http://www.zomocainc.com Views of Computer News Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:49:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was a tough virus. The symptoms: Cannot access the C drive. When you click on My Computer you don't get any results. Cannot access any external drive. D, USB flash drives, external hard drives, etc. Cannot access Regedit. This produced an admin privilege error. Cannot access All Programs. ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2010/03/01/how-to-fix-cannot-find-c-drive-cannot-access-control-panel/ One possible cause of this error is a rootkit virus. I recently had a customer who had this error, along with other symptoms like a hijacked browser and a pop up window that would shut down the PC after about 5 - 10 minutes of use. Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware did not ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2010/02/01/how-to-fix-axwin-frame-window-error/ Here's yet another malware program masquerading as anti-virus software. Internet Security 2010 gives the appearance of a bona fide virus clean up program. It comes with a fake screen of virus infections that are designed to scare you into buying their software. Don't be fooled! This software is ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/12/27/how-to-remove-internet-security-2010/ This is another very annoying malware popup that pretends to be a virus scanner, giving fake scanning statistics and virus detection. The other side effects you may encounter from this malware is that you cannot access regedit or access your computer properties menu. You'll need two programs to remove this malware: HijackThis - ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/10/11/how-to-remove-windows-police-pro/ This recently happened to one of my customers. She was unable to open various websites -- mostly those with https since it was reporting a certification error. After tweaking and fumbling with a lot of the security settings, I noticed that for some reason the date and time ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/09/06/how-to-fix-certification-errors/ Changing or adding a file association is usually a pretty simple process in XP. If you right-click on the file you want to open and then select Choose Program, you can pick which program you want to use to open the file. Recently I ran into a problem with adding ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/07/12/how-to-associate-a-file-with-a-new-application-on-xp-problem/ If you have a legitimate installation of Microsoft Office Professional 2003 and need a replacement disk, you can try calling the support number here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302822 Press 0 to get an operator and they will help you. Note: If you have an OEM version installed then you'll need to ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/06/26/ordering-office-professional-2003-replacement-cds/ There's been a lot of national news lately regarding the Conficker Worm. I did some research and found a nice Conficker removal tool at BitDefender's site. http://www.bdtools.net/how-to-remove-downadup.php Pretty easy to run. Just unzip the download into a folder and run the gui program. At least you get a little ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/03/31/remove-conficker-worm/ If you ever get the dreaded "Missing or Corrupt Windows System32" error message then this set of instructions from the Microsoft site can be of great help in getting your registry and other system files restored. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 The gist of the instructions is to show how to get your XP system to ... http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/03/19/how-to-fix-file-missing-or-corrupt-windows-system32-config-system/ Just thought I'd keep a note of this site: http://www.nirsoft.net/ Some very useful system utilities and password recovery programs. http://www.zomocainc.com/2009/02/09/some-nifty-utilities/