Do you have a spyware pop up on a web page? Listen and learn how the Tech Woes super IT pros eradicate the spyware pop up.
A spyware pop up
on a web page is usually just an animation on that web page. For example, you go to a particular web page and see something that looks like it is finding viruses on your computer. Next, it presents a link to “clean your computer.” Do not click the link! Instead, close your browser. Next, restart your computer. Hopefully, you just dodged a bullet.
Following is a transcript
of a person with a spyware pop up and a doofus tech support person. As is my policy, I have changed the names to protect the guilty. Any resemblance to real life situations is purely coincidental. Or is it? Perhaps, it is a little bit of both. I hope you enjoy my goofy attempt at geek humor. I welcome you to express your opinions and share your frustrating experiences in the comments below. If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to share it with others. Thank you for stopping by. Craig Herberg
Unhelpful tech support guy: Technical support. How may we humiliate you?
Unsuspecting tech woes victim: I’m on a web page that popped up a message that says I have spyware on my computer.
Unhelpful tech support guy: Does it say anything else?
Unsuspecting tech woes victim: Yes, it says click here to fix the problem.
Unhelpful tech support guy: Go ahead and click.
Unsuspecting tech woes victim: Are you sure that’s ok?
Unhelpful tech support guy: Look. I’m technical support. Are you questioning me?
Unsuspecting tech woes victim: Of course not. It’s just that someone else in the office did that and now his computer is covered with ads for porn sites.
Unhelpful tech support guy: And that’s supposed to be a problem? [Aside] These people surf porn all day long, and then complain about it. Golly gee!
e email I see every day is spam. Frequently, I spend at least an hour a day deleting this junk email. To be sure, spam detection methods have improved greatly in the last few years. Likewise, the spammers have greatly improved their evasion tactics, to bypass spam filters. In the meantime, spammers still make money. Until we succeed in making spamming economically unfeasible, spam will find its way to our inboxes. Do not encourage them. Don’t click their links or buy their products.
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e blue screen of death. In brief, it is the error screen you see after a Windows system crash. First of all, try restarting your computer, to see if the problem continues. Also, you can boot into safe mode and check the Windows logs, or research the BSOD error code. If it shows a boot disk error, you can schedule a check disk on next start. On the other hand, if you have a memory error, you could try removing and reseating your RAM. Or possibly, removing all peripherals will solve the problem. In fact, in many cases a system restore will fix the problem. Finally, make sure you know what you are doing. You do not want to lose your documents and photos!
For example, someone calls with a free offer. All you have to do is pay shipping and handling. Of course, what they really want is your credit card. Perhaps, “You’ve won a vacation.” Unfortunately, what you have really won is an opportunity to pay far more in hidden costs than the vacation is worth. So, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t. Here is a great resource of information on phone scams. 
high quality video to one person! So, if you are streaming video to 100 people, that comes to 500MBPS. Probably, you will have someone else host for you. Even so, you need to be certain they have ample bandwidth for your needs. Also, you will need a lot of storage. For example, you can figure about 12GB per hour of HD video. Furthermore, live streaming is even more complicated. As you can see, there are some issues for you to consider.
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