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HEAL YOUR PC

HEAL & INOCULATE

4 MAXIMUMPC NOVEMBER 2007

Remember the excitement you felt when you bought your first car?

Before the dealer even handed you the keys, you made a vow to keep

your new set of wheels in tip-top shape, to lovingly wash it, change

the oil every 3,000 miles, and even maintain the proper tire pressure.

You wanted to keep your new car looking and running its very best.

You understood that the consequence of not doing this would be costly

repair bills at best, and at worst, a car that no longer ran as it should.

Owning and maintaining a PC really isn’t so different than owning a car.

Only with a PC, there’s no maintenance schedule outlined in your user’s manual,

leaving it up to you to keep your smoking-fast rig from turning into a stuttering

compilation of unresponsive parts. And worse yet, now more than ever PCs are

highly susceptible to all kinds of nasties, from keylogging viruses to perfor-

mance-hampering spyware to everything in between. Even simply surfi ng the

web can be enough to turn your dream machine into a nightmare experience if

HEAL

AND

INOCULATE

YOUR PC

A terrifying number of computers are infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans,

rootkits, and other malicious software. We show you how to clean out even the

most troubled PC—and protect it from future infection!

BY PAUL LILLY

HEAL

AND

INOCULATE

YOUR PC