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Working in computer forensics is challenging. From dramatic stories to head stretching terminology, I have been enmeshed into an industry that is exciting and contemporary. For someone who is not familiar with FTK or SHA-1, computer forensics is simply detective work on computers.
They come in tons of different sizes, styles, designs, shapes and colors, and each one has its own primary function. Let's take a look at a couple of the biggest benefits that laptops provide for consumers.
Portability - This is quite possibly the best aspect of laptops or notebook computers. The ability to have a PC on you at all times is a huge reason why laptops are such ideal gadgets to own. Even the laptops themselves keep getting more portable every year, and now you have netbooks and tablet PCs to choose from as well.
In computer forensic investigation, the forensic examiner processes large amounts of data, much of it deleted or changed in some way. Often when I look at an examination screen, I think I'm watching The Matrix. Computer code rolling by is a chat room discussion, or an email, or family photo. Deleted information on a hard drive is very recoverable.
Lately I've had another friend with a laptop that's been acting up. Sometimes she can't get on the internet, it freezes and is performing poorly in general. She had no virus or spyware programs running so I was actually surprised the computer wasn't infected worse than it actually was. After installing some spyware removal software and running it a few times I got it cleaned up. Sometimes when removing spyware it appears that all is well until you reboot and find the spyware is back. In this case you can try rebooting into safe mode and running the removal program again. After returning the laptop everything was fine for a couple of weeks and then it started acting up again, so she brought it back to me. This time I cleaned up the spyware and also rolled back her browser one version. I can't say for sure why that helped, or even why I did it, but it seemed to do the trick.
When you buy a new computer the chances are pretty good that it has some kind of virus or spyware protection program pre-installed. The problem that many people make is that this program is only good for a trial period of time, and at the end of that trial they don't buy the continued protection or replace the trial version with another program. And if they do either of those things many people fail to update the program. These updates are necessary due to new viruses and spyware programs being released on the unsuspecting consumer. Anti virus/spyware programs are updated, usually once a week, and it's important for you to keep them up to date.
These are just two of the biggest reasons to buy laptops, notebooks, tablet PCs or netbooks. Just like with any other technological gadget, you should expect to see a lot more advances in the coming years. Eventually there will be so many benefits that laptop computers provide, and this article will need to be much longer.
They come in tons of different sizes, styles, designs, shapes and colors, and each one has its own primary function. Let's take a look at a couple of the biggest benefits that laptops provide for consumers.
Portability - This is quite possibly the best aspect of laptops or notebook computers. The ability to have a PC on you at all times is a huge reason why laptops are such ideal gadgets to own. Even the laptops themselves keep getting more portable every year, and now you have netbooks and tablet PCs to choose from as well.
In computer forensic investigation, the forensic examiner processes large amounts of data, much of it deleted or changed in some way. Often when I look at an examination screen, I think I'm watching The Matrix. Computer code rolling by is a chat room discussion, or an email, or family photo. Deleted information on a hard drive is very recoverable.
Lately I've had another friend with a laptop that's been acting up. Sometimes she can't get on the internet, it freezes and is performing poorly in general. She had no virus or spyware programs running so I was actually surprised the computer wasn't infected worse than it actually was. After installing some spyware removal software and running it a few times I got it cleaned up. Sometimes when removing spyware it appears that all is well until you reboot and find the spyware is back. In this case you can try rebooting into safe mode and running the removal program again. After returning the laptop everything was fine for a couple of weeks and then it started acting up again, so she brought it back to me. This time I cleaned up the spyware and also rolled back her browser one version. I can't say for sure why that helped, or even why I did it, but it seemed to do the trick.
When you buy a new computer the chances are pretty good that it has some kind of virus or spyware protection program pre-installed. The problem that many people make is that this program is only good for a trial period of time, and at the end of that trial they don't buy the continued protection or replace the trial version with another program. And if they do either of those things many people fail to update the program. These updates are necessary due to new viruses and spyware programs being released on the unsuspecting consumer. Anti virus/spyware programs are updated, usually once a week, and it's important for you to keep them up to date.
These are just two of the biggest reasons to buy laptops, notebooks, tablet PCs or netbooks. Just like with any other technological gadget, you should expect to see a lot more advances in the coming years. Eventually there will be so many benefits that laptop computers provide, and this article will need to be much longer.
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