When The Virus Won’t Let You Download A Fix

October 23, 2010

The other day I was again using CombFix to clean what turned out to be a keylogger on a client’s PC. I found, though, that when I tried to run ComboFix.exe, the file downloaded, nothing happened. So I renamed the file (and I suggest you do this as you save the file when downloading it [...]

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How To Kill Stink Bugs

October 2, 2010

Stink Bug Problem? – Here is how to kill stink bugs and other pesky insects trying to get into your home or office. Spiders, wasps in addition to those pesky, smelly, insects. Every fall we have this problem when the fields are harvested and the weather cools. These nasty bugs (and others) try to get [...]

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Online Tech Support 24×7

August 31, 2010

Online Tech Support is a growing business. When the economic disaster hit a couple of years ago I even had small business clients asking me for ways to avoid paying me $110 per hour for my services. Paying a reasonable fee to someone who can fix your PC remotely for a fraction of what I [...]

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Acronis True Image Home 2011 Sports Windows 7 Integration

August 30, 2010

Acronis True Image Home 2011 is the latest version of my favorite disk imaging software. Windows 7 includes an imaging utility, but like most built in Windows apps, lacks full features. Acronis True Image Home is reasonably priced and makes backup and restore much easier. Improvements include integration in the Backup and Restore section of [...]

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Finally – A Blog Theme With SEO That Works!

August 26, 2010

Apologies to all who have suffered the appearance of this blog for so long. The previous theme was, at the time, blue and 3 columned. That was my criteria. I knew zilch about SEO (search engine optimization) and I figured I would “get to it eventually”. Enough is enough. Time for a theme that PC [...]

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What Would You Do With Your Police Departments Website?

June 8, 2010

I really, REALLY love it! Man busted by traffic camera gets revenge on Police Department. Legally. Click! Click! Click! Click! Smile, you just got a traffic ticket. Red light and speed cameras suck. There is no officer to explain the situation to. Pretty much no appeal. Some municipalities are even making SURE you don’t try [...]

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When ComboFix Does Not Completely Clean Your PC

June 8, 2010

When I wrote about Cleaning Your PC With ComboFix a short time ago, I had not run into a problem that ComboFix did not fix. Well, that changed over the weekend. I had a REALLY infected PC to clean, it had rootkits and all. First problem was that it would not boot into Windows Safe [...]

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How To Upgrade A Laptop To A Larger Hard Drive With Acronis

June 3, 2010

I fielded this question today about upgrading a laptop to a larger hard drive with Acronis True Image software. Here is the question: Hello there, i am in no way a computer “techie” but i am in need of some help. I have a Dell Inspiron e1505 and what i want to do is replace [...]

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Eset Coupon Deals

May 26, 2010

Eset Computer Security products are among the finest out there. One advantage to Eset antivirus is that it is not one of the top tier companies in POPULARITY, even though it is one of the finest. What that means for you is that malware which specifically turns off or avoids a Symantec Norton security product, [...]

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Free Windows Utilities Suites

May 21, 2010

A Windows utility Nirsoft maker offers its suite of apps as a single download with a new application launcher that makes picking and running a utility quick and easy. The suite covers everything from an application-crash reporter to a Windows updates viewer — over 100 titles in all. The nice thing about these utilities is [...]

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