After fighting with this all weekend, like I have the time, I am SICK UNTO DEATH of Norton. I had a problem caused either by Norton or a...
Hi, I bought a new Dell laptop with Windows 7 Professional. It comes with a 30 day trial version of McAfee. I don't want this and want to...
Hi mack_guy, Thanks for all your help. It took me a long time, but I was able to get the encryption working. I found I was unable to get...
Hi again, Thanks for your help. I don't know how to change LAN IP addresses. I'll have to try to find out. If there's any simple step by...
Thank you for trying to help. I am totally lost with changing IP Addresses. How do I do that? Will I foul up my Verizon DSL if change the...
I was able to get into my Zoom router. My IP address for this was 10.0.0.2 When I got in I found NOTHING to do with wireless connections....
Hi, I’d like to secure our PC wireless setup at home. We have: 1. Verizon DSL with a Zoom X5 ADSL router attached via a cable to our...
Thanks everyone for the help! I have some follow-up questions: 1. With regard to installing XP SP2 or SP3, would installing SP3 also install...
Hi, Advice needed by someone who uses my PC as a means to an end. I’m not interested in learning all sorts of new packages or studying...
Hi, Thanks! I downloaded both and ran full scans. I ran the Malwarebytes product first. It found an adware called Starware. I used the...
Hi, Does anyone know what this is? All-of-a-sudden, starting 2 days ago, whenever I attempt to turn off my PC after it's been running a while,...
Hi, I have a Dell computer with XP. Back when I bought my computer from Dell, I did not receive a CD disk copy of the XP installed on my...
Hi, I am running Norton Firewall and AV along with TrojanHunter and GOBACK. My computer was running on the Internet for several hours with the...
Hi, This critical update is to patch problems with MS Outlook Express. I don't use this on my XP SP1 machine, but it is there behind the...
CounterSpy 1.5?? How is CounterSpy now? Has it gotten any better? I have the old 1.0 version and use it only for on-demand scans. I never...
JRosenfeld, thanks for your help! The registry is a mystery to me. I didn't realize I could GOOGLE an entry. Actually, I had no idea each entry...
I'd like to add another thing about this. When I first encountered this after scanning with CounterSpy, I quarantined the "spyware". I went back...
I did a Windows Update (getting lastest critical patches) for my XP system today and was forced to install new software for the Windows Upate as...
Hi, I’m considering hardening my IE. I already have these apps: Norton AV, Norton Internet Security (firewall), Trojan Hunter, UnHackMe,...
I'm new at this and was thinking of getting DropMyRights. Can someone elaborate on the differences between RunSafe and DropMyRights? Is RunSafe...
Hi, I have a dumb question. What is "warez"? I don't want to google this to find out because it sounds like some dangerous sites might come...
It definitely was mchlnjDrv, and not MCHINJDRV, when UnHackMe popped up its warning. So I guess it was just a false positive afterall....
This has happened twice in the space of about a month: I turn on my computer and access my user account. Up pops Unhackme informing me of a...
Hi Hank. I have a Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, 2.66MHz XP and had the same problem. Even after I turned the real-time guard off, things didn't seem the...
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