PC Safety

As a successful entrepreneur you need to communicate all day, every day, with your customers, suppliers, partners, employees, and others. You need to keep records. You need to have reliable access to email and the internet.

Nasty little software programs are out there which will slow, snarl or even stop your computer and your Internet connection.

Some of them will track your activity, and some will even mine your personal or business information. This malicious software – or “malware” for short – is an every day problem that can, if left unchecked, render your computer worthless, harm your business, and potentially even harm your life.

The purpose of a software virus is to cause damage, either to your machine, or to use your machine in a coordinated attack on other machines or indeed, on the whole Internet.

Viruses can generally be stopped before they hit your machine.

Spyware is a buzzword that has many different facets and definitions.

Spyware is unlike a virus in that its purpose is rarely mayhem but rather information gathering, which may be for legitimate marketing purposes (as discussed in a few minutes), but more often is for purposes ranging from the irritating and invasive to the downright criminal.