What is spyware, how can you rid yourself of it? Question: I have ads that pop up even when I am not on the Internet. Can you help? Answer: If viruses, hackers, and spam weren’t enough, now there’s spyware threatening your computer’s health. Yes, what you are experiencing is a nasty little program from some […]
Question: I have ads popping up even when I’m not on the internet. What’s going on? –H.S. Answer: If viruses, hackers, and spam weren’t enough, there’s another threat to your computer’s health. Yes, what you’re experiencing is a nasty little program from some marketer, generally called spyware. Actually, the phenomenon isn’t that new. It’s been […]
Time is a valuable commodity among busy entrepreneurs. Spam, the Internet’s equivalent of junk mail, steals time and resources that could be spent selling your product or expanding your client base. Since the anti-spam mechanisms work differently in each e-mail program, I’ve outlined how to do this for a number of popular e-mail programs below. […]
(This is part of the anti-spyware FAQ on TechnologyTips.com.) Here’s a series of steps you can take to use Hijack This to fix a browser hijack. (Thanks to my good friend RT for teaching me this, providing the notes this was based on, and allowing me to pass this on to you.) BEFORE YOU START […]
This is a continuation of the article called "Hate Windows XP? Wipe it out!" Since you have NTFS as a file allocation system on your hard drive, and you need to revert back to FAT32, here’s what you need to do: In order to remove the NTFS file system, you will need to reformat your […]
