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Most people seem to call every type of malware a “virus”, but that isn’t technically accurate. You’ve probably heard of many more terms beyond virus: malware, worm, Trojan, rootkit, keylogger, spyware, and more. But what do all these terms mean? These terms aren’t just…
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I'm downloading something from mediafire which really has many sponsor sites that are not good:
ad.xtendmedia.com and mdinfo.com. And possibly the cause of some spyware and adware in my system.
Does killing the whole process of firefox and not closing those pop-up windows(ad sites) helps avoid the…
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I am trying to secure a Mac after discovering that network links are being established to some unwanted internet sites.
Using 'lsof -i' (list open 'files', internet) I have seen that launchd, ntpd, firefox, dropbox and other processes are either 'LISTENING' or have 'ESTABLISHED' links to a site or…
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According to SoftwareReviews365.com, who specialize in anti spyware software reviews of the best products on the market; spyware is ?computer software that obtains information from a user';s computer ... [Author: Jay Stamford - Computers and Internet - March 29, 2010]
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Getting a virus is bad. Getting a virus that causes your computer to crash when you reboot is even worse. We’ll show you how to clean viruses from your computer even if you can’t boot into Windows by using a virus scanner in a Ubuntu Live CD.
There are a number of virus scanners available for Ubuntu…
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I have a PC that came with Vista Home Basic, and I now have some need for Remote Desktop, which is not included in Home Basic, so I'd like to upgrade.
Now, there is apparently some hack to get Remote Desktop working in Home Premium, and obviously, it's in Ultimate, but really, the Business Edition…
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Topic title says it all. Right now I have 2 things I need to do...
1) Remove the windows.old folder.
My problem with this is that when I go to disk cleanup, the "Remove Previous Window Installations" option isn't there. Not sure what to do here.
EDIT: Solved this part. Didn't hit button clean…
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I just ordered a laptop, and it came with Vista Home Premium 32. I want Vista Home Premium 64 on it. I'm planning a reinstall. Does anyone know if my product key for Vista 32 will also work for Vista 64 for an OEM copy? As far as I know, I just need to get the 64 bit media. Is this correct? …
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I hope my explanations make some sense -- please ask for clarification if they don't.
I had a computer running Windows Vista (Ultimate, 64-bit). All was well! Then one day there was a nasty power surge at the office, and it died. (We didn't have surge protectors at the office, unfortunately. …
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I created several documents in MS Office Publisher 2007 when I was using Windows Vista 32 bit version. I've recently upgraded to the 64 bit version of Vista and am now having trouble opening the files created on the previous Windows setup.
When I try to open my documents, I get this warning:
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