I got a call from my mother-in-law this evening. Seems she came home this afternoon and her computer had completely wigged out on some trojan spyware junk. Loads of alert balloon messages and porn icons and quarantined trojan files alerts from her installed anti-virus. She’s running Windows Vista.
As you can see from the screen shot above there were a number of junk files that have inserted themselves into the Startup routine of Windows. There were actually about another 10-15 versions of the same files further down as you scroll.
When you tried to check-off the files and disable them, when …read more

Currently running into some walls, firewalls to be exact, when I’m trying to connect to my business partner’s computer to access a SQL database that we use to manage our client contacts, project tasks, to do items, etc.
We’re sitting in the office on the same network, connected to the same switch and I can’t see his computer without him turning off his firewall. I realize that’s a good thing. His laptop is the only machine in the office (3 laptops, 1 server, 1 desktop) that’s running Vista. He’s also running Trend Micro’s security tool.
We’ve tried adding my computer to his …read more