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Advertise Your Business: Simple steps to building a website
Aug 20th
Sometimes building your own website can be a very daunting experience – pretty much it’s like building your dream house. We know this because we’ve built several of our own websites and also some for our clients. They came to us because they didn’t know where to begin which is quite understandable for those that don’t know the process. So we thought we’d provide our readers with some simple steps in building websites from start to finish. This doesn’t include creating content or images. Here are the steps:
Caught a computer virus
Apr 10th
This week my computer caught a virus… I must have got it when sharing a USB Drive with a friend and the anti-virus software didn’t pick this up. What prompted me to scan my computer was a notification from my ISP saying that access to the Internet was blocked to due email spam.
Upon investigation, running a netstat -ano showed that there were indeed SMTP (port 25) outbound connections to various IP addresses. I also noticed that browsing the Internet was slow and the system would occasionally reboot by itself (if you have these symptoms I would suggest you look into this further). Rebuilding the OS and then installing an anti-virus software fixed the issue but this was very disruptive. I was almost out of action for the whole day and was unable to do any work. I now have a better understanding of why large corporate businesses are so persistent with ensuring they have the latest security patches and anti-virus definitions – a virus outbreak in any business can impact the day to day operations of the business which means loss in profit and productivity.
There are many anti-virus applications on the market but you can try BitDefender – it also has an online scanner.
Have you been affected by a computer virus in your business?
