Asus Laptop Repair Dallas

PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Computer Repair has recently accepted an Asus laptop for diagnostics and repair for a reported, potential virus removal in Dallas. The Asus notebook would boot into the blue screen of death in Windows boot and in safe-mode. The drive was then pulled and slaved to another computer system which reported the drive with absolutely no data available and a message from Windows when the drive was clicked that the "drive needs to be formatted".

PC Virus Doctors was aware that the Asus hard drive had data the customer needed so no further action was taken on the slaved drive. A data analysis in the Dallas Data Recovery room revealed no available data. Diagnostics was then performed on the Asus laptop that immediately started reporting bad sectors on the hard drive and the diagnostics ended with an abundance of bad sectors on the drive. Further diagnostics were performed that indicated the processor was OK and the motherboard was OK but further analysis indicated the RAM/memory was bad on the Asus.

The final analysis is that at times malware or trojans/viruses may be the issue but hardware problems may be the culprit until full diagnostics are performed. Users needing Asus laptop repairs in Dallas should call PC Virus Doctors for full diagnostics and repairs.

USB Antivirus

PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Computer Repair is now offering a USB Antivirus on a flash drive. The device comes installed with ClamWin and is updated to current protection with the latest virus protection. PC Virus Doctors does not sell software but the service for preparing ClamWin with installation to the USB flash drive, updating the virus signatures, packaging the unit for shipping, the cost of preparing instructions for optimizing the USB drive for optimum use, at trip to the post office and the cost of shipping.

The USB Antivirus flash drive comes with full instructions and direct download links in order to get the optimum performance from several available standalone scanners. There are instructions for installing three more standalone antimalware programs to the device, a full list of standalone rootkit removers, office tools and browsers that can be added as needed by the user.

Computer users unable to use PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Virus Removal can now access and boot their computer through the USB Antivirus to confidently remove malware, clean the computer and get it going back to optimum performance.

Dallas Computer Repair- RAM Upgrade

PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Computer Repair often updates computer memory, RAM, for customers who are upgrading their gaming computer or for users who use heavy graphics. Laptops and desktops can both benefit with increased RAM as it will make computing much easier.

Even older models of desktops and laptops with 1Gb of RAM will show much better performance with an additional 1Gb of memory that will make simple web surfing much smoother with all the ads that news websites and other websites put up on their pages that may take forever to load. Other tasks such as defragmenting hard drives, using graphic applications, web editors and other programs will be much faster and will not hang up. PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Virus Removal can scan hard drives for malware much faster with increasing RAM which has decreased time to clean malware.

Call PC Virus Doctors for assistance in choosing your RAM, computer memory, upgrade for your desktop or laptop. PCVD can help pick out your RAM and it can be ordered for the cheapest prices on the internet with delivery time in usually three to four days and installation of the computer memory as soon as it arrives.

Anonymous Gets NATO Attention

A hacker group has been identified by NATO as serious of enough threat to go to war it seams. A report by the NATO Information and Security sector seem to be upset with certain hacker groups. New reports say that an infamous hacker group is now the target of NATO. The hack group has been involved with adversary groups since at least 2007 or 2008. The group members or supporter wear similar, uniformed, joker-style masks over their faces concealing their identity. NATO is very serious about this hacker group and it appears is desperate to take it down.

Anonymous, evidently will not or cannot take a head count or number of servers account, right?

Laptop Repair Dallas- Hard Drive Repairs

Hard drive failure is common in older PCs and laptops which was evident recently with an HP hv6000 laptop. These type drives are an affordable repair, actually replacement, that generally greatly improves performance with a new drive versus a failing drive. PCVD can easily replace drives and copy the old information from the original drive for a reasonable price.

Data can also be copied to a customers external drive then a new operating system can be installed with the latest antivirus programs and malware scanners then updated with the latest security signatures. The data copied to the external drive will assist the new drive with more available drive space and less files to handle which has the potential for significant performance.

Solid-state drives are quickly emerging with more reasonably data storage on laptop drives that currently may be found for around $120 for a 64Gb drive. The life on these drives are definitely longer but of course need to be taken care of physically, meaning limited blunt-force, keeping the unit dry, etc. Also, the new solid-state drives would still be subject to malware.

