Ok so why are we writing about Windows Server 2008 Release 2 trial software?
Well if you want to try out the software and you do not have a buget for buying either a server or the actual Windows Server 2008 R2 Software, then one possible answer you may have is to download the trial version.
This trial version is available and as far as I can tell it is the full software but it only works for 180 days, that is about 6 months.
There are of course lots of questions but if you come back to the Computer Fixer Blog and Search on the term Windows Server 2008 you will find the answers in due course...
Here are some questions: 1. Do you need a computer with windows on it to install the spftware onto. or can you install it onto a computer with a hard disk that is not formatted?
2.How big is the Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Version download and what needs to be done to it to make it into a bootable DVD?
3.Does the Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software include Exchange Server and if so which version of it?
The answers to the 3 above questions are comming, but first lets give you the actual hyperlink to the page you need to go to get the download, here it is ;
link to download Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial version
Well if you want to try out the software and you do not have a buget for buying either a server or the actual Windows Server 2008 R2 Software, then one possible answer you may have is to download the trial version.
This trial version is available and as far as I can tell it is the full software but it only works for 180 days, that is about 6 months.
There are of course lots of questions but if you come back to the Computer Fixer Blog and Search on the term Windows Server 2008 you will find the answers in due course...
Here are some questions: 1. Do you need a computer with windows on it to install the spftware onto. or can you install it onto a computer with a hard disk that is not formatted?
2.How big is the Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Version download and what needs to be done to it to make it into a bootable DVD?
3.Does the Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software include Exchange Server and if so which version of it?
The answers to the 3 above questions are comming, but first lets give you the actual hyperlink to the page you need to go to get the download, here it is ;
link to download Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial version
11/06: Laptop and Computer Repairs Reading, Maidenhead Wokingham Bracknell Shinfield Hurst Tilehurst Henley
We Repair Laptops and Computers including all the major makes as well as very many of the quite rare ones. If you computer is working but your Broadband Conection is very slow indeed we can fix that for you. If your connection to the Internet has been hijacked and you are no longer able to get to the Websites that you usually use we can remady that as well.
If your computer no longer boots or your computer no longer gives that nice crisp single beep when you start it we can fix the problem completely. We now offer a Fixed Price diagnostic of the problem for you for all PC's and Laptops of exactly £28.00 total with no VAT added
If your computer no longer boots or your computer no longer gives that nice crisp single beep when you start it we can fix the problem completely. We now offer a Fixed Price diagnostic of the problem for you for all PC's and Laptops of exactly £28.00 total with no VAT added
13/04: Transfering TV programs from you Humax Freesat Receiver to an External Pen Drive or External Disk
We are currently investigating just how do you transfer a program from your internak hard drive in your humax freesat box to an external pen drive or externakl hard drive so you can view it perhaps on your computer latter on..??
We are investigating right now.
come back to the computer fixer blog to get the answers on this or if you like post the answers on ou Forum...
Here is the link to our forum at Chephrenrepairs.com
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We are investigating right now.
come back to the computer fixer blog to get the answers on this or if you like post the answers on ou Forum...
Here is the link to our forum at Chephrenrepairs.com
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Yesterday we launched the Virtually Free Computer Clean and Health Check. This is a brand new service that we are offering at chephrenrepairs.com....... It is VFCCHC for short as the full name is a little bit of a mouthful, accompanying the launch will be a series of web pages as well as a sparkling new download available directly from chephrenrepairs.com.
The Service is available to anyone, but you must bring the Computer to us in order to qualify..... We are exceptionally unlikely to lose any of your data at all during the process but we insist that you do backup all of your emails and personal data prior to us offering this service, we also ask you to confirm that your backed up data can be read and accessed by your regular applications that use that data.....
In this blog article we tell you what you get for the VFCHCC Service we Do have a direct hyperlink to our new web page called >>http://www.chephrenrepairs.com/Home_Computer_Repairs_Reading.php
If you do use a computer regularly you should back up your data regularly to at least 2 and prefreably 3 separate places on a specific schedule...... this becomes even more of a priority if you run a buisness from a Laptop or a Desktop Computer....
The Service is available to anyone, but you must bring the Computer to us in order to qualify..... We are exceptionally unlikely to lose any of your data at all during the process but we insist that you do backup all of your emails and personal data prior to us offering this service, we also ask you to confirm that your backed up data can be read and accessed by your regular applications that use that data.....
