Can you think of ways to use something like this in your office?

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Until MS releases a fix via Windows Update, users are cautioned not to press F1 in their browser.

Here’s a potential example of how a user might be tricked into pressing F1 and running bad code on their computer:

I can imagine Grandma sitting in front of a page that says, “Your computer’s LHC has encountered fatal hard drive saturation. Press F1 for more information.”

For more details on this subject, check out the article on Tech Republic.

Don't be fooled by this nearly-clever spoof! (Click to Enlarge)

The Subject Line is an eye catcher (even though MS *never* sends update notices by email!) and the rest of the message looks “official” enough at first glance. But there are some easy tell-tale signs that this is a dangerous FAKE if you look a little closer.

In the screenshot, I have added some arrows to some of those signs.

1. Reply address is suspicious.
2. While the LINK TEXT looks like it will go to Microsoft, when you hold your mouse arrow over it, you will see the ACTUAL URL you will go to. NOT A SAFE PLACE!
3. MS never sends you update notices by email. You have Windows Update for that.  :)

It acts like a virus, kind of, because it brings your computer to a virtual stand-still. But it’s just a buggy part of their program. And they know about it, too.

Here is an article on their knowledgebase on how to resolve this problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944563/en-us

Disable support for QuickTime

The following batch file will automatically perform all the steps that are required to disable support for QuickTime.
To create and run the batch file that will disable support for QuickTime, follow these steps:

1. Copy the text the next section, “Batch file to disable QT support.”
2. Paste the text into Notepad.
3. Save the document to your desktop as “DisableWLPGQT.cmd,” and then exit Notepad.
4. Run the batch file. To do this, follow the appropriate step:
   1. In Windows Vista, right-click the DisableWLPGQT.cmd file, and then click Run as administrator.
   2. In Windows XP, make sure that you are logged in as a user who has administrator credentials. Then, double-click the DisableWLPGQT.cmd file.
5. Restart the computer.

QuickTime content is now disabled in the Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Use the link above to see the text you want to copy and paste into a text file. I would provide the CMD file here for you but that is not very safe. CMD files that are malicious can do some serious harm to your PC.

You can also call me at 602 412- 3478 and I can run the file on your PC for you.

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It’s that time of year again. Winter is finally over, and it’s time to open the Windows and let the fresh spring air come in. We clean the nooks and crannies, get rid of the dust, and probably even start treating for bugs and pests now that things are warming back up.

Don’t forget to take care of your most valuable business tool to a good cleaning as well – your Computer!

Your PC is truly your most valuable business tool, a vital life-line for your business. Sure, Network Marketing was done before PCs were around, but now that they are here, and in virtually every home, Network Marketers are maximizing their efforts by using technology to help them grow and maintain their businesses.

You can use your PC to go to your company’s back office, website, or web store. Almost every company in business has a website with a web-based presentation you can direct prospects to.

You use it to chat and email your prospects, downline, upline, and company. You can use it to keep track of your prospects, organize your tasks and meetings, create or display presentations. The list goes on.

You use a car to travel to business meetings, see prospects, and meet with your business partners. You change the oil regularly, keep up on the tires and brakes, and keep that vehicle running as smooth as possible, don’t you? Can you say the same for your computer? While it proves itself over and over again as your most powerful workhorse, it is often the most neglected tool you use in your business. Neglect to for too long and it will start to cause you some grief. It’s not that it gets jealous, mind you. But it will start to have problems if you don’t maintain it, and eventually stop working altogether, just like your car would if you ignored it, too.

One of the things that gets most neglected on a PC is dusting it out. Here’s a perfect story to illustrate why this is so important.

Since I run my own IT Company, I am often asked computer questions – family are no exception. My sister-in-law’s computer was running very slowly, so she called and asked how we could get it running faster. I used the company’s remote support technology to have her connect to my system so I could have a look, and after cleaning out the pests and bugs from her computer (spyware and a Trojan virus), I saw that her PC’s memory was only 128MB. I suggested upping that as high as her budget would allow.

With the price of RAM for her computer pretty cheap these days, she was able to get a full Gigabyte of RAM for about $45. Naturally, she asked if I could install it. A few days later, our family stopped in to visit and I popped open her computer to remove the old RAM and put in the new.

Yikes!

It has most certainly been quite some time since this computer had been opened…and perhaps my visit prompted the inaugural opening of the case. Whatever the case may be, it reminded me of an Indiana Jones adventure!

Your PC Can’t Take The HEAT!

Heat is your computer’s #1 enemy. Most of the technology in your PC is what is called “solid state” technology. This means they are computer chips with no moving parts, so they don’t wear out. But they can overheat! So you have to be sure that the temperature inside your PC doesn’t get too high. If it does, your computer chips will burn up. The hottest computer chips in your computer have metal attachments on them called heat sinks. These help draw the heat up, away from the chip, and disperse the heat into the air inside your computer. Some heat sinks have fans attached to them to make sure that there is air flowing across the heat sink to draw the heat out and away. Your CPU will have a large heat sink and fan on it.

Fans are one of the different kinds of mechanical items in your PC. Others are hard drives, power supplies, floppy drives, etc. Dust that gets into the bearings of a fan will cause them to start whining as it labors to spin. Eventually the fan will seize and stop spinning altogether. Fans are vital for keeping the airflow going in a computer, and to evacuate gathering heat. The flow of air goes from the front of your PC out the back.

Blocking that airflow is bad news for your computer! Putting your PC inside a poorly ventilated cabinet will stifle your PC and eventually cause it to overheat. Blocking the front or back of your PC will have the same effect.

And so will DUST! As air flows through your computer, dust particles can settle inside. They can be drawn in the front, but never make it out the back. They may gather around computer chips and expansion cards. The may clog up your heat sinks and fans.

Indiana Jones and The Temple of DUST

So there I was staring at a computer filled with dust! Wow! A thick layer of dust and cobwebs were trapping heat all throughout this computer. Here is a picture of it:

I was curious when the last time this computer was dusted, and my sister-in-law said that she had just blown it out about a month ago. I got more details on that fact, and discovered that what she had been doing was using a can of compressed air to blow dust off the back of the computer that was accumulating there. She had never opened the case! Effectively, she was just blowing the dust that was trying to escape right back into the computer.

We took the computer outside carefully like we were members of the bomb squad. We didn’t want the dust to spread throughout the house. Outside, I took a leaf blower to it. No can of compressed air could handle this job! The cloud of dust that billowed from it was nothing short of amazing!

Here is what it looked like afterward:

There is a dramatic difference when you see the pictures side by side!

Before	After

Coming up in future articles, I’ll go over other simple things you can do to lengthen the life of your computer, make it run faster and better than before, and offer reviews of different tools you can use in your business to really maximize your time and energy in growing your business!