That Computer Show

Sometimes popular antivirus programs like McAfee and Norton Antivirus are damaged from viruses that sneak through, bad installs, botched software upgrades, or just too many antivirus apps on one machine. In those cases it’s best to remove them from the affected systems.  Norton and McAfee both provide tools to perform a manual removal.  I would even run these tools after I used the standard uninstallers.  Before we can run these tools, We have to get them from the Internet first.

• Norton (http://www.symantec.com/index.jsp) Search for “Norton Removal Tool” on thier site.  For Norton, follow the first two steps if you plan on upgrading or reinstalling their products.
• McAfee (https://us.mcafee.com/root/ProductUpdate.asp?cid=35172) McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool is listed under solution 2.  Not the easiest to find on thier site. 
• Major Geeks (http://www.majorgeeks.com/).  You can find both tools listed there.

Now with the tools in hand, let’s run them.  It’s pretty straight foward, just follow the steps on the screen.  Once they are completed I would reboot the computer to make sure the uninstall is complete.  The computer is now ready for the installation or reinstallation of the antivirus software of your choice.  My personal recommendation would be found at http://www.grisoft.com/. We use AVG at That Computer Store daily, and also offer it for sale on our custom built computers. The retail version is great, and they also have a free version for personal, non-business use.

I hope that helps aleviate some of your virus woes!
Ben

For serval years, I grown my hair out.  It was up to twenty inches long from the back of the neck.  As you can guess from the title a cut was due.  Today I cut my hair for the Locks of Love foundation.  They need hair for a good cause.  They need hair aleast ten inches long.  http://www.locksoflove.org/donate.html  Check them out.  Im sure they could use some help.

 Ben

Nothing like revisiting older games and killing pixels.  Just recently id software released classics on Steam.  Its taken some time to install on the cafe .  I still have a little work to finish the setup.  Within the next couple of days you too can revisit the past there in the store.  The following is a list that was added to the cafe games:  Final Doom, Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, Quake 2, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen 2 and mission packs for many of the games.  Unsure about the titles I speak of check out id software site, www.idsoftware.com.  Let the old school fragging begin.