Below are the links to the best available online scanners that search for spyware and viruses on a computer the scanners are run from. They use ActiveXs/plugins in order to access the computer’s file system, so they need to be allowed to be loaded by the computer firewall and/or by other antispyware/antivirus program running on [...]
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Imagine that you have a situation: you’ve been installing and uninstalling some programs for a week or so, was switching your computer on and off, doing some other stuff but then you need to read a DVD and the computer does not recognise it. And I mean not just doesn’t recognise a DVD disk but [...]
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Some time ago in this blog I wrote an article about the trend in computer sales: the sales of laptops have overtaken sales of desktops. This has happened because of the falling prices, people’s desire to be more mobile and the rise of the Internet availability and speed.
The latter gave way [...]
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Recently there has been a story in the news that the sales of the laptop computers have overtaken the desktop computer sales. There are many good reasons to this trend, which, I’m sure, is going to be observed in the near future thus reducing the number of desktops in households around the world.
The reasons for [...]
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The Internet statistics shows that people mostly use Internet Explorer to browse the Internet. The other browsers like Firefox, Opera, Safari and now Chrome are not as popular as Internet Explorer. There is nothing unusual about that because Internet Explorer comes with all editions of Windows operation system and supported by Microsoft. After all, all [...]
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