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I cant take credit for creating this fix but I fugured I would post about it as this seems to be a new spam/spyware program. I recently had a client come to me with an infection of a fake antivirus software. It would display a small pop up in the bottom right corner of the […]
I came accross a pc that had Spyware Doctor installed and needed to remove it manually as the uninstaller would not work. In serching for the best way to do that I came across the following steps to manually remove Spyware Doctor from a pc. Ensure that you have fully exited the application. To fully […]
I had a new client come to me this past week with a laptop that was infected with many different kinds of malware. It had the usual popups, fake alerts, bad cookies etc… I first decided to try what is quickly becoming my “go to” application to clean infected pcs. I installed Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.39 […]
Here is a rather annoying issue that has been bothering some of my clients and I thought I would give my solution to the problem as I searched on google and ask.com but could not find the correct answer easily. On Windows Vista when your pc starts Windows Live Messenger starts as well. Many of […]
I had a client pc with Windows XP Pro installed brought to me with a problem of not being able to install some software. After looking at the pc I found that the DVD drives were not even listed in My Computer. The drives did have power as they did open and close correctly. I […]
Here is another issue that I figured I would report my findings on… I was trying to install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 on a XP machine. After running for about 15 minutes I got a nasty error Service Pack 3 setup error. Access is denied. I tracked this back to permissions being incorrect […]
This one was an interesting issue. I had a client that attempted to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. During the install the pc hung but according to the user finished the install. After the install, when you open IE the tool bars were missing and it would not allow you to click on any links […]
Well I had what is appearing to be a hardware driver problem get the best of me.I have a Dell Studio 1737 laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition that generally is a great laptop, but I have been seeing some performance issues. For no apparent reason and at random intervals the cpu […]
Could they make it any harder!?!?!?! I have a client that just bought a new HP Pavilion Laptop with Windows Vista installed. When attempting to connect to an office wireless network ( WEP encrypted network), the laptop would find the wireless network but would never make a successful connection. In the Network and Sharing Center […]
I recently installed a Netgear WG311 Wireless-G PCI network adapter to a pc that was formerly using the Windows XP Fast user switching ( the login screen that allows you to simply click on your user name to login). After installing the management software that came with it and a reboot I was presented with […]
