Posted February 20th, 2010 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Beware of scare-ware! Perhaps the biggest and widest spreading virus infection is Windows XP Antivirus or Antivirus XP 2008. Do not allow this program to infest your computer, remove XP Antivirus immediately! If you are not sure your CPU has been infected, then check if your system has exhibited at least one of the following symptoms.' Computer constantly bombarded with 'warning spyware has been detected' pop up ads and taskbar notifications begging you to download the XP Antivirus ...
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Posted February 9th, 2010 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
The WinDefender2009 infection starts any of three ways. You can go to a corrupt porn web page, a corrupt website that promotes gambling, or you can open an attachment in a spam email. Any of those three ways will get you infected with WinDefender2009. On the porn and gambling related sites, WinDefender2009 will pretend to be a video codec or an ActiveX control. WinDefender2009 is new on the wild web. It is almost a funny thought that a fake antivirus has upgraded itself, but that is the ...
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Posted January 27th, 2010 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Don't be fooled--Real Antivirus is a scam. How it starts is you get flooded with intrusive, deceptive pop-ups telling you that your computer is infected and the only hope is to click the pop-up. You are scared that your computer may be harmed, so you click the pop-ups and go to the Real Antivirus (also called RealAV) website where a fake scan runs and tells you that you are infected. Yes, I said fake scan. The files it lists as infecting your computer are not on your computer. If ...
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Posted January 12th, 2010 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
The 17th arrondissement of northwestern Paris is located on the Right Bank of the Seine River. Its land area is about 2.2 square miles (somewhat under 5.7 square kilometers.) The population is one hundred sixty thousand and the area is home to more than ninety thousand jobs. This arrondissement has a split personality. The northern sector tends to be working class and is an extension of Pigalle in the ninth district with its many red lights that aren't all traffic signals. The southern ...
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Posted January 4th, 2010 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Power Antivirus 2009 is not an antivirus program, even though the name would lead you to believe so. Power Antivirus 2009 is rogue anti-spyware, a scam--and worse. To start with, Power Antivirus 2009 will display false information stating you are infected, while not allowing you to remove anything unless you purchase Power Antivirus 2009. Power Antivirus is advertised by sites pretending to be online scanners. These fake scanners are just advertisements. If you decide to install Power ...
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Posted December 29th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Many times, we accidentally delete Excel files, save over files that we had previously created and sometimes not even save changes that we have made to a file. At such times, it may seem impossible to recover these files or to get back valuable data that were contained in the file. However, users of Excel should be aware that the program has a very powerful AutoRecover feature that allows for an automatic and quick recovery of workbooks when there are problems like an accidental failure of ...
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Posted December 29th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Antivirus 2009 is rogue anti-spyware. What is rogue anti-spyware, you ask? Good question! Today's rogue anti-spyware starts off with a Trojan like Zlob or Vundo getting onto your computer and sending you pop-ups. But not just any pop-ups--these pop-ups will scare you by telling you your computer is infected, and that the only way you can remove said infection is to click the pop-up, purchase, and install the program on the website the pop-up sends you to. Sounds harmless, right? Not so. The ...
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Posted December 23rd, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Anti-virus software is software that you install on your computer so that you can be alerted when you have a virus. Anti-virus software will help to keep your computer safe against worms, viruses, Trojan horses, and other uninvited programs.
The software can also help you clean your computer if you should happen to have a virus. The important thing to remember about anti-virus software is that you make sure to update it often so that you get the latest computer virus definitions installed into ...
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Posted December 18th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
I've heard this question alot?
What antivirus should I use? There are ton of antivirus products out there, so choosing one can seem confusing. I'm sure you've heard of Norton or McAfee. I'm going to tell you right now, don't bother. They're expensive, they use a lot of resources (slowing your computer down) and they only do an ok job. I worked for a few years reparing PCs. I saw a lot of people using these antivirus products and they weren't working.
My personal recommendation is AVG Anti-Virus ...
