaned before you decide if you wish to buy this software or not. In addition to the registry cleaner, this software offers many other tools for keeping your computer running smoothly.

- Remove unneeded programs that are set to run when you turn on the computer. These include various IM messengers, audio and video programs, etc. I have seen many people with over 30-40 programs set to run at startup. No wonder the computer was taking awhile to load! For me, I have a total of 9 programs running at startup. For a free startup manager to remove startup entries, I recommend Startup Inspector.

- Get rid of the unneeded files on your computer. There are many programs that can do this. I'm going to recommend one you should already have on your computer though. It's called Disk Cleanup. You should see it under (Programs - Accessories - System Tools). It may not have some of the advanced features like other cleaners, but it should do the job.

Now that you have done these steps, your computer should be running a lot smoother. Now you need to keep it this way! Run Disk Defrag, Virus scans, and Spyware scans regularly. Try and keep your computer registry clean and your computer startup items to a minimum. And here is an extra link to a program I recommend to keep your computer secure. SpywareBlaster. Once you install it and update it, you will need to click to enable the protection. It will protect you from thousands of types of Spyware and will block it before it even installs onto your system. A very cool program!

If you are on a high-speed connection, I would recommend getting a firewall. ZoneAlarm has a free firewall. I've used it for years and it has never let me down.

Also, I recommend using a System Utilities program. These are computer programs that offer many tools to keep your computer running smoothly. Normally you might have to download separate tools to do these things. System Utility programs combine all of the tools into one big program. They are very useful. I personally recommend iolo System Mechanic.

Wrapping this up, if you do all of these tips, your computer should stay safe and run smoothly. I have been doing all of these tips for a long time, and it has been years since I have had any type of Spyware or Virus infection. You shouldn't have to deal with these annoyances on the net. Just do these tips, and you shouldn't need to worry. Good luck!

If you would like more tips, check out my website at http://www.EasyTechReviews.com or my blog at http://truthcomputer.blogspot.com
by: Justin Williams

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5 Internet Marketing Strategies for Your Success

People go into business for themselves all the time for all kinds of different reasons. Some people get sick of being stuck in an office. Some people prefer to be their own boss. Some people are victims of a down turn in the economy and see it as the perfect opportunity to realize their dreams. While there are many reasons to have your own business, there are also many ways to start a business. One of the easiest and most popular ways is to own and operate a website. In fact, people in record numbers are creating products and offering services over the internet for the first time.

No matter your reason, when you start a website, the first and most important fact you will discover is your site has little to no traffic. It is generally thought by novice internet entrepreneurs that all you need is a good website with a good product or service and you’re on your way to instant riches. Well this is somewhat true but the other important ingredient you need for success is “traffic that converts to sales”. This is where reality of owning and operating a successful website begins.

Web traffic (potential customers) is the key to your internet success, without targeted traffic your site will not become the financial success you hope for. New websites begin their existence by hanging out at the back of some very long and dark corridors somewhere in cyberspace. No one knows your new site exists, and no matter how hard a cyber-pilot tries, your site will never be known until some extra effort is put forth to give your site a name and place.

To bring your site into the light of cyberspace here are five Internet Marketing Strategies that you can use, must use, to get the valuable web traffic you’ll need to be successful.

On Page SEO

SEO is the art of designing a site in a fashion that gives the site an advantage for obtaining free and abundant traffic from search engines. The number one aspect of SEO is selecting keywords relevant to your site. The keywords you select should be based on high usage, low competition and relevancy to your topic. When your site is properly SEO’d you can expect a boost in organic (free) traffic to your site. However don’t expect complete success with On Page SEO alone.

Off Page SEO

To complement On Page SEO, an activity that goes hand in hand, is Off Page SEO. This is basically an action to obtain links from other sites. This is a crucial factor for SEO. Links from other sites serve two purposes. 1. Quality links say to the search engines that others think your site is useful so the search engines in turn boost your page ranking, boosting your page ranking results in better free traffic flow to your site. 2. Each link that exists in cyberspace to your site is a direct path to your site. The more links you acquire the higher your traffic flow becomes.

