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To offer computer science students the tools, skills and knowledge necessary for helping others. 

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Hector Salas

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Have you ever just wanted to have fun on your PC and not be sweating another heavyweight round battling those scary spy wares, viruses, trojans that could steal your information and slow down your PC? How about those annoying advertising pop ups that wouldn't stop popping, and those browser hackers that just makes you want to scream every time they change your settings? 

Hi, I'm Hector, the PC Doctor and I'm back! Today I'm going to share with you my PC First Aid list of some of the best companies and individuals who truly provide free products to help us have a better PC experience.  

Updated Dec 2008

New! Micosoft Malware Removal Tool ~ XP users Try this first! Everyone I have told to use this tool first, before any of the others,  has experienced getting their computer system back. The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any infection found. 

SpyBot - Spy Ware Search and Destroy. Download it for free, install and run it twice! Always check for new updates before running it to get the latest spyware detection files. I have downloaded new detection files nearly 99% of the time that I have launched SpyBot (and that's every new day that I use my PC). Spybot is simple to use and, if you want a tutorial, they have one at their website.

AVG - Anti Virus by Grisoft. AVG provides comprehensive antivirus protection for personal computers. The unique combination of detection methods (heuristic analysis, generic detection, scanning and integrity checking) ensures that your computer receives the maximum protection possible on multiple levels (Resident Shield, Email Scanner plugins, Personal Email Scanner, On-Demand and other tests, etc.).

BitDefender  Antivirus 2009 free version is a powerful antivirus tool with features that may best meet your security needs. Ease of use and automatic updates make BitDefender Client Standard an 'install and forget' antivirus product. Download the evaluation copy and try it out. What AVG doesn't get  BitDefender will!

Windows Latest Security updates. Check weekly but whatever you do don't schedule this process to kick-in automatic. Remove it from the scheduler. Check weekly, no kidding the security fixes Microsoft makes available are free and add to your defense plan against  PC attacks.

Description for disabling restore function for Windows XP

Files placed in the _System volume information folder are source files for the system restore function that is available in Windows XP operating system. Files that were healed were moved in their original INFECTED state into this folder and it is necessary to DELETE them by following these steps:

1. Close all open programs. Then right-click My Computer on the Windows desktop
2. Click on Properties
3. Click on the System Restore tab
4. Check Turn off System Restore on all drives
5. Restart the system
6. Go through the first four steps again and uncheck the item mentioned in step 4.

Send me your success stories or comments. I would love to hear from you.  

Sincerely,