Dear Techie,
I work from home and as a result end up with a lot of things on my hard drive that I want to securely delete. I know that when I “delete” something it goes to my Recycle Bin. How do I make sure that when I get rid of something it cannot be brought back?
Thanks,
D. Liet
Dear Techie
I have an older computer that keeps saying my disk space is low. I haven’t installed anything on my computer that takes up space. What should I do?Thanks,
Spaced Out
Hi Techie,
My computer started doing some strange things in the past few days and I think I have a virus. I was online and an error message came up saying I had a virus infection, so I clicked the button and it started to scan my computer. It says I have over 9000 viruses on my computer. How did this happen? I have an antivirus program, isn’t that supposed to stop the viruses? The program that detected the viruses isn’t even my normal anti-virus, I don’t know how it got there, but at least it was able to detect those viruses. It wants me to enter a credit card number to pay for a full version of the software. Only then will it remove all the viruses. What should I do?
Panicked and Infected
Panicked,
Dear Techie,
I switched over from using Internet Explorer about a few years ago to Mozilla Firefox hearing that Firefox has less pop-ups. As time went on, I started to notice that pop-ups were still happening, and they have gotten worse. How can I stop this from happening?
Dear Techie,
The last time I updated Firefox (to the newest version, 8.0), it took out my list of bookmarks, and the top bar.. ie; (File, Edit, View, Tools, Help),
All that was left after this was this the Bing toolbar and Ask.com bar which I do not remember installing.
Ask.com was also installed on Internet Explorer. I didn’t want either Bing or Ask.com in either browser but they appeared one day. What can I do?
Thanks.