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Macs Get Viruses Too!
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| Written By Joe Senneff |
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Maintenance is a very crucial part of keeping your system running smoothly with less downtime, while helping to make your computer run faster. You should do Maintenance every other week depending on your workload and what applications you use. It may also help your hard drive last longer. I recommend to my clients, using Macs, to use Norton Utilities. For PCs you can run whatever utility you would like, but I also recommend Norton. With Norton you can run a Disk Doctor and an Optimizer. You should start off booting your Mac from the CD, which you can do by holding down the "C" key while the CD is in the drive. This will let you start from the CD, which will allow you to fix your hard drive properly. Run Disk Doctor, but before starting, go into the "preferences" on the CD at the top of the screen and go to "repair" and check to fix automatically. Then you can start the disk doctor. After Disk Doctor is complete, go to Speed Disk and run that. After you complete this, go to the "control panel" "startup" and select your hard drive and restart. When you restart, make sure you rebuild the desktop by holding down the "Option" + "Command" keys at the same time, while your computer starts. When it asks you to rebuild your desktop, click OK. On your PC you can use Norton or a program you are comfortable with. Even though the PC versions of disk utilities are run differently they serve the same purpose. Just install Norton and run Disk Doctor and Speed Disk. Now you should be good for a week or so. Macs get viruses too! Even though PCs are more vulnerable to Viruses, Macs are still able to attract an unwanted Virus. Macs run some programs that viruses attack, for example: Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.). When doing maintenance, I also check my clients’ Virus Definitions. This is VERY important, especially if you use PCs. If you do not have virus protection on your computer… Get it! Keep up with your virus definitions, which is usually very easy to do. Simply read the screen and it usually tells you how to update your Virus Definitions. For Macs, you should update your Virus Definitions every month. For PCs, you should check every week to see if there are new Virus Definitions out. Good luck with your maintenance and make sure you do it as often as possible. You will see a difference in you computer! |
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Joseph Senneff runs URSystems, a Philadelphia based firm that specializes in Macintosh computer I.T. support. URSystems wide range of services that includes maintenance, installation, support, recovery, optimization, integration, upgrades and more. URSystems offers retainer relationships, per-project and hourly rates, working on-site or off site via email and telephone support. We like URSystems for their 24-hour support feature. Keep an eye out for more informative, tech-related articles from Joe in the future on phillydesigners.com |
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