What is Rogue Software? Rogue security software, also known as “scareware,” is software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but provides limited or no security, generates erroneous or misleading alerts, or attempts to lure users into participating in fraudulent transactions. How to Check for Rogue Software How to Defend Your Computer How [...]
During the last few months, the bad guys on the internet have stepped-up their efforts to cash-in on the increased number of unwary internet surfers looking for holiday deals. I remember when it was mostly the “high-risk” internet surfer who had to worry, but these days, you can also add “the naive” to the list. [...]
The other day, I was listening to the radio while repairing computers and heard about a recall for Sony Laptops because of an overheating problem. I recently bought a Sony Vaio myself and as it turned out, mine was on this recall list! From what I learned about the problem, it can be corrected with a BIOS update which can be easily downloaded and run from within Windows. I updated mine in less than 10 minutes. So far, I haven’t noticed my laptop running any cooler. While I always thought my laptop ran a bit warm, it never did get dangerously hot. But heat is always an issue with today’s faster computers. Anyway, below are some excerpts of important information from Sony regarding this overheating issue and what to do.
More on Logs and Other Things (Cont from Part 2) Other logs you should be monitoring are your security software logs such as for your Antivirus or Firewall programs. But aside from threats to your software, I want to recommend another program that can monitor the health of your Hard Drive where all your data [...]
Two Main Causes of Computer Malfunctions (Cont from Part 1) If you read Part 1 of this article, you can see, I pretty much pointed out the 2 main causes of most computers malfunctions, “ignorance” and “neglect”. To make matters even worse, our weakened economy is exploiting these problems by making people run their computers [...]
The weak economy is sure having an effect on the computer repair industry, but not the way you might think. People are relying on their computers more than ever before for entertainment, to find jobs, and to hunt for good deals. But as much as they depend on them, they tend not to put much [...]
I got such a response from the article about the Dirty Dell Computer that I had to add one more thing about the heat issue. My last article had to do with “neglect”, but now I have to be blunt and tell you about another heat issue that has to do with “ignorance”. If this [...]
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