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Rogue Antivirus Program

A rogue antivirus program is a fake antivirus program which attempts to convince the computer user to purchase their software.

The program will scare the user by telling them that they have many viruses on their computer when in reality they may not have any. To convince the buyer that they have viruses on their computer, the program may purposely slow down the computer through malicious tools. Many times, it will make the program use up most or all of your sysytem resources to slow down the computer.

It is important to not pay for the program. The program itself will not due anything, plus, it exposes your credit card number which could be used by them for fradulent transactions.

Two major rogue antivirus program outbreaks of October 2008 are Virus Response Lab 2009 and XP AntiSpyware 2009

How To Remove Registry Values For XP / Vista Guide

This guide will help you to remove values from your registry. The registry has settings on which the system runs on, such as which program to start up when your computer turns on.

Warning: It is important to exercise caution when removing registry values from your registry since you can severely damage your computer. It is best to use a professional or just use a program to automatically find the values which need to be removed.

1. Start by Clicking Start from the bottom left hand side of your screen

2. Click on Run (It is in the Start Menu)

3. In the Run box, type in regedit.exe and hit enter

4. The Registry Editer will come up.

5. You can either choose to navigate around and delete registry values or just search for them. Below is how to search for them.

From the search box, you can find were the registry value is in the registry.

And thats it. This will allow you to make changes to your windows registry. This will work for both XP and Vista.

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How To Remove Files From Your Computer

This guide will outline how to remove files from your computer. Please exercise caution when doing this because you can damage your computer if you delete files which the computer needs to operate.

To remove files, you need to navigate to the my computer area. Here is a step by step guide

1. Start by clicking on start on the bottom left hand side of your computer

2. Procede to click on My Computer

3. Once the My Computer screen opens up, click on Search. As shown below, it is beside the Folders button.

4. This will allow you to search for files on your computer.

5. Next you need to identify the file to remove. Generally, the search will allow you if you can’t find it in My Computer.

6. Right click on the file

7. Move your mouse down to delete and left click on it.

That will allow you to remove files from your computer. Please feel free to post comments below.