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  2. What is overclocking? How to boost your PC's speed and ... - AOL

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    Overclocking is the process of forcing your computer to run faster than it's intended to go, which can help you run advanced programs on an older PC.

  3. Overclocking - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of overclocking is to increase the operating speed of a given component. [3] Normally, on modern systems, the target of overclocking is increasing the performance of a major chip or subsystem, such as the main processor or graphics controller, but other components, such as system memory or system buses (generally on the motherboard), are commonly involved.

  4. List of spyware programs - Wikipedia

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    The apps also download and execute a code from a remote server, breaching the Malicious Behavior section [5] of the Google Play privacy policies. Some of these plugins are detected as Adware or PUP by many Anti-Virus engines, [ 6 ] while the developer, a Chinese company GOMO Dev Team, claims in the apps' description that they will never collect ...

  5. RivaTuner - Wikipedia

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    RivaTuner is a freeware overclocking and hardware monitoring program that was first developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk in 1997 [1] for the Nvidia video cards.It was a pioneering application that influenced (and in some cases was integrated into) the design of subsequent freeware graphics card overclocking and monitoring utilities.

  6. Potentially unwanted program - Wikipedia

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    A potentially unwanted program (PUP) or potentially unwanted application (PUA) is software that a user may perceive as unwanted or unnecessary.It is used as a subjective tagging criterion by security and parental control products.

  7. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...

  8. TikTok is as dangerous as any social media app - AOL

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    TikTok is like any other social media app TikTok, like U.S. social media apps including Meta’s ( META ) Facebook and Instagram, Twitter, and Snap ( SNAP ), collects user data to sell ads.

  9. Super PI - Wikipedia

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    However, other methods exist of producing inaccurate or fake time results, raising questions about the program's future as an overclocking benchmark. Super PI utilizes x87 floating point instructions which are supported on all x86 and x86-64 processors, current versions which also support the lower precision Streaming SIMD Extensions vector ...