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    Windows 10 Troubleshooting Frequent BSODs Despite Updates and Antivirus Reinstall

    I have been getting frequent BSODS. I uninstalled my antivirus and did a reinstall that kept files. This helped but I still get random crashes. I am not overclocking or altering anything. I also made sure the system and all drivers were updated.
  2. kemical

    Avast buys AVG

    Avast Security have added AVG to it's portfolio paying $1.3 Billion for the privilege. Whether this means one product will be phased out is still unclear: Reference
  3. kemical

    New patches for Norton

    A vulnerability or two has been discovered in a range of Norton products: Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy has uncovered critical vulnerabilities in a range of Symantec and Norton Antivirus products, which could be exploited by malicious hackers to launch attacks. Here's the skinny...
  4. News

    TA16-187A: Symantec and Norton Security Products Contain Critical Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: July 05, 2016 Systems Affected All Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products Overview Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Some of these products are in widespread use throughout government and industry. Exploitation of...
  5. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 You gotta be on alert all the time!

    Hi I just got a popup that said "Your Adobe Flash player needs to be updated". I almost clicked on OK, (it had the Adobe logo on it) but my policy is to always go to the official site to get updates never from popups. So I searched and picked a site that looked like the official Adobe site...
  6. RichM

    "New Product Antivirus & Malware Considerations: from some Windows Forums Pros!"

    Recently Bigbearjedi and I began a conversation in another thread about our beliefs on how ordinary users can stay protected in today's very difficult climate of ransomware and encryption laced infections so lets share our beliefs as we both have active businesses and tell everyone how we...
  7. M

    Windows 10 Unexpected_Store_Exception &Critical Process Died

    HI I use a ASUS A555L laptop and recently i have encountered theses error regularly. So far it has happened thrice today. I tried to follow some of the advice on some of the other forum post, i uninstalled my antivirus and updated my drivers and i ran the sfc/SCANNOW and the...
  8. retroberrii

    Windows 10 Unexpected Store Exception and Critical Process Died

    About a week ago I got the Unexpected Store Exception BSOD, the very first BSOD I had gotten in almost two years of owning the computer. Following this, I would frequently get both this and Critical Process Died. I tried every solution I could find online, including uninstalled my antivirus...
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    Windows 8 Persistent Malware with Chinese Characters: Help Needed to Remove It

    Hello Woke up this morning to go on my PC which is normally very fast. This keeps on popping up, I'm not an amateur on computer so I've done virus checks, malware bytes and tried to remove it but I cannot. PS: Ignore the DOCX file as thats my document, its just the the chinese writing!
  10. gianniscfa

    Windows 7 windows 7 problems..

    Hello.. i want to install windows 7 but i have problems when install them... i want some programs but i cant install them.. for example, on adobe flash player stacks on 5% and says internet connection error.. and on some other programs like vlc says nsis error.. i have try to run sfc /scannow...
  11. The Guy

    Windows 10 I can't get DirectX 9, 10 or 11 to work.

    I've tried everything I could find. I've tried disabling antivirus, I've tried downloading the SDK, ect. None of it works. Every time I get the same message, "An internal error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to determine the problem". Here is what...
  12. G

    Windows 10 Windows 10 freaking out

    I have a number or problems with Windows 10. I just did the upgrade from Windows 7. 1. The login screen freezing up. I got this to work by luck. You have 5 to 10 seconds to going into msconfig to put into safe mode. In safe mode I run my anti rook kit software and found 1 root kit virus...
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    Getting invalid security certificate warning on known good webpage

    I have 9 PC's in my home. 7 are running Win7 64bit and 2 are running Win8.1 32bit. All PC's are running Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016. All of the PC's have the latest Win updates from Microsoft and Bitdefender updates. On 1 computer, there is one (and only one) webpage that reports an...
  14. C

    Windows 10 I really need help

    Ok, I have a windows 10 PC problem. Its either malware or a virus or whatever else there is. Antivirus didn't catch it. It wont let you open your start menu or search with cortana. After a while even the mouse stops working. I tried to press shift then restart from the login to do a system...
  15. R

    Windows 10 After MS hijack, can't set default apps

    One morning recently, I found that during the night an update had occurred and rebooted my pc without asking me for confirmation. The reboot caused it to come up in Linux, because I use the grub loader and have Linux as the default. When I rebooted into Windows, it finished the update, which...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 - defender / www-searching.com malware- PLEASE HEEEELP

    Hello everybody, have a problem. Somehow got www-searching.com and cannot get rid of it. Tried to apply some instructions from internet but cannot log on as Administrator, although I am the only person ever using this computer. Beside that my Defender is off but cannot switch it on, again needs...
  17. RogierF

    Windows 10 Several BSOD errors (dumpfiles attached)

    Hello, Since I have updated my Sony Vaio SVE1512P1EB laptop to Windows 10, several BSOD problems have occured. Most of the time it says 'Faulty hardware page corrupted' but sometimes a 'System thread exception not handled' error is given. A couple of days ago it also said 'Memory management'...
  18. R

    Antivirus for server 2012r2

    What is the best for our terminal servers running 2012r2. I have MSE running on them at the moment but it isn't really built for this operating system it seems as it needs to be installed with compatibility set to win7 and with a /disableoslimit switch It also seems to hog cpu at times freezing...
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    Windows XP Blocked From Using Hiren'S Boot CD By Strike F1 Error

    I have used Hiren's Boot CD a great deal, but now I am unable to. Whenever I click Enter on USB Flash Device in the menu, instead of opening up Hiren's Boot CD, it is giving me the message: When I strike F1, it just repeats the same message ad infinitum. I have Hiren's on a 4GB flash drive...
  20. De TImmertjes

    Windows 10 From mac osx --> Windows 10

    Good day. Small introduction. I'm Rien from The Netherlands. 42 years old. In a few weeks 43. Things go FAST! Excuse my english, I'm doing my best. As the title says, i'm currently moving away from mac osx and going to Windows 10. Basically for economic reasons. My macbook has died on me, I...
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