While I have been as busy as ever with work, life, and amusements, it’s certainly time for another article. This week, we’re talking malware. The traditional computer ‘virus’ has taken a backseat to the far more prevalent ‘malware’, ‘spyware’, and more recently ‘scareware’. Let’s start with a brief history of viruses. Old school viruses and [...]
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Unwanted Microsoft Office Virus Scan
So when you open documents in Word or Excel, does it request a virus scan an take seemingly forever to load? In the case of a vista machine running AVG 8 virus software, this is how it’s fixed. run cmd as administrator cd to C:\program files\avg\avg8 type ‘regsvr32 /u avgoff2k.dll’ enter. bang. AVG no longer [...]