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You must have either two hard drives or one hard drive with two partitions to do this. Outlook Express Users There is a way to set up your system so if you lose your C drive to a virus, all of your email will still be entact! It’s very easy to set up. Simply do [...]

Has your computer ever gotten a virus that was so malicious, you had to completely erase your hard drive by reformatting it? And then you had to go through the arduous process of resinstalling your operating system and all of your programs? That was hard enough to deal with, but the real zinger of the [...]

Seeing that Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser by PC users, that is the browser that most of the authors of spyware, malware, etc., target. So, I suggest that you switch from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox (a free program) for your default Internet browser. This will not only greatly decrease the chances [...]

If you don’t have Windows XP, then you will need a wireless connection manager for your Wi-Fi connection so you can see what wireless networks are available, and choose the one to which you would like to connect. Well, T-Mobile offers a very cool (and very good) Wi-Fi connection manager client for free here: http://client.hotspot.t-mobile.com/ [...]

Having an anti-virus program (AV program) running on your computer is imperative to its healthy operation. Not only should you have an AV program installed and running on your computer, but your virus definitions should be up-to-date as well. What are virus definitions, you ask? Well, they are simply data files that define what a [...]

The first thing I want to talk about is the dreaded popups. You know, those windows that pop up every time you go to a new site. It has become so common that the average person thinks that it is normal. Well, guess what? It’s not. So many people are being affected by this latest [...]

I have just created this blog for my website, www.ianbrown.cc (why “.cc”? Because “.com” was taken). This will allow me to easily keep my website up to date with my latest thoughts and tips. I hope you benefit from it. Being educated on computers is incredibly important nowadays, and I will do my best to [...]