[Cafe] slightly revised words for our article

[Gareth Coleman]

Dear Messenger people,

Assuming that you decided to use our column idea; we’ve tweaked the wording
slightly. Please let us know the copy deadlines for the future.

 

The articles are collaborative so they should be credited to ‘the burngreave
computer cafe volunteers’. Revised text follows:

 

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 use 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.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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Kind regards

 

Gareth


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