Have you ever experience (or seen) the situation where your computer is infected with virus, malware, spyware and your expensive antivirus software can’t do a single thing about it? Being a system administrator for several years, I have seen plenty of customers who have paid a high price for antivirus software. Yet when their computers are infected, the expensive antivirus software is not capable of removing the virus/malware/spyware. Adding to that, in some cases when it can’t remove the virus, it immobilizes the computer instead, which leads to plenty of frustration for the customers.
Safe Returner is a post-infection malware removal tool that aims to remove the malware in your computer when all other antivirus software fails.
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As Apple’s Mac computers grow in popularity, so too will the frequency with which they are targeted in attacks. While the debate about whether or not Mac’s truly are inherently more secure than PC’s rages on, and probably will for some time, its inarguable that being extra secure is never a bad thing regardless of what system your using. With that being said, here are some of the best ways I’ve found to secure your Mac.
It’s not the operating system of connoisseurs; rather, it is the masses who follow herd mentality and go with Windows, the OS that we all love to hate, but which we cannot live without nonetheless. Yes, the original software is expensive and there are numerous bugs in each version of the Windows operating system, but we still take to it like a duck to water for various reasons:
Viruses. They happen to almost everyone. If they don’t happen to you, it’ll be your cousin Stan who get joins the malware-of-the-month club, and you’re the only person he knows who can fix a computer. The problem is, things are so screwed up that Windows won’t even start properly. And if it does, the virus has embedded itself so deeply that you can’t access the files and tools you’d need to remove it. Enter Linux. By booting from a Linux Live CD or USB, you can remove the offending programs manually or with a Linux-based anti-virus program. This guide will cover creation of a bootable USB Linux system as well as a comparison of the antivirus software options.
Having a reliable antivirus software is something that every Windows user should have on his/her own computer. However, these antivirus tools are usually very expensive and use up way too much computer memory.