As Adobe have now released Flash v10.1 I’m sure a lot of you will be excited to get it installed to try out the new hardware accelerated decoding features. Upon attempting to install myself however, I came across… An error! The .xpi Firefox extension downloaded quite happily (the getPlus+ utility which is referred to as [...]
An infected Windows XP machine I recently took a look at had, by whatever method, the fake anti-virus software “Antivirus 2010″ installed. This is one of the typical programs which advertises itself on websites by saying that your computer is infected when it isn’t! After identifying the process, “av.exe” and fiddling around to remove it, [...]
Yes, it’s sad, but eventually even the most loved laptops may succumb to the silicon heaven – after all, where would all the calculators go? Untimely Demise Sometimes however, that death comes sooner than it should. More often than I care to remember, this is what happens: Prolonged use causes more and more dust to [...]
This may seem like quite a no-brainer, but I got slightly caught out so I’m sure it’s not so obvious! Recently I was helping out with the reinstallation of a Windows Vista based computer. As it was a couple of years old, at first I assumed it was the classic case of Windows having destroyed [...]