In this blog article we tell you what you get for the VFCHCC Service we Do have a direct hyperlink to our new web page called >>http://www.chephrenrepairs.com/Home_Computer_Repairs_Reading.php
If you do use a computer regularly you should back up your data regularly to at least 2 and prefreably 3 separate places on a specific schedule...... this becomes even more of a priority if you run a buisness from a Laptop or a Desktop Computer....
17/03: Beer Festival in Reading at the Jolly Angler Public House on 1st of April to the 4th of April 2010
link to http://www.chephrenrepairs.com. phone number of chephrenrepairs.com and email:
0118 9352873 or 07519 134333 E Mail repairs@chephrenrepairs.com
Chephrenrepairs.com "The Blokes in Technology"
There is a Beer Festival on at the Jolly Angler Pub in Reading, if you want to know more read this blog article where we have a list of Beers that are going to be available for your consumption during the Beer Feastival..... perhaps you are not sure where the Jolly Angler Public House is we are going to tell you right here...
Essentially The Jolly Angler is right on the tow path of the Kennet and Avon Canal, if you walk or cycle along the tow path from where the Kennet and Avon Canal joins the river Thames, towards town you will find the Jolly Angler pub on your left hand side pretty much opposite the weir. Do not confuse the Jolly Angler with the Fisherman's Cottage, which is, we believe a Fullers pub. The Jolly Angler is a Free House and lovely to see if you are into your beer!!!
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BEER FESTIVAL JOLLY ANGLER 1st APRIL TILL THE 4th APRIL 2010
In fact, the Beer Festival, is not just an excuse to try out a fair range of ales, but there will be music there as well, making the festival even more enticing!!
So here is a list of Beers that are going to be at the Jolly Angler Public House for the beer festival:
We mention first the brewery in bold and the beer in capital letters and we even have the strength of the brew for those of you that are interested.......
Boggarts
RAY OF SUNSHINE 3.9%
RUMPORTER 4.6%
Blue Monkey
BG SIPS
FuzzyDuck
THUMDUCKER
Geltsdale
HELLBACK 4.2%
Hammerpot
This is a brewery in Surrey, there should be a beer from this particular brewery.
Bestmates Brewery
This brewery we believe that this brewery is in a little village called Ardington in Oxfordshire, here is the link to the actual brewery BestMates Brewery
White Horse
We believe there will be at least one beer and perhaps more than one beer from this brewery.
Of course there will as well as all these beers listed here be a fair few more local beers, including of course several beers from the Loddon brewery. infact when we visited the Jolly Angler they had at least 6 beers on the pumps and that was just on a Tuesday afternoon!! a bloody good show and all of them were as you might expect proper Real Ales: non of this continental yellow pap that you get from the larger manufacturers in the rest of europe!!!!
As well as the beers being at this festival there is likely to be a number of ciders, we hope to find out which ones in the next few days, and there is going to be music as well, yep live music...... we believe that there is going to be a mixture of Blues - Jaz - Folk and - Rock.... mmmmm very nice...???!!
If you wish to contact the Landlord you can and to help you we provide right here in the Blog brought to you from >>> hyperlink>>http://www.chephrenrepairs.com the number of the landlord at the Jolly Anglers Public House....---- You may ring John on 07852153073 to find out more details of the music the beers and any further details of what promises to be a very pleasent and relaxing beer festival that is fast approaching!!!!! If you want to go to chephrenrepairs.com then here is the link for:
http://www.chephrenrepairs.com
If you want your computer repaired, revived, resurected, mended, brought back to life, fixed, cleaned properly or just bloody well working correctly ring up chephrenrepairs.com on 0118 9352873 or on 07519 134333.. We hope to be able to update this blog at least once before the Beer Festival with more details of the beers the ciders and the music that will be there for your pleasure and consumption..
0118 9352873 or 07519 134333 E Mail repairs@chephrenrepairs.com
Chephrenrepairs.com "The Blokes in Technology"
There is a Beer Festival on at the Jolly Angler Pub in Reading, if you want to know more read this blog article where we have a list of Beers that are going to be available for your consumption during the Beer Feastival..... perhaps you are not sure where the Jolly Angler Public House is we are going to tell you right here...
Essentially The Jolly Angler is right on the tow path of the Kennet and Avon Canal, if you walk or cycle along the tow path from where the Kennet and Avon Canal joins the river Thames, towards town you will find the Jolly Angler pub on your left hand side pretty much opposite the weir. Do not confuse the Jolly Angler with the Fisherman's Cottage, which is, we believe a Fullers pub. The Jolly Angler is a Free House and lovely to see if you are into your beer!!!
