Monday, 14 June 2010

Task 1 (A)
P5 (Part 1)

Virus Protection I have a print screen of me installing an antivirus on the computer. The installation went well and was easy to do.
Here is a print screen of me installing the program.

















I did do a schedule for a full system scan for the machine but I did get a print screen of it. This has very easy to do and can be made to have an update any time and any day. You can do this whit any antivirus program.

I did do an update for Windows this was very straight forward instead of downloading it online we had to do it from a CD. The Install went smooth.

One of the cleanup tools is defragment hard drives. I have a picture of me using this tool that you can use to clean up your hard drive. This improves your computers overall performance.
















Driver Formation
For this I used a floppy disc. What this tool dose it delete very thing on that device. This means any information on the floppy disc was deleted.

Install and Run Firewall
We had the fire wall on a CD that we installed this didn’t take long to do and the install went perfect. Firewall is important to a computer to stop authorised connection to your internet keeps all the hackers out.

Create Folders/ Copy and Delete Files
This was very easy we just had to make a folder on are desktops. I think every body knows how to do this after we made the folder we had to delete it for another part of the assignment part.

I had to install a printer. This was very easy. I had to connect the printer to the computer. This what whit a USB wire. After that I had to install the drivers for the printer. This came whit a install CD. I just fallowed the steps and it took around 5 minutes to install.

The best thing to use is compressed air to clean your computer. Because if you use brushes you can scratch parts of the computer and even give of electrical charges which can break things like rams which are very sensitive to it. Cleaning your computer can get rid of the dust and make the level of how loud the computer is go down.






















Virus protection
This is the best thing you can have to protect your computer from all of the viruses and hackers that you can find online in things that you download or on website you go on.

To have an antivirus program you need to install it from a CD or Internet. The installation is very easy and goes smooth most times. But it’s not like regular programs. You need to take care of it. You need to make sure your software is up to date whit updates. It’s very important its update because it fixes bugs and adds new viruses you are protected. For most antiviruses you need to have a subscription. This mean you do have to pay for the good ones.

How dose it protects your computer?
The main thing is when you download files when you download a music file you can just look at it and know if it a viruses. But antivirus recognises the files that are dangerous and stops the download and tell the user about thing what step to do next.

This works the same when you are online. Before you go on the webpage it quickly scans it gives you a report if the website is safe or not safe. If its not it automatically closes it down before you computer can get infected.

The last and most important tool that antivirus programs have is San Your Computer. This is the last thing you can do to find viruses of you think your computer is infected. You can make the scan as strong as you like. If you make it as strong as possible it can take a longer time but it will scan all files. If there is any virus this scan will find them. You have some option when you do find it. Delete or fix. The best one is deleting but if it’s an important file you can tray to fix it.

Why have antivirus?
If your computer gets infected you can lose personal files and even details. When you download files from website that are not save or programs you can download a viruses file. Not all of them are after your details. They can break files and folders. If this happens you can use them. If they do this to an important file like system32 it can even break your computer.

This mans the best thing is to do to have antivirus so your computer doesn’t get hacker or infected. If they do get your credit card details they can use your money.

Defrag
This tool comes whit most Windows systems. You can do this at any times. This tool can take a log time to complete depending on your hard drive size.

How dos this tools work?
When your start this tool it well quickly check you computer to see how much space you will have and how will it improve it. It’s like a quick analysis of your computer.

After that you can run the tool. This is what happens.
When you save files some times there is not enough space for it to save in one place. So it can save it in different places. So next time you want to open this files your computer needs find it and the opens if which will slow it down and take more memory space.

The files are in defragments. What this tool dose is finds them and puts them all to gather which will save the computer looking for them. This will improve the overall performance of it.