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About Malware

Whenever you connect to the Internet, read your email, or share files with
others, you are at risk. Why? Because there are automated attacks against your
computer.

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About Solid State Drives
A solid-state drive (SSD) (also known as a solid-state disk or electronic disk though it contains no actual “disk” of any kind, nor motors to “drive” the disks) is a data storage device using integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently
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About Phishing

Phishing is a type of fraud that is designed to trick individuals into disclosing confidential and financial information for the purpose of identity theft.

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UPS – Standard Electrical Specification Terms
Electronics and Electricity, uses a wide range of terms to represent different kinds of measurement units. Many you have seen every day, and others from time to time in product specifications. These are all part of the Internat ional System of Units.

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About Video Cards
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and Peripheral Comp onent Interface (PCI) are two types of slots found on just about every current or recent motherboard. The differences lie in their capabilities.

 

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Email Scams and Hoaxes Guide

There are thousands of email hoaxes moving around the Internet at any given time. Some may be the latest email hoaxes around. Others may be mutated versions of hoax messages that have travelled the Internet for years.

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About Viruses

A computer virus is a program that invades your computer system, hides there, and makes copies of (replicates) itself. Viruses spread
when you launch an infected application or start up your computer from a disk that has infected system files.

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Data Recovery Guide

What you do after data is lost will decide whether
it can be recovered or not. Certain activities may result in permanent loss of data.

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Email WEBbased Pros and Cons

Many online e-mail providers are free, or at least offer a free version of their services with somewhat limited space for messaging. Especially in an uncertain economy, free is good.

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End of Line XP

On April 8, 2014, after more than a decade, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003. What does this mean? Windows XP users
no longer receive new security updates, nonsecurity hotfixes, free or paid support options, or online technical content updates from Microsoft.

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About the Web

The Internet has been around for about 25 years. Here are the events that got us where we are today:
Tim Berners-Lee created user-friendly “Web pages” that could travel over the Internet, a network built to shuttle research between universities.

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Terminology

BPS
Bits Per Second. Measurement of the speed at which data can be transmitted over a telephone or network line.
Browser
An application that displays a Web page. Also known as a Web browser.

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