Tech stuff

Saturday, July 25, 2009

AVG & iTunes

They must hate each other
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2092831&tstart=0

Bloody AVG reckons my iTunes has a virus. Very annoying. Almost had to reinstall iTunes at one stage, but figured out how to release files from the virus vault and iTunes worked okay after that. Had to rollback the bloody virus definitions. I point the finger at both :)

Monday, March 30, 2009

Internet Explorer v8... Just say no!

I was silly enough to download and install IE8.

I've tried running it for about a week. I can no longer put up with the slow internet experience. I don't know what they've done, but for me, in my experience, it has been really crap. I am going back to IE7, which was at least a decent improvement on IE6.

Where do you want to go today? I want to go back to IE7 and I like Windows XP thanks very much!!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Tormented...

So, the computer I am using previously had McAfee Antivirus installed on it.

You'd think it would be easy to uninstall, but nooooo.... Turns out it's as hard to get rid of as the malware/viruses/evil applications that it is supposed to protect you from...

Outlook kept bugging me about some error - something about mcafee. So of course they'd want you to stump up more money for something that sucks up a lot of your pc resources.

I got rid of the errors by going into outlook, under tools/options, then other tab, and clicked advanced options.



After getting in here, I had to go click on the Add-in Manager button to finally find the culprit.



Can I easily erase these 2 items from the list? No way, I'd probably have to try rebuilding the machine, and even then, I am sure somehow this malware would creep back in...

Not happy Jan!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

2 Tb HDD are here

It was just a matter of time before 2 TB HDD's were going to be released to the market.

Well, here they are
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/western-digitals-2tb-caviar-green-hdd-on-sale-in-australia/

It seems our friends at mwave have revised the price pretty fast - it's now showing $409.95

Compared to the original Engadget quoted price of $377.80 - that's $32.15 increase over just 3 days!