Four years ago I made a website about protecting computers from viruses due to the fact, really honestly, I just felt sorry for an individual.

It all began when my sister-in-law’s personal computer at residence was being infected by 1 form of virus or one more at the rate of about as soon as a month. That was practically tragic simply because of the quantity of data that was becoming lost, time wasted and funds becoming needlessly spent on computer repair. In most of the virus infection incidents, her difficult disk had to be reformatted not to mention some of the other hardware components were becoming damaged.


A lot of instances, the virus infection could have been prevented. At that time, her personal computer was running on Windows 98 and she by no means upgraded the browser, Interent Explorer version 4, to start with. She was also making use of the Outlook Express program that came with Win 98 for her emails and never upgraded it. She or perhaps someone in her family was fond of carelessly forwarding “chain” emails like jokes and prayers. Needless to say, all that junk mail that was being dumped on other people came back to haunt her. She began receiving emails with attachments that had been truly viruses. And utilizing an unpatched Outlook Express on those kinds of e-mail is like leaving the doors and windows of your home wide open. Sooner or later, some thing poor is bound to occur.

Some of her kids were also fond of using net relay chat (IRC) and/or using some form of file sharing software like Kazaa or somesuch. Using these kinds of programs are an invitation to disaster as nicely.

The clincher, as you would have guessed by now, is that she never installed any form of anti virus program on her computer.

For that reason, drawing from real-life experience motivated me to produce a site of this nature. It is indeed wonderful and possibly sad to a specific extent that some folks do not take laptop or computer protection seriously. Not that the world is going to end unless you secure your pc, but if some thing like what was just described happened to you, you would possibly have saved your self a lot of grief if any sort of precaution was taken.

For much more than a year now, my sister-in-law’s laptop or computer has been working with out any far more troubles following heeding the guidance of a brother-in-law. She’s updated her browser and e-mail software and installed an anti virus program. As for her children, they had to take the bitter medicine—no more on-line chats and file-sharing software. I never asked her, but I’m positive in the back of her mind she must have thought that all the headache and needless expenses could have been avoided if she had only taken some straightforward steps to protecting her personal computer.


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