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Showing posts with label anti-virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-virus. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Stupid Laptop!


So, my computer is broken.  I mean, it crashed or something.  I don’t know what happened.    It’s a Toshiba Satellite L305 and we’ve only had it about three years.  I figured I might get just a bit more use out of it than this.  I still have 84gbs of space to use!   Crap.   I am very sad.  It “lost” several of my more recently added or updated programs and  wouldn’t allow me to turn on my Anti-virus (Norton).  So I downloaded another anti-virus to protect it while it was being a butt hole.

 I finally got Norton on.  Ran scans with Windows Defender, Norton, AVG, and Malwarebytes and no viruses or any problems were found.   I ran some diagnostics, did some trouble-shooting.  Nothing.   7 hours later, yes, I said seven, --the Norton scan alone took 4 hours--,  It seems there is nothing wrong with the laptop.  The computer wasn’t giving me trouble anymore so it seemed like it might work alright.  I used it, no problems, then shut down, as usual.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Software Downloads, Free?

Yes, I said Free!  There was a time that your basic software cost an arm and two legs to download.  Most of us know of a piece of software or a program we wanted to try out but didn't have the money to spend on something that we may not even use.  But, no more.  You see, there are a lot of people on the web who are just as broke as the rest of us, but have the skills to create open source versions  or replacements or freeware of those very costly programs that we love and want, but can't afford.  

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