Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, Rootkits, Spyware, and Adware are collectively known as “Malware” (malicious software). Malware compromises your computer’s security and often makes your machine unusable. It is secretly installed on a majority of computer systems today.
Fortunately, our technicians have the skills and experience necessary to protect your systems and networks from costly infections. We can develop a multi-tiered plan designed specifically to protect your system. This includes properly configured firewalls, continually self updating virus protection software packages, and real time scanning features that monitor all incoming and outgoing mail.
If your system have been compromised, our experienced technicians will protect your data and remove all infections. We will then install systems to protect against future attacks. Please note that while we will do our absolute best to preserve your system and application environment, it is sometimes necessary to rebuild the system in the most extreme of cases. This will ensure that the previous infection on your system will not become re-infected. In these situations, most of your application settings will be preserved but software will often need to be re-installed.
Do you have any of these symptoms?
- Your computer runs more slowly than normal
- Programs on your computer don’t work correctly
- Disks or disk drives are inaccessible
- Files and folders are inaccessible
- You can’t print correctly
- Unexpected messages are suddenly displayed
- Programs suddenly start on your computer
- Your computer becomes unstable
- Frequent lock-ups, freezing, crashing or if you computer re-starts on it’s own
- Your firewall alerts you to an unknown program trying to access the internet
- The homepage of your browser has changed suddenly
- Excessive popup windows, that you are unable to stop or close
- Your files and folders are getting deleted automatically
- The anti-virus software that you have is not working properly, or disabled
- Blue screen error messages
Above are common signs of malware infection and the longer these are on your computer or laptop, the worse they will get.
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