Trouble:

Majority of the virus problem which we receive from the readers are those cases which infect the system through pen drives. According to our records about 40 percent of the total computer systems got virus or trojan infection through pen drives and USB portable devices like iPOd, Mp3 players etc.

Yesterday, I found a cool utility called Thumbscrew : USB Write Blocker , you can use this utility to disable writing to your USB drive. You can read full review about the utility here

Let’s see how can you use this utility to protect your drive from viruses

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Trouble:

We have received lots of problems from the readers regarding the different issues and problems they are facing like:

• When ever they open Internet Explorer to open any web-site they see a new pop window opening every time showing some ads.
• In some the cases they saw different message displayed by their anti virus programs that a spyware like GLB19.TMP is running some installations in the background.

All these kinds is issues and problems are generally due to spyware , adware or malware programs running on your system in the background.

For all those readers who don’t know what is a spyware ,adware and malware, see the meanings below:

Spyware - It is a computer software that got installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user’s interaction with the computer.

 

Adware - It is a advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer.

 

Malware - It is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent.

 

Spyware, Adware and Malware are some of the biggest threats now a days as they can be used to steal very confidential information about like your credit card information , username and password of your online bank account. They can also mail your email id username and password somewhere etc.

But don’t worry with time there are new and better programs like spyware terminator are being released to counter these spyware ,adware and malware programs.

Spyware Terminator has been recently released as free for both personal and commercial use, so you don’t have to buy it now to protect your system.

Let’s see how spyware terminator can help you make your system adware , malware free.

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We are getting lots of computer problems from readers in which users report the following issues:

1. Cannot open hard disk drives by double click.

2. Double clicking on any drive opens search.

3. Error message being displayed while trying to open drives.

4. Double clicking on any drive opens “Open With” dialog window.

5. Drive opens in new window on double click.

We are going to discuss why these problems occur,how can you fix them using a simple FREE virus removal tool.

These issues mentioned above normally occur due to virus infections in computer. These are most commonly spread by pen drives or portable USB devices.

When a user double clicks on the portable drive which is already infected by a virus, the virus spread itself on your system and also create a ‘autorun.inf’ in all your drives.

So, the whole problem persist due to ‘autorun.inf’ files created by virus in the root directory of drives.

Let see how can you fix them all in one go.

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Trouble:

We have been receiving many mails from our readers these days with a problem that when ever they start up windows they see the error messages like as follows:

• Windows cannot find ‘C:\windows\svchost.exe.’
• Could not load or run ‘C:\windows\svchost.exe.’ specified in the registry
• Windows cannot find ‘C:\Windows\System32\amvo.exe’
• “Windows cannot find ‘copy.exe’

These type of messages appear at windows startup, when windows tries to load the virus files like amvo.exe, copy.exe etc. These error messages appear, because these files were removed by your anti-virus programs but still the registry entries for them exist.

Different types of viruses create some files which got executed at the windows startup so that they can come in action as windows load itself. In order to run the primary virus files required, they create run entries in windows registry.

Let’s see how can you remove these entries.

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Trouble:

One of readers, Raj Kumar, reported a problem which I have heard from some of my friends as well. He Says: “I have problem viewing icons on desktop, unable to see icons on desktop” The desktop background appears blank with no icons on it (as shown in the image below).

The problem is related to disappearing of desktop icons and task bar on windows startup. In some cases even when the user tries to open windows explorer by new task-option in task-manager the explorer flashes for a second but doesn’t start properly.

Let’s see how can we solve this problem.

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