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BEER FESTIVAL JOLLY ANGLER 1st APRIL TILL THE 4th APRIL 2010
In fact, the Beer Festival, is not just an excuse to try out a fair range of ales, but there will be music there as well, making the festival even more enticing!!
So here is a list of Beers that are going to be at the Jolly Angler Public House for the beer festival:
We mention first the brewery in bold and the beer in capital letters and we even have the strength of the brew for those of you that are interested.......
Boggarts
RAY OF SUNSHINE 3.9%
RUMPORTER 4.6%
Blue Monkey
BG SIPS
FuzzyDuck
THUMDUCKER
Geltsdale
HELLBACK 4.2%
Hammerpot
This is a brewery in Surrey, there should be a beer from this particular brewery.
Bestmates Brewery
This brewery we believe that this brewery is in a little village called Ardington in Oxfordshire, here is the link to the actual brewery BestMates Brewery
White Horse
We believe there will be at least one beer and perhaps more than one beer from this brewery.
Of course there will as well as all these beers listed here be a fair few more local beers, including of course several beers from the Loddon brewery. infact when we visited the Jolly Angler they had at least 6 beers on the pumps and that was just on a Tuesday afternoon!! a bloody good show and all of them were as you might expect proper Real Ales: non of this continental yellow pap that you get from the larger manufacturers in the rest of europe!!!!
As well as the beers being at this festival there is likely to be a number of ciders, we hope to find out which ones in the next few days, and there is going to be music as well, yep live music...... we believe that there is going to be a mixture of Blues - Jaz - Folk and - Rock.... mmmmm very nice...???!!
If you wish to contact the Landlord you can and to help you we provide right here in the Blog brought to you from >>> hyperlink>>http://www.chephrenrepairs.com the number of the landlord at the Jolly Anglers Public House....---- You may ring John on 07852153073 to find out more details of the music the beers and any further details of what promises to be a very pleasent and relaxing beer festival that is fast approaching!!!!! If you want to go to chephrenrepairs.com then here is the link for:
http://www.chephrenrepairs.com
If you want your computer repaired, revived, resurected, mended, brought back to life, fixed, cleaned properly or just bloody well working correctly ring up chephrenrepairs.com on 0118 9352873 or on 07519 134333.. We hope to be able to update this blog at least once before the Beer Festival with more details of the beers the ciders and the music that will be there for your pleasure and consumption..
06/03: Installing LINUX on you laptop computer (part 2) (what to do with the gold medallion and yfronts)
Please read part one of installing LINUX on this blog ----- before you read this blog entry...
Remember we have got as far as slipping into something comfortable and booting from the Ubuntu 7.04 DVD, after a lot of frantic and quite loud DVD activity you will see the nice Linux desktop, this is in effect is Linux running on your laptop computer in memory!!! Oh ..... right you did not realize that you can run Linux in memory..... yes you can.... you can use it even if you have not installed it... thats clever isn't it!!!??
On the desktop you will see a couple of icons, and one of these will be the install icon, you should double click this with left mouse button we thinks..... and Ubuntu will ask a few questions about some simple things... simples eckkk!!! Do u want English, do you want UK keyboard settings do you want to partition the disk...........!!!!!!! its not asking you if you want english breakfast tea or lapsang suchong, and its not asking you if you speak urdu is it!!????
The answer is you do need to choose English, you do need UK Keyboard, and yes you do need to partition your disk, look you will see various options when you get to the part that asks about partitioning your disk...... there is an option to use guided resizing, thats the one you need.... what happens is that your windows partition will be reduced in size, but windows will still work...
A partition is create for Ubuntu to live inside and i think another partition is created for a swap file for Ubuntu to use...... during this part of the installation the computer does not inform you the user what type of partition is there or being created for Linux to be installed within....
The computer will ask about migrating documents from windows to accounts in Ubuntu, you probably do not need to do this so just don't tick anything and continue......
Definitely two partitions were created when we did our install on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro laptop.....
You will be asked to create a user, plus as well as the user a password for that user to have, You must remember that password, because once Ubuntu is installed when you next start up Ubuntu, the computer will ask for a user name and a password, and you will not be able to do anything if you have forgotten these precious little bits of information?!!!
