Trouble:

We receive a majority of virus problems which are due to virus which spread through pen drives, cd’s and other portable devices like mp3 players, ipod etc.

Today, we have come up with a free tool called smart virus removal by Muhammad Abdullah. This small tool will let you remove a group of viruses from your system including the following list of viruses.

• Virus.Win32.Agent.aw.a
• Virus.Win32.AutoIt.a.a
• Virus.Win32.AutoRun.abt.a
• im.worm.win32.sohanad.bm.a
• im.worm.win32.sohanad.t.a
• Trojan.Win32.Agent.abt.aTrojan-Downloader.Win32.AutoIt.aa.a
• Trojan-Downloader.Win32.AutoIt.q.a
• Trojan-PSW.Win32.OnLineGames.mgw.com.a
• Trojan-PSW.Win32.OnLineGames.pno.a.com
• Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ajn.com

Let’s see how can you use smart virus remover tool to eliminate any on these mentioned viruses from your computer or pen drive.

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Trouble:

There are large number or viruses which spread by just visiting a web site while browsing Internet like “Antivirus 2008 Virus”, one such virus is cftmon.exe worm which may be dropped by some malware, or may be downloaded unknowingly by visiting malicious sites.

Cftmon.exe is can be misunderstood as Ctfmon.exe which is a windows process for alternate text services. The machine infected by the worm may pop up the following alert message, on windows reboot.

Let’s know more about the cftmon.exe worm activity, symptoms and method to fix it.

continue reading "How To Remove cftmon.exe Virus From Windows"

Trouble:

Microsoft Outlook has a feature to block the attachments that it considers unsafe. Although Outlook blocks the attachments but attachment still exist in the e-mail message.

Sometimes when there are important attachments which do not open, you might find yourself in trouble.

Recently we received a problem mail from one of our reader who says that:

whenever I try to open a attachment in outlook, gets a message “Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments”

Let’s see how can you alter the attachment security behavior in outlook to open the specified blocked attachment in mail.

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Trouble:

One of a reader reported us a simple problem on how to open compressed RAR file format when you don’t have WinRAR installed, or some times a user may not know what .rar file mean and which program to use to open .rar file.

This is quite common and simple trouble which can be easily dealt with two type of solutions.

Let’s see what are the two potential fixes to this problem.

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Trouble:

If you have deleted some useful windows executable file by mistake or by accident, don’t loose heart, because there is an easy way of getting it back.

One of our readers BalaSubramaniam wrote:

I have deleted my calc.exe file by mistake.Can you help me how to reinstall it?

Well, this is not only about calc.exe (Windows Calculator Application file), its about any kind of Windows in-built Application file and Help file.

There are three easy ways of recovering it:

1. Copying Application file from another windows computers.
2. Using Windows Component Installation Wizard.
3. Using Expand command on command prompt (The Geeky way!)

Read the fix below for detailed steps.

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