A friend of mine brought over his aunt’s computer not too long ago (running Windows XP Professional). She was complaining about various virus-related problems and not being able to browse the internet because of popup windows. The first thing I noticed when I booted the computer was that her desktop icons were split in half [...]
If you’re like me, then you use social networking websites to keep in touch with your friends and family. My favorite is Facebook – that was until recently. For some reason, whenever someone started to chat with me, the browser window would “steal focus.” Well, even though I enjoy chatting with people, I want to [...]
For no apparent reason, I could no longer login to my IM programs such as MSN Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. I looked into all of the ususal suspects (malware infections, firewall issues, my ISP, etc.) but I couldn’t quite put my finger on the problem until I did a search for “Netgear MSN problems” [...]
Occassionally, I’ll run across a virus that takes away some or all of your admistrative rights on a Windows XP machine. Not only is it frustrating for the end user, but its frustrating for me as well. Recenently, I customer brought in a computer with several problems, the majority of which were caused by viruses, [...]
There is a small feature in the new Firefox 3 called the smart location bar, but some users may find it annoying if you’re used to previous versions of Firefox. This article will describe how to disable the smart location bar in such a way that makes Firefox 3 perform similar to Firefox 2. But, [...]
I’ve already you shown you how to disable AVG Safe Search in Firefox, so now I’ll show you how to disable AVG Safe Search in Internet Explorer 7. AVG Antivirus Safe Search is an add-on feature for IE7 that lets internet users know ahead of time if a link in their search engine results is [...]
AVG 8 was recently released and it contains a lot of neat features that many users will find useful. One of those features is AVG AntiVirus Safe Search. This add-on for Firefox is inteded to help users safely stay away from websites that have been identified as potentially harmful. Unfortunately, some users may find the [...]