Don’t Use MSE Says Microsoft
[ad name=”new”] Microsoft, according to this article by How-to Geek and other articles, is telling everyone not to use Microsoft Security Essentials, but to use a third party anti-virus instead. No longer concentrating on making a great antivirus, Microsoft has shifted its focus. Now Microsoft sends its anti-virus information to third party vendors to help them […]
No Encryption Virus Yet
[ad name=”new”] Luckily we haven’t seen the encryption virus Crytolocker on a client computer in our Calgary repair shop yet. I hope we never do. This ransomware will encrypt your entire hard drive so you lose all your photos, data, and documents if you don’t pay the criminals the unencryption fee. I think the fee is […]
Infected by DNS Changer? You Have Until July Before the FBI Shuts You Down
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What Free Antivirus I Recommend
[ad name=”new”] I’m often asked what free anti-virus I recommend. Unfortunately no one anti-virus can remove all viruses. In our Calgary computer repair shop we use many different ones and each finds different infections. Some that we use are AVG, Avira, Avast, Kaspersky, Dr. Web Cure-it, E-set online and off, among others. If we relied […]
How to Get Rid of Virut without Reformatting
[ad name=”Google Adsense”] Ms. Ducktoes did it! I beat the dreaded Virut without reformatting. This is how I did it. The Dr. Web Cureit Live CD I spoke of in the last post didn’t work. At the beginning of the scan, it stopped everytime. So instead: I created an Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. I […]
Fix the "Open With" Virus
[ad name=”new”] I just fixed an odd virus: the “Open With” Virus. Everything I tried to open including my usual anti-virus programs prompted a dialog box asking what I wanted to open the AVG with. Of course that’s silly, you can’t open AVG with another program like Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader. It kept me […]
How to Fix Sysguard, Win32 Patched-Kg, and Malware Alerts
[ad name=”new”] This week I found a new type of virus: Sysguard, Win32 Patched-Kg, and Malware Alerts difficult to remove. The usual ways of removal didn’t work since these spyware/viruses suppress ComboFix and Malwarebytes and keep them from running. I had to run Avast first. The boot scanner in Avast made the first dent in […]
Free AVG 8.5 Out Now
[ad name=”new”] Many of my clients are worried about the new AVG. They’ve been receiving alerts and trying to update to the new AVG. AVG 8.5. They think they have to pay. A new version of AVG is out but no, you don’t have to pay for it. It’s free as usual. Click here to […]
Worst Spyware of 2008
[ad name=”new”] The worst spyware of 2008 (in my experience) is certainly Windows XP Antivirus 2008/2009 or one of its many variations. This malware invades a computer in one of many ways, usually bundled with a video codec, or freeware or shareware, or sometimes when you accidentally go to (drive by) a bad website. Infected […]
Remove Windows XP Antivirus 2008 and 2009 with Spyware Doctor
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Ms. Ducktoes is still in a flap due Windows Xp Anti-virus 2008/2009. Too many people are losing everything on their computers and having to reformat their hard drives. People are losing irreplaceable family photos. Businesses are losing all their contacts and documents at enormous expense.
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