In a perfect world, computers would always work the first time, every time. There wouldn't be bugs, viruses, crashes, hardware failure, or evil hackers out on the internet. But we don't live in a perfect world. In the world in which we live, we see all of these things on a daily basis.

One of the things that we've come to accept in our field is the monthly set of patches from Microsoft. That's right... Microsoft unveils new patches for us on the second Tuesday of each month. This is normally nothing to get excited about as it's a monthly occurrence. All of our maintenance customers have this covered for their servers. We log in during off-hours, install patches, reboot (if necessary) and move on to the next server. For those customers with special timing needs, we work with you for a convenient time to get this all taken care of.

It's been a very busy past few weeks in the Core3 computer repair and helpdesk center.  To say we have been inundated with virus removals may be an understatement.  This is all thanks to some sneaky new tricks the "Bad Guys" are using out on the internet.

This new virus is coming through looking like a legitimate antivirus product, XP AntiVirus 2008, XP AntiVirus 2009, XP AntiSpyware, Virus Heat, Vista Antivirus, Spyware Antivirus, or Super AntiSpyware.  It looks legitimate, has Microsoft logos all over it, and even tells you that you have hundreds or thousands of infected files, but once you become infected with these products they behave like most spyware/viruses out there. Not surprisingly, they download more and more garbage to your computer. This makes it slower, less stable, and can eventually cause data corruption.