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A lot of the recent posts i have been putting up have been focused on our “computer hardware and software fixes” category but this is because recently a lot people are calling me up to fix their computers due to serious virus attacks, some of these can only be fixed by re-installing the operating systems but for now lets focus on the virus issue i encountered recently.

PROBLEM:

A client’s laptop had been seriously infected by an ativirus software that invaded its memory and messed up everything on his computer including his screen colour was changed to dark so the desktop is completely invisible. The good luck was the fact that this computer can still boot normally and connect to the internet but you cannot download as there are no memory to run programs etc. All the antivirus on the computer was expired and new ones cannot be downloaded from the internet because of memory issues

SOLUTION:

The good thing about this virus is the fact that it shows itself as an antivirus program asking you to upgrade, i simply did the following;

I clicked on the “start” button, then clicked on “All programs” and when the list of programs appeared, i checked to see if i can identify the virus in the list of programs, luckily it was there having known the program to look for. I right clicked on the program and then clicked on properties to see the whole information regarding this program. On the properties tab, i was able to see the folder and file causing these problems, since i was using Windows Vista, i copied the whole folder and file path and pasted it on the search form immediately you click on “start” icon , this helped locate the folder and file after some little search , i tried to delete the file but it refused.

After some attempt trying to delete the file with no success, i finally took the option of renaming the file. This is intended to disorganise the file path so it cannot find the file anymore to execute with that name and luckily this worked. Just to make sure i have changed the name, i tried to search for the old file path and couldnt locate it anymore.

After this the system was rebooted  there we go, everything went well, the page loads normally, the internet and web pages became easily accessible etc.

I changed the desktop appearnce from dark to bright colour and there we go. I was then able to purchase the latest version of antivirus and cleaned up thoroughly.

Hope this helps out.

Remember i just called your attention to avira free antivirus, actually i’m a little bit confused because rising antivirus (free) has proved to a force to reckon with,in this case i would believe its a question of choice between the two of them as they tend to compete very well. Though downloading avira is faster,rising antivirus is equally a high perfomance software. Please read the from the site below.

Rising Anti-virus

Rising Antivirus Free Edition 2009 protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use and Smartupdate technology make it an “install and forget” product and entitles you to focus on your own jobs with your computer. RISING Antivirus powerful engine has been certified by Virus Bulletin,Checkmark, TUV.

Rising Antivirus Free Edition 2009 is a solution with no cost to personal users.

Okay here we go again, i have always been somebody that likes to share, right now over 400,000 internet users are using avira antivirus and we would not like to lt you miss out on it. If you are not that type of person that like to spend money buying antivirus, then i believe you should give avira a trial, after all it’s free. I personally use this software and its highly recommended by me

Free Avira antivirus

Hello All,

It has been quite a  while since i last blogged about anything here but like i always do in regards to going straight to point, i would like to highlight a little problem using @import url(”css file”)  to call your CSS file from your html file.

Recently i listed a site for sale but to my surprise, after i upgraded my firefox browser to 3.5.3, the sites pages looked all jagged up . I went back to my css file and checked everything and they were okay. I also checked the browser shots page to compare my site on different browsers, some of the browsers displayed it good and some displayed like the firefox i was using.

Finally i got to the answer, it looks like some browsers or recent browsers  have problems recognising the call of the css file using @import url(” css file”)

Fix:

I simply changed the call to the css file to normal standard below and it was fixed. Please remember to remove the @import in the heading of the main css file if you wish to use the method below.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file.css" title="stylesheet" />

These days you would find that while editing some of your site’s files , you may mistakenly delete a code or just a little syntax especially if you do not know much about coding. I have seen some of my clients nearly jump out of their skin because of these problems.

The easiest and best way to fix these problems is to identify where the problem is, normally most scripts would tell you the exact file or line in the file that has the proble.

This could be that the file does exist or may there is a syntax error on a line in the file. The best solution if you dont know what you are doing is to either upload that same file back to the server and then overwrite  the existing file, this would fix most of these types of problems.

If you are using PHPBB3, then you may need to enter your ACP and purge the cache before your changes would show.

Please note that i’m not saying that all errors can be fixed in this form but rather it is something to try especially if it concerns files.