$25 OFF Virus Removal or OS Reinstall

Yes, its that time. The kids are out of school and have managed to download something that made your computer slow. We here at Danny The Computer Guy understand exactly. Aside from keeping the kids away from your computer, we have a great special for the remainder of the summer. Get $25 off our already low priced Virus Removal or Windows Operating System Reinstall (refurbish) packages..

Virus, Adware, Spyware removal for Windows XP/Vista: $99 $74 Meant for infected systems. The package includes diagnosis, removal, recovery and installation of antivirus, malware tools and tools for prevention in the future.

Refurbish Special: $99 $74 Designed for computers just needing Windows reinstalled, refreshed. Full reinstall of Windows includes all drivers and installation of antivirus, malware tools, and will tweak for extra speed. This procedure may involve a full format and wiping of the drive. If needed, will remove/recover all documents, music, files and reinstall on fresh system for ONE user profile. Additional user profiles $20 per depending.. Applies to XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Both of these services feature 24-48 hour turnaround and will include the installation and setup of Anti-Virus and Malware prevention tools. Please note: We can only reinstall the operating system that originally came on the computer.

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Spyware, Adware, Malware : the solution

Lately I’ve been seeing a LOT of computers that are running slow. Some of these have popups that come up when the computer starts, some have a popup when first on the internet.. Some have favorite places that the customer never visited. Some won’t even connect to the internet.

These are all victims of spyware. Severe cases of spyware can be as hard to remove as a computer virus, and can do as much damage. Spyware has become the fastest growing concern among computer users today. You’ll also hear people refer to Spyware as Adware or Malware. These are all basically the same things, not quite as nasty as a computer virus, but not something you want on your computer either.

So what exactly does Spyware do?

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Why you need a good antivirus for web surfing

CNN had a video today that mentioned the “Most Dangerous Online Searches”

While this is talks about things most savvy web users already know, this is very important for everyone. Even if you don’t actively download anything, you can still get all sorts of malware (malicious programs) just by surfing the net. I see a lot of computers with malware from just surfing where people don’t have an antivirus. Myspace is also known for malware. Not Myspace itself, but the java applets on some of the pages do contain harmful code.

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How to keep your computer free from viruses

How to keep your computer free from viruses/adware/malware:

There are many programs on the market for this. If you currently have one and are happy with it, that’s great. If you’ve never had a virus, congratulations on the safe surfing. This is for all you who perhaps have an antivirus program and still don’t feel protected or whose computer is acting slow and buggy even though you have an antivirus program.

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