Viruses - my friend hates them

My friend came to me because of the problem he had with his wireless connection. So we started to track down possible problems to find the solution. But his computer was somehow disturbed. The computer was running slow, and didn't response to any commands at all.

We tried to terminate several prosesses in order to free capacity, but no luck. It seemed that the computer had a lot to do and couldn't get any free power to even shut down running prosesses. In my eyes, this clearly seemed like my friend had been another innocent victim of cruel intentions and hard work.

With a so slow computer, we decided that we should simply try to restart the system, and try to gain control over it again. So we pushed the restart button. It went black, and then it booted up for a second. As soon as it came alive again, we both looked at eachother with wide open eyes. We could not believe what we saw.

"Non system disk" was the message we on the screen. It meant that his main drive on the computer was empty. No system files installed. We were gasping.

He lost his whole system because of an infection of viruses. As a disease it broke down his system, like a human disease will do to our body. He lost his music collection, his latest couple of days of work, and a lot of private stuff. He did not take any backups, only the work he had done a couple of days earlier. He could not believe it. It was like the world collapsed he told me.

I have no problem understanding him. I had a crash when I lost my whole list of merchandise. All together over 300 000 items. That was one very dark day. I then saw that a simple little thing could have spared me for all those weeks of work after that. A backup list. One single cd, memorystick, dvd, diskette, or anything that could store my extra copy of the list.

I sit here to day and I know from years of experience that backups are very important. But to ensure that your computer is quick and healthy also, and don't collaps entirely, I seriously recommend that you get yourself a copy of some quality protection software. There are two more things I strongly recommend you to protect yourself from. If you would like to know what they are, and how to stand up against them, please visit the website described below.

About the Author: Raymond Johansen is a writer for Free Pc Assistance. A website dedicated to computer safety. Visit our site if your computer running slow.