Does Your PC Have a Virus? Or Is It Just SLOW?

This time we are going to talk about how to figure out if you really have one. Accurate diagnosis can be tricky, so let's run through major symptoms, minor clues, and a few surefire ways to tell.

4 Major Virus Symptoms

• Your system crashes or locks up often.
• It randomly restarts.
• You see strange error messages or pop-up boxes especially alerts about firewalls or viruses.
• Your system suddenly runs much slower, and the key here is suddenly. If it progressively slows down, it's probably getting bogged down by too many programs running in the background, you haven't defragmented it recently (or ever), or you are nearing full capacity on the hard drive. But if the computer suddenly takes minutes to load a web page, or suddenly takes 10 minutes to shutdown/start-up it's a good clue that you have a virus.

Test Drive: Continental ‘Simplify Your Drive’

Can you imagine your car changing its demeanour according to your driving moods? Weekdays a sedan for relaxing business trips, Saturdays a budget car to go shopping, Sundays a sports car for sheer driving fun - and all these at the tap of a button? Interesting; isn't it?

Continental AG has developed a technology that changes the driving dynamics of the car, out of a choice of three pre-configured modes - Comfort, Eco and Sport. The system called 'Simplify Your Drive' enables drivers to exploit their vehicles' full functional potential, rather buy one car and experience many different ones.

Most anticipated phones of 2012

The mobile market has changed drastically over the recent years. If the technology of the mobile phone keeps on developing at the current rate, mobiles will be able to substitute personal computers in a couple of years. This year we saw a lot of new mobile phones with newer, faster and more amazing technologies. Let’s see which mobile phones are awaited to be launched in 2012 and what all features will they carry.

World's fastest phone

At the 'Mobile World Congress' 2012, Huawei's latest offering, the Ascent D QUAD, boasts of being the fastest phone with a 4.5" screen, supporting a resolution of 720x1280p.

Six problem that the new iPad has

The new iPad from Apple has received overwhelming response from consumers with three million units selling in just three days of its launch. However, the new tablet with famed Retina display is also facing its share of negative publicity with reports pouring in about the problems with the New iPad.