In the notifications taskbar (bottom right), I keep getting a popup headed
"System Alert!" with the yellow triangle. The message says:
"System has detected a number of active spyware applications that may impact
the performance of your computer. Click the icon to get rid of ...

As I pointed out in the subject, my motherboard (or processor) died. I put
my HDD in an external enclosure, however, since my data was in marked as a
private folder, now I cannot access these files.
Does anyone have an idea on how to get to my files?

I have a problem with the bubble being displayed-
"windows secutiry alert - Your computer might be at risk, click here to
install anti-virus software"
It is displaying every 2 minutes - I am not exaggerating.

Hello! Friends
I encounter this problem today. When I boot my PC, I keep on receiving this
security warning from my anti-virus software:  Malware Win32 Trojan_gen
exists in the following path:

Security updates seem to download but when finished downloading (0) files are
indicated and non installed. The same is true at shut down. This problem is
going on for 2 month now.
Anyone has an answer?

I went to Critical Updates page and did not see any Critical Updates as yet.
I was told they would be issued Wednesday, Oct. 3rd. Or was that the wrong
information?
I also noticed that IE7 was no longer listed as a Critical Update.

I am currently working on creating a workgroup XP professional
workstation build for my employer and I am currently trying to lock
down access to folders for users in the 'Users' group. I have looked
at both the Local Security Policy and the Security Templates but I

When I start the windows security center, under the security essentials there
will be a message that says 'The Security Center is currently unavailable
because the "Security Center" service has not started or was stopped. Please
close this window, restart the computer (or start ...

I happen to have a client that decided to go after the lost password for his
XP home box and tried reinstalling the OS. And.... Well there is the issue.
He called Dell and they moved some files around in the revovery console. Now
(and I do not know how) they managed to get this ...

I have a Duracom PC with an ASUS Motherboard, I have installed 4GB of RAM. It
came with a 40GB hard Drive and I added a Western Digital 250GB hard Drive
and made it my Master and the the C: drive my slave. I purchased WinTasks Pro
and received System Tweaker as a bonus. While ...

Had to reload XP Professional (long story).   Reloaded XP Professional but
now when I try to go out and get updates, I get error: 0x8007043b.  When I
did a search for resolution, I didn't see that error listed.  Any help will
be greatly appreciated!  Thx, Ellen

Hi, im stuck my windows security alert is telling me that my antivirus is out
of date,so i was wondering if anyone could tell me how i can up date my pc
guard antivirus,thanks bye 4 now take care

I'm looking a way to restrict USB and CD/DVD-ROM devices in my environment.
We are using Windows XP workstations and Windows 2000/2003 domain
controllers. I found an article for doing this through group policy for Vista
and Server

I have just obtained a new pc with windows xp home as op system. The pc is
shared by 2 users and although my user account is password protected the pc
opens directly into my account when booted. I have attempted to get the user
selection screen to load but this only happens if I ...

I have XP Home Edition fully updated.  I want to give my computer to "Al",  
I'm named "Tom".  I was the sole administrative user.  I naively thought I
could just rename my account to Al but then found out I needed to copy my
profile over.  So I renamed my account back to Tom and ...