Comments on: How to use your computer skills to earn some extra money https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-use-your-computer-skills-to-earn-some-extra-money/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-use-your-computer-skills-to-earn-some-extra-money David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-use-your-computer-skills-to-earn-some-extra-money/#comment-5724 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:26:26 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1655#comment-5724 In reply to Anonymous.

That’s a nice set of tips, definitely worth a bookmark. I didn’t know Dev did Windows. 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-use-your-computer-skills-to-earn-some-extra-money/#comment-5723 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:10:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1655#comment-5723 Actually, Dev T. has a huge howto dealing with that precise problem, as part of a general PC troubleshooting guide.

http://ttcsweb.pbwiki.com/All-Purpose-Windows-troubleshooting-and-upgrading-CD-or-Flash-drive

Spybot Search and Destroy v1.4 and updates:
o Detection Updates
o Tools Update
o Advanced check library update

Ad-Aware 2007 Free and latest Defs file.

HijackThis v1.99.1

StartUp Control Panel v2.8
Download the standalone EXE version. This shows what programs are set to run at Windows startup and allows you to disable suspect or useless entries. Or use the Sysinternals utility that looks at processes.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-use-your-computer-skills-to-earn-some-extra-money/#comment-5722 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:31:21 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1655#comment-5722 In reply to Anonymous.

Thanks for that tip. I’ll give that one a look. The computer I’m working on now (where I got this idea) was in such bad shape that Spybot CRASHES while trying to fix it. It’ll fix about half of the problems (395 at first complete run, which must be some kind of record) then I have to reboot and rescan again.

This computer is so bad there’s no way I’m hooking it up to my network even now. It may very well have spyware that hasn’t been discovered yet on it, but I want to make sure everything Spybot, Ad-Aware, MS Antispyware, and I guess now AVG know about is gone before I plug an Ethernet cable back in.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-to-use-your-computer-skills-to-earn-some-extra-money/#comment-5721 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:00:06 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1655#comment-5721 AVG also has a free version of their anti-spyware program that is pretty good at digging out trash. "Free" means after a month you have to update it by hand…

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