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PC MAINTENANCE & SECURITY

PC MAINTENANCE & SECURITY. Newport Photography Club Ryan Erwin. Your best friends. F1 Key Google (Or your preferred search engine) Microsoft or Apple PC Engineer Back Up Disks /Installation CD/DVD’s Confidence. Presentation Break down. Common Faults Maintenance Schedule Anti Virus

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PC MAINTENANCE & SECURITY

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  1. PC MAINTENANCE & SECURITY Newport Photography Club Ryan Erwin

  2. Your best friends • F1 Key • Google (Or your preferred search engine) • Microsoft or Apple • PC Engineer • Back Up Disks /Installation CD/DVD’s • Confidence

  3. Presentation Break down • Common Faults • Maintenance Schedule • Anti Virus • Back Up / Restore • Free Software

  4. Common Faults • Power Supply • Hard Disk Drive Failure • Mother Board Failure • Virus / Spyware • Corrupted File System

  5. Power Supply Failure The number one most replaced part. Symptoms of this are normally no power lights at all on the PC. Power supply failure can be caused by many different things but most commonly power surges and over heating due to damaged fans

  6. Hard Disk Drive Failure The second most common replaced part. Symptoms of this are blue screens, crashing and loss of data. If caught early enough we can normally save most data, photos, music etc. Hard disk drive failure is very common in pc's over 3 years old and is sometimes seen as early as 13 or 14 months into a PC's life

  7. Mother Board Failure The third most common replaced part. Symptoms of this can include a wide range of things but normally cause the PC to not boot at all or at worst damage the power supply and/or hard drive. 

  8. Virus / Spyware The number one cause of software problems. Symptoms of this are normally slow system performance, crashing and constant pop-up when connected to the internet. PC's are prone to virus's and spyware when no up to date antivirus software has been installed on the machine.

  9. Corrupted File System The second most common software problem. Symptoms of this include windows not booting due to a missing file message or a blue screen. This is normally caused by a power cut or the PC being restarted or shut down incorrectly.

  10. Maintenance Schedule

  11. Free Maintenance software • CCCleaner • Windows Doctor • WinUtilities Free Edition • Perfect Disk Free Defrag • Microsoft Windows Clean-up Installer

  12. Security is not a dirty word, crevice is. Security

  13. Anti Virus & Firewalls • Purchased • Norton • Mcafee • Zone Alarm Extreme • Others

  14. Anti Virus & Firewalls • Freeware • AVG Free • Comodo Internet Security • ZoneAlarm • Others

  15. Computer virus concept • Boot Sector Virus - Michelangelo • Boot sector viruses infect the boot sectors on floppy disks and hard disks, and can also infect the master boot record on a user's hard drive. • File Infector Virus - CIH • Operate in memory and usually infect executable files. • Multi-partite Virus • Multi-partite viruses have characteristics of both boot sector viruses and file infector viruses. • Macro Virus - Melissa Macro Virus • They infect macro utilities that accompany such applications as Microsoft Word, Excel and outlook.

  16. Computer virus concept • Types of Computer Virus • Trojan / Trojan Horse – Back Orifice • A Trojan or Trojan Horse is a program that appears legitimate, but performs some malicious and illicit activity when it is run. • Worm – Red Code • A worm is a program that spreads over network. Unlike a virus, worm does not attach itself to a host program. It uses up the computer resources, modifies system settings and eventually puts the system down. • Worms are very similar to viruses in that they are computer programs that replicate themselves. The difference is that unlike viruses, worms exist as a separate small piece of code. They do not attach themselves to other files or programs.

  17. Spam • Unsolicited Emails • Clogs up PC • Takes up storage allowance • Can download unwanted software or direct you to Phishing websites • If its to good to be true it probably is so delete / report it to your ISP provider • Use a sheep dip email address for downloads etc

  18. Spam • What can happen • Loss of data • Identity theft • Lose money • Denial of access • Become part of a spam bot network

  19. Freeware / Try Before you buy • Is it really free? • Does it do exactly what I want it to? • Does it install other programs? • Free software from magazines (PC Utilities)

  20. Do You know what your installing

  21. Read before you click

  22. Pirate software • Illegal • No Support • May Install virus’s, malware or spyware • Do I really need the latest copy of Office, Photoshop etc. • Alternative’s

  23. Data recovery • Don’t Panic • Isolate your media card • Use a good recovery program • Be patient • Use recovery specialists if necessary • Weigh up the cost against the value of the data

  24. dATa recovery programs • Recuva • Photorec • Test Disk • Sandisk Recovery Tool • Others are available online or come free with media cards

  25. Backup / restore • Back up daily / weekly / monthly • What do I need to back up? • What do I back up to?

  26. Windows 8 • Tablet Orientated • No Start Button • Love It or Hate It

  27. Questions

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