There's a new hack that's going around the internet. Some hackers are hacking Website Blogs and point them to a onlineantivirusproscan, which basically installs virus on your computer.

If you get redirected to a website that looks like its scanning your computer and finding virus, don't worry its not. There's no way a browser can run a scan without your permissions.

When it comes to virus protection, your best to stick with the well known companies. Don't trust anything that pretends to scan your system.

Have you heard of Conficker? Its the latest virus that's going around. I am working hard to remove it from a computer at home.

In fact, about 20 million computer have been infected with this virus. Most computer users will discover they have the virus when they are unable to visit some websites, such as microsoft.com and mcafee.com.

So, how do you remove the Virus? There's plenty of sites telling you all the things to manually remove the virus, but if you miss a step, the virus could come back. I would highly recommend getting a application to remove the tool. Thankfully Symantec has a tool and its FREE!

Step 1: Get the Symantec Tool

Using a different computer, goto Symantec's website and download the W32.Downadup - Removal tool. If all your computer are infected and you are unable to visit the site, you do have a couple of options! You can goto a FedEx Office and download the tool, or edit the host file in your infected computer.

Note: If you know anything about editing a host file you could always add an alias for symantec.com. For example: 216.12.145.20 www.example.com (Just don't forget to remove it when your done!)

If you do us another computer, You can transfer the application using a USB Drive, however I would recomend using a CD since the USB Flash Drive could be infected.

Step 2: Run the tool

Start up the computer in Safe Mode, this is done by holding down F8 on starup. Run the Symantec Application. Then Reboot the computer and re-run the application. Note this could take a couple of hours depending on how many files you have on your computer, so if your using a laptop make sure that it's plugged in.

To run the tool, simply double click on the downloaded application. Some variance of the Conficker may prevent you from running the application, simply rename the download file will fix this problem.

Step 3: Prevention

Once the virus has been removed, you should goto Window's Update and make sure that you have the latest security patches. Hint: If you have the latest updates you shouldn't infected.

Good Luck with removing the Conficker Virus, this is a really bad virus and maybe challenging. If you learn anything from this, you should back up your computer often and run a Virus scan or at least do a Windows Update frequently.

Yesterday was the last day that Microsoft would be supporting their Digital Image Suite products including Digital Image Suite Anniversary Edition, Digital Image Suite Plus (paired with Pinnacle’s Video Editing Software) and Digital Image Standard.

I don't think many people really cared for the Digital Image line anyway. I believe that Adobe suite of image products is much better.

Everyone know Microsoft, they are a company everyone loves to hate. They are successful and for many business their products are a necessary. Do you know the history of the company, might be fun to find out!

You can find important dates in Microsoft history, up to January 2000.

For the past couple of days I was having problems with seeing the chat window in Trillian. For some reason when I would open a chat window the window would not be accessable. I could see the window open in the dock, but I couldn't access it. I tried everything to get it working, I updated the software, restarted the computer and I still couldn't access the window.

I figured out the problem after a while and its related to having two monitors connected to my computer. For some reason the chat window was opening the window in the old monitor position, moved the location of the second monitor from being on the right of the primary monitor to being on the left. Trillian was opening the window on the right instead of the left.

The solution is to disconnect the second monitor, right click on the desktop, select properties, then Settings, then right click on the second monitor icon, and select Attached and click Apply and OK. Then I open up a chat window in Trillian and it opened in the Primary monitor. I then right clicked on the desktop, selected properties, then Settings, and again select the second monitor icon and then reapplied the Attached and click Ok. Now I'll be able to see the chat window.