DTV Transition

I use The Ultimate Boot CD to remove Trojans and viruses. You can download the software for free and create your own boot CD or order one for a small fee.

You boot the PC off the CD or a USB stick bypassing all the Trojans and hijackers that load into memory then use the anti spy ware and anti hijacker software on the CD to clean your hard drive. SpybotSD seems to find the most, one PC that came into my shop was seriously hijacked and SpybotSD found and cleaned over 1500 infections on that one PC.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html


Thanks ericn for the tip.
I would think if AVG is working correctly, shouldn't that prevent these Trojan viruses from coming on my computer to begin with?
(thats why I paid them $40.00 for a two year license.):dunno:

I would think if AVG is working correctly, shouldn't that prevent these Trojan viruses from coming on my computer to begin with?

Not necessarily. Sometimes you have to run more than one AV program to get them all. Or try different ones. Not all are that effective or created equal. Also, it is important to do the live updates for the definition files or a virus may go undetected.

Another good anti-spyware or malware program is Ad-Aware and Ad Watch from Lavasoft which are free or you can get the license for the extra features.

We have so many workstations (600+) not to mention dozens of file/SQL servers at work in our enterprise/domain that we just use products like Norton's Ghost and re-image the PC's hard drive after a bad or unresolvable infection of course, unless it is a diskless workstation.

On my computers at home I have installed AVG (free version), Spybot S&D, AdAware, and Windows Defender. Most are set to automatically update and I run scans of my system on a regular schedule. Running more than one program IMO helps keep your system from issues because each program has it's own set of definitions and one program may "catch" something another program may overlook.
A funny thing to note, years ago when I first got a computer, it came with Norton pre installed with a one year free subscription. Not knowing much back then I renewed the subscription for another year when the free year was up. One day while running a scan, a window popped up telling me a Trojan Horse had been detected. It then told me to use AVG to remove it. :screwy: Why was a paid for program tell me to use a free program to remove something it found? :dunno:.
I also use a program called CCleaner on my computer to clean up old files and outdated , unneeded items. www.filehippo.com is a good site to find a lot of free programs for your computer.

I was told running more than one Anti virus program on your computer will slow it down, in fact when I was first installing AVG it popped up a message saying "there is already an anti virus program installed on this computer, uninstall it before installing AVG"

I've never had an issue with running more than one program. Just don't try to update more than one at the same time or try to run scans of your computer from more than one at a time. I found Norton slowed my computer down and caused boot up times to increase and took up a lot of disc space.
I've also found running one program scan, then another one when the first is done sometimes finds something the first program scan missed.

The friend I have that told me she had an extra converter box, it turns out it was some other DVD device instead!:disappoin
Oh well, I haven't been watching T.V. much at all and I don't miss it!

The friend I have that told me she had an extra converter box, it turns out it was some other DVD device instead!:disappoin
Oh well, I haven't been watching T.V. much at all and I don't miss it!

So are you looking for one? I may have an extra DTV converter that I can give you. Let me know via PM.

i cant get it at my house and we get regular tv that sucks. and they pushed it back anyway

So are you looking for one? I may have an extra DTV converter that I can give you. Let me know via PM.

Actually I haven't, My landlord has been foreclosed on, I'm probably going to be forced to move by August, and work has been very slow, so i have had other things going on!

Well, less than 24 hours 'til the switchover :runaround:

I still don't have a converter and I'm not worried.

Well it's been two full days since the official "digital transition" date and I still can view a couple channels without a converter box or digital T.V.!

Well it's been two full days since the official "digital transition" date and I still can view a couple channels without a converter box or digital T.V.!
That might be because many "low powered" broadcasters will not be required to make the switch until 2012.
19) Are all broadcast stations in America undergoing the conversion?

Actually, no. Low power TV stations, some 2600 of which reside in the U.S., are except, and won’t have to convert to digital until 2012 at least.
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