If your Internet connection has slowed — that is, if the time it takes to get to your favorite websites or open your email program and the emails inside it has increased noticeably — you have a problem.

What can cause this slowdown?

It's possible that your slowed Internet connection is caused by any or all of the following:

• Computer Viruses -- programs written to do harm to your computer that spread via email or any other way computers can share data (i.e., floppy, Zip, CD or other types of disks)
• Worms -- viruses written with the intention of computer disruption and the capability of spreading themselves from computer to computer
• Trojans -- programs written to enable a remote user to control your computer for any purpose, such as email spamming or attacking other computers via your computer.
• Malware -- usually some sort of combination of all the above.
• Spyware -- programs written to track where you go, what you see and/or buy in order to sell that data to marketing companies or advertising clients.
• Adware -- programs written to continuously blast you with advertising and/or re-route your webpage requests with pages that are other than those you requested.

In the spyware/malware/adware group alone, we have seen as many as 820 separate items on a single computer(!). Simply installing a certain operating system will give you at least three of these without going anywhere or accessing any other computer files.

Got a slow internet connection?

If your Internet connection has noticeably slowed down, call us immediately. We can get rid of any of the above and get your Internet connection back up to speed. We can even help to ensure that it doesn't happen again.