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What is Malware?
Is you computer running much slower than it normally does? Are you getting a lot of pesky pop-up advertisements? Are files missing or are you seeing new files on your computer? Find you have a new homepage? If so, you may have some unwanted programs running on your computer. You may be the victim of malware.
To put it simply, the word malware comes from the abbreviated term to describe “malicious software.” It is any software that is harmful to a computer user. Along with viruses, malware may be one of computer users’ biggest threats on the Internet. Malware includes spyware and adware programs which can be used to track your surfing habits and create those nasty pop-up advertisements, as well as hijacking your browser and installing unwanted toolbars.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, Staying Online
We have been saddened this year to see some companies who have been online for years let their subscriptions lapse or actually pull their sites off the web. None of our hosting clients have done this yet, thank goodness, but we’ve seen it all the same. Mostly from smaller companies and some retailers so far. We wondered why this was so so we asked a few of them.