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ContraVirus cleanup

Posted: Saturday, June 9th, 2007 @ 8:25 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

Had a call from a client this week, describing a “Microsoft logo down by the clock with a virus alert.” It wasn’t, but that was the message. This is on a recent vintage Dell box, XP Home, fully-patched, with antivirus and antispyware packages from one of the major companies. A yellow warning flag announced that […]

Catch my disease?

Posted: Saturday, September 9th, 2006 @ 9:39 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

Following up on the Dell commercial for Bonzi Buddy, well, OK, it’s for a “custom” notebook that apparently is only available with “all” the stuff you could want… (here)
Well, it gets stranger. The background music is fun to listen to. It’s catchy. It’s the first verse and the chorus of a song called “Catch My […]

Dell TV spot for Bonzi Buddy–It’s “Purely You”

Posted: Sunday, August 6th, 2006 @ 2:58 pm in Field Reports | No Comments »

Dell is adverting Bonzi Buddy is available on their newest notebooks. Well, close enough.

What’s in YOUR PC?

Posted: Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 @ 10:06 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

This Dell Dimension has had a rough time. It’s been invaded, and although the hard drive was corrupted, I can’t prove a strict cause and effect relationship between the bad directory entries and lost clusters and the resident of the system.

When Dust Bunnies Attack

Evidence found of PC Gremlins… Film at 11

Our Crack Technical Team Inspects […]

WMF Patch Released Early

Posted: Saturday, January 7th, 2006 @ 9:48 am in Field Reports | No Comments »

On Thursday, Microsoft released the patch to remove the “SETABORTPROC” functionality from WMF image processing. The patch is on Windows update as # MS06-001, and should be installed on all systems running Windows 2000 and above. Anyone who previously installed the unofficial patch should first install the Microsoft patch, and then uninstall the unofficial patch. […]