
Virus Stompers If your New Year's resolution is to be virus-free in 2010, then you will want to read this excellent article. Happy New Year everyone!
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Corporate sneakiness. Government waste. Technology run amok. Outright scams. The Red Tape Chronicles is MSNBC.com's effort to unmask these 21st Century headaches and offer real solutions that save you time and money.

Patricia HELP! Favorite computer gurus-- Jim got me an awesome new monitor for Christmas-- that needs Windows 7 to run. I'm still on XP. Time to bite the bullet to upgrade???

Virus Stompers Worried about the Facebook security "breach?" It may not be as serious as you think. Facebook has issued this message: "There have been misleading rumors recently about Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true. Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to search for your... name and see a link to your Facebook profile. They will still only see a basic set of information."

Virus Stompers MY mother always taught me to share, but now is not the time to listen to her. WARNING: Be extra careful about sharing any data storage devices. There is a very nasty virus currently going around that can jump from an infected computer right onto your thumb drive or SD card within just a few seconds, and spread right b...ack onto the next computer as soon as you plug it in. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Cindy Burcar virus stompers did an awsome job! I sat back and watched tv, while they cleaned up my computer! I highly recommend them!

Virus Stompers Safety tip: Never login to a website using a link embedded in an email. There are many fake emails coming from sites such as eBay, PayPal and Facebook that will ask to you verify your login information. These sites look identical to the real ones and will capture your password if you enter it. The only way you should ...update your password is to go directly to the legitimate site using your internet browser, not your email. See this and many other safety tips on our Safety Survey page.
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Read through this page and compare your answers to the recommended answers. If you are not observing these important safety rules, then your computer may be at risk from viruses and your data at risk of being lost.

Virus Stompers If you don't like phishing, make sure you don't take the bait! Both Twitter and Facebook were hit by phishing scams this week. Read all about them here: http://tinyurl.com/y8c9js7 and here: http://tinyurl.com/yj8hf5j
tinyurl.com
Some users of Twitter, the microblogging site, may be the victim of a new phishing and account hijacking attempt on Twitter, that specifically affects private messages.

Teri Hey, Jeff - I just directed my friend, Karen, to you. She has been infected with several viruses - I was able to remove some last night and defragmented her computer but they are now running amok on her computer. Can you help her? She was going to call this morning!

Virus Stompers Tech tip: If your computer has sufficient disk space and memory, turn on your system restore feature. This acts as a safety net that allows you to to return your computer to an earlier state if you have a system failure, serious virus or other major problem with your computer. Read all about it here.
www.microsoft.com
Describes how to use the System Restore Wizard to recover from a system failure and when to use other troubleshooting techniques.

Virus Stompers
You may be exposing yourself in public. Are you ok with that?
Check out this great video from MSNBC on how easy it is to hack into your laptop or home wireless network... and how to prevent it!
www.msnbc.msn.com

Virus Stompers
Did you know? ... That if you let your email in Outlook Express grow to more than 2 Gigabytes it will consider itself "corrupted" and will be very difficult to repair? Now you do!
Solution: Archive your Inbox, Sent and other folders on a regular basis.
support.microsoft.com
This article contains information about the maximum file size of the .dbx files that are used by Microsoft Outlook Express.

Patricia Thank you, Virus Stompers!!! My computer is running better than new! Quick, easy, painless. Would't trust my machine to anyone else.

Virus Stompers
Looking to save money? Online rebates sound like a good idea, but can actually COST you... a very nasty virus.
Follow these 2 links to read more. The first article is from 2006 but is still relevant today. The 2nd link describes how to remove the rebate virus.
http://www.mspl.net/Microworld_press/Web _Rebates_Program_Stea...ls_Confidential_Personal_Information.asp
http://www.pchell.com/support/webrebates .shtml
MicroWorld Press Release -Web Rebates Program Steals Confidential Personal Information - 7 April 200
www.mspl.net
MicroWorld is one of the leading solution providers for Information Technology, Content Security and communications software. We have offices in USA and India, and a channel network of more than 12,000 partners and resellers across the world.

Patricia HELP!!!! My computer has no sound. I can't figure it out. And yes, the speakers are plugged in. Jeff or Brandon, I need you!
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