Google Web Master Tools Site Verification

by Dale Powell on February 4, 2010

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Hopefully your computer has remained spyware free so you can get down to using it for business and pleasure without any headaches. Many of our customers are home and small business owners and some only have “one” computer.  With internet [...]

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3 Mistakes to Avoid Getting the Koobface Virus in Facebook

by Dale Powell on January 9, 2010

The Koobface Virus spreading through Facebook is catching Facebook users off-guard by deceiving them into clicking on a message that supposedly contains an embarrassing video of themselves. The message even appears to come from a Facebook friend. Listen to the audio below by Dale Powell about the 3 mistakes to avoid to prevent getting this [...]

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DoubleMySpeed.com – CyberDefender Review

by Dale Powell on January 1, 2010

Many people have seen the popular DoubleMySpeed.com TV Commercial and can relate to the frustration of having a slow computer. But are the commercial’s claims true, that their software can actually double the speed of “your” computer?
Take a moment and listen to the DoubleMySpeed audio review by Dale Powell (aka the SpywarePreventionGuy) and decide for [...]

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Can Windows 7 Get Viruses?

December 14, 2009

Yes, Windows 7 gets chased by viruses and can in fact get both virus and malware infections! In fact, we have already started to have Windows 7 based computers carried into our shop for virus removal.

But in defense of Windows 7, I will have to say that these internet surfers either let their trial antivirus [...]

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How Did My Computer Get a Spyware Infection?

November 9, 2009

In my role as a computer grief counselor, I hear customer after customer cry out “How did I get infected, I’ve got “that antivirus program from the yellow box?” While I’m not going to make this article into a smear campaign about how I don’t like that antivirus program in the yellow box…or the [...]

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Using CCleaner to Improve Computer Performance

October 17, 2009

CCleaner is a freeware program you can download from the internet that you can use to remove unused files and registry entries from your computer. Below is a video demonstration about downloading, installing, and running CCleaner.

On computers that have not had a good disk cleanup in a while, CCleaner can actually allow Windows to [...]

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Spyware Prevention – A Red, Yellow and Green Light Approach

October 9, 2009

Imagine if you just had someone there to tell you which websites were bad or not. You probably wouldn’t like someone looking over your shoulder during every click of the mouse, but there are software tools available to do most of this work for you, and one that I use everyday is actually FREE. [...]

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Spyware Prevention – Basic Introduction

October 2, 2009

Whether you use your computer for business or pleasure, if you surf the internet, I’ll bet that you have already been infected with some form of malware at one time or another such as: adware, bots, botnet , hoaxes, malware, payload, phishing, rootkits, scams, spyware, trojan horse, viruses, and worms. They [...]

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