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Got a couple of computers infected with a fake antivirus called Essential Cleaner. One was on an XP PC, the other Windows 7 64-Bit. My normal malware removers could not detect it so I searched it on the Internet and found this article. Basically it describe how to remove in manually. […] Got this on a machine the other day. Have not seen it for sometime. I ran the usual chkdsk /r on the drive and that did not fix it. Backed up the drive and was going to do a Windows repair (Windows XP Home PC) but did not give me the option to […] After removing a fake Anti-virus the XP PC would not do any Window’s Updates. Found this on the web: Open C:\Windows Show hidden files and folders Open C:\Windows\inf Right click au and select install (extension hidden by default, should be only file named au) After install complete may ask for restart, if not restart anyway […] Tech support: What kind of computer do you have? Customer: A white one… =============== Customer: Hi, this is Celine .. I can’t get my diskette out. Tech support: Have you tried pushing the Button? Customer: Yes, sure, it’s really stuck. Tech support: That doesn’t sound good; I’ll make a note. Customer: No, wait a minute. […] MS made Outlook 2010 to act like the rest of the suite but one of the BIGGEST complaint I have is clients that use MS Exchange and have POP accounts. 2010 decided to keep everything separated! I did find this on the Internet to help those who would like all the email to […] Well SP1 is out and for most Windows 7 users it will not really do a lot for you. Most of the updates is the normal updates since 7 has been out. One of the fixes that it does actually did worked for me is the HDMI sound issue. My PC attached to […] What program built into Windows 7 will eat almost all your RAM no matter how much you have. Chkdsk. Running it from a command prompt or even the GUI it will eat the RAM (at least from the command prompt you can kill it easily. The GUI you have to log off or […] When I had to fix the MBR for XP I used MS command FIXMBR.EXE. Well Vista and Windows 7 have changed to BOOTREC.EXE Here is an article from MS that describes how to use bootrec.exe The main commands to run at the dos prompt are bootrec.exe /fixmbr bootrec.exe /fixboot Here is a great article by TechRepublic in changing your Sata configuration from IDE compatible mode to AHCI (As long as your BIOS has this option). I get this question all the time. Most of the PC’s that I see have peer to peer software installed. This is not the only way you can get infected. CRN just did an article that describes Facebook is infected. Here is a great article from BleepingComputer.com that describes the many […] |
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