Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Spring Cleaning

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

PM Computers is having a special! Anything we can fix over the phone is free. We are also offering free PC health checks for anyone in the Eastern Massachusetts area. We will come to you and check your PC out and tell you how to make it faster or Improve it.

You’re not going to pay a lot for this Muffler!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

PM Computers is now supporting Meineke's MKey Software. We are in the process of migrating a local Meineke shop from Pipedream to Mkey. We have also been very busy migrating the website and domain for http://www.affordablekb.com. Affordable Ktchens and bathrooms is a local home design firm located in Quincy.

St. Patricks

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I spent my whole day doing an emergency repair of a Windows XP system. This system had been corrupted by worms and trojans. The system had already been farked over by some other tech. It's billable hours, so when they asked me where my green was, I said "my wallet". ...

Tips for fighting spam

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Todays tip for fighting spam is spelling and language. If there are a lot of mis-spellings in the email or instant message, it has a good chance of being spam. If the message is in a language you don't normally speak, it might also be spam. These are just two of the many ...

Zlob.DNSChanger

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Last week The smart folks at PM Computers was able to rid someone of the Zlob.DNSChanger trojan. The solution was found here: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=15015 Normally with spyware infections our philosophy is as follows: "I say we back up and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." In the real world ...

Update for 03/03/08

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

This week we fixed a Gateway 6020gz laptop. The LCD screen was coming up dark, as if the lamp had blown, turned out the problem was actually a bad ground around the inverter. The system now works and everything is wonderful. We also checked the system for spyware and applied ...