I've written another guest article over at FreewareGenius. This one details Minitool Power Data Recovery Free Edition, a tool that allows you to unerase files and recover them from malfunctioning drives. Read the full article at FreewareGenius. … [Read more...]
Google Search Results Redirecting You To Ads? Receiving Popups? You May Have A Rootkit
Yesterday, a client got infected with some malware after visiting what should have been a safe website. I ran through the usual routine of deleting the malicious files in the Temporary Internet Files folder and scanning with MalwareBytes. The scan found and cleaned up about 8 objects and the annoying scareware was gone upon restarting. Unfortunately, pop-unders were showing up … [Read more...]
Skype Installs Unwanted Add-on Software With Weekend Update
Skype, recently acquired by Microsoft and suffering some login issues, is finding when it rains, it pours as a problem with an update this weekend had a domino effect into other problems for Windows users. The update problem was disclosed by Skype on Sunday: It has come to our attention that concerns have been expressed from Skype users over the update delivered to Skype … [Read more...]
A New Twitter Setting Fills Your Inbox
Twitter has been rolling out a new setting that tends to annoy those users that have received it already. It's not available to all accounts as of writing but it's been getting pushed out since last week. The setting can be found under your Account Settings on the Notifications tab. 'Email me when "I'm sent a reply or mentioned"' is the new setting and unfortunately it's on by … [Read more...]
Help! My Task Manager Has No Border. How do I close it?
Windows Task Manager, useful for viewing a computer's performance or ending stubborn processes, has a default setting 'Always on Top' and a strange view that will remove the border. This still allows you to move the window around but removes your ability to close the window (unless you were to kill the taskmgr.exe process). This 'strange view' has existed since at least Windows … [Read more...]