Well, I know it won’t be something I do a lot of, but in the last week or so I’ve had to do some researching and writing at work, starting with that blog post last week, and it’s just killing my motivation to write anything here in the evenings. Heck, I’ve been struggling just to…
The in-laws are in town briefly today, and they brought down a laptop for a little tech support, because they, apparently, had been heavily infected with malware. Well, as it turns out, they did have malware, but it wasn’t quite as bad as they thought. They had told me Norton reported that they had over…
The latest issue of Tech Support Alert comes with some handy sites to bookmark. On one hand, they link to a couple of sites that allow you to check any downloaded files for malware using a number of anti-virus scanners at once before you run them: [1] http://virusscan.jotti.org/[2] http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html They also link to a site…
Saw this in Support Alert today, and thought it’s worth publicizing. As much as the common security advice is not to run as Admin, there are a number of tools that simply don’t work without the Admin rights. It’s frustrating. Programs That Won’t Run in a Limited User AccountWorking with a Windows limited users account…
OK, so the first, obvious question, which Mark asked in the comments, and Steven Vore referenced in his blog post, was why go through all this? Why not just reformat the drive and reinstall Windows? Well the answer to that is multi-faceted. One, if I had just reformatted I wouldn’t have near the blog fodder…
Part 1 is here. OK, so I did a little research, and found a few tools I thought my help me. I decided to tackle this one problem at a time. First, let’s get rid of that stupid desktop wallpaper. A quick trip to Display Properties then the Desktop tab, Customize Desktop and the Web…