04 June 2009
Have you ever gotten a trojan that you just can't get rid of on your computer? Sometimes an antivirus program will simply refuse to detect one of these, or if they do, are unable to remove them. Here's a wonderful program that I have used and has done wonders.
http://www.simplysup.com/
Make sure you run the updates before running a system scan.
Even if you don't have a blatantly obvious trojan but you feel like your system is bogged down with spyware/malware, try scanning it with one of these programs...
1. Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware [http://www.malwarebytes.org/]
2. Spybot Search and Destroy [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html]
3. Superantispyware [http://superantispyware.com/]
4. Spyware Terminator [http://www.spywareterminator.com/]
Whenever you open a program, your computer records it in its prefetching files. Whenever you visit websites, temporary internet files are created. These files allow quicker access to these programs or websites, but over time, these files can build up and actually SLOW down instead of speeding up.
03 June 2009
Let's face it, we download a lot of stuff just to try it out for a day or two until we totally forget about it. I admit it, I do that all the time. I see something interesting, I just feel the need to play around with it. But over time, this can cause your system to slow down drastically, especially during bootup. What used to be a speedy startup can now take minutes just for hourglass on your cursor to go away.
When we buy a new computer, it usually comes with pre-installed software. Well sometimes, we just don't like whats there. Not to mention that it can totally bog down system resources and take up harddrive space.