http://ducktoes.com/blog Get your web feet wet, safely Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:28:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [ad] Many, many people are coming to this blog site looking for a fix for the Hallmark card virus. So it's not a hoax!!! There are e-mails going out purporting to be a link to Hallmark card (see this post), and if you click that link, you'll get a direct ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/10/05/hallmark-card-virus-fix/?nucrss=1 [ad] If, after you've removed viruses or spyware, (especially after a bout of Windows XP Anti-Virus 2008 or 2009) you're missing the Screensaver tab from the Display Properties of your computer's Control Panel, then here is the fix. Download it here: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/reg... Run it and when it asks if ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/10/05/missing-screensaver-tab/?nucrss=1 [ad#new] Ms. Ducktoes now has eat her words, and take back what she said about Grisoft's free AVG 8 in her last blog. AVG has proved to be a real trooper (a State Trooper even or an RCMP Mountie!) against the criminal and fraudulent Ad Agent BN. This week the malware has ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/09/28/ad-agent-bn/?nucrss=1 Ms. Ducktoes, like most other computer techs, has always loved AVG by Grisoft. Grisoft has given free anti-virus to home users and, unlike most other free anti-virus applications, AVG Free included an automated update and scan that was reliable, efficient, and effective. AVG was too good to be true. ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/06/12/we-miss-free-avg-75/?nucrss=1 At Ducktoes we try to get rid of spyware without reformatting your hard drive. But once in awhile a reformat is the only thing that will work--it's not nearly as often as many techies will have you think--but occasionally it's the only solution. A reformat is so ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/05/23/save-your-computer-disks/?nucrss=1 Ms. Ducktoes is in a flap and a flutter because right now there is a new type of spyware danger that is so new it is causing a bit of havoc and making all of us anti-spyware professionals work overtime. Thousands of computers are infected. Phoney e-mails ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/05/12/dangerous-new-trend-serious-and-urgent-alert-dont-click-that-link/?nucrss=1 There's no way a tech can remove and clean up all the spyware on a badly infected machine in just a couple of hours. So, if you remove the spyware on-site, you end up having to charge a lot to remove a little. It's better to take the ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/05/12/hints-for-techies-take-the-computer-to-the-lab/?nucrss=1 Yesterday I received an e-mail purportedly from Hallmark cards telling me a friend had sent me an e-card. I immediately knew it was fake but was surprised that it led not directly to a phish (phoney) website but to a trojan download. So don't click the link; it's ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/05/06/trojan-and-virus-alert-phoney-hallmark-e-card/?nucrss=1 Now Ms. Ducktoes wants you to be a get all your ducks in a row and make sure your anti-virus software is working, or if you're too much of a newbie to understand or know what you're doing yet, get a friend or co-worker to help you. And to ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/05/05/make-sure-your-anti-virus-is-working/?nucrss=1 These days everyone has spyware and viruses on their computers. It's become the "in" thing. In your computer, that is. So if you keep running your computer without anti-spyware, you'll be like all your neighbors. You'll be keeping up with the Joneses! They won't know it, they'll ... http://ducktoes.com/blog/2008/05/04/dont-keep-up-with-the-joneses-help-them-instead-2/?nucrss=1