Remember we have got as far as slipping into something comfortable and booting from the Ubuntu 7.04 DVD, after a lot of frantic and quite loud DVD activity you will see the nice Linux desktop, this is in effect is Linux running on your laptop computer in memory!!! Oh ..... right you did not realize that you can run Linux in memory..... yes you can.... you can use it even if you have not installed it... thats clever isn't it!!!??
On the desktop you will see a couple of icons, and one of these will be the install icon, you should double click this with left mouse button we thinks..... and Ubuntu will ask a few questions about some simple things... simples eckkk!!! Do u want English, do you want UK keyboard settings do you want to partition the disk...........!!!!!!! its not asking you if you want english breakfast tea or lapsang suchong, and its not asking you if you speak urdu is it!!????
The answer is you do need to choose English, you do need UK Keyboard, and yes you do need to partition your disk, look you will see various options when you get to the part that asks about partitioning your disk...... there is an option to use guided resizing, thats the one you need.... what happens is that your windows partition will be reduced in size, but windows will still work...
A partition is create for Ubuntu to live inside and i think another partition is created for a swap file for Ubuntu to use...... during this part of the installation the computer does not inform you the user what type of partition is there or being created for Linux to be installed within....
The computer will ask about migrating documents from windows to accounts in Ubuntu, you probably do not need to do this so just don't tick anything and continue......
Definitely two partitions were created when we did our install on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro laptop.....
You will be asked to create a user, plus as well as the user a password for that user to have, You must remember that password, because once Ubuntu is installed when you next start up Ubuntu, the computer will ask for a user name and a password, and you will not be able to do anything if you have forgotten these precious little bits of information?!!!
Look forget tweeting, twitering, you tube, you porn microbloging, chrome, buying those long black leather boots, feeding the chickens, and buying your girly a red lace matching knickers and suspenders set, or google maps, we have more important things to talk about!!!! yes expect to see more about Ubuntu at the screetching bald eagle:
As i guess you know Ubuntu is a flavour of linux , along with mint, and in this blog we are going to talk a little about how to install it and then we will talk a bit about networking your nice shiny installation of linux.......
the version of ubuntu: we are using is 7.04 known as the feisty fawn. We went out and brought a book called Ubuntu Unleashed second edition some time ago now from a local and well known book shop right in Reading in Berks.
Installing Ubuntu really is a breeze.. its like falling off a log really..... and of course you can keep your beloved windows xp, or windows 7 or what ever else you have on your laptop!!
all you need to do is make sure you have some free space on your laptop main hard drive, and you will need need a working dvd drive on your laptop plus the red lace suspender belt and the black long leather boots...............
The Ubuntu dvd is as you would quite rightly expect is bootable, so do not fire up windows and then thrust the dvd into the drive like an excited giggly schoolgirl, that will not work, because all you will see is a list of various bits of software on the dvd not including Ubuntu???? No instead you need to arrange for the Ubuntu dvd to be in the dvd drive when you start up the laptop and then if gods willing you or alha pleases or what ever... the dvd will boot and you will see the menu with the option at the top to start or install Ubuntu.... look if the suspender belt thing doesen't work for you get yourself a nice pair of y-fronts and a lovely gold medallion on a thick gold chain and a bottle of old spice it kind of does the same thing....... well we do not want to be sexist or accused of not being pc??!!!
errrrrr... pick the option to start or install Ubuntu, there will be a lot of disk whirring and a message or two and an orange bar going across a black screen, heck ...... you might even hear those leather boots cracking or creaking or the faint twanking of the elastic of the susspender belt against a smooth naked thigh......
The DVD Drive will go bonkers and you will after a while be able to focus on a brown screen, a kind of light brown screen... whats this you yelp as you try to comprehend whats happening!!!!!!
As i guess you know Ubuntu is a flavour of linux , along with mint, and in this blog we are going to talk a little about how to install it and then we will talk a bit about networking your nice shiny installation of linux.......
the version of ubuntu: we are using is 7.04 known as the feisty fawn. We went out and brought a book called Ubuntu Unleashed second edition some time ago now from a local and well known book shop right in Reading in Berks.
Installing Ubuntu really is a breeze.. its like falling off a log really..... and of course you can keep your beloved windows xp, or windows 7 or what ever else you have on your laptop!!
all you need to do is make sure you have some free space on your laptop main hard drive, and you will need need a working dvd drive on your laptop plus the red lace suspender belt and the black long leather boots...............