Dallas Data Recovery

PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Data Recovery is pleased to announce a new addition to the powerful tools to provide data recovery. PC Virus Doctors understands how disheartening it can be to lose family photos, documents and other important items that may have taken hours, days, months or years to create; that is why we provide reasonably priced data recovery.

Often times data becomes corrupted for several reasons:

• power failure
• corrupt sectors on hard drives
• malware
• hard drive failure
• files not saving properly
• CD or DVD's getting scratched
• flash drive corruption

The worst case scenarios of data recovery will have to be sent to our partner's cleanroom that is the top-rated cleanroom in the world.

Data loss may be recovered by calling PC Virus Doctors' Data Recovery @ 214-723-4335.

Computer Repair- Spawning Cookies

PC Virus Doctors have been aware of the privacy issues concerning many of the cookies that have proliferated the internet for years. The latest cookies of concern are the Flash cookies that are used by Adobe Flash Player. Privacy advocates have been particularly concerned with Flash cookies because of their difficulty in removal and because some Flash cookies are "Spawning Cookies" that will restart webpages once Flash Player has been closed.

The Spawning Cookies will reload even after deletion, according to a news article by Telecompaper. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Netherlands strongly rebuked such tactics and urges that Spawning Cookies not be used by companies. IAB went further, "and said re-spawning was illegal under existing EU and national data protection rules."

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 has just been released that integrates into web browsers that allows for easy Flash cookie deletion that the FTC has urged and pointed out Adobe to address the privacy concerns/issues. The new Flash player works cross platform on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android OS's.

A simple computer repair is to use the powerful Flash cookie deletion tool, Click&Clean, that can be integrated with CCleaner. Below is the following link to get you started in Flash privacy:

Tech News

PC Virus Doctors' Computer Repair has opened up a new subdomain called "Tech News" that will deliver news on a regular ongoing basis. The topics will be the latest-breaking technological news that will prove to be exciting reading, along with full explaination of topics and more links to additional news sources relating to the topic-at-hand.

Guest bloggers will have access and will report on their own without any guidance or suggestions from PC Virus Doctors giving them free-reign on any technological topic they would like to explore. The news will be useful allowing for comments and discussions that is "family oriented" without any strong language or harsh cross comments between readers.

2011 is bringing lots of changes that need to be reported and explored. The explanations will be down-to-earth and easy ready without readers feeling they have no idea what they have just read. The goal of the latest hi-tech news is to educate readers and allow them to understand the implications and impact the new break-throughs will have upon individuals and communities worldwide.

Please bookmark Tech News for the newest, most comprehensive technical knowledge.

Sony PlayStation Networked Attack Linked to Amazon EC2

PC Virus Doctors' Computer Repair in Dallas has learned that the Amazon EC2, Elastic Computing Cloud, was suspicioned to be involved in the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) creating the second largest security breach in U.S. history. The breach affected more than 100 million customers second to Heartland Payment Systems breach in 2009.

The Amazon servers were not hacked but actually purchased for pennies an hour that allowed a hacker access to Amazon servers to then attack the PSN; the attacker's Amazon account has since been suspended. Sony just restarted their PlayStation network yesterday, May 14 after it was shut down on April 20th. Amazon is not responding to any requests about the allegations that their servers were involved in the attack and neither is the FBI responding to any information about the incident(s), according to the Bloomberg article.

Cloud servers are an ideal vehicle as they can facilitate such hacking activities while the cloud servers have difficulty detecting the good guys and the bad guys. Sony reports that the attack was professional and very sophisticated while 31% of cyber attacks occur in the United States up from 24% last year and 85% of U.S. businesses have been attacked according to Ponemon Institute.

Computer Repair- Rogue Vista Home Security 2011

PC Virus Doctors' Computer Repair has ventured across another rogue Microsoft program titled, "Vista Home Security 2011" that once again is difficult to remove. The fake program masquerades as a legitimate Microsoft product but infected users will quickly understand that the program is not legitimate by the way it behaves. The program disallows startup of previously installed legitimate malware removers making the virus removal challenging.

Viruses and other malware continue to be an ongoing threat in the internet community and is not letting off with new malware packages being distributed regularly. Even with the most advanced firewalls malware can sneak by especially with "zero-day" exploits that is malware released without any previous knowledge of its workings by anti-malware vendors as it is a "new release".

Users experiencing this fake Microsoft program may contact PC Virus Doctors @ (214) 723-4335 for immediate assistance.