Tips on Ensuring the Security of Your Computer

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Tips on Ensuring the Security of Your Computer

Just because your computer is acting strangely or one of your programs doesn't work right, this does NOT mean that your computer has a virus. If you haven't used a good, up-to-date internet security software anti-virus program on your computer, do that first. Many problems blamed on viruses are actually caused by software configuration errors or other problems that have nothing to do with a virus.

   

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