I received a query from a reader about a warning message he was receiving: Hi Terry , I was wondering if perhaps you can help me , I have this very annoying adware that occurs EVERYTIME at startup …. not-a-virus:Adware.Win32.BHO.cr Now althugh this doesn’t appeato be causing any problem on my PC and I get [...]
Adware Popups Problem
Subscriber Sheikh Sarwar wrote to ask: When I start pc, lot of popups, programs start showing up. I have to close one by one. Need help in how to (a) stop this messup (b) close all open windows in one shot. Thanks, Sheikh Sarwar I wrote back to advise Sheikh that it sounded like an [...]
Ad-blocking in Sunbelt Personal Firewall
Reader Glenn Bryson wrote to me this week via the to ask: Message: Terry, Thanks for your very helpful advice. On your recommendation, I upgraded to Vipre antivirus and antispyware. Since then, I have a lot of ads blocked with this error statement: “Ad blocked here by SPF” Does this have anything to do with [...]
Acronis True Image Home 2009
[Originally published in 2009]Acronis has now released their latest version of their hard drive backup utility — Acronis True Image Home 2009. We had some hints that something was coming. First, there was the 20%-off coupon a month ago. That was followed by the short-lived 80%-off coupon several weeks ago (which I suspect was an [...]
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