[Cafe] Fwd: Article for messenger

[Damo]

yeah that seems good to me......damien

On 9/5/05, simonlimb at burngreave.net <simonlimb at burngreave.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 <http://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
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------
> > Gareth Coleman
> > "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
> >
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