[Cafe] Fwd: Article for messenger

[simonlimb at burngreave.net]

Quoting Gareth Coleman <shef.gareth at gmail.com>:

Hi Gareth,

this article seems good to me.  I have inserted a few slight wording alterations
below (in capital letters and bracketed) which I think would make it a little
clearer to the average user.  Let me know what you think.

Simon

> PC help from the
> Burngreave Computer Cafe 
> 
> 
> We can help you solve all your computer problems FREE on Saturdays
> 12-3pm in the basement of the New Roots/Ashram shop, Spital Hill.
> 
> By far the most common sort of problem we encounter week in and week
> out in the cafe is a computer overrun with unwanted programs. A lot of
> this is related to internet activity, and can result in unwanted
> pop-up boxes, your 'home-page' on the internet being hijacked, or your
> computer running slowly or crashing. These problems are caused by
> programs such as viruses and 'spyware' - software that secretly
> installs itself in your computer.
> 
>  
> 
> In this, the first in a series of advice columns, we'll give an
> overview of the way we go about cleaning up and then preventing your
> computer getting clogged up again. We use a total of 6 different
> programs to clean up and we'll go through each process in detail over
> the coming months. We've chosen each program (BECAUSE THEY ARE) FREE as well
as
> effective.
> 
>  
> 
> In the cafe we start by using AVG - an anti-virus program that's free
> for personal use. After using that to clean up any viruses we use two
> spyware removal programs - Spybot and Ad-Aware.
> 
>  
> 
> We then start to protect against future problems by installing Firefox (WEB
BROWSER, AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INTERNET EXPLORER)
> - it is much less vulnerable to infection by spyware than Internet
> Explorer. Last but not least is a firewall program - ZoneAlarm. This
> protects against hackers and other attacks from the internet.
> 
>  
> 
> The final step is not a program as such, but a built in feature of
> Windows called Windows Update. It connects with Microsoft's servers
> and downloads security and other updates for your computer. It is very
> important to do this regularly as bugs are discovered in Windows all
> the time. 
(SHOULD THIS NOT BE ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS?)
> 
>  
> 
> You can get more help and advice as well as links to download the
> programs at burngreave.net - just click on the cafe link. And if it
> all seems a bit daunting then pop down to the cafe one Saturday and
> get some help over a cup of tea!
> 
>  
> 
> (body=325 words)
> 
> ------------------------
> Gareth Coleman
> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi 
> 
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> ------------------------
> Gareth Coleman
> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
> 
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