anti-virus

HELP!!! I am trying to upgrade to windows 7, but it is telling me to delete my anti-virus first. Why is it not recognizing it, and should I delete and re-install when I am through upgrading?

Hi, I have severe trouble to get my Windows 7 run as dual boot together with Windows XP. The situation is a little bit complicated: 1. I had my Windows XP installed on harddisk A as primary partition. I saved this installation with Paragon Drive Backup. In error I restored this Windwos...

I can't seem to get any of my installed programs to access the internet. Windows Media Player, ITunes, Firefox, Veoh Web Player all have permission, but whenever I try to, say, access the Music Store through Windows Media Player I get an error message stating that I cannot access the internet...

This is for my wife's laptop. We bought it with Vista installed and the option of a free upgrade from Dell to Windows 7. I followed both supplied disks including removing the McAfee Anti-Virus, Itunes, Google Toolbar and proceeded with the upgrade. This ran for about 2 hours at the end of...

Link Removed According to a well respected security firm, Microsoft’s flagship Windows 7 operating system is less secure in its default configuration that Vista. Trend Micros CEO Raimund Genes believes that Microsoft has put usability ahead of security: “I’m not saying...

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New Windows 7 computer; old network w/4 XPs. W7 can use files on XPs; XPs can access W7 printer and C:\Users\default & Public subfolders; can "see" C drive but can’t open files. Message: "\\Ralphhome\C is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource etc." W7...

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Hello everyone..:) I just bought LOTR The battle for middle-earth Anthology today.. installed the first one.. i opened it as administrator, then the game's just freezes from the first picture that apears from the beginning , and stayed the way it is.. well i kept it for about 1 hour just to...

This little device (DSO-150) was given to me a while back to try out. This isn't something you're going to want to use if you can't stand wires and cables. Matter of fact, I hesitated using it for that same reason. Actually this is quite nice, none intrusive, easy to install and use. Securespot...

Many users have expressed discontent with their computer. It is running slow. You're finding popups everywhere. Something is wrong. Its taking 20 minutes to boot. Here's what I recommend for most systems that have been in use for over a year, but have never had any IT maintenance performed...

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Hi everyone, I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64 on a Dell XPS M1530, and I've been having issues with the system locking up intermittently. The lockups occur at random and seem to be independent of how many and what programs I am running. Lockups have occured both when the computer is idle and when...

I have set up a Vista SP2 install I am going to in-place upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate (just playing, remember). What I would like are any suggestions from forum members as to what software I might install prior to the upgrade which might have shown a tendancy to mess up the Windows 7...

There is a new, really tricky, Trojan making it's rounds. It places "Warning! Fatal error:" wallpaper on your desktop and if you select the Update Now option... well you just don't want to do that. The threat level is Critical. If you click on the “Update Nowâ€Â￾ button, you will...

Alright i have a new new laptop and everything trust me the specs are more than good enough for win 7 im running win 7 64bit i was on utorrent and my whole laptop froze, nothing i could do, i had to hold the power button to power down then when i turned my pc back up after a couple of minutes...

Here is my specs. What I want to know is will I be able to run Win 7 ultimate smootly(32bit)? I am planning to upgrade my RAM to 3 Gigs next month, can't afford to buy an external gfx right now.:( Operating System : Windows XP sp3 Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard : ASUSTeK...

Hi I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on icore 7 with 12GB memory and 1TB disk space. If I install my HP Officejet Pro L7880 the system gradually gets slower until it hangs - it also seems to turn off the Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Any body any ideas?

AVG has released Version 9.0 of its free Anti-Virus package.

While visiting a website, my FireFox 3 web browser redirected me to a malicious website. That website tricks people into downloading so-called "Anti-Virus" software to stop a virus from spreading in the computer. Some people said the solution would be to edit the "Host" file. So I did. I...