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Why is my computer SO SLOWWWW?

Rhonda Hutchison

Does your computer take forever to start up? Does it take forever to get on the internet? Does it take forever to switch between windows? Does it take forever to do just about anything?

Your system either has viruses, needs some serious cleaning, needs more RAM, is getting seriously outdated, or all of the above.

Email stuck in Outlook.

Rhonda Hutchison

Every once in a while, an email will get stuck in your Outlook outbox or inbox, and your Outlook stops working properly. The prinicipal for fixing either hang-up is the same - get Outlook to stop trying to automatically Send/Recieve, then go unstick the email. Solutions for both scenarios are below.

VIRUS WARNING - Don't click on the Virus Warning!

Rhonda Hutchison

6-15-10 UPDATE: Microsoft Security Essentials is our current AV of choice for catching this - see Step 6 below.

About every six months a really bad virus comes down the pike that gets around the best Anti-Virus protection. The latest one of this ilk is the Anti-Virus Pop Up Virus.

Pop-ups with bogus "You May Be Infected" warnings are not new, but the ability for the bad-ware to get around browser and anti-virus security features IS new. This virus comes from infected websites. We've encountered it twice ourselves (once on an IT techie site, ironically).

When you hit an infected site, you will get a pop-up that says something like "you are infected, click here to scan."

Do you have a Company Computer Use Policy?

Rhonda Hutchison

We all blow a little bit of time every day surfing the web at work. Can you fire someone for that? It depends.

Almost everyone sends a personal email at some point in time from their company email, even if it's just forwarding on a funny joke. Can the company intercept and read that email? It depends.

WARNING! Your dog's head will explode if you don't open this email!

Rhonda Hutchison

The problem with hoax emails, disaster-if-you-don't-forward emails, and fake crime trend emails is the same problem the entire Internet faces: We think if we see it in print then it has to be true. One of the hardest things for us to remember with the internet is that anything can be put in print, and it doesn't have to have anything to do with the Truth.

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Why is my computer SO SLOWWWW?

Email stuck in Outlook.

VIRUS WARNING - Don't click on the Virus Warning!

Do you have a Company Computer Use Policy?

WARNING! Your dog's head will explode if you don't open this email!

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