Revision Finding Saved Documents, Using Flash Drives And Disks, More About Virus Prevention

REVISIONFinding Saved Documents, Using Flask Drives and Disks, More about Virus Prevention

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(c)2011 Tendai. M. Daka

In this lesson

• We will refresh ourselves on how to;▫ Find saved document▫ Use flash drives and disks▫ More about virus prevention

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Finding saved documents

• What if you lost a very vital document on your computer?▫ What do you do? ▫ How do feel? ▫ Deadline is today and your lecturer is all so

strict.• It’s just “Search utility” on your computer!!!

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What is “Search Utility” and how to use it?• A facility that helps you search for documents

that were once saved on your computer.• Can be accessed from the Start menu.• It is also found in a window of an application

e.g. My Computer, My Documents etc.

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Practice: Using “Search Utility”• On your computer, click on Start Menu.• Move to “Search” and then click. A window

opens.

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• In the Search companion task pane, click on Documents( Word processing, Spreadsheets etc..)

• Click on Within this Week and then click on Search. Search begins.

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Using Flash Drives and Disks

• A flash drive is a storage device.• Comes in different types and sizes depending on

a designers’ choice.

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Practice- How to Safely Plug In a Flash Drive • Plug in a flash drive. Wait for it to read.• On a dialog box that appears, click on Take no

Action.

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• Click on OK.• Open My Computer.• Right- click Drive E, F, G, or on a drive

representing your USB drive.

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• On a dialog box that appears, click Explore. A Window similar to the one below appears.

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• Close the Window.

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Practice- Safely Removing or Ejecting a Flash Drive• NOTE: Do not plug out a flash drive when it is

still being used. Instead;▫ In the Taskbar, click (left click) on the Safely

remove Hardware icon

▫ On the lists of options that appears, click on safely remove USB drive.

▫ If successful, a message appears telling saying ”safe to remove USB drive”.

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More About Virus Protection• What is a virus?

▫ A malicious program that installs itself on a computer.

▫ They are in different types and perform different tasks.

• What they do generally?▫ Cause files and folders to stop opening.▫ Damage files of the operating system▫ Monitors how is used and send a report to the

programmer secretly.

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• Track your internet usage i.e. sites visited, downloads, communication networks, etc.

• Sending messages to inbox recipients.

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How to prevent viruses

• Updating the anti-virus at least once or twice a week.

• Performing regular scans of;▫ The whole computer.▫ Selected areas of a computer.▫ Scheduled scans on different intervals.

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• Making sure the anti-virus is of the current version e.g. making sure if you are in 2011, your anti-virus is up-to-date by checking for recent releases by the programmers of your anti-virus.

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Example- Exploring AVG Free Edition Anti-Virus• Free Edition means;

▫ No moneys are to be paid in order to make use of the anti-virus.

▫ A user can use the anti-virus but with limitations to some of the features.

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• Click on update. A similar window appears.

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• View the Scan options. Different scan options are listed.

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