The Ubuntu dvd is as you would quite rightly expect is bootable, so do not fire up windows and then thrust the dvd into the drive like an excited giggly schoolgirl, that will not work, because all you will see is a list of various bits of software on the dvd not including Ubuntu???? No instead you need to arrange for the Ubuntu dvd to be in the dvd drive when you start up the laptop and then if gods willing you or alha pleases or what ever... the dvd will boot and you will see the menu with the option at the top to start or install Ubuntu.... look if the suspender belt thing doesen't work for you get yourself a nice pair of y-fronts and a lovely gold medallion on a thick gold chain and a bottle of old spice it kind of does the same thing....... well we do not want to be sexist or accused of not being pc??!!!
errrrrr... pick the option to start or install Ubuntu, there will be a lot of disk whirring and a message or two and an orange bar going across a black screen, heck ...... you might even hear those leather boots cracking or creaking or the faint twanking of the elastic of the susspender belt against a smooth naked thigh......
The DVD Drive will go bonkers and you will after a while be able to focus on a brown screen, a kind of light brown screen... whats this you yelp as you try to comprehend whats happening!!!!!!
Clearly there are a whole lot of things that you need to do really to keep you computer working properly, and as you know if you are a regular reader of the computer fixer blog, we are writing a document that you can download directly from chephrenrepairs.com that will give you an exstensive list of thing you should and should not do.....
but details are leaking out, and the computer fixer blog never stops it is being written whilst you feed you dog and whilst you shop in asda and even when you watch eastenders on you tv.
Look firstly change your behaviour on line..... what do i mean, well you should be a little careful when on line, look one of the most dangerous things you can do is to click on something in the browser that says that it will improve you pcs performance or scan you machine for viruses or spywear or adaware or anything quite frankly.............
Probably anything that pops up on in a browser screen that suggests that something is wrong with your computer, is in almost every single case a hoax or is essentially some thing that is trying to get on to your computer to damage your computer system... Any thing that says it will speed up your computer or offer you a scan for spywear or for viruses or for root kits or for malicious software is very likley to be not be genuine. Genuine antivirus programs do not try to get new customers via this method full stop....
You should make sure that the copy of windows you have on your machine is genuine and that you have all of the updates for that version of Windows...... the reason why i say this is that non genuine versions of windows are oftern not able to get the lattest updates for windows from microsoft.
Using any program that shares files between computers is probably exceptionally dangerous, because you can never be sure which shared file might contain either a trojon program or a worm or any spywear you can think of.. if you do not use any of the so called peer to peer programs you will be a lot safer!!!
but details are leaking out, and the computer fixer blog never stops it is being written whilst you feed you dog and whilst you shop in asda and even when you watch eastenders on you tv.
Look firstly change your behaviour on line..... what do i mean, well you should be a little careful when on line, look one of the most dangerous things you can do is to click on something in the browser that says that it will improve you pcs performance or scan you machine for viruses or spywear or adaware or anything quite frankly.............
Probably anything that pops up on in a browser screen that suggests that something is wrong with your computer, is in almost every single case a hoax or is essentially some thing that is trying to get on to your computer to damage your computer system... Any thing that says it will speed up your computer or offer you a scan for spywear or for viruses or for root kits or for malicious software is very likley to be not be genuine. Genuine antivirus programs do not try to get new customers via this method full stop....
You should make sure that the copy of windows you have on your machine is genuine and that you have all of the updates for that version of Windows...... the reason why i say this is that non genuine versions of windows are oftern not able to get the lattest updates for windows from microsoft.
Using any program that shares files between computers is probably exceptionally dangerous, because you can never be sure which shared file might contain either a trojon program or a worm or any spywear you can think of.. if you do not use any of the so called peer to peer programs you will be a lot safer!!!
We are busy writing a pdf download that you can down load directly from chephrenrepairs.com to act like a check list to keep your computer working properly. but whilst we are writing this we will give you a few hints right here from our blog...
There are a number of things you need to sort out, one of them is as you would expect your Software Firewall Wall, your Fire Wall should be switched on and you should look through the settings of it and ensure that it is switched on and that it is not going to stop working because your licence runs out next week. If you have no software fire wall buy one install it and get any updates that it needs. There are a lot of software firewalls available and if you need one and am a beginner with computing do not download a firewall, instead look in some computer magerzines or ring up a computer shop in yellow pages, be it on line or the paper version.
There are a number of software products that combine anti virus and a software fire wall in the same product, that is fine and if you buy one or have one, you do not need a second software firewall. Your software firewall is very important and if it is switched off or is simply missing, or it is set to allow everthing through it you are missing a really important trick, and running extreemly excessive risks.
