Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Best tip I have found in a long time
Follow these steps if you find your address bar missing from the taskbar, after you install XP SP3
1. create a new bar on the taskbar from the options still available (Links
for example)
2. drag it to the desktop to undock it (it will ...
Posted in Networking, Software, Tips, Windows | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Most recently on the PM Computers show, we have spending our time doing routine computer cleanings
clients in Massachusetts. The most recent of which involved cleaning starware toolbar. The kicker was I had to go back a few days later because she couldn't print out her coupons. I had disabled the ...
Posted in Hardware, Misc, Security, Software | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Something that has been in the tech news recently is a rise in SSH attacks:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518
One reason for the increase in these attacks could be related to the recent Debian security issues:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212
I remember several years ago I had a similar problem - I was seeing a lot of connections to port 22 ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The verdict is in. Unless you have a brand new fresh clean install of Windows XP, proceed with caution. Even then you might want to stick to SP2. If for some twisted, sadistic reason you need to install SP3, I beg you to read the following web page first:
Installing Windows ...
Posted in Antivirus, Software, Tips, Windows | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
If you plan to leave the country and need to take a computer with you, buy a brand new one, and keep the files you need to work with, on a jump drive/key drive/thumb drive. Thumb Drives can be kept away from the computer and may not be searched if they are ...
Posted in Hardware, Security, Software, Tips, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Not much going on this week. I spent part of Friday afternoon helping an office worker in Norwood migrate their old PC running Windows 2000 to a new dell 530 running XP. One of the things they were truly happy about was that XP had spider solitaire. Switching the mail ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I always use more than one virus scanner. I know it takes more time, but if you look at the results below it will be come clear. Originally I tried just to clean the laptop with spybot to get an idea of just how infected it was. When I came ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Trinity Rescue Kit is my new favorite tool. It is doing wonders for that laptop I mentioned before. I just thought I'd link to them and give a shout out.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
This week on The PM Computers show, we cleaned out a laptop for a local business woman. it was filled with all sorts of malware like funwebproducts, mywaysearch, and minibug. i was lucky it didn't have anything serious like smitfraud or vundo. After I got all of this cleaned using ...
Posted in Security, Software, Tips | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I've just upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.5 I followed the upgrade guide listed here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
The only thing that could make the guide better is to mention that you should switch back to the classic theme, until you finish the upgrade and are happy with it.
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