Recovering Files From a Badly Infected Computer

Here’s the sad truth. If you don’t have a decent antivirus/antispyware program running, your computer is going to get infected and it may come to the point where the infection is too hard to remove and your operating system is beyond repair.

If you are reinstalling the operating system, either from a Windows CD or a factory image, you are going to loose the infection. You are also going to lose all your photo’s, music etc. So you do get your data without bringing the infection along with it?
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WWB 2.0RHEA HACK MISTAKEN FOR END OF UNIVERSE

Much aTwitter about nothing

Fail and You  Kids these days. Used to be, when you were mad at your parents or your professors, you’d write an email worm in Visual Basic and spread it around via Outlook clients.…

Hacks like that didn’t take a lot of talent, but they had some comic value. As a tech person, it’s entertaining to watch someone who’s not savvy work a machine that they think is “infected with a virus.” The more industrious evildoers wrote self-propagating worms that exploited vulnerabilities in common services, like the SQL Slammer worm that slowed internet traffic to a crawl on a Friday night when I was in college. Many of us nerds had to go outside and party instead of playing video games until 4AM. I know of several pregnancies that were a direct result of this vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server.

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Switch Your Default Mail Client from Outlook

Your Windows-based PC probably launches Microsoft’s Outlook mail as a default, whenever you clicky click a link for email online.

But you don’t dig Outlook.

Let’s edit your registry and change your default mail app to whatever the hell you like better.

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