Must Have Application for Thumb Drives
It’s a sign of the time, you can buy a thumb drive almost anywhere. I have even seen them in Gas Stations in the Omaha area.
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The System Administrator from Hell
Some days I get emails that just have to be shared. This is one of them. All credit to the original author, though I don’t know who it is.
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Go Figure, Dirty sites are dirty…
Symantec, the makers of a very widely used array of internet security programs, has compiled a list of the 100 “dirtiest” sites.
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Program Not Responding — What Now?
As Windows users we have many little quirks that we learn to tolerate. One that seems to irritate the heck out of quite a few people is the "Program Not Responding".
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I Love this utility
One of my favorite websites to look at daily (ok many times a day) is Life Hacker. Today as I was going through some of their archived postings I found this.
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When is an antivirus really a virus?
Today I received a call from one of my external users that was unable to access any websites because some new antivirus was saying he was unprotected and every website had malicious code.
Since I know that we have McAfee 8.5 deployed to our users, I knew that this was not a McAfee issue. As we discussed it a little further he was mentioning that the Antivirus wanted him to purchase the software.
This isn’t the first I have heard of this. There is a software company Innovagest 2000 that is producing this software. They advertise it as an antispyware application, but it is the spyware. On some less then savory websites you will get a pop up that says that your computer maybe infected and they offer a free scan.
The fear of being infected motivates a lot of people to run this free scan. Unknown to them this application installs underneath and now you are stuck. On that note, I do recommend only doing the online scans from reputable sites. I personally recommend the following: Symantec, Panda, and McAfee.
This application is extremely hard to get rid of. It reregisters and installs if it is not completely uninstalled correctly.
I hate programs like this. But it is a fact of life out there. The modern day snake-oil salesman.
While the program is running you will see the following undesirable behavior:
- A “Windows Security Center” stating that you should purchase Personal Antivirus.
- Numerous alerts stating that your computer is under attack or that you have malware running on your computer. If you click on these alerts, Personal Antivirus will be installed, or you will be brought to the purchase page for the program.
- Your Internet Explorer browser will be hijacked to show security warnings when browsing the web that stop you from reaching your desired page.
As I mentioned before this bugger is very hard to get rid off. But not impossible. I found these instructions at BleepingComputer.com.
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Smart Installer
Many PC users as well as the technogeeks out there find themselves from time to time having to reformat. I know that since we are all good and conscientious people, we always have good and complete backups, so I won't get into that.
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