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What is Safe Mode Safe Mode is a way to access your Windows based computer when normal start up doesn’t occur because of faults in the system, due to bad updates, viruses or bad configuration etc. Starting your computer in Safe Mode will hopefully give you limited access to your operating system to run diagnosis and make changes and repairs… Read more →
Most of us have probably heard of one of these services. With the race being on for who will be the most superior cloud storage provider, it is hard to know which services are legitimate, and what has to offer. This post hopes to provide some insight as to what these services are and what each can provide to help… Read more →
The majority of viruses, malware, spyware and ad-ware we see on peoples computers is stuff they have accidentally installed themselves, by downloading and installing software associated with free; such as games and movies etc. But there are many other ways for your computer to get a virus, email being one of the big ones. Can I get a Virus from… Read more →
Email from customer: Hi Ross, I am still having a tonne of fun with Linux and am learning new and interesting stuff everyday. Although everyone said it was a big learning curve I haven’t found it to be a lot of trouble. There was one questions though. I am doing regular updates because I like to keep my system up… Read more →
Anyone who follows my blog will know I am not a great fan of antivirus programs. It’s just I see dozens of computers every month with viruses and they all have some sort of Anti-virus Malware type protection on them. I don’t think they are anywhere as good as they should be and all my customers are certainly under the… Read more →
Although there are many parts and different types of software and hardware on your computer, the two main parts people mostly refer to are hardware and software. Hardware the physical components you can touch like your motherboard, hard drive, mouse, monitor, keyboard, memory and so on. What is Software Software can be anything from the operating system you are using such… Read more →
This post is a continuation of my recent post, Best Linux Tools – Part 1 Virtualisation Wine For all Windows users out there who just have to have one of their Windows applications running on Linux all is not lost. Wine is a Linux program you run on your Linux computer which executes Windows programs. It all sounds a bit… Read more →
Hacking is such an old fashioned generic term which to the public meant something like a teenage boy in his basement, trying to get onto a government computer and start a war. When in real life most computer programmers hack away at their computer, writing code. There not only seems to be a lot misconception not only what hacking is,… Read more →
The old Apple Mac Computer gets left out of a lot of Virus, Malware, Spyware and Ransomware conversations. Over the years the OSX operating system has become renowned for its security and ability to stay safe against viruses. This of course was not true. Apple Mac computers are not immune to all of the above but due the seciruty built… Read more →
You’ve just bought a new computer, with the latest processor, heaps of memory and a fast hard drive. It should be running super fast, but it still takes a while to start up, login and get to what your doing. Your left wondering why. Well the chances are you didn’t buy a dud. In fact, even a 3 years old… Read more →