PPC

PPC or “Pay Per Click” is a web marketing technique that can quickly and easily generate the flow of targeted traffic to your site. As the name implies (Pay Per Click) is a method that costs money. Most search engines offer PPC programs, the biggest and best respectively are Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search. While there is a cost to a PPC program there is no better or quicker way to generate traffic. If your site is new, it is wise to begin a PPC program while other free methods of generating traffic are developed. Once other free methods begin to bear traffic, dependency on a PPC program can be reduced or eliminated.

eMail Marketing

As the name implies this is a technique of marketing your site by means of sending emails to potential clients. Your foremost issue with email marketing is that of obtaining a legal and targeted list of email addresses belonging to interested persons. If your site is new you probably don’t have a list. No problem however, a list can be bought. Do your homework, make sure a purchased list has valid names and addresses and is targeted to people interested in your product or service.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a technique that involves others in the sale of your product or service. The concept is that you solicit other websites that are relevant to your web business to advertise and drive traffic to your site. Of course to get others to do this there has to be compensation. You will simply share your profit with affiliate sales sites for their effort of sending traffic to your site. While you may not like the idea of splitting your profit, Affiliate Marketing can make you much more successful.

The internet marketing strategies listed above fall way short of complete explanation and detail. For successful implementation of these strategies you are urged to educate yourself completely with each idea. The key to your success is to not stop marketing once your site is active. By continually applying internet marketing effort you will continue to improve the traffic flow to your site and make that dream of instant success a reality!

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Sydney Computer Rental Service: Computer Optimisation Tips

by: Lemuel Asibal

Sydney computer rental service providers also offer services that are useful to their clients without additional fees. One of the services that they offer is giving tips on troubleshooting a computer. Other tips also include computer maintenance and computer optimization. As of this time, let me elaborate more on the computer optimisation tips that they provide to their computer rental customers.

To keep the computer running smoothly and efficiently, computer maintenance must always be performed regularly. You should check your computer hard drive memory if there is enough free space. The more files loaded in the computer memory, the slower it will run. It is said that 20-25% free space availability of hard disk memory is the limit to keep maximize computer speed and to have it work properly. You should not forget to perform memory checking at least once every month. This way, you would be able to know if it's time to delete unnecessary files stored in your hard disk.

One of the reasons why the computer's performance is getting bad is the virus. It makes the computer speed slower and worse, damages your computer in the long run if taken for granted. It is recommended to install antivirus software to keep your computer safe. Viruses are great computer hard disk destroyer, as much as worms. Worms do not directly damage your computer; however, they are duplicating the files, the filename as much as the file size. As a result, your computer memory gets crowded, causing your computer to perform badly. Before everything turns bad, install antivirus that is proven effective right away after buying your computer and opening it for the first time. You can choose from AVG, Bitfender, Avira and other antivirus software brands. Antivirus software applications do not only protect you from computer viruses and worms, but also from various forms of spywares. Scan your computer for viruses, ideally, twice a month.

Spywares are sometimes undetectable by spyware blocker installed together with antivirus program. Installing a separate spyware application may be of help to keep your computer safe from bad people who want to gain remote access of your computer.
You should also check your computer registry. The errors in computer registry also can damage your computer if not given attention and not fixed immediately. Running a registry repair software programs is a big help. Through them, the errors in the computer registry are fixed thoroughly, making your computer to run smoothly and efficiently once again.

Defragmenting the hard disk may not be needed. However, performing it once a month can boost PC performance. Files that are scattered in the hard disk are organized through defragmenting. If the files are organized in the hard disk, computers can access the data easily. This avoids wears on the read heads of the hard disks; wears can eventually damage the hard disk.

If the tips being mentioned here are followed and done in a convenient frequency, you will see that your computer performance gets better.

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Computer Office Support Schools

Today, computers have become an integral part of every part of life. We can no longer even imagine a world without computers. The computer and information technology sectors are providing jobs to millions of people worldwide. Though there were some plunges in the employment growth rate of computer related jobs recently, there are some fields in computer
by: William Hauselberg

and information technology which continued to offer secure careers even under bad economic conditions. The Computer Office Support is one of the recession-free fields to offer great career opportunities today.

The Job Nature of Computer Office Support

The main responsibility of a computer office support professional is to provide technical assistance to anyone who uses a computer in a variety of organizations. Almost every computer used in the offices will encounter certain problems such as hardware or software failures frequently and they need to be rectified as quickly as possible. Computer office support professionals should respond to the queries from different organizations and provide them with the much needed support to fix the issue with their computers. Computer office support professionals typically work in and office environment. The computer office support work is interesting as you will be communicating with different people from lots of popular organizations.
Getting trained in Computer Office Support

A certification form an accredited Computer Office Support training institution is sufficient for getting into entry level careers. Owning a diploma in Computer Office Support will help you to get into advanced careers with higher pay scales. Pennsylvania is considered to be the center of computer office support training. For example, the Dickson City Computer Office Support School, accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools is considered to be one of the best because the students can get into an great career as soon as they complete the diploma program. The students of Dickson City, Hazleton and Pottsville Computer Office Support School don't need to wait for a career opportunity to appear as the employers give first preference to the candidates trained in these schools.

