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	<title>Computer Wizard Indianapolis, LLC</title>
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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>Dealing With Fake Antivirus Messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a few articles on this subject but in this one I&#8217;d like to summarize the information I have on how these operate and what you can do.
The Anatomy Of The Scam
The fake (or rogue) antivirus scam is a relatively new phenomena and it picked up tremendously in the last year or so. Apparently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Buying Tips For The 2009 Holiday Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is December, and we are in the height of the holiday season. It seems like the with Windows 7 coming out and having good review more people have thought about replacing their old and ailing computers.
I&#8217;ve been asked many times over the year: How long a computer is supposed to last?
Well, it&#8217;s, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless Troubleshooting 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had a few people asked me some help on troubleshooting their wireless networks. So I thought I write up the main points of troubleshooting a wireless network that I gleaned together over the years.

One of the most important things to understand is the layered nature of computer networks (in fact this principle applies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>File Sharing Over The Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/file-sharing-over-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have run into a situation where you were on the road and would have needed to access a file that was on your home, or office machine. There are some very complicated and involved solutions to this problem but there are simple ones. I like simplicity so I&#8217;ll show you one that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>32bit or 64bit?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/32bit-or-64bit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With newer computers coming out, one runs into the 64bit machines. But there is some confusion on what it is and whether it&#8217;s good, or not.
First of all, what is 32bit and 64bit refers to?
These numbers indicate the width of the address that the computer can access the internal memory (RAM). 32 Bit means 232 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Generation Email</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/next-generation-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago I got an email with a subject &#8220;How would the email look like if it was invented today?&#8221;. This caught my attention because I have been thinking that a reform in the world of email is long, long overdue. Now, Google tries to answer this question and they came up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Rid Of Unwanted Software With System Restore in Vista or Windows 7</title>
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		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/getting-rid-of-unwanted-software-with-system-restore-in-vista-or-windows-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently pieced together some information that could be very helpful for Vista or Windows 7 users. The method I figured out can eliminate the really hard-to-remove infections, fake antiviruses and the like.  It does not work 100% of the time but this is something that doesn&#8217;t require a vast technical knowledge to do and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVG 9.0 is Out</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/avg-9-0-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I got a notification about that AVG now moved up to version 9.0. The last version was 8.5.420.
When there&#8217;s a major version change the usual way of events is this:
- For a few months the older version will have virus updates but there will be no more program updates for the previous version.
- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tool to Predict Hard Drive Failures</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/a-tool-to-predict-hard-drive-failures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just recently run into a smart little program that I had also chance to test on several good and several failed hard drives.
It&#8217;s called Crystal Disk Info.  It&#8217;s also a free software. You can download it from: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/CrystalDiskInfo.shtml
The software extracts and analyzes the data collected by the sensors and hardware of the hard drive. [...]]]></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>Better Hard Drives?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/better-hard-drives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard drive is one of the top two components in a computer that tends to fail before anything else. The other one is the power supply.
While a power supply fix is fairly easy and inexpensive, a hard drive issue is a lot more complicated. First problem is that it holds all your data! People understandably [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.computerwizardindy.com/?p=653</guid>
		<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>Windows 7 &#8211; what to expect</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/windows-7-what-to-expect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 is to be release to the retailer in 1 month. As usual there are a lot of speculations on it. I was curious so I tried it first hand. I&#8217;d like to share with you what I found.
The one thing got me interested in Windows 7 is that it runs faster than Vista. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downloading and Saving Youtube and Other Streaming Videos</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/downloading-and-saving-youtube-and-other-streaming-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/downloading-and-saving-youtube-and-other-streaming-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Youtube and other video hosting sites are excellent sources of entertainment and study. Sometimes you might want to save one or more of the videos that you encounter.
For some reason, these video sites does just give you a button to download the videos.  But fortunately there are numerous solutions and little software applications that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can I Keep My Computer Running Fast?</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/how-can-i-keep-my-computer-running-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/how-can-i-keep-my-computer-running-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New computers usually run quick and snappy but as one uses the computer it tends to slow down more and more.  In this article I&#8217;m making an attempt to explain why this is and what you can do to keep your computer running quick and snappy.

First of all, what are the reasons a computer gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading &#8211; Rebuilding Computers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve had a lot of success with doing upgrades on old computers.
It turns out that it has several advantages over getting a new computer:

It&#8217;s cheaper because not everything needs to be replaced when upgrading a computer. The usual parts that should be replaced are: motherboard, CPU, RAM and Hard Drive.
You won&#8217;t have to deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defragmentation &#8211; What it does and what it doesn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/defragmentation-what-it-does-and-what-it-doesnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this article is to shed some light and understanding to the process of defragmentation.
In order to understand what defragmentation is I&#8217;d need to explain a bit about how files are stored on a hard drive (or other media).
Hard drives themselves are divided into sectors, which are quite small. In order to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems and Solutions: SBC/ATT Yahoo Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/problems-and-solutions-sbcatt-yahoo-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerwizardindy.com/problems-and-solutions-sbcatt-yahoo-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few people are still using the browser that came with their DSL installation kit. It was used to be called SBC and then AT&#38;T Yahoo Browser.
Here are the icons for the SBC and AT&#38;T versions of this software:
 
I&#8217;ve been frequently getting a complaint in the last year or so that users are [...]]]></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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