Believe it or not, computer viruses have been around since the early 1970s — and unfortunately aren’t going away anytime soon. More than 24 million people dealt with a serious virus in 2009, and that number has climbed year-over-year: There has been a “five-fold increase” in cyberattacks in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the …
You’re in the middle of a critical work assignment. Your eyes are glued to the clock. Then, suddenly, in the middle of that oh-so-important draft, your computer freezes. You move the mouse, desperately hoping that your cursor scurries across the screen, but nothing happens. Your computer went from a multitasking hero to a frozen-in-time zero. …
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Is your Mac slow? Are you suffering from freezes, crashes, reboots, or lag? Your random access memory (RAM) may be to blame. Most Mac computers ship with around 8 GB of RAM. Old files and cluttered caches can eat away at it over time, causing your computer to slow down significantly. Unlike Windows 10 computers, …
You click on a digital file you need, but your computer refuses to open it. The message you get is that it can’t because it is encrypted. That leaves you wondering one very important question: How do you open encrypted files? There are several ways files can be encrypted. First of all, you or a …
It seems like you were pulling your new computer out of the box yesterday, but the slow speeds and increasing wait times tell another story. If you’ve been looking into ways to boost your computer’s operations, you may have come across the term “disk defrag.” A disk defrag is one of the best ways to …
Is your inbox packed with emails from a bunch of people or organizations you don’t know? If yes, you’re one of the many victims of spam emails. Statistics show that approximately 90% of all sent emails are spam. Unfortunately, these unsolicited messages clutter your inbox, making it hard for you to identify your relevant emails. …
If you’re interested in reselling your personal MacBook, it’s a good idea to wipe it beforehand. Wiping your computer helps you remove personal data and keep sensitive information private. Here we will discuss how to wipe a MacBook in order to protect your information before selling it. Selling your old MacBook is a good way …
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When the wrong people have access to your sensitive information, it can wreak havoc on your personal life as well as your business’s operations. You wouldn’t trust your sensitive paper documents to be safe in a trash or recycling bin without shredding them, would you? Well, it’s just as important to shred computer files you no longer …
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The debate about building the strongest password has been going on for decades now. Is it better to use gibberish with numbers and symbols, or uncommon words? Should we use transformed words, more than one word, strings of words? How easy is it for hackers to crack each method? This has eventually boiled down to …
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Your computer’s hard disk often has hundreds and sometimes thousands of junk files. This wouldn’t be a problem, except that they take up a lot of memory space and slow it down. You know what the most interesting thing is? Most people don’t even realize that their laptops or computers have junk files, where they …
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The internet is a valuable resource. For that reason, it is quite hard to imagine a world without online services at the moment. Unfortunately, the internet has become a space where malicious links, viruses, and Trojans hide. As a result, data breaches are now more frequent than ever due to the increased vulnerability of unsuspecting …
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Many people assume that their files are already safely destroyed when they put them into the “trash” icon on a computer desktop. Even more people feel that they are adequately deleted when they empty the trash and can no longer locate those files themselves. And some people even go one step further to utilize a free …
Have you ever needed to recover deleted files? Deleting files on a computer is a tricky business. After all, the designers of your computer software know that you have two opposing goals. First, you don’t want to be able to accidentally delete a file and never get it back, so deleting a file permanently shouldn’t be too …
There are many valid reasons and advantages to move away from the traditional office model and staff your company with a remote workforce. If you’re considering sending your employees home to work, there are things to consider. You can’t just lock the doors tomorrow morning and hold the afternoon meeting over Zoom. In 2020, more …
It’s an exciting time when you find out you get to move from working at the office to working from home. You have visions of days spent working in your pajamas dancing through your head. You’ve already set aside a specific work area and read all the articles about staying productive while you work from …
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With many employees taking on the newfound responsibility of working from home, they are accompanied by virtual private networks, or VPNs. Because the information that you will be utilizing from home is sensitive and is protected under specific network security at the office, it must have that same protection for remote access and those working …
In the days before the Digital Age, file destruction was as simple as feeding files into the paper shredder. Since the dawn of Big Data, however, confidential, personal, and sensitive information is no longer stored in a plain manila folder and sitting in a massive, gun-metal-grey file cabinet, waiting to be shredded. Electronic files need …
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To permanently delete files is to totally erase its existence. When you’ve hit the ‘delete’ button on a file, you want to make sure that it’s gone from your computer forever. However, computers are designed to keep a copy just in case you’ve made a mistake. To ensure that you have deleted files permanently, there …
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