I want say Happy New Years to all my readers! You help compscistuff to get over 24,517 unique vistors for 2009.

I just wanted to thank all the people that supported people and plan to take things to another level for 2010.

SO THANKS EVERYONE!

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This is probably the most asked question I have received in my life! So in order for people to have clean PCs and keep my phone calls low. I will develop a guide on this.

A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the owner. That is the purpose of a virus and thats all the common user needs to understand, that its whole purpose is to bring you down.

How to get it off my computer

There are several programs out there to remove a virus off your computer for free. Chances are if you have a virus most likely you have a windows operating system. The reality is if you have windows operating system you are more prone to getting viruses than any operating system in the world and why? Simple because that is the most commonly use operating system in the world. So hackers figure in order to get the most information or money we should develop for that operating system. For supporting info, Check out the Apple Commericals.

Here are a list of free virus programs that can remove viruses off your computer

• Avira
• Avast
• AVG

I prefer Avira but everyone have their preferences in this section so try them out. Even still if you caught a virus and removed it you either need to expand your knowledge and/or spend money on a good program to remove any new ones that may come to your computer. So if you wish to spend money on an anti virus program I would get the premium versions of the programs above or check out the top 10 reviews for antivirus programs. I personally suggest Kaspersky, it is such a great program for catching and removing viruses.

How to prevent malicious infections

The best way to prevent viruses is know the most common ways a virus get on your computer. Some of the most common ways viruses get on your computer is through email, downloading illegal software, music from un-accredited sites. These sources are all because the user is unaware of what it could be and open it unleashing a rogue virus on their system. So if you don’t know where it is from or if the website un-accredited DON’T DOWNLOAD IT! Another way is through peer to peer networks or torrent websites. Hackers take advantage of the venues because they know people will know want free software and music but do not realize that will have to pay with giving up the information to viruses.

I would also recommend for you to have firewall. A firewall blocks attacks on your computer and network from hackers. I would recommend comodo and zone alarm. They are pretty efficient firewalls and get the job done. You can even download comodo for free.

Operating Systems that virus prone

The best way to prevent a virus is to have operating system that is incompatible with a virus (commonly windows viruses). When the virus is incompatible with the virus it will become impossible for you the virus to affect your system. Here is a list of operating systems that are incompatible with windows viruses:

• Linux distributions such Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, etc – Cost Free
• Mac OS X (Apple products) – Cost High when compared to other operating systems

I would recommend gettiing Mac OS X which comes with any apple computer. It will be the easier transition from windows and the price is pretty reasonable because of the quality. I will even mention that the macbook pro is the best laptop I have ever had.

Conclusion

Here are your choices when it comes to viruses:

Windows Operating Systems

• Either pay/get free for a antivirus and/or firewall and increase your knowledge on viruses
• Or just have your information be sold to the highest bidder

Linux

• Get a free Operating System and incompatibilty to windows viruses, and learn how to work the operating system. Linux is making things easier for Windows users but it is bit of a learning curve for new users.

Mac

• Pay a higher normal price for operating system and hardware and don’t worry about any viruses, and work in a great environment.

You can make the decision all I do is make your aware your choices. It’s either the red pill, blue pill or green pill. Have a nice day!

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I stumbled across this picture on the internet and thought that all my viewers needed to see this!  This is a picture of the virginity rates among students at Wellesley College according to the student’s major. Wow there are no virgins in the studio arts majors! But look at where computer science is at! The top five! It goes to show that we are not all about computers, lol.

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I want to thank the readers for constantly visiting compscistuff.com and helping our website skyrocket over 14,000,000 websites!!!!!!!!! Just for helping our website get to this level I will unveil our keys to success.

Search Engine Optimization – by using these techniques it will bring your website a long way google alone brought 300 people to our website each month.

Fast loading times – by using gzip and picture compression techniques this allowed our website to load up in considerable amount of time on just about any internet connection.

Search Engine Submission – by submitting our website to yahoo, google and msn live it allowed regular internet users to explore our page without any knowledge of our page.

25 articles – by writing 25 articles on computer technology that readers are normally attracted to it appealed to an already large market of people out there.

Giving free information that generates money or saves money – Giving out free information to strictly benefit people always grasps people attention.

Using a wordpress – wordpress is a beautiful content management system for managing information in your blog and contains several extensions that can take your page a long way!

Passion – Always writing about your passion always produces results. So no matter what it is always follow your passion and pursue what makes you happy!

A note from M.E. Conwell – As the co-writer on this site I too would like to thank all of you, our valued readers, for helping Mike and I make Compscistuff what it is today. Now we want to hear from you our readers on what it is that we can do to make this site even better. We want to know what it is you like or dislike about the site or what you would like to see added to the site. This feedback would be greatly appreciated and will help us take Compscistuff to the next level. Mike an I are committed to making Compscistuff as helpful and useful as possible so be on the look out for more great articles and a few surprised in 2009.

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