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Slovenská Polícia Virus

Posted by on October 31, 2012 3 comments
Slovenská Polícia Virus

It is important that you remove Slovenská Polícia Virus from your computer if you want your computer to get back to normal. This infection is a ransomware application that does not allow you to perform any kind of action with your computer. Slovenská Polícia Virus expects you to pay a ransom fee in order to unlock your computer. To make matters more believable, this infection pretends to be an official representative of Slovakian Police Office. It accuses you of downloading and storing copyrighted material illegally Read more »

Türk Polisi Virus

Posted by on October 30, 2012 1 comment
Türk Polisi Virus

Ukash viruses keep spreading across the world and the newest addition to the faction of horrendous ransomware infections is the Turkish Windows users attacking Türk Polisi Virus. Cyber criminals behind this malignant application often use the Reveton Trojan to infiltrate the ransomware into computers, and this method has been proven successful with such infamous viruses as Polizei Control Department Gegen Cyberkriminalität, GVU virus or PCeU virus. Read more »

Vuze Toolbar

Posted by on October 30, 2012 No comments

Vuze toolbar is a browser hijacker that usually gets installed on a target computer together with Vuze BitTorrent program. It happens when a user goes through an installation process blindly, without checking what other programs get installed on his computer. Vuze toolbar is compatible with the latest versions of Windows, and can get installed on all main Internet browsers. Despite the fact, that Vuze toolbar looks like a useful browser extension, in reality it causes a lot of problems and needs to be removed immediately. Read more »

Windows PC Defender

Posted by on October 30, 2012 No comments

Windows PC Defender is a fake anti-spyware program which derives from the same family as Windows Additional Guard and Windows Guard Pro that are identical to Windows PC Defender. The rogue infects a computer when visiting suspicious websites or after downloading spam email attachments that are very often infected with different types of malware. Read more »

File Rescue Virus

Posted by on October 25, 2012 No comments

If your system has any hard drive disk problems, you can be sure that File Rescue Virus will not help you restore your computer’s integrity. As a matter of fact, if you allow this program to run within your PC, or worse – you purchase its full version, you will lose your money and allow schemers to take control over your Windows system. Anti-Spyware-101.com team recognizes this as the worst case scenario, which is why you should analyze the vicious infection and find a way to delete File Rescue Virus quickly and effectively. Read more »

How to Defragment Files

Posted by on October 25, 2012 No comments

Disk Defragmenter is  Microsoft Windows utility designed to increase access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation. Defragmenting a disk minimizes head travel, which reduces the time it takes to read files from and write files to the disk. Beginning with Windows XP, Disk Defragmenter also reduces system startup times. Read more »

How to remove Temporary Files

Posted by on October 25, 2012 1 comment

It does not matter which Windows version you have (Windows 7/XP or Windows Vista), you will be able to use the recommendations presented below because they are easy to follow on every version. You can boost your machine’s speed by using tools which come within Windows. The tools that will be discussed are provided for computer users to help them solve slow performance issues and errors related to the registry. Follow the steps presented below to improve the performance of the system and note that before taking corrective actions, you should back up your data. Read more »

Alnaddy toolbar

Posted by on October 24, 2012 No comments

There are a lot of websites that seem to be harmless while in fact they infect us with potentially unwanted programs. Alnaddy.com is that kind of website. It presents itself as the largest Arabic social site, offering news on tourism travel and various services, but the side effect is that Alnaddy toolbar gets installed on your browser the moment you land on this website, and little by little it starts affecting your Internet browsing activity. Read more »

Speed Up Computer Using Task Manager 2

Posted by on October 24, 2012 No comments

1. Create a Memory Dump File for Non-Responsive Programs

The reason of a program’s non-responsiveness to the operating system can be easily found if the Windows Debugging Tool. Open your Task Manager and select the Processes tab. Find and right-click the desirable process and select Create Dump File. Soon, you will be provided with the name and location of the file. Read more »

Change Task Manager Priorities

Posted by on October 24, 2012 No comments
Change Task Manager Priorities

How to adjust priorities with Task Manager

Computers these days are able to perform multiple tasks at the same time, but even so the applications still have to “fight” over the available time slot on the CPU. There are a few ways to determine which application gets a priority over the other. In Windows 7 each application has a priority level which determines the time slot. By default your applications will be set to normal priority level, but you can change it and as a result it affects how fast the program runs. Read more »