Computer Care Tech Tips

Bots are commanded to travel the internet and conduct DoS attacks (Denial of Service), scrape websites for email and phone numbers, perform php injection attacks against websites (attempting to hack and change the coding on a webpage).Your computer could be actively seeking information to aid an identity thief to steal information and credit card numbers from unsuspecting people.Bots collect information and then, without your knowledge, transmit that information to the writer of the bot. more »

If you have ever tried to remove a virus or spyware manually you may have seen this condition on a Windows based PC, laptop or server.When you attempt to delete a file Windows denies you access because the file is in use by another program.There is a way to delete the culprit. more »

SireFeF and Alureon presented a strange issue.When either quarantined or removed by MSE, Windows could not reboot.MSE instructs you to reboot the system to finish the cleanup process.Computer would shut down but on restart we got the error screen presenting us with the Windows Repair option. The repair option failed to restore functionality to the system. more »

To enable or disable touch pad tap to click. Tap to click is the ability to tap your finger on the surface of your laptop’s touch pad and select the item your cursor is on. In other words, tap your finger and have your laptop respond as if you had clicked the left mouse button. more »

Here are some simple and almost always true rules about PC problems. If your PC boots to the desktop but then restarts, and constantly restarts over and over. Most often it is a bad or weak power supply. Sometimes it can also be a failed peripheral device such as a secondary hard drive more »