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Notice: Recently there has been a lot of discussion about these fake antivirus malware programs from the smitfraud/virtumonde virus infecting computers. Today we had another computer infected with this AntiVir 2010 virus variant coming directly from the brandsoftheworld.com website. If anyone...

The only thing that is going to allow you access to control all ports in your network access is a hardware firewall device. This piece of equipment goes directly between your internet and your own router. There are several options from the best name brands in networking out there especially at...

Firewalls block certain pieces of data trying to access your internal network from the internet. For instance some of this data is your website traffic, that is, HTTP documents that you are viewing on your browser has to come through a specific port on the firewall to be allowed access to your...

This could be a source of the virus, but if it is of the smitfraud/virtumonde variant it was most likely just from searching any plain website, didn't have to be an 'untrusted' website. I read a news article only just this week about fake Kingston memory cards and flash drives that were being...

This sounds like a variant of the smitfraud/virtumonde viruses. There have been quite a few posts about this virus threat on this forum recently, as it has become quite frequently seen. One thing that separates this virus from some others is not only its slightly more difficult means of...

That depends upon what performance you are trying to compare. If you are talking about being able to crunch big numbers in rendering an image or mathematical computation, then no. But where a SSD offers far more performance gains in is working with large files. For example, copying a 5GB...

This would be a no go. The retail version of Windows 7 Professional will allow you to install the application more than once (in the case of having to reformat or installing on a new upgraded computer) but can only be running and activated on a single computer at a time. This means, if he's...

It could also just be writing files to the pagefile from out of memory. This is very common for your computer to do, pretty much all of the time, and is nothing to worry about. If this is the case, then the only way to fix it is to add more RAM.

This is generally the case because cable connections are used for higher-speed tiers of internet service, but it is not ALWAYS the case. Back a few years ago we had switched from a local ISP to AT&T because of flaky service and their unwillingness to give service at our location since we were...

It is very hard to flat out say "Choose cable over DSL" as really it all depends on many other factors. What plans are both ISP's offering for you in terms of speed, bandwidth usage, reliability, and cost? Generally speaking, DSL isn't any faster than what you get with Cable as it all comes...

I have had some bad luck with XFX cards in the past (2 failures of 2 cards within a year) but I did not attempt warranty repair on them to find this out. I just replaced with a different brand and a little more power. I haven't had any issues with any other video cards to have to know their...

The capacity is something of worry for me, as well, but I think that 120 GB might be just enough for their needs really. With my desktop I have two 120 GB SSD drives as I said, and currently only have 70 GB of space used. That is Windows 7 Ultimate, Adobe Photoshop/Dreamweaver/Premiere/etc...

The topic of cost/performance and feasibility of using solid state drives in a graphics production workstation has been tossed around here quite a bit in the past. I wanted to hit back on this topic and see if anyone's thoughts on this matter might be changing as the prices of these devices...

As you stated, your 2D design doesn't require a whole lot of graphics horsepower so you don't need to spend a lot of money on a dedicated graphics card for these computers. Ideally, the nVidia Quadro cards are specific for design work, but they come at a steeper price than their standard...

I don't mean any offense by this, but the only reason why this virus should cost you a whole new computer is if you were already looking for any excuse to get rid of your old computer. Even having a professional computer shop remove this virus is going to cost less than a new computer. The...

Booting into safe mode won't really do anything with this virus. In safe mode the virus application doesn't load so the anti virus application won't recognize it the way that it has been designed. Additionally, I've noticed more and more computers that I have worked on (Dell and HP prebuilt...

The threads that Fred pointed out sounds exactly like your issue, as in my Spybot S&D scans every one of them came up with Virtumonde and Smitfraud. If you are attempting to fix this yourself, about the only sure way I have been able to remove the virus is, when the computer very first starts...

AV 2010 is the most recent "variant" that I've seen around lately. It was slightly more difficult for me to remove than other variants because starting up into safe mode and attempting a scan would not catch the virus as with some previous variants I had fixed. In fact the first time I ran...

I've removed this variant of virus off of eighteen computers since Thanksgiving, many of them with different names to the false anti-virus program that pops up, but all of them functioning the same way. There are many things that make this virus bad: 1) It is coming from legitimate sources...

When I first read the introductory message it seemed that this was not the issue, but after re-reading again I am getting the impression that this is indeed your problem. If you have a widescreen monitor it MUST be set up using a widescreen format resolution. The resolution you want to use...