I have to concur, in the last 5 years I have only had 2 virus alerts on my PC, and both times dealt with, I put this down to good security, including not opening 'dodgy' emails and not visiting 'dodgy' web sites

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Had the same problem myself. Here is the fix: Click  Start Type cmd in search field right click on the cmd icon showing at top of search box and click on run as administrator type  cd\    press enter type   net stop winmgmt  (include spaces)  and press enter type  y type   cd ...

since running vista Ultimate 32bit I have had no problems, the only thing about windows is the email service is very bland to use, I do like Pegasuse email service, with pegasuse you can have coloured tex on your emails, and change to coloured tex on all of your folders, rearly you can do a lot with pegasuse emails service, witch ...

Hi All,  Found very good web site where you can test your firewall and see just how good it is.  The web site is called ShieldsUP!  Set up by Gibson Research that will test and see how good your firewall is.  The site can be found at www.grc.com.  Once in the site just click ShieldsUP then read the next page.  Then ...

Hey guys, Just installed Vista Ultimate and wish to know if I need to install Service Pack 2 as well

I am currently experiencing a peculiar symptom in which I can not start my Office 2007 anymore on VISTA. See the initial post: http://forums.windowsvistamagazine.com/forums/thread/1676.aspx Since then, I've been contacting Microsoft Support via email. Currently, I am in touch with an Online Support Professional, from the Microsoft Office Online ...

Hello, I installed Vista ultimate from scratch (new formated HD). I'm a home user and only me is touching the computer. I'm registered under Vista as ''administrator''. But ... each time I open a new soft or need to insert a new parameter I'm asked to confirm and confirm everything. Also, for exemple if I want to print an acrobat file I ...

Having just about finished setting up a mirrored RAID array on Vista Home Premium, I thought I Would record some of things that I have found in case anybody else finds them useful. Don't know what RAID is? Look here: http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/RAID_Reasons.htm 1. My boot drive is not RAID, I think when you achieve a stable setup, it ...

Interesting point re: leading a horse to water, but perhaps the horse doesn't know it wants water until it stumbles across the lake?Re: spyware, that's something I've been thinking about, too. Many web sites have a privacy policy page that explains how they use cookies, but since you have to actively click the link to the page (as opposed to ...