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DEFENDER This is worthless as spyware gets (this should be a RED flag about Security Essentials!). Defender doesn’t stop infections while noticeably slowing down systems, so TURN IT OFF. The spyware issue is much better dealt with using Malwarebytes pay, or by virtualizing your browsing using avast! Pro Control Panel, Windows Defender, Options, un-check “Start…
Sincerely, J.R. Guthrie President Advantage Micro Corporation 520-290-0595 jr@advantage77.com “At this point in time, the Internet should be regarded as an Enemy Weapons System!”
We finally have a partial solution available to uninstall avast! ver. 2014 consumer products on many machines at once to replace them with EP products. It is a modified version of “avastclear” and is provided on an as needed basis. You will need to contact me for this tool.this. Commands Available: /silent…
When installing the avast! Small Office Administrator (SOA) on a system when there is an existing SQL installation, we must 1stcreate the avast! database in that SQL prior to SOA installation. The SQL username is “sa” and the database name is “avast_sbc_db” (you will need to know the SA password to proceed with this installation) …
I have written this document to make installations easier and save you time. It is specific to avast! Endpoint Protection Suite Plus. The following URL is a screen shot by screen shot complete walk through of the SOA installation. I highly recommend that you spend a few minutes to familiarize yourself with this process prior to SOA installation: https ://support3.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=1290 NOTE: The…
This REMOVAL process is specific to avast! 7 (or 8) upgrading over an avast! 4, 5, 6 or an avast! 7 installation (also use when upgrading avast! Free to avast! Pro or avast! Endpoint Protection) You will want to have your avast license file available for insertion during step nine (license.avastlic) 1) Remove all avast! …
avast! AntiSpam Filter for Outlook When you open Outlook, you will see the avast! AntiSpam toolbar. You will be able to train the avast! AntiSpam toolbar for your exact needs, to save time and effort. There are basically only 3 different types of email, and each has a unique way to be correctly dealt with.…
AV Comparatives March 2012 used 300,000 known samples. Here testing relied mostly on definitions detection (DAT). When using known samples, “Brute Force” definition detection is very effective and nets you excellent ratings, with the average at 96% for the top 15 AV vendors. However, this type of testing does NOT mimic real world occurrences. Polymorphic…
Cloud Services is now a must In avast! 7.3, gone is the prompt asking to run in the sandbox. The addition of the Cloud Services adds a highly mature white listing / black listing database with tens of millions of files. This database is too large to be housed on the PC, and requires the…
1)If you have been using avast!, this is most likely NOT a virus infection, but a spyware infection! The best antivirus programs in the world stop approximately 95% of virus’, and 70% of spyware. We have been relying on Microsoft Windows Defender for years now, but that program has become worthless, and all it does…
edited 05-23-12 by J.R. Guthrie Antivirus software is the most invasive application we will ever install on our systems. Even when the products are properly removed by “Add/Remove Programs”, pieces of code are ALWAYS left behind, and these leftovers can and do conflict with the current antivirus products installed in your system. This situation…
The banking laws/regulations have changed and are continuing to change. Federal banking regulations provide broad protections to consumers (personal bank accounts are liable for only $50 from online fraud). But consumers who are unaware of their rights might end up unnecessarily footing the bill. Banks are no longer required to carry insurance on business/corporate bank…
Everybody hates to lose data. Many of the issues proven to cause hard disk corruption can be avoided, if you know what they are. I have writen articles on almost every aspect of this list. Most are avoidable, some are not and we are just taking chances, such as Solar flare activity. We are in…
Most posts for Outlook settings for MSN are wrong. So after trial and error, here is what works: In Outlook 2007, click on the Tools menu, and then click Account Settings. • Click the E-mail tab, and then click New. • Click to select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, and then click Next. •…
1) The Windows Registry is very fragile, like a raw egg. Every time you handle it, you risk breaking it. Handle it enough, and it will break. 2) Due to the sheer size and complexity of the Windows registry, manually cleaning up redundant and invalid entries would be practically impossible. Registry cleaners try to automate the process of searching…
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