What’s a good Anti-Virus to use?

We wrote this post in response to a com­ment on another post. We most often rec­om­mend Avast, AVG, and Zone Alarm. Our choices are based on prod­ucts that are effi­cient in pre­vent­ing virus infec­tions, semi trans­par­ent, unob­tru­sive, and user friendly. And FYI. if you see the image below when copy­ing files, you may have a virus.

Avast free and Avast Pro:

Avast pro­vides a free Anti-Virus, how­ever we found it to be a lit­tle intru­sive and irri­tat­ing. Avast seems to pester its free users with con­stant pops and related to their paid product.

Their paid prod­uct how­ever is a dream to use. The only time Avast Pro will ever pester you or slow your flow of work and surf­ing, is if you encounter a mali­cious script from a web­page, down­load mali­cious soft­ware, a viruses, or any other prob­lem you may have.

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Jun 25, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave A Comment »

Can’t uninstall Java 1.6.0.11, Unable to locate jre1.6.0_11-c-l.msi

We’ve come across this issue on quite a few occa­sions. It seems that this issues arises after a botched unin­stall of Java prod­ucts. It seems to leave a reg­istry entry behind that makes it nearly impos­si­ble to rein­stall Java. We’re not exactly sure what the reg­istry entry is at this point, but we have found that run­ning the reg­istry cleaner in Ccleaner removes it. Ccleaner is an excel­lent prod­uct, and its totally free. But we do rec­om­mend mak­ing a dona­tion to them to keep their prod­uct free.

The process is sim­ple. Down­load Ccleaner, run the cleaner first, then run the reg­istry cleaner sec­ond. Restart you’re com­puter, and you should now be able to install the lat­est Java.

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Jun 23, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks | 3 Comments »