It’s Christmas time — a lot of people are purchasing a new computer for their home, sometimes purchasing their first computer, or a computer for their children. Unfortunately, many of these new purchasers don’t know how to protect themselves properly on today’s Internet. That’s where we, as more experienced PC users (of whatever experience level!) [...]
VIPRE HOLIDAY SALE
GFI has two versions of VIPRE — the antivirus/antimalware version VIPRE Antivirus and the antivirus/antimalware + firewall + antispam version, VIPRE Internet Security 2012 (which I use). They’re running a special Holiday Sale from December 12 to December 26, 2011. Get: $25 OFF VIPRE Internet Security 2012 Home Site Licenses $20 OFF VIPRE Antivirus 2012 [...]
VIPRE Internet Security 2012 Review – A First Look
New version of GFI’s VIPRE Antivirus Premium — now called VIPRE Internet Security 2012 — has been released I’ve been using versions of VIPRE since it was first released. Initially, VIPRE Antivirus+Antispyware was the program that grew out of Sunbelt Software’s CounterSpy (which I also used). Then, they combined their firewall product into it to [...]
Getting Rid Of A Trojan
Subscriber John Paul Plauche wrote for help with malware reported by his anti-malware scanner: Terry, greetings. I recently ran Spybot – Search & Destroy which returned that virtumode.sci Trojans C-03 is residing somewhere in my computer. When I click on to fix or remove, I can’t recall which it is, I am informed that virtumode.sci [...]
Using Antivirus Software to Get Rid Of A Trojan
All antivirus/antimalware software is not created equal… Subscriber John Paul Plauche wrote for help with malware reported by his anti-malware scanner: Terry, greetings. I recently ran Spybot – Search & Destroy which returned that virtumode.sci Trojans C-03 is residing somewhere in my computer. When I click on to fix or remove, I can’t recall which [...]
The Anti-virus/Anti-malware Upgrade Went Bad…
Sometimes, the question is more challenging and ultimately requires the software manufacturer’s tech support to resolve. James Biddle wrote with a serious problem that was caused when he tried to update Microsoft Security Essentials… I have one for you. In Windows 7, I was asked to upgrade Microsoft’s Microsoft Security Essentials to the latest version. [...]
AVG Download Corrupted & Won’t Install or Uninstall
AVG definitions update download is corrupted & it won’t install and AVG won’t uninstall. Subscriber John Meyer wrote with an AVG problem (not the bad definitions problem) to ask: Been running AVG Free for many years. Upgraded to 2011 Version some time ago and been updating very frequently. Earlier this week when I tried to [...]
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