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In the first days of the Internet is was safe to surf online, however as more and more people become connected worldwide there are numbers who will try their very best to damage your computer or steal your personal information and commit fraud conning you out of money.
Securing Your Computer for online use.
If you wish to take your computer online there is always a risk from malicious software, spyware and computer viruses that have been placed
to corrupt and infiltrate your machine to do anything from causing it damage to stealing your personal or bank account details.
Staying protected against the latest threat
Computer viruses and malicious sofware programs are constantly released and modified day in day out by hackers to avoid detection by anti-spyware programs that have been updated to become aware of their existence. You can't always guarantee total protection from every new threat but you can and should take every other precaution to protect your computer if you surf the public network.
If your worried about the threat of spyware or viruses and identity fraud we can help secure your machine for online use by installing and configuring antispyware and anti-virus software, harden your machines operating system and give you tutorials in online surfing safety and computer security.
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My computer has slowed to a halt !
If you've found that your machine isn't running as fast as it used to be or that you keep getting annoying pop-up adverts when your connected to the internet, Spyware is probably to blame, clogging up your hardrive with numbers of illegal programs which also eats up your c.p.u. power as they all try to run on startup making your computer slow or freeze completely. Even if your machine seems as fast as ever you may still have some kind of spyware program accidentally installed without your knowledge which is passing on details of your passwords or online bank account or maybe files on your machine. There is also the possibility of something like a worm or virus totally corrupting your whole operating system and you losing everything. Also if you've found your PC is running slow it maybe that your resources are being used up by programs you have installed like Norton, in a situation like this we can upgrade your computer or change settings to help you regain your machine.
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How can we help you to protect your computer before a compromise?
We can install anti-Virus software to scan your p.c. and help protect it from malicious software, spyware, worms and trojan horses. We can install anti-Virus software to scan your p.c. and help protect it from remove viruses. We will check and install if needed any security updates and patches available for your machines operating system. We will try to harden your machines operating system by optimising it's configuration. (XP Only) We can install a software firewall to your machine to help stop spyware being downloaded without your knowledge. We can install and configure a secure web browser for you. If a particular person in your family keeps visiting problem sites which are known to install spyware, we can block them from doing so. We can also give advice and diagnosis of where your problem arose from and how best to avoid it in the future.
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How can we help you to save your computer after a compromise?
All of the above points. We can try to remove any malicious software found on your machine. We can use system tools to take a deep look inside your computer. This is because new viruses come out daily and spyware scanning tools may not find them hidden deep within your system. If your computer won't start or is just a blank screen because of a virus or spyware program we can save any valuable files you have on your machine such as documents or music. If you've had a virus which has left your machine in a bad way we may-be able to repair it for you and get it running as normal again. If you have had a virus/spyware program on you machine it may not be possible to remove it, in these cases we recommend a complete fresh install of your operating system and will carry this out for you.
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