Remember that science class gross-out moment when you learned that there are little critters living all over your body, in your eyelashes and stuff?
Well they don’t bother you. It takes a bigger creature or one with a nasty agenda to really make life unpleasant.
Your computer, while it is not a living thing, would probably feel the same way if it were.
Your computer is a somewhat sensitive collection of electronics and electro-mechanical devices, and as we’ve already discussed, relatively minor disruptions — and big ones — can be equally disastrous.
We already told you not to eat around your computer. Another reason not to eat around your computer is the little friends who will show up to eat whatever you didn’t…bugs. Bugs can actually get inside a computer case. Flying bugs, walking bugs, crawling bugs.
Keep your computer environment bug-free.
· Don’t eat by the computer and if you must, clean up and don’t leave food around
· Don’t drink by the computer and if you must, clean up, especially sugary stuff
· Don’t have open windows near a computer without good screens
· Don’t keep computer equipment in musty, damp, or moldy environments (you laugh, but we’ve seen some scary semi-finished basements)
If you have an infestation problem in a room with computers in it and you feel the need to use a product like bug spray, either remove your equipment or completely cover it in plastic and turn everything off before spraying.
RAID and all of its ilk are sticky, icky chemicals that will probably hurt your machine more than a few kamikaze ants would.
Don’t bug your computer and it won’t bug you.