Good morning, Teary, will-be-apostate and tornaport:
What a wealth of information -- thank you very much. I've learned a great deal from everyone's posts and will act with greater caution as a result.
Blessings, peace and safety as you surf!
CoCo
Any tips for safe web surfing?
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falseprophet
Create a second account in Microsoft Windows.
It should be a 'Standard' account, not 'Administrator' like your first account.
You should use this account for normal day-to-day use since it stops installation of programs and blocks lots of other stuff being modified on your computer. To install software or make system changes, just log in with the first account (administrator).
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compound complex
Thank you, falseprophet!
I'll see to that asap!
Peace.
CoCo
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Teary Oberon
I might also add:
In my own personal computing, I do not use my laptop hard drive for storage of anything important. I store everything (files, backups, passwords, brower favorites, program installers) on an external hard drive and try to keep the laptop's operating hard drive as clean as possible.
This way, if something ever does happen to my laptop, I am not a risk to lose anything. If I need to, I can simply wipe my entire hard drive and reset back to factory defaults without worrying about losing a bunch of stuff, because it is all stored somewhere else.
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villagegirl
PC's and Macs are two different animals, Macs do not get Viruses.
PC's get them by the thousands and crash and freeze and do stuff
Macs would never do. Anti-virus software is for our poor unfortunate PC
owning brethern. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to them. Lets MODIFY
that to say 99.9% of all viruses effect only PC's. I have owned Macs
since 1981 and never, ever, had a virus, can any PC owner you know say that?
I have also never known any Mac user who have a virus on his Mac.
CompoundComplex - right now as we speak, I am on my Macbook Pro
running 10.8.5 , this thing has a solid state flash drive with no moving
parts and a retina screen with extremely high definition and its stable and
runs anything at the speed of light. I recommend you upgrade to a
newer machine. It does not have to be new. But it should have at
least 8 gb of RAM ( random access memory ) and a 2.4 processor
or as close to that as you can get. Look under the Apple icon on the
upper left hand of your computer screen and click on it to see
About this Mac and more - it will tell you what operating system
you have and what speed processor you have and the "memory"
which is the RAM . Look in the hard drive by clicking on the
hard drive icon in the upper right of your screen, Do a 'Get info'
on it by the dropdown menu and it will tell you what size storage
you have and how close to capacity you are. If you have a bunch
of useless files filling up your hard drive, drag them into the trash
and then under the File menu at the top of your screen,
do a Secure Empty Trash to get rid of them. This will increase
your speed and efficiency. Also do not use Explorer or Firefox
Use Safari, and upgrade your operating system to a 10 or Tiger
or Lion if it will run it. Go to Apple and download a newer operating
system. Used Macs can be had on craigslist, get a 2011 at least.
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cofty
Macs do not get Viruses.
"Apple has dropped claims on its website that Mac computers do not get viruses, after hundreds of thousands of machines were hijacked by a Trojan..."
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Teary Oberon
Macs statistically not getting viruses has nothing to do with them having better security. If anything, Macs would have WORSE security do them not having experience with a lot of viruses and attacks.
The only reason why Macs have statisitically less viruses is because statistically less people actually use Macs compared to PC's, and hackers focus their time on the system that is more popular.