High Aspirations, Inc. has used SUPERAntiSpyware for a couple of years now and have recommended it to many of our clients, family, and friends.

Since Marilyn and I both use this software and like it, when we learn of a sale, we like to pass it on. The folks at SUPERAntiSpyware are running a sale right now where you can get…

10% off all multi-user licenses.

Prices start as low as $115.00 for a 5-user lifetime license and $240.00 for a 10-user lifetime license. Take an additional 10% off those prices now through March 1, 2010. We can quote any number of users, just ask!

Additional discounts for educational, government, and non-profit clients may also apply.

Since this is a private sale, you’ll need to order through High Aspirations, Inc.. We’ll then send you the license code you need!

Sale ends March 1, 2010!

We’ve gotten permission from SUPERAntiSpyware to offer a private sale to our clients, friends, and business associates. You won’t find this price on SUPERAntiSpyware.com!

For just $19.95 you can get a SUPERAntiSpyware Professional LIFETIME Edition license. The lifetime edition gives you free program and definition updates for the life of the product! This license normally costs $39.90 – you’d be getting it for half price!

Since this is a private sale that we’ve arranged with SUPERAntiSpyware just for friends of High Aspirations, Inc., you’ll need to use the PayPal link below to order. We’ll then send you the license code you need!

Order link removed – Sale is over!

We’ve used SUPERAntiSpyware for a couple of years now and have recommended it to many of our clients. We’ve installed in on our own and family member’s machines. I think that tells you what we think of this software!

Private Sale ends Monday, November 16, 2009!

Internet ScamBusters is one of Marilyn’s favorite newsletters and so one day an email arrives with a note from her that something about the IRS scams would make a good post on Tech Talk and whichever one of us gets to it first should have a go. And, so here I am…

Right around the time you pack away your last holiday decoration, you realize that it’s tax time, whether you like it or not. The scammers realize it too and are already hard at work trying to relieve you of some of your hard earned money or your identity or both! There’s the audit scam, the one aimed at seniors and their social security money, the ‘we owe you money’, the ‘you owe us money’, and more.

The usual scam rules apply: don’t trust any email that says it’s from the IRS, don’t click on any link in any of the emails, and verify that it’s a scam or not immediately. Remember that the IRS will never, ever contact you via email so no matter how legitimate that email or link to that “IRS” site looks do yourself a favor and go to the real IRS site and if you want to take the time call them directly.

The wonderful people at Internet Scambusters have been kind enough to put together an entire page on the latest IRS scams and how to avoid them. You can find that page by visiting http://www.scambusters.org/irsscams.html.

Recently I was asked by one of our clients to help them with their PC problems. Apparently, they had become infected by some kind of spyware and just didn’t know what to do. Although it’s not something I do on a regular basis, they are a very good long-time client so I told them I would take a look at the PC and see what I could do for them.

I found that there were some things that should not be. I ran a full anti-virus scan, removed anything that I could not identify as being legitimate and by the time I was done, I felt like the machine was pretty clean. I knew I still needed to run an anti-spyware, but since I needed to actually download and install that, I didn’t want to connect to the internet until I felt at least somewhat safe. Now as much as I hate to admit this, I actually don’t use anti-spyware on a regular basis. I usually tell people they should, but I just never did it for myself so I needed to do some research.

What I finally came across was a product which I felt would do the job. This product is SuperAntiSpyware. I installed, scanned, and found that many of the items I was under the impression that I had manually removed correctly were actually still there. I was extremely impressed with the results, so much so, that I’ve since installed it on my father’s PC. So far I have yet to get a call saying that something happened to his home page or that his anti-virus is telling him he needs to buy it to remove all the threats on his PC. He is definitely my test subject. If I can keep him spyware, malware & virus free, then I have finally won the war!

Since AVG Anti-Virus is HAI’s anti-virus software of choice and the one we always recommend to clients and friends, I figured I should let you know about a problem I ran into…

When my daily virus scan finished on Friday, I had an infection warning that c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash\flashutil10a.exe was infected with Trojan horse PSW.Generic6.AQPD and had been moved to the virus vault. Since I had spent some time on Friday researching layouts for a new site, I figured some site I visited had a stupid flash ad or something and that did me in. On Saturday, I received a resident shield warning for the same trojan horse in a system restore file. I clicked heal and began searching.

I updated Spybot Search & Destroy and ran it, nothing. I remembered that AVG was unable to connect to the update server on Friday, so I made sure to update that. Then I searched Google. I found out that it’s a false positive with AVG and it should be fixed after updating the software again. So, I restored the “viruses” from the virus vault and ran a complete scan.

No viruses found!