If you haven’t changed the default password on your home router, you may be in for an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris — the Chuck Norris botnet, that is. Discovered by Czech researchers, the botnet has been spreading by taking advantage of poorly configured routers and DSL modems, according to Jan Vykopal, the head of [...]
Well well. I just contacted HP customer support from the UK. Why when I try to trouble shoot something for a customer and i need to contact HP for a little further advice should i have the product with me. I just spoke with a Call Centre person not a technician. He informs me that [...]
So im looking at a Fujitsu Esprimo laptop that the backlight keeps flashing on and off. It looks like the video seen here… After a little investigation i realised it was a loose connection to the inverter card. So firstly unplug the battery and remove the power supply. Prize the little rubber stoppers from the [...]
Hit this message after a clean up of a PC today hit my head against the wall then my google foo found this out….. Install the MSVC redistributable manually by going to the link below and and downloading it from micro$oft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en Then install AVG and hey presto puff all done…. Did you like this? [...]
Well i have been banging my head over the weekend on a Dell Studio 15. Hard drive failed so we replaced the hard drive and reinstalled Vista to the new hard drive. I was asked by the client to install some protection to protect the clients child from browsing any adult content. Previously i have [...]
I had problems removing malware defence today, did all the normal scans with Malware Bytes. Seemed to clean things up went to reinstall AVG and it still found Malware defence the fake solution. I was scratching my head for an hour or so until i found this post….. In some cases Malware Defense comes with [...]
I went to install Malwarebytes on my desktop computer but got a weird installation error message; “mbam.exe – Unable To Locate Component. This application has failed to start because MSVBVM60.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.” I tried downloading another copy of Malwarebytes and re-installing it, thinking I got a bad [...]
The first thing you’ll want to do is reboot your computer, and hit the F8 key right before Windows starts loading (you can hit it a bunch of times). Then select the Safe Mode with Networking option. Before you do anything else, you’re going to need to fix the internet connection to work, because Antivirus [...]