Browser Hijacking
KB ID 0000056 Also See KB0000183 Spyware / Malware Rogue AV and Rogue Antispyware “Scareware” Problem There is currently an alarming trend of companies and websites that think its quite OK to change your web browser without your permission. What most of them try to do is, 1. Modify your homepage. 2. Modify your default search page. Sometimes your default connection will be pointed at sites that carry adult material or...
Internet Browsing Slow? Speed up by Changing your DNS
Internet Browsing Slow KB ID 0000200 Problem Note: This is only applicable to your HOME Internet connection, if you are on a corporate domain then DO NOT change your DNS Servers. However if you want to perform this on your domain DNS servers, you can find out which are the quickest DNS servers. and add them to your forwarders. This process aims to speed up your internet browsing by changing your IP address settings, so that all the...
Firefox 7 – Restore the Full URL / Address Bar
KB ID 0000517 Problem Firefox 7 came out today (Download Firefox 7), and the new version has decided to shorten the URL displayed in your address bar, to put it back to its old style you need to change a setting. Solution 1. In the address bar type about:config, and then click “I’ll be carefull, I promise”. 2. Locate the browser.urlbar.trimURLsentry then double click it to change it from true to false. ...
Secure and Encrypt USB Drives
KB ID 0000060 Problem We would be lost without the good old USB Key/Thumb drive in this day and age, now the floppy drive is officially dead its our primary method of moving files and software about. I have the habit of leaving both CD/DVD’s in clients servers and my thumb drive onsite because I have a head like a sieve =[ I did this the other week, and thankfully I was going to be away on course for the following week, so I...
Using UtraVNC SC (Single Click)
KB ID 0000059 Problem If you need to remote a distant PC, either for work purposes or you have a friend or relative who is technically challenged. Or you simply would like to be able to get back to watching TV, or having a life quicker, you would rather “Fix” it yourself than talking a frightened technophobe though the registry etc. Then UltraVNC SC is the tool you need. Normally using VNC you would need to talk the person at the...