Tech Tips
Malicous software can be very good at defending itself. Thus, the best way to remove it, is not to let it run in the first place. You can do this by booting the machine from a CD and running an operating system on the CD that treats the C disk as a data disk. See this series of articles by our webmaster:
The Best Way to Remove Viruses, Spyware and other Malware (Part 1) May 19, 2009
How to Remove Malware: Booting from a CD (Part 2) June 16,2009
The Best Way to Remove Viruses and Malware: The Clean-Up (Part 3) July 20,2009
A different kind of article on netbook computers, written by our webmaster, is Living with a Netbook: Battery Life to Screen Resize. The vast majority of computer reviews deal with new machines and their assorted features. This article is more about living with a netbook - well after the new toy high has dissipated.
Our webmaster, Michael Horowitz, has a Defensive Computing blog at Computerworld.com with assorted tech tips, including a series of articles on protecting your computer from USB flash drives that contain malware. The Conficker worm is among many others that spread by infecting a USB flash drive.
Two new articles by NYACC members.
- How to Speed up your system by Hank Kee.
- Organizing Your Files and Folders by Fred Kahn.