Viruses and Scams Categorized Posts

Virus in a WordPress Post

by Scott | May 2, 2008 | Viruses and Scams, Wordpress

I was at a friends home a couple of weeks ago, and he was complaining about a virus on his computer. Try as he might, he could not get rid of this virus. I total look and thought I was able to remove it, but he said that the next day it came back. Ultimately he ended...

How I Control My Windows Performance

by Scott | Apr 29, 2008 | Computers - How to, Spyware, Tools, Viruses and Scams

There is nothing worse than computer problems, and there’s nothing better than free software to prevent them in the first place. One of my favorite utilities of all time, Winpatrol, has just updated to their 2008 version, and the company owner has provided me...

Why I Hate Itunes / Apple Music Store

by Scott | Dec 27, 2007 | General interest, Viruses and Scams

Here’s what I went through on Christmas Day, just to get songs we legally purchased through Itunes to play on my kids new MP3 players… I will never spend another dollar with Itunes after what I went through. Tell me again why anyone would pay $.99 a song,...

Trojan Marketing Subverts Google Ads

by Scott | Dec 21, 2007 | Google, Viruses and Scams

Virus Marketing – When I ran a computer store in the late 90’s, a lot of people would bring in computers with viruses and spyware to be removed, and they would usually ask us what the “point” was in these acts of cyber vandalism. Other than...

Is Your Website Harmful to Others?

by Scott | Oct 23, 2007 | Google, Spyware, Viruses and Scams

Google has the ability to Mark your search listings with a warning to users if they think you are doing something wrong, or trying to download spyware onto people’s computer when they visit. You may not even know they’re doing it until you see it, and...

Increased Risk on Internet and Email

by Scott | Jun 29, 2007 | Viruses and Scams

There has been a huge increase in the number of viruses I have been receiving via e-mail over the past 2 1/2 weeks. At first I thought it was just me, but an Oregon Computer Consultants meeting the other night, I asked around, and others had noticed the same trend....