avast 7 has released as of February 23rd. It is new and there are many issues being posted daily on the avast forum in many threads. There are also many avast! 7 users that have no issues. However, the business community is NOT ready to deal with these issues, we just want our computers to work. So, staying with avast! 6 for a little while makes since, and let the product get some more debugging. This way you not introduce any undesired results from this upgrade. avast! 6 took about 2 months to be ready for commercial users. Also,...
Virus
How to clean an Infected Computer using “SCRAPE”
1)If you have been using avast!, this is most likely NOT a virus infection, but a spyware infection! The best antivirus programs in the world stop approximately 95% of virus’, and 70% of spyware. We have been relying on Microsoft Windows Defender for years now, but that program has become worthless, and all it does is slow your machine down. We actually remove Defender from all of our systems. We have found that some users will be re-infected until properly protected. The best protection that money can buy is avast! Pro and Malwarebytes Pro combined. Over 95% of systems,...
When all else fails, discovery and removal of antivirus leftovers!
Antivirus software is the most invasive application we will ever install on our systems. Even when the products are properly removed by “Add/Remove Programs”, pieces of code are ALWAYS left behind, and these leftovers can and do conflict with the current antivirus products installed in your system. This situation has occurred throughout my entire career, and is effected by most antivirus vendors (Symantec, Norton, and McAfee just to tag a few.) These symptoms range from no Internet access, system errors, revolving “boot looping”, and the dreaded Microsoft BSOD (blue screen of death) Windows XP appears to be much more...
Risks of Online Banking as a Business Exposed
The banking laws/regulations have changed and are continuing to change. Federal banking regulations provide broad protections to consumers (personal bank accounts are liable for only $50 from online fraud). But consumers who are unaware of their rights might end up unnecessarily footing the bill. Banks are no longer required to carry insurance on business/corporate bank accounts, and they have not been informing their business customers of the change. This means if your business does any type of online banking, bill payment, online statements (which we all are being pushed to); you will most likely need to sue the bank...
15 causes of Hard Disk Corruption
Everybody hates to lose data. Many of the issues proven to cause hard disk corruption can be avoided, if you know what they are. I have writen articles on almost every aspect of this list. Most are avoidable, some are not and we are just taking chances, such as Solar flare activity. We are in a hightened Solar storm now for the next 1.8 years. About the only thing we can do is to reboot our computers daily. So here they are, in no particular order: 1)Bugs in O.S. (Vista is the worst, but can be fixed) 2)Solar Flares...
avast Pro 6 conversion from avast! Pro 4 (and stopping avast 7 auto installation)
During an avast program update, many time a new version will go over the top of a previous version. And other times this type of upgrade will cause “undesirable results” This process is designed to overcome those issues. The newest version of avast 7 is still quite new and somewhat buggy, so we prefer to stay at avast version 6 for the moment. 1) Download avast! 6 Pro here and save to desktop (must be the 1367 version, or you will get avast! 7 anyways) 2) Save the new avast! license file on the desktop: “license.avastlic” 3) You...
SSL / TLS and the avast! Mail Shield
In order for e-mails to be scanned by the avast! Mail Shield, it is necessary that encryption is turned off in the mail client software. If encryption is required, the appropriate e-mail accounts need to be configured in the Mail Shield to establish a secure connection with the mail server. This will enable all incoming and outgoing e-mails to be scanned by the Mail Shield. All other e-mail accounts using unencrypted connections should be listed as unencrypted in the SSL Accounts settings of the Mail Shield (i.e. SSL/TLS encryption set to ‘None’, ports for SMTP to ’25′, for POP3...
Discovery and removal of previously installed antivirus leftovers! including avast’s special tool
Here is an Article I wrote about discovery and removal of leftovers from previous anti-virus products, my “when all else fails” procedure Antivirus software is the most invasive application we will ever use on our systems. Specifically here, we are addressing the upgrade of avast! 4.8 to newer avast! Pro or Business Protection. However, this situation also occurs with other antivirus vendors (Symantec, Norton, and McAfee just to tag a few.) What has really occurred here, is that there are left over pieces of previous antivirus software, and they are conflicting with the current antivirus software. And the classic symptom is...
MAC vs PC for browsing safely!
I believe that virtulizing one’s browser in a “SandBox” is really the only safe surfing technique. It’s certainly NOT the Mac. All browsers are vulnerable by nature. Here’s the last 3 months of vulerabilities: Win 7 @ 67 – Linux @ 59 – Mac @ 379. So why so many on the Mac side? It’s Karma! Too many “I have a MAC so I don’t get infected!” The ROI (I hate that term) is now very beneficial for Organized Crime and Terrorists to target Mac. They are playing catchup! SO, quality FREE antivirus for the MAC:
How to use Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware to scan and remove malware from your computer
Introduction: As you may have noticed, we use MalwareBytes’, or MBAM, in a lot of our removal guides. We do this for no reason other than the fact that the program simply works well and that we can count on it to remove what it says it can. It is updated constantly throughout the day and has excellent protection on all the new malware that comes out. With that said, we feel that MalwareBytes is an important tool to have as part of your computer’s security arsenal. One of the program’s nicest features is that it is free and easy to...
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