On the heels of cleaning up the mess from earlier patch horrors, Microsoft finds itself under criticsm for seriously bothing another patch, labeled as “critical” by the Microsoft Windows update team. Here are the details from our source: “Microsoft hasn’t yet acknowledged Win7 patch KB 2803821 and WinXP patch KB 2834904, which have spawned complaints about top half… Read More »
Today we are officially suspending our recommendation of Malwarebytes as the best utility to remove malware from your computer. While it is still a good tool to remove serious Trojans from your computer, there are better trojan removers, and better rootkit removers. Malwarebytes value, in our opinion was its ability to detect and remove the most commonly found… Read More »
Christine has an issue with our choice of Geek Uninstaller because she can’t download Geek without getting Zip Opener too. You recommend geek uninstaller. What’s with the download the zip opener? I don’t need the zip opener but cannot download Geek without it. Our answer We recommend Geek Uninstaller, it’s an easy to use uninstaller than removes leftover traces… Read More »
Kathy writes to Malwarebytes and gets a predictable answer Hi Darcy – I sent the email below to Malwarebytes re: their not getting back to y’all and not finding and getting rid of PUPS. Their response is included. I have Wise Convert in my VIEW under Toolbars. I never downloaded it and I have it disabled. It’s been… Read More »
We’ve been warning you about IncrediMail’s incredible trip on the slippery slope into the realm of malware, adware, and spyware. And we’ve taken a lot of heat for it, because several years ago we did recommend IncrediMail when it was owned by a different company and had not yet started it’s free fall into dark side. If any… Read More »
Sometimes you need to sign a document in a hurry. Someone sends you a PDF file and you monkey around trying to open it, then print it, then sign it, and then send it back by regular email. It just takes a lot of time – you know what I mean, right? Then there are times when you… Read More »