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In the past few days I was solving a problem on a site and the problem was this; The site has an iframe virus, the site pings teleporn.net and most links redirect to ask.com or teleporn.net which is a banned site, the site was banned  because it installs a virus on your system without knowing [...]

Malware is nothing new to computers especially Microsoft Windows as the Operating System. Though is vastly spread on the world wide web, there are tools that can help the prevention and removal of these pests on our computer. Here are some of the most effective tool that can surely help: 1. Lavasoft Ad-Aware. You can [...]

Run the Group Policy Editor by typing gpedit.msc at the Run prompt or command line. Go to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar. If you click on the Extended tab at the bottom of the screen, you’ll be shown a description of the setting that you’ve highlighted, along with an explanation of each of the [...]

To hide unused applets using the Registry, run the Registry Editor (run > type regedit) and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\don’t load The key, as its name implies, determines which Control Panel applet icons are not loaded into the Control Panel. You’ll still be able to run those applets from the command line after you hide [...]

There are some tools and procedures that can tell with 99.44 percent accuracy whether your computer has a virus. Here are the actions to take: 1. Find out whether your computer has antivirus software: Check for any Anti-virus software installed on your computer. To do this just Click Start>control Panel>Security Center. 2. Find out whether [...]