We looked at killing off spyware before. That spyware was pretty mild. Let’s look at some really nasty stuff! Here is an installer for Look2Me. Note: DO NOT INSTALL THIS ON A PRODUCTION COMPUTER! Use Virtual PC or Vmware if you want to take a look at this spyware. The file is ZIPed, then RARed, [...]
Archives for February 2006
Detach That Peripheral!
During these past two weeks I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon: attached peripherals causing systems not to boot. My first call was a computer out on the shop floor with a keyboard not working. It was a Compaq 733 Deskpro. The screen was totally black and the user wasn’t around. I proceeded to unplug the computer [...]
Can’t Burn at Anything but 48X!
Here’s a weird problem that’s plagued me at work for a while. My CD burner in my work computer would not burn at any other speed other then 48X! Not slower or faster, just 48X. It came with a Dell and it is model HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8483B made by LG. After doing an Internet search [...]
Moving Hard Drives Between Windows XP Systems
How many times have you gotten a call for a computer that’s dead and the user needs the computer up right away with their data? Now, if we live by “best practices” all of the user’s data wouldn’t be on the hard drive, but a network drive that’s being backed up. The department’s PC setup [...]
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