Anti-Virus software consists of programs on your computer that make an attempt to identify and keep computer viruses off your computer.
The anti-virus software will most likely use a couple of different techniques to make sure the viruses stay off your computer.
The software will start to scan all your files you have saved so [...]
In the early days of personal computers, in the age of the DOS command-line operating system, there were viruses that hid their presence from the users and anti-virus programs.
They did it by intercepting some system calls that were responsible for reading the files, and lied to the system by filling these calls with fake [...]
You keep hearing there are all these scary things to avoid while being online.
There are so many confusing topics and just a lot of noise out there about what you should be doing and shouldnt be doing.
You get to the point where its easier to just not go online! You ask yourself, what [...]
