Internet and network connectivity in Windows XP is notorious for being easily disabled and corrupted from minor tweaks to the registry and winsock settings. Removing software, scanning for and deleting spyware can cause these registry corruptions which prevent Windows XP from accessing the network. It seems that the frequencies of corruption have declined since the […]
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Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as mainstream support ended in June 2005.
The above passage is from the Microsoft website. In a nutshell, Windows Defender […]
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I have been reluctant to post Lavasoft’s legendary application Ad-Aware, because of the aggressive shareware route Lavasoft has been pushing lately. Lavasoft does offer Ad-Aware 2007 has a completely freeware version for download. I had to use Ad-Aware for the first time in a year today on a friends PC and I must say that the application is still as […]
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Avast! is probably the best free Anti-Virus software package currently available, as it is one of the only ones to come with an email scanner, messaging shield and P2P shield. I actually prefer Avast! to many of the commercial packages out there due to it’s small footprint and the fact that it doesn’t try to […]
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Root-kits are a relatively new threat on the modern Internet and no other company has a better root-kit removal tool than F-Secure and their “Blacklight” utility. What exactly is a root-kit you ask? Here’s a definition from Wikipedia to help get you started:
A root-kit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take fundamental control (in […]
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Posted in Security, Virus/Spyware Removal on Feb 5th, 2008
AVG by Grisoft is a basic no frills freeware anti-virus solution. Some notable features include daily automatic virus definition updates, a basic scan scheduler and email virus protection. AVG is great for a quick and dirty last minute solution. I’ll often bundle it with the PC’s I custom build for friends and family as […]
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Aah yes, the legendary Spybots Search & Destroy. This program has been a standard tool for I.T. folk in the scanning and removal of all things spyware for almost a decade . As of this post, their spyware database is up to well over 100,000 items. Spybots S&D is easily one of the top 5 […]
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