Fixing computer problems can often be difficult, but Microsoft is aiming to make it as simple as a couple clicks with.  Here’s how you can easily fix computer problems with Microsoft’s new Fix it Center Beta. Last year Microsoft began offering small Fix it scripts that you could download and run to help solve common computer problems automatically.  These were added to some of the most visited Windows help pages, and helped fix problems with [...]

My interest in procrastination-busting applications is almost as intense and old as my interest in procrastination itself. One of my favorite ways to procrastinate is by fighting against procrastination in all sorts of new and creative ways I haven’t found yet.

Getting a virus is bad. Getting a virus that causes your computer to crash when you reboot is even worse. We’ll show you how to clean viruses from your computer even if you can’t boot into Windows by using a virus scanner in a Ubuntu Live CD. There are a number of virus scanners available for Ubuntu, but we’ve found that avast! is the best choice, with great detection rates and usability. Unfortunately, avast! does [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve had to deal with a malware-laden PC, but my long streak of luck ran out this weekend when a family friend—who describes himself as computer illiterate—called. “Every time I try to do anything on the computer,” he told me, “I get a message saying it’s infected, and I have to pay $69 to clean it, but I tried to do that and I couldn’t.” He couldn’t even navigate to the [...]

Securing Your Paypal Account PayPal has more than 8 million users in Canada accounting for more than $2 billio in paypal transactions. If you are a regular PayPal user but are concerned about the integrity of your account, you may want to consider an extra layer of protection by using something called the PayPal security key. The PayPal Security Key (as seen above) creates random temporary security code that help safeguard your PayPal account when [...]

It looks like a typical USB Flash Drive Memory Stick, but certainly doesn’t act like one. Instead it turns any computer experience into a nightmare. It will make random mouse movements, turn caps lock on and off, type out random garbage text and phrases and more! Even better, it has a time delay setting so that you can install it, make a hasty retreat and not be the prime suspect. It’s more mischievous than malicious [...]

Next World War won’t be with guns but computers? Cyber Warfare? I wanted to write about this for a long time now. What I want to say is that the next world war won’t just be a battle with guns (well I hope there isn’t any but still who knows) but more of a cyber-warfare. Everything now days is so heavily dependent on technology. The army is heavily dependent on it, communications, remote satellite mapping [...]