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Posted December 12th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Occasionally, every one of us faces problems with our hard drive ' it either gets corrupted and we are unable to read or retrieve all our files and folders. Or perhaps the storage space proves inadequate and we consider replacing our old hard disk with a new NTFS hard drive with plenty of storage space. But then what about all the personal and financial information that is stored in your computer? Not to worry, you may say. After all, you have deleted all those files from your computer. In ...
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Posted December 9th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Adobe Reader is the freely available software that makes it possible to view and print PDF files. This powerful application makes it possible to access all the content in the file including video, audio and of course images. Not only that, it ensures that there is accuracy in both the way the document appears on screen and in the way it is printed. However, it does happen occasionally that the PDF file you are trying to view simply does not open in your Adobe Reader. Here are a few things that ...
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Posted December 9th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
With the number of PDF documents about to reach 250 million ' as estimated by Adobe ' this format is truly proving to be the unanimous choice of millions of computer users the world over to format their content in. This content may be in the form of research reports, white papers, tutorials or ebooks. Whatever the information contained in a PDF document, it makes it infinitely easy to pass it on without distorting the layout, graphics or fonts in any manner. There are also many powerful tools ...
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Posted December 8th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
While most PDF files sent to you may open and work fine, occasionally you may come across a few that display errors. Sometimes, some versions of Acrobat Reader do not even show the errors and just display a blank page. However, the versions of Acrobat that do display the errors may typically show messages such as 'Too few operands' or 'An unrecognized token was found'. Any viewer coming across these messages would not know where the problem is and if there is, how to fix the ...
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Posted December 2nd, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Quite possibly, MS Access files are one of the most fragile files available on your computer's hard disk and there is nothing that cannot corrupt these files. Anything from a friendly rename operation on the MDB files or a shift of path can lead to Access database file corruption. Access files are so fragile because they have a structure that is optimized for fast data retrieval along with equally fast update and insert operations. While Access files can be made more robust by changing the file ...
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Posted December 2nd, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
If you are a computer user who works frequently with MS Access databases, you would be familiar with the frequent errors that haunt you now and then and demand complete shutdown or restart of Access server. Access database errors can be triggered in various occasions, some of them are:
· When trying to use an Access query with DML for filtering specific information.
· Using Reports feature on Ms ...
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Posted November 25th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
We are all fairly comfortable with going to our bank's site, entering our user details and accessing our financial data or carrying out various bank-related tasks. What better way is there for unscrupulous people to get crucial user-related information like your login name and password than to present you a page that looks just like that of your bank? Unsuspecting users will then type in their username and password at this page and the information is collected and sent elsewhere. This is known ...
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Posted November 25th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
You may have just started a new scheme on your online business site and are quickly typing out a message using Outlook, to send to all your present clients and to prospective ones too. Suddenly you realize that you are essentially typing the same text as the message that you sent out the last week as also the week before that. You may even wish that you had some kind of tool that would help you change some of the content of these email messages, which would otherwise contain the same essential ...
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Posted November 21st, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
Today, you are in Paris, and you need a place to picnic. There are so many possible locations, that I could never list them all. I'm inclined to suggest going to the square in front of Notre-Dame, the very center of the city, and finding some steps or a wall to sit on and use as a table. A lot of people don't know that behind the Notre-Dame there is a very nice park with shade trees and park benches. There's also the square du Vert Galant at the other end of the Ile de la Cité too, and just ...
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Posted October 24th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
If you are visiting Paris for the first time, you might be
overwhelmed when planning your itinerary and deciding which
attractions to visit and in what order. Let's take a look at the
top attractions in Paris that are a must see when planning your
visit.
First you'll want to visit the Eiffel Tower. This icon of Paris
is located at Eiffel Tower Champs de Mars. Admission to the
tower is 10,70 Î . The phone number is 33 (0) 1 44 11 23 23. The
Eiffel Tower was built in 1899 and was originally ...
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Posted October 14th, 2009 by English Speaking IT Support in Paris
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