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| blocking sites at work | 11/4/2009 | Daniel Fredriksen |
Q: You may be predisposed to tell me to piss off, but here is my question. Our IT guy at the Office ...
A: Just the occassional popup ad. An alternative is to setup a VPN at home, connect to that VPN from ...
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| blocking sites at work | 11/4/2009 | Daniel Fredriksen |
Q: You may be predisposed to tell me to piss off, but here is my question. Our IT guy at the Office ...
A: Site blockers like SonicWall and NetNanny can be annoying. If you are lucky, you might find an ...
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| M.S. Exchange Issue | 11/3/2009 | Denis Mello |
Q: I know you are not going to tell me how to do this even if you do know but maybe you can point me in ...
A: Not so sure. Why I wouldn't tell you? There are some tools intended to recover the password. You can ...
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| M.S. Exchange Issue | 11/3/2009 | Daniel Fredriksen |
Q: I know you are not going to tell me how to do this even if you do know but maybe you can point me in ...
A: Aside from reformatting the computer and restoring a recent backup of the data? They did have an ...
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| email & identity theft | 11/3/2009 | Daniel Fredriksen |
Q: I will be traveling outside of the country and as a precaution to losing my passport and other ...
A: Absolutely, but there are steps you can take to reduce the likelihood of such an occurrence. First, ...
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| How to limit a tenants internet and block sites? | 10/28/2009 | Denis Mello |
Q: my dad has two tenants from a school who use his internet but they download movies. how can he limit ...
A: He can do it by several ways. One is to negotiate the mounth amount of megabytes/gigabytes that the ...
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| Lotus Notes chat privacy | 10/25/2009 | Denis Mello |
Q: Can the instant messaging facility from Lotus Notes series be decoded or subject to any surveillance ...
A: I did not realize this question in my pending questions. Sorry for responding so late. I've never ...
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| Internet use | 10/24/2009 | Denis Mello |
Q: My employer is very restrictive on computer use at the work place. Many sites are blocked through ...
A: Yes, he can do it through remote programs installed on your laptop that can monitor what you do ...
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| email security | 10/24/2009 | Denis Mello |
Q: Mello. (Please note, my question may appear at first to have nothing whatsoever to do with computer ...
A: Good question. If I were a thief I would do it differently! I would open your e-mail, turn it fake ...
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| email security | 10/24/2009 | Denis Mello |
Q: Mello. (Please note, my question may appear at first to have nothing whatsoever to do with computer ...
A: I understand your concern. And you have to had it. Yes, it is possible to someone take your email, ...
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| Internet connection problems | 10/21/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: I've lost internet on my computer, I've been having problems all week getting online now I can't at ...
A: You most probably have a virus / worm - which is not being detected by avast/zone alarm/ adware. I ...
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| Problem with website | 10/21/2009 | Daniel Fredriksen |
Q: This is very strange because my sons name is Ryan Stewart! I do know a good bit about computers, ...
A: the site is probably keeping track of you using two methods- cookies and your IP address. The cookie ...
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| Bizarre Gmail messages, sent and received | 10/19/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: Dave, Thanks for taking the time to read this email. For the last week or so, I've been received ...
A: The screenshot does not reveal much. Anyway, enable your spam filter (if it already isnt). Also ...
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| orkut | 10/9/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: i am a student in college.in my college,orkut and some other websites are blocked.i tried using ...
A: My first advice is to avoid orkut - atleast while using the college network. It's a major ...
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| msn security | 10/8/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: my question is regarding saving msn chat history to my laptops hard drive. is it at all possible for ...
A: it is more likely that if someone compromises your msn account - the chat logs would reside on the ...
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| anonymous surfing | 10/6/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: I would like to visit websites anonymously. For example, if I visited somebody's webpage, or social ...
A: You can use a software like "tor" (download link here -> www.torproject.org/download.html.en )to ...
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| codecs | 10/5/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: *( i many videos that i try to play and say they are missing different codecs like CoreAAC Audio ...
A: Scott, First, you need to uninstall all of the codecs you downloaded and restart your computer. ...
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| McAffe Security updates | 10/3/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: I purchased and installed Mccafe anti-virus through CD. The updates are failing because Mccafe is ...
A: If your McAfee is genuine, I would suggest you take a screenshot of the error message windows (Press ...
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| Mccafe Security updates | 10/3/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: I purchased and installed Mccafe anti-virus through CD. The updates are failing because Mccafe is ...
A: SV, The first thing you should do is check the Automatic Update settings in McAfee and make sure the ...
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| network attack | 10/3/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: myself nitin from India . i have an adsl 256kbps net and using kaspersky internet security 2009.sir ...
