by malwarekilla on April 23, 2010
Last night I reviewed K9 Web Protection – a free web filter that’s free and easy for parents to install and use. Check out the K9 Web Protection Review: Here are the K9 Features that I really like: 69 categories no database download needed, queries web service caches websites ensuring your internet access is as [...]
by malwarekilla on March 26, 2010
For this Thursday’s video I decided to show everyone the main tool I use for diagnosing why a PC is running slow. The video seems to be a pretty big hit…enjoy!
by malwarekilla on March 15, 2010
Get ready to be shocked…I use a Mac Book Pro. I know…calm down. It’s true. I fell in love with OSX a long time ago when it was called “neXt Step”. After neXt went bust Mr. Jobs was nice enough to buy it an turn it into a Systems Administrators dream…OSX (an amazing UI with [...]
by malwarekilla on March 9, 2010
Here’s a very handy little command that will list files in any directory you choose by the latest date. The example below creates a list of all the files in c:\Windows\System32 arranged by latest date (this example does not include sub-directories. You can specify /S for recursive sub directory scanning/listing): Open a command prompt. Enter [...]
by malwarekilla on September 30, 2009
I was busy last night moving all six of our family PC’s from Avira to MSE (gotta go take care of mom tonight ). I have to admit it’s much faster on quick scans (as compared to the beta), so fast in fact I decided to do them every night. I’m guessing this will be [...]
by malwarekilla on August 25, 2009
My malware removal business has exploded this month. More and more people are getting infected with Rogue anti-virus software and components that prevent you from removing the rogue anti-virus applications. Infections vary from trivial, easy to remove malware all the way up to sophisticated infections that demand a bootdisc (or an OS re-install). Computers that [...]
by malwarekilla on May 4, 2009
Virut is a patching virus. This means that Virut will inject malicious code into your computers existing executable programs (.exe’s and .scr’s). The malicious code can be used to do anything; it’s up to the malware author. The problem with Virut lies in the quality of the code…it’s very buggy and can cause programs to [...]
by malwarekilla on March 4, 2009
AntiMalware Software: DefenseWall – Completely protects me (or I should say the wife) from drive by downloads via firefox and from USB media. DefenseWall separates applications and devices into trusted and untrusted groups. Trusted groups are free to modify the OS systems folders, registry, services etc. Untrusted groups are not allowed to make any changes [...]