Many Firewalls do have several modes of operation, and if you have a few moments you should see if your firewall can be put into training mode........... why because the fire wall will then ask you if certain programs should be allowed through, this is very usefull because it gives you a real opportunity to learn more how the fire wall works and to learn at the same time what programs are accessing the internet, this is very usefull....
I recommend that even if you have a router with a firewall inside it, and most do have that, that you do also have a software firewall as well.
There are a number of things you need to sort out, one of them is as you would expect your Software Firewall Wall, your Fire Wall should be switched on and you should look through the settings of it and ensure that it is switched on and that it is not going to stop working because your licence runs out next week. If you have no software fire wall buy one install it and get any updates that it needs. There are a lot of software firewalls available and if you need one and am a beginner with computing do not download a firewall, instead look in some computer magerzines or ring up a computer shop in yellow pages, be it on line or the paper version.
There are a number of software products that combine anti virus and a software fire wall in the same product, that is fine and if you buy one or have one, you do not need a second software firewall. Your software firewall is very important and if it is switched off or is simply missing, or it is set to allow everthing through it you are missing a really important trick, and running extreemly excessive risks.
Many Firewalls do have several modes of operation, and if you have a few moments you should see if your firewall can be put into training mode........... why because the fire wall will then ask you if certain programs should be allowed through, this is very usefull because it gives you a real opportunity to learn more how the fire wall works and to learn at the same time what programs are accessing the internet, this is very usefull....
I recommend that even if you have a router with a firewall inside it, and most do have that, that you do also have a software firewall as well.
Our customer had an HP laptop with VISTA on it, and managed to download this pretend anti-virus program. Once on the computer you get to see a screen which looks like the security screen that WINDOWS XP has in built in it. Then a screen appears that looks like a proper anti-virus program, but it pops up on your desktop without any intervention by you. This screen shows a list of reported viruses that are on your computer. The screen covers the majority of your desktop, including all your icons.
Of course, none of these viruses are real, and the program tries to encourage you to pay for an additional version of PERSONAL SECURITY
The program renders your computer useless for doing anything at all. We managed to tackle this horrid software by downloading MALWAREBYTES onto a different computer which was uninfected. Then I renamed the program, burnt it to DVD. The next step was to start the infected laptop in safe mode, then copy the MALWAREBYTES program to hard disk and then run a full scan on c: i.e you run a full scan on your main hard drive which windows is installed on!!.
21 infected objects were found: we chose to remove everything and reboot the computer, thus removing "PERSONAL SECURITY" for good. We went on to download various VISTA and JAVA updates and the machine was a good-un. In fact removing the horrid personal security program allowed us to get to the updated for Windows Vista as well as get to the updates for Norton Internet Security, which we also updated at the same time.....
It's a pity that Norton Internet Security is not good enough to to notice that the download for Personal Security is in fact malwear, or mallicious in nature also the question needs to be asked, are there any programs you can install that would, and do stop you, from downloading things like Personel Security, even if you are daft enough to click something in a browser screen that leads to the download?? This is a good question and well you have guesssed it..... is followed by another good question which is: What is the mechanism that allows such software to actually get on to your computer?
Of course, none of these viruses are real, and the program tries to encourage you to pay for an additional version of PERSONAL SECURITY
The program renders your computer useless for doing anything at all. We managed to tackle this horrid software by downloading MALWAREBYTES onto a different computer which was uninfected. Then I renamed the program, burnt it to DVD. The next step was to start the infected laptop in safe mode, then copy the MALWAREBYTES program to hard disk and then run a full scan on c: i.e you run a full scan on your main hard drive which windows is installed on!!.
21 infected objects were found: we chose to remove everything and reboot the computer, thus removing "PERSONAL SECURITY" for good. We went on to download various VISTA and JAVA updates and the machine was a good-un. In fact removing the horrid personal security program allowed us to get to the updated for Windows Vista as well as get to the updates for Norton Internet Security, which we also updated at the same time.....
It's a pity that Norton Internet Security is not good enough to to notice that the download for Personal Security is in fact malwear, or mallicious in nature also the question needs to be asked, are there any programs you can install that would, and do stop you, from downloading things like Personel Security, even if you are daft enough to click something in a browser screen that leads to the download?? This is a good question and well you have guesssed it..... is followed by another good question which is: What is the mechanism that allows such software to actually get on to your computer?
