As a computer technician, I have seen some pretty interesting computer problems. The majority of problems I encounter in the home market are adware, spyware or connectivity problems and the occasional hardware problem. The hardware problems are usual...

As you probably know, Technibble ran a software competition last week and then offered a bunch of discounts for all of that software this week. What you probably know about from the last post was Instant Housecall (which is remote support software)...

Steve Cherubino from Podnutz.com invited me on his show again to talk about recent computer repair jobs and the computer repair business in general. We have two different shows for you to listen to. In the first one we talk about: A recent job with a...

A phishing campaign has been launched and customers of widely used webhosts such as GoDaddy, 50Webs, and Yahoo! are the targets. The message in the emails state, “Due to the system maintenance, we kindly ask you to take a few minutes to confirm your...

The default power settings for Windows is to have the computer go to sleep after about 15-30 minutes of inactivity (such as no keyboard input or mouse movement). This is great for the client because it saves power but not so great for a technician who...

An exploit code has been released about manipulating Encapsulated Postscript Files (.eps) files. The attack triggers a memory corruption bug. Illustrator CS3 13.0.0 and CS4 14.0.0 are affected according to Secunia, a security notification firm. Other...