Classic Tech Tips Archive

Personal Antivirus is another of those rogue antivirus programs. They claim to protect, but really their goal is to find ways to separate you from your money. Usually this is through false claims of …

Antivirus Pro 2010 is another rogue security application that installs itself by ways of security vulnerabilities. This particular one seems to be installed by the braviax(cru629) family of trojans. …

Oh I cringe at those commercials. You know the ones I'm talking about where everyone is whining about how slow their pc is. Wah.... "Mom this game is so slow." I just LOVE how they mention that their…

I've been running a series of how to remove articles related to some of the current nasty rogue security applications that has really been getting a lot of traffic the last week or so. I can see that…

There's a rumor going around and a lot of unconfirmed information that a facebook application known as fan check is actually a virus. I'm seeing several claims that if someone becomes a fan of this f…

Nortel Antivirus is another of the recent rogue security applications making the rounds. One thing that makes this rogue antivirus application unique is it's attempt to play on the trust of the Norto…

Blockdefense is yet another of these wolves in sheep clothing that make some computer users lives so miserable these days. It is from the same group of malware that includes Trustninja, save soldier,…

I see a google hot trend right now is searches for AntivirusOnlineScan 6 and many of the results seem to be incoherent sites talking about antivirusonlinescan v8. It makes me wonder if we're seeing t…

Yes, it's another rogue antivirus package that causes all sorts of headaches, popups, false warnings and yes, you have to pay to solve the problems it claims to find. Essentially the software, when i…

I see users of McAfee are seeing a lot of complaints by their antivirus about this js/exploit packed.c.gen. One user is reporting that the weather underground site is raising a flag about this virus.…

This should not be confused with Norton 360 which is a legitimate antivirus program (although if you need help removing Norton 360 to reinstall it or another antivirus program you may want to visit m…

Yes, Gmail was down today, September 1, 2009 for a stretch this afternoon. Really it wasn't more than about two hours at the most from what I saw and from what I hear IMAP/SMTP access was working alt…

As I've seen the continuing FLOOD of searches for some way to Remove Windows Police Pro, I've been starting to wonder at the who is behind this particular piece of junk software. These programs aren'…

I'm seeing a lot of searches for how to remove Windows Police Pro this evening. It looks like it's ALSO the latest flavor of the minute in the rogue security application crowd (take a look at remove …

I'm seeing a lot of searches for how to remove the rogue antivirus green AV. It looks like it's the latest flavor of the minute in the rogue security application crowd. My usual path for removing a r…

Just a quick note that I've updated the Antivirus Removal Tool list to include VIRUS removal tools. (I originally intended the list to be those utilities to clean up a system so that it could deal wi…

I just wanted to mention that I've added a new page with a rundown on the various Voice Broadcast or Voice Blast services out there on the net. It was only recently that I came to know these services…

I came across an interesting one in the last few days. This system was a Windows XP system with current updates - SP3, IE 8.... and among other things there was a complaint of very sluggish behavior.…

Last Thursday I opened up my GMail and found to my surprise that I had an invite to Google Voice. I didn't have time to deal with it at that time, so I saved it as new until Thursday evening and spen…

Sorry for the vague title, but there are various thoughts floating around at the moment. The first is a big thanks to the support at Westhost for recovering my VPS over the last weekend. I had starte…

I've been struggling off and on with an issue on my Dad's computer the last month or so. He said that it would occasionally just shut off completely out of the blue. (He also admonished me not to spe…

I've spent a bit of time over the last week putting some scripting together to build a new website. The site is morseringtones.com and as you might imagine there are morse code mp3 ringtones availabl…

Recently I had the opportunity to work on an Acer Aspire One netbook. It's rare that I get the chance to work on a linux desktop system for a client. Most of my desktop users that I support run Windo…

So, I've spent some time recently working with Zarafa. It's an exchange replacement that has a completely open source version as well as a version with licenses for outlook if you want that level of …

I'm putting this post up in case I lose the link to The Hunt For Gollum - fan made film - it looks to be about 45 minutes. I've been meaning to watch it for a while, I'm not usually into fan made fil…