Every so often I travel over to Yahoo! Answers to see what people are asking in the computer/technology section.  I cannot even count how many times I see high school kids asking how they can get around the school filters to access websites like Myspace, Xanga, or Facebook.  Having worked for a school district for [...]

I have heard on countless occasions from a number of friends, family and classmates that they have tried to deal with computer tech support personnel, and they just can’t because they’re too rude or they just do not seem to understand the problem.  After many years of being both an end user and a tech [...]

Over the past couple of years, i’m sure almost everyone has had a run in with spyware while trying to do a simple search for free lyrics online.  There are plenty of websites out there that take advantage of the fact that newer computer users won’t be aware of the dangers of the web and [...]

…Absolutely, everything, sing it again!
In the few years that I have been in the I.T. business, doing tech support and just talking to friends I hear a reoccurring question: “why is my computer running so slow”.  In some cases there are problems with spyware infections, sometimes a virus has sabotaged the system but most of the [...]

So, you’re surfing around on the Internet and suddenly you notice that your system is being overrun with pop-ups and advertisements.  Out of the corner of your eye you see that the program spywarefixer.exe (hypothetical name) is downloading to your system and is about to run.  Knowing that something bad is about to happen and [...]

I can’t even count how many times I’ve been called to assist people with computer based problems which I was able to fix by simply having them restart their computer or finding out once I’ve gotten on site that they haven’t restarted their computer for quite some time, and doing it for them. About 50% [...]