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  1. Windows 7 Scareware Authors Now Offer Live Tech Support

    Scareware pushers have upped their cheating techniques are and now offering live chat and localization for their deceptive products. Security researchers reveal that technical support is provided by real people. Scareware, also known as rogueware, refers to malicious applications that pose as...
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    Windows Vista Malware & Safely Remove Hardware issue

    I am attempting to clean up a friends HP PC which is running Vista 32 bit SP2. I believe she has contracted a piece of malware by clicking on a photo in facebook (Is this a picture of you?). One of the symptoms is preventing the computer installing updates for Vista and Defender. I have...
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    Windows 7 Code 52 / CD/DVD DRIVE NOT READING

    Hello All, I tried using my CD-ROM Drive, which would not read any of my cd's. I looked in the Device manager, where I found the following error message under CD-ROM drive: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software...
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    Windows 7 How to get rid of Update.exe??

    Hi, I don't remember when this started, but whenever I boot my laptop it asks for my permission to run update.exe just after the start-up. When i click on Yes to allow it, it shows the following error message: "Run-time error 339: Component 'MSWINSCK.OCX' or one of its dependencies not...
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    Windows 7 Hard drive security permissions question.

    So the one big thing that really bugs the heck outa me with Win7, is that it labels me as some malicous program. How would a computer think I'm being evil you may ask? Well go ahead and try and save an image from the internet by right clicking on it, and attempting to save it to a different...
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    Windows 7 Do I have Conficker?

    Let's see... All of this happened right after I download something my friend showed me, but I stopped the download part way through and deleted the part of the .rar file. Kaspersky Antivirus completely fails When I go to the Windows Update page (with IE), it says I am not an Administrator...
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    Windows 7 Laptop Shutting down after 10min in a game after windows updates

    i have an Acer Aspire 8930 laptop, it has been running smoothly since december 08, however a week ago some new windows updates came out and i installed them, i play wow online and have been since i got laptop and have never had a prob playing it, i play for something like 7 hours a day, yes...