There are a number of reasons why these activities are important.
• Anti - virus protection: Anti-virus software can be especially important to protect your pc while online, you could suffer from any source of virus,worm and trojan etc your computer could be uploaded with several thousand viruses at one time which could cripple your pc altogether to the extent that you would have to format the entire hard drive just to make it start again.
Anti-virus can protect from these viruses by updating the software regularly so that you are always protected against the latest written virus etc
• schedule a full weekly system scan with the anti-virus very much in mind a full weekly scan of the computer with the anti-virus software is definitely most recommended, the software scans your computer to search for anything harmful in which case it will either destroy it or disable it leaving your computer safe to continue without any harm.
• install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP: SP3 is the most up to date update for Windows XP, it contains all previous updates to date and several upgrades to its secure firewall and security. The update comes highly recommended by Windows XP users and Microsoft team. Some users of SP3 have even reported a slight imporvement in the speed of their machine after installation.
• clean-up tools: Clean up tools such as C Cleaner are quite highly praised for their ability to do just what they say in the name, clean up. C cleaner similarly to anti-virus can find and disable or destroy anything harmful to the system with the ability to destroy anything that might be slowing the computer down internally such as unused back-up files etc.
• drive formatting: drive formatting is sometimes but not always the best way to go when you need to get rid of something on your drive, for instance if a virus affected a certain drive then formatting would be the only option which would result in you losing everything on that drive including music, video, photographs etc although when the virus affects the whole computer then the main hard drive must be formatted leaving nothing on the computer at all, not even the operating system (Windows, Linux etc) so be careful!!!
• install and run a firewall: A firewall is an essential tool when working online these days, with so many new spyware, spam viruses etc (not to mention the idea of hackers) a personal firewall is essential to protect you from any unwanted attention from people who want to do harm to your pc, all a hacker needs is your IP address to take control and that can easily be stolen from you by means of trojan or worm or any other type of virus etc. Remember that if a hacker takes control over your computer he takes control of any accounts you have online, your banking account, your online shopping accounts, chatroom or online community accounts,
WATCH OUT!!!
• create folders: Creating folders is sometimes very important depending on the person and what purpose the user wants to use it for. Creating ordinary folders can be handy to sort certain files such as work documents, music, video, mp3s etc whereas a zipped or compressed folder can compress your folder and all files in it into a smaller size so that it can be copied or moved much more easily, it also takes up less space on your hard drive.
• copy and delete files: Copying and deleting files can be very handy and also sometimes essential. When deleting files you can dispose of any unwanted files or documents and also if you disticntly know if you have been sent a virus in the form of lets say an email you can simply delete it with no repurcussions as it was not opened. Copying can also be very useful when dealing with any work that you need backed up etc so that you dont lose it.
• Back-up to CD using compression software: Backing up on to cd can be very useful and sometimes a very responsible thing to do, with backup files still on the hard drive in the computer, they can still be accessed and destroyed by a hacker or virus etc, by placing these files on a disk they can only be handled by a physical force leaving you much safer. If many viruses gather on your computer at one time you will be forced to format your hard drive anyway so if viruses dont get your files you will have to destroy them yourself at some point to get back to normal
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