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Breaking Down the Language Barrier
Pretty soon language will no longer be a barrier that keeps humanity separated. The Internet has become the ultimate medium for communication amongst humans. When it first began, websites were predominantly written in English, but over time all the...
Creating Content With Style - Part 1
You will need to write. Sooner or later we all have to write. With the advent of the computer, professional looking copy is easily available. Well sort of. You might think that using a word processor is like a using a typewriter. Wrong. Word...
The Secret To Mining Online Gold Using The Hidden
Word Count 716 Character Width 60 resource box 5 lines+ weblink to the "Internet Treasures Superpak" ================================================= The Secret To Mining Online Gold Using The Hidden Profits In Digital Resale Products By Ebong...
Top 5 Tips To Building A Large, RESPONSIVE List
Regardless of which type of product or service you're marketing Online, building an in house list of prospects is absolutely essential. One thing that is often not taken into consideration is subscriber quality and retention. Having a big list...
your business at stake
(c) by Daria Winkler We do believe in healthy sense of paranoia. Not the paranoia, which makes us feverishly try to distinguish ourselves from our competitors, but the paranoia, which makes us feel the iron hand of competition and gives us the...
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AntiVirus Warning
It is a sad day when the antivirus software messes up your computer more than the @#$& virus you got in yesterday's email. The more complex antivirus software gets, the more it becomes like a virus itself. In honor of my recent discovery of a new problem with my antivirus program, here are a few pitfalls of popular (and not so popular) programs:
1. "Norton Crash Guard crashes my computer."
This is the first problem I noticed with Symantec's popular suite of computer protective software. Norton Crash Guard immediately forced my brother's new Compaq computer even with errors that would normally just shut down the program involved. (That was just the worse case.)
On other computers, loading Crash Guard slowed down the computer so much I felt compelled to take it off.
2. "Norton AntiVirus is keeping me from accessing the internet."
When I first installed Norton AntiVirus, I had to call our internet service provider AND Eudora in order to access email again. It turns out the program tries to route all email through their server to check for viruses. You have to go into your preferences and reset them in a way that will work with your internet service provider.
I'm not the only one, either! I recently received a message from a direct mail guru who said he was offline for almost 12 hours because he loaded Norton AntiVirus to delete a virus he inadvertently picked up from an email message.
3. "Norton Systemworks is slowing down my computer."
My Dad recently took a computer in because it was having some problems. The technician told him they recommended everyone uninstall the Norton Systemworks computer monitor (the little window that tells you how much your drive is fragmented, how much of your CPU you're using, etc.).
They claim the little box does nothing Windows doesn't already and slows your computer
down 10%! (I believe them. I remember how much faster the computers were before we loaded it, and my computer at home has been fine without it.)
4. "Internet Explorer (IE) won't work!"
This was my big problem for over a year. It started (coincidentally) about the same time I loaded Netscape 4.7. I've heard of other people having problems with Netscape and IE on the same computer, so I assumed Netscape was the problem.
I tried installing Netscape and re-installing it. I tried uninstalling IE and re-installing it. Nothing worked.
Sunday night, my antivirus program (Aladdin's E- Safe Desktop) gave me an error when IE accidentally popped up. I unloaded the program, and IE started to work! I don't know why I didn't think of it before. I uninstalled the program and now IE works fine.
IE has ActiveX, a language that has been found capable of delivering viruses, and Microsoft is constantly using it to send update information to users. My virus protection software shut down the program for my computer's own good!
5. "What about McAfee?"
Well, maybe McAfee is better. It's been working okay on my computer for about a week now. However, I've heard horror stories about them from some of my subscribers as well! In the past, I've had problems with updates.
"There's always hope!"
I polled my subscribers about the best antivirus solutions, and Trend Software's PC-Cillan won. You can download their software (priced competitively with Norton's AntiVirus and McAfee's Virus Shield at http://www.trend.com/
One subscriber also recommended a free solution: AVG anti-virus from http://www.grisoft.com
Good luck!
About the Author
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Tucows Downloads - Download Freeware and Shareware Software |
Download freeware, shareware, and demos. Maintains over 45000 software titles that are tested, rated, reviewed and ready to download. |
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Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com |
Download shareware, freeware and Demo software for PC, Mac, Linux, and Handhelds categorized into categories, plus software reviews. |
www.download.com |
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Computer software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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www.computer.org |
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downloads.zdnet.com |
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Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
Listing of the GNU software packages. |
www.gnu.org |
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Joel on Software |
A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies. |
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Online shopping for computer & video games, business & office productivity software, software from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe & more; accounting, antivirus, ... |
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IBM Software - Home Page |
IBM home page for all of its software products, including Lotus and Tivoli, with keyword search, category browse and AZ product names. |
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Opera web browser: Homepage |
Copyright © 2006 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved. Skip navigation. Opera Software ... Copyright Opera Software ASA . All rights reserved. ... |
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Google Directory - Computers > Software |
Search only in Software Search the Web ... Software Categorized by Letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ... |
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