The career scope of Computer Office Support

The well trained professionals in Computer Office Support can get into the best careers in any modern computerized workplace. The employment growth rate of Computer Office Support is expected to increase by 18% through the year 2009-2016. Various statistics indicate that 155,000 more jobs will be available for Computer Office Support professionals in the next decade. The career advancement opportunity for the well trained computer office support professionals is very high as this career is closely related to the rapidly evolving computer technology.

The job prospects are the best for the people owning a diploma degree in computer office support from a renowned institution. Hence getting trained in to any one of the Pennsylvania computer office support diploma programs will be great chance to seek an aspiring career quickly.

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Yahoo seeks Google's aid after Microsoft talks die

Staff and agencies13 June, 2008
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer 24 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. became Microsoft Corp.‘s takeover prey largely because Google Inc. established such a commanding lead in the Internet‘s lucrative search advertising market.
Yahoo announced its decision to let Google handle some of its advertising sales late Thursday, just a few hours after revealing it unsuccessfully tried to persuade Microsoft to renew its previous offer of $33 per share. The snub caused Yahoo to conclude that there is no hope for any kind of deal with Microsoft.
Yahoo shares plunged $2.63, or 10.1 percent, to finish Thursday at $23.52 and shed another seven cents after the market closed.
Google already holds about 75 percent of the $11 billion search advertising market in the United States with Yahoo a distant second at 9 percent, according to the research firm eMarketer Inc.
The outcry already has drawn the attention of U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights.
Yahoo and Google have voluntarily agreed to wait until late September to begin working together to give the government adequate time to review the arrangement. If it isn‘t blocked, the partnership could last for the next decade.
The Sunnyvale-based company also is trying to fend off a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn, who has vowed to replace the company‘s board because of the way the directors handled the Microsoft negotiations during the past 4 1/2 months.
Icahn did not return phone calls seeking comment Thursday.
"If you are a Yahoo shareholder, you just have to be scratching your head right now," said Standard and Poor‘s equity analyst Scott Kessler.
After Yang took over the reins from Terry Semel a year ago, Yahoo‘s stock price fell from $28.12 to $19.18 at the time Microsoft launched its unsolicited takeover attempt in January.
Yang "has been slow to move, slow to act and it has cost shareholders as a result," Kessler said.
Many Yahoo shareholders blame Yang for letting his emotional attachment blur his judgment during the Microsoft negotiations.
Yahoo‘s board sent Yang and fellow co-founder David Filo to a pivotal May 3 meeting in Seattle to discuss Microsoft‘s oral offer to buy the company for $33 per share, up from its initial bid of $31 per share. After Yang demanded $37 per share, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer withdrew the offer.
In recent weeks, Ballmer has been trying to buy Yahoo‘s search engine instead.
Yahoo concluded that its search engine was too important to sell piecemeal.
Without explaining its logic, Microsoft said it believed a deal involving Yahoo‘s search engine would have been more valuable to Yahoo than if it had bought the entire company at $33 per share. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it remains open to buying Yahoo‘s search operations.
Yahoo‘s deal with Google includes an escape hatch should Microsoft or another suitor buy the company. If Yahoo is sold, Google would receive a termination fee of up to $250 million.
That clause could still raise hope that Icahn might be able to renew the Microsoft talks if he can win control of Yahoo‘s board.
The deal shapes up as a major victory for Mountain View-based Google, which didn‘t want Yahoo to fall into Microsoft‘s clutches.
"I am happy to be helping them to stay independent," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a Thursday interview.
With a Yahoo deal off the table, Microsoft could set its sights on a smaller acquisition that still might help its unprofitable Internet operations. Analysts have cited Time Warner Inc.‘s AOL, Internet software service provider Salesforce.com Inc. and leading online social networks, News Corp.‘s MySpace and Facebook Inc. as possible targets.
The Google partnership expands upon a two-week trial conducted in April while Yahoo was trying to pressure Microsoft into raising its bid. The tests confirmed Google‘s technology would generate more revenue for Yahoo than its own system, which cost more than $2 billion to acquire and improve.
Nevertheless, Yahoo still intends to use its own search engine to distribute some ads and process all search requests. Working with Google will give Yahoo "the best of both worlds," Yahoo President Sue

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