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	<title>Computer Wizard Indianapolis, LLC &#187; Important</title>
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		<title>Online Backup: What&#8217;s really getting backed up?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/online-backup-whats-really-getting-backed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online backup is a great invention. It can save you a lot of grief in case of a hard drive crash, stolen laptop, etc. However there are some drawbacks and limitation that I think it&#8217;s important to know about so that you don&#8217;t get a bad surprise.

Speed
First thing to know about online backups is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Type of Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks I got some questions about strange phone calls people received. It turned out that it&#8217;s a new type of scam that just getting started.
Here&#8217;s how the scam seems to work:
- Mr. X gets called by someone with very heavy accent (people told me that they usually had to ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sure that the System Restore Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
First of all, let me tell in nutshell what System Restore is (I&#8217;ll just abbreviate is as SR from now on).
It&#8217;s a function that all Windows versions have starting from Windows XP (XP, Vista, Windows 7), and what it does is it makes &#8220;snapshots&#8221; of the state of the operating system. In Vista, and Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting an Email Scam #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I did an analysis on an email scam that came my way.  Today I got one forwarded to me.
I printed this out and annotated to show the little red flags that  were the indications that it was a scam, not a legitimate email.
This particular scam was masquerading as a note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Programs Are Vital to Be Kept Updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent waves of fake antivirus infections we dug deeper and found out what are the common loopholes that the malicious software peddlers utilize. I&#8217;ve included some of this information in other articles but though that it&#8217;d be worthwhile to summarize what are the important things to keep updated on your computer.
By far the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Switching From Internet Explorer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been advocating people switch from Internet Explorer to more secure browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome.
There are some questions that came up in regards to this which I&#8217;d like to address.
The most common misconception people has is that whenever another browser is installed they will not be able to use Internet Explorer anymore.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email Hackings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past month or two I&#8217;ve seen an increase in email hackings. Two groups seems to be mainly effected:
- Those who use Yahoo email services (emails ending in @yahoo.com, @sbcglobal.net, @att.net, etc)
- Those who use MSN email services (emails ending in @msn.com, @hotmail.com).
Evidently somebody figured out a way to crack passwords to these accounts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do Fake Antiviruses Spread?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen quite a bit of the fake antiviruses in the last month of so.
Fake AV was a relatively unusual occurrence until lately.  Then it took off like a rocket. The most likely reason is that it&#8217;s a very profitable scam. And because of that, unfortunately, it&#8217;s highly likely that it&#8217;s going to continue.
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP DV9000 &#8211; A Possible Lemon?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/hp-dv9000-a-possible-lemon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I had the 4th HP DV9000 laptop in my shop with a hardware failure. This is within about 2 months!
So far this is the highest incidence of hardware failure in a single computer model that I&#8217;ve seen.
Here&#8217;s how this laptop looks:

Sleek looking. And it works nice until it crashes (usually some time after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updates: What To Do With Them?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/updates-what-to-do-with-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are common questions that people have:
- What to do with these update notifications I&#8217;m getting?
- Should I install them, or ignore them?
- Will it mess up my computer?
While I can&#8217;t give you an all inclusive answer to this but I can give you some guidelines.
First of all what are software updates (or sometimes called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing Fake Antivirus Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/recognizing-fake-antivirus-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the &#8220;luck&#8221; of running into a cleverly crafted website which could have easily infected my computer if I hadn&#8217;t been knowledgeable enough to know what to do. I took screen shots of this event because I believe this provides data to analyze the methods of these malicious attacks and how to equip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Really Need Office 2007?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people, including myself, find Office 2007 not to their liking. I especially dislike the user interface changes they made with Word 2007. However, for some time Office 2007 is the only thing that you can get in the stores, or online. And on top of these, Office 2007 has come with a whole new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out! Internet Explorer 8 Is Now Part Of Windows&#8217; Automatic Updates!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/watch-out-internet-explorer-8-is-now-part-of-windows-automatic-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (April 29, 2009) I have noticed during running the updates on two Windows XP machines that the automatic updates tried to download and install Internet Explorer 8. I&#8217;ve opted out on both computers.
Why?
The reason I don&#8217;t recommend installing Internet Explorer 8 just yet is because it has just grown out out the beta version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning on Buying a New Printer? Read this!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two very recent cases and dozens of previous ones clearly indicated to me that it&#8217;s a very wise thing to avoid HP (Hewlett-Packard) printers?
Why?
HP printers are usually mechanically good and produce good quality prints &#8211; hardware-wise I have no objection to them, BUT the software that comes with them is just horrible.
For one thing, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your New AT&amp;T Internet Security Suite&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/your-new-att-internet-security-suite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing about these emails that AT&#38;T sends out to all DSL customers and a couple of days ago I got it myself. I&#8217;d like to dissect it and answer the questions about it I got recently.
Mine looked like this:

First of all, it has a misleading verbage: &#8220;In order to protect your computer you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Rogue Malware Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the scammer got really desperate in this economically stressful times. So far I&#8217;ve heard and seen malicious software sites being advertised in spam emails and paid-per-click ads on search engines and other website. But I&#8217;ve never thought a scam operation like this gets the publicity of TV. This is the story of &#8220;finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antivirus 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antivirus 2009 is a new menace, a rouge antivirus that tries to extort money from the users of the computers it infects. Recently I had two computer in the shop with this within 24 hours. There are some important things to know if Antivirus 2009 shows up on your computer:
First of all, you, or your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting An Email Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got a sample of a UPS scam email. I instantly recognized it, having multiple glaring signs of a faked email. However it might be not that easy for a layman to see these sign. So I wrote up this article to show, in detail, what signs you can look for.This email was ideal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay away from CyberDefender!!</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/stay-away-from-cyberdefender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CyberDefender is a controversial antivirus/antispyware software. It has been heavily advertised lately. To my astonishment, I found their paid advertisements on two of the download websites that I&#8217;ve trusted. A client who inadvertently clicked on their ad brought my attention to this software.
Here are some facts about CyberDefender.

Once CyberDefender (CD) is downloaded and installed it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do when AVG doesn&#8217;t update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes your AVG software stops updating itself. From my experience it happens in two instances:
- when a major program update happens &#8211; these updates doesn&#8217;t happen automatically. Example: switching from version 7.5 to 8.0
- when a minor program update fails to install correctly.
Both can be fixed by following these steps:


Download and save the newest installer [...]]]></description>
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