A: Update your XP to SP3. Also use Autopatcher (available as a free download at ...
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| Which free AV is right for me? | 10/2/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: I'm currently trying to decide what antivirus I should get, and I would like some help deciding. ...
A: Dylan, I need a bit more info so I can provide you with the best recommendation: Which operating ...
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| Allowing MSN through ISA 2006 | 10/1/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: Clients connected to this server cannot access MSN but they can see all websites. How can I allow ...
A: Giorgo, Pull up the ISA management console and expand the Access Policy object > Right click on ...
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| Enexity | 9/21/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: My name is Paul and I am the supervisor of a hematology laboratory that is evaluating a new ...
A: Hey Paul, I'd like to provide you with an answer that's tailored specifically to your situation ...
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| porn appearing that wasnt downloaded by me | 9/21/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: I have a secured/firewalled desktop with cable internet. I am constantly finding porn on my computer ...
A: What exactly do you mean when you say "cant secure my wireless connection because something that I ...
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| porn appearing that wasnt downloaded by me | 9/20/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: I have a secured/firewalled desktop with cable internet. I am constantly finding porn on my computer ...
A: You will need to secure your wireless connection. Here are a couple of links which offer guidelines ...
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| China Standard Time | 9/17/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: Ryan: I am not "computer literate", and I'm not even sure Internet/Network Security is the correct ...
A: Fred, It sounds like the client who sent you that email accidentally tweaked the regional settings ...
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| Calculate Network Activity | 9/16/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: when we double click the active network connection icon from the system tray and check the stauts... ...
A: Inayat, The number of bytes under the Received and Sent columns tell you how many single bytes have ...
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| Calculate Network Activity | 9/16/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: when we double click the active network connection icon from the system tray and check the stauts... ...
A: Inayat, To view the network traffic packets in the command prompt, use netstat -e (interval). The ...
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| Slow computer | 9/15/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: Ryan My desktop with XP home edition has gotten really slow, especially internet speed (Firefox). My ...
A: Van, Here are some things you can do to clean out and restore the performance of your XP machine: 1. ...
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| Can't connect to the internet | 9/10/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: I recently reformatted my computer (compaq evo D510CMT)because of the virus issue. Everything went ...
A: Nidhi, This is a pretty common problem that a lot of people run into when reformatting. Here's what ...
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| Firefox | 9/9/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: Ryan A few months ago I switched to Firefox from I.E. I found it far superior. I updated to the ...
A: Van, Good call on making the switch to Firefox. The first thing you need to do is make sure your ...
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| Wireless Networking: Add missing WPA2 protocol to Windows | 9/8/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: I am the family tech support go-to guy and am trying to help my stepmom with joining her laptop to ...
A: Chris, You are correct, there is a hotfix that needs to be installed in order to update XP's support ...
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| Netgear Powerline HD Network Adapter | 9/8/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: I recently read a review of a product I had no idea existed. Apparently the two unit combo plugs ...
A: Art, Power-line networking is based on the simple concept of "no new wires". Power-line Ethernet ...
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| How to configure USB Block Policy | 9/3/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: How are you my name is Ahmad i would like to ask one question regarding USB. I have a network of 50 ...
A: Ahmad, I'm doing well, thanks for asking. I'm going to assume that your goal is to prevent the usage ...
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| help | 9/1/2009 | Amit |
Q: I'm not able to read the blog written in kannada, my OS is ubuntu and browser is mozilla.
A: It looks like your OS needs the fonts for displaying Kannada. Are you able to view it in some other ...
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| Opening attachment | 8/27/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: I occasionally get from a friend an attachment that is an EML file. When trying to open it, I get ...
A: Steve, Files with the .eml extension are created by Microsoft Outlook when a message is saved and is ...
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| what router is best for me | 8/27/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: i have 2 computers and ps3 and wii to all conect to the router. the computers are desktop thaat has ...
A: Dean, For your setup I highly recommend a D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router. It was one of the ...
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| Why does the screen blackout? | 8/21/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: I've been having a problem with my computer for a few days now. The virus scans all come back clean. ...
A: From your query it is not clear as to what the problem could be. Could you answer the following ...
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| virus | 8/20/2009 | Dave Mitch |
Q: My computer will not open any applications. The only thing that will open is internet explorer. ...
A: Backup your important data. Format your computer and re-install Windows and other applications. This ...
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| hyperlink not working | 8/18/2009 | Ryan Stewart |
Q: Recently my hyperlinks in my emails stop working. An online experts suggested I held my "Ctfl" key ...
A: Angel, We've still got a few more options for resolving the hyperlink issue. Try this one first: ...
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