Category: Vista

Virus Handbook — 39.95$ Shows you the theory behind E-mail Virus.

Paul

Amazon reviews this book and says:

E-mail Virus Protection Handbook : Protect your E-mail from Viruses, Tojan Horses, and Mobile Code Attacks (Paperback)E-mail Virus Protection Handbook

The authors of this volume (and there are several) begin by explaining how and why e-mail viruses work–they point the finger mainly at software that’s designed for slick presentation of mail instead of for security, as well as at uninformed end users. Then, they begin to explain what various countermeasures, including antivirus software and firewalls, can do, and offer specific configuration advice. They also explore means of configuring popular e-mail servers and clients for maximum resistance to viruses. Overall, this book is carefully researched and should provide system administrators with the information–both practical and background–that they need to protect their systems from some of the more insidious threats around. –David Wall

Price: $39.95

If your like me and your curious how these viruses work. This book is good for those who want to learn how to fight or combat viruses that usually come with E-mails. You have to know why there are viruses and why you need Anti-virus software. Although I’ve only read some of this, it makes my head spin. I’d recommend people read it at least twice. This is good for technicians who have to fight with viruses a lot, will give you so many good ideas on how to combat them.

Please visit my store for other Recommendations.  I’ll update them when I find more cool stuff.

Got a Virus? Got Spyware? This gadget will fix it!!

Paul

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PC Clean Machine Personal PC Concierge Service

  • Everything you need, including software, is on the thumb drive to get your own personal PC Concierge, a real person working for you. Click on the video to see how it works.

  • Use our anti-virus/anti-spyware and other tools, or we will work with any anti-virus or anti-spyware you already have.

  • PC Concierge will check your computer regularly to keep your data protected and your computer running at optimal levels. Protects both MAC and PC

  • Receive a detailed report explaining what was done to protect your PC and improve its performance

  • Your PC concierge will perform computer maintenance at a time that’s convenient for you

  • Includes ID Theft coverage whether computer related or not

  • Includes computer breakage coverage

  • Includes all security software: anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, anti-phishing, IM encryption, family network, protection, gamer mode, laptop mode, anti-spam, parental control, backup, tuneup, file vault, anti-adware.

This was found online and I thought about how much this could be for people in the field.  This is also good for people who have a system offline and don’t want to go online to get the software that is need to fix this.   I saw this and couldn’t wait to blog about this.  If you need to have security for when you have a virus this will help protect your for one Year.  I will say this is a very good deal get several programs for a real low price.  All the reviews for this product are good, check out the product for the reviews.  It cost 119.99 but I think it is worth it for people who don’t have enough security programs and need to protect yourself.

Nice System for 1,000 Gateway MC7803U Laptop

Paul

Gateway MC7803U Laptop

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Box Contents – Gateway MC7803U Notebook, 8-Cell Lithium-ion Battery, AC power adapter, Power Cord, Software Bundle – Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition with Service Pack 1, Microsoft Works 9.0, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Edition – 60-Day Trial, Symantec Norton 360 2008 60-Day Trial, 1-Year Limited Warranty

  • Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core Duo

  • System Bus Speed: 800

  • Number of Processors: 2

  • RAM: 4000 MB

  • RAM Type: DDR2 SDRAM

Hard Drive

  • Size: 320 GB

  • Manufacturer: Portable

  • Type: Serial ATA

Graphics and Display

  • Graphics RAM: 512 MB

Ports and Connectivity

  • Modem: Fax / modem

Cases and Expandability

  • Weight: 11 pounds

Price : $999.99

This is a sweet system.  Come with 4 gig of memory and 512 Graphics.  Looks like this would be an excellent system for gaming and looks like it is under 1,000$ dollars.  This is a great deal to get for people who like to take there games on the road.  I like the size of the hard drive and everything.

Computer World has done a review of this laptop if you want to check it out Click here.

Disaster preparation 101 — Data backup

Paul

In this one I will talk about Disaster, it happens to all of us from time to time. A fire, a earthquake, a stolen laptop or any number of ways. So what happens to your data, is it stored on the laptop? Is it important very sensitive data? Could you get fired if you lost that data?

[ad#ad2-right]These are all questions you must ask yourself when you have laptop. How do you backup your data or even do you have a backup? Having seen this with my own clients, I must wonder if there are people out there who just don’t care. I had a client the other day who gotten a virus and this was a really mean virus. Deleted some very important files when you tried to clean the virus out. She called me in a panic because she couldn’t load up windows? I asked if she had any backups, she said “what’s a backup” . So I sat there discussing this with the client for over 20 minutes. Finally she started to understand, she said she had the OEM Backup DVD but nothing else. She also said she needed help with getting data off the computer. I told her that I would be able to come the next day and I was lucky the virus didn’t do anything else to her data. We were able to retrieve the data from her system. That is where I start my rant , Why would anyone not have backup of there most important data?

So How do you backup your data? This is controversial and somewhat depends on how much people want to spend to keep there data safe and not loose pictures or music. There are several ways to do it, each way has it’s pitfalls or short comings and requires a little more effort:

Kinds of Backup

Hard Medium – DVD, CD, External Hard drive

Although,  The hard medium is usually used that doesn’t mean you can have a backup other than hard.   Here are some ways to back up on the internet.

Internet Medium:

  • Jungle Disk — Provides online storage through the Amazon s3 service.   Only pay for what you use.   It works well with most Operating system.  I’ve used it on Vista so it is really nice.

  • Carbonite Online backup –Another good Online storage.

  • Some Other Online backup — Here a list from Amazon to better help you find the type of software that you might need.

These are just a few options, if you want to look for other you can.  The important thing to do is BACKUP because if you need some data that gets wiped or destroyed.  You will be kicking yourself for not backing up.

Microsoft released KB960714 to fix THE IE Problem

Paul

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[ad#ad2-right]This is the update to fix the IE Vulnerability and if you have any questions please make sure to check my other post about this little update.   This was sent out today and should be patch ASAP, on all systems.  If you want to patch the easy way, I suggest downloading Clone to Autopatcher.  This seems to help make an ISO file on a DVD so you don’t have to update a system the old way.