For the last six years, my primary computer has been a notebook computer. First, I used a Dell Inspiron 5000, with a 1400×1050 resolution. Now, I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a widescreen 1680×1050 resolution. I love the LCD screen and the extra “real estate” on the screen. My desktop computer is a home-brew and uses a 19″ Dell monitor that I picked up from Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council, who sells all their stuff on eBay.

Now, my wife has a new monitor, too. Her old Iiyama 19″ CRT with built-in speakers started having problems. The slight green shading in one corner wasn”t too bad. But, when it decided that it didn”t want to turn on — that was bad. We also learned from the Iiyama CRT that built-in speakers may be ok, but they also may be noisy pieces of junk.

The beautiful new monitor is a Viewsonic VA902B.

I bought her ViewSonic VA902B 19″ LCD Monitor at Buy.com. It has 1024×768 resolution, 550:1 contrast and 270 “nits” brightness. It handles standard 15-pin video connectors.

Amazon.com has it also and has a special rebate — ending today (March 31) — of $50 (Wish I had seen that!). ViewSonic VA902B 19″ LCD Monitor (Black) (Electronics) Manufacturer:View Sonic

Sunbelt Software bought the Kerio Personal Firewal from Kerio in December.

They”ve now tweaked and released version 4 as the Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall.

Even better, they reduced the price from $40 to $19.95 for purchase. Purchase includes a non-expiring license for Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall and includes one year of their update subscription. Update subscription renewals will be $9.95, according to Sunbelt”s site.

Read my review

What”s better than a 50% price reduction on a highly-rated software firewall?

Sunbelt is also offering a 25% OFF Introductory Special, too!

Time”s running out, though. The $14.95 Introductory Price expires tomorrow, Friday, March 31, 2006!

Buy it now to get the $14.95 price!

I”m getting a lot of visitors to my review of XP Repair Pro 2006.

It”s amazing how many people are looking to solve Windows problems, many of which are Windows Registry issues.

XP Repair Pro 2006 is the latest issue of XP Repair Pro, and it comes with a license to use XP Repair Pro 2.5 also — which works on Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Even better, for personal and non-profit use, one license covers all your computers. That”s right, you don”t have to buy a separate license for every one of your home computers. What a nice change…

Read my XP Repair Pro 2006 review — or go ahead and download it or buy it!

XP Repair Pro will scan your computer for free — and show you what it finds — but requires a license in order to do the repairs. If you like it, please click here to purchase XP Repair Pro 2006 and 2.5 using my affiliate link!

What’s Running on My Computer?

Posted March 29, 2006 Comments(0)

A good thing came out of Mark Russinovich”s discovery of the Sony BMG music CD rootkits. I found his SysInternals.com web site and his free program Process Explorer.

In my article svchost.exe - What is it and why are so many copies running?, I discussed viewing running processes with Task Manager and WinPatrol. Task Manager is part of everyone”s Windows XP, and is an improvement over the version that comes up with Control-Alt-Delete in Windows 98 and Windows Me.

But, there”s a much easier way to see what”s running…

Read more in my article A Better, and Free, Way to See What”s Running

Filed under: Computers - misc, Technology - neat stuff, Terry's Computer Tips

Time’s Running Out on the Kerio Firewall Intro Special!

Posted March 27, 2006 Comments(0)

Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall
Special Introductory Price Ending Soon!

Only 4 more days to take advantage of the Introductory Special $14.95 price on Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall.

This firewall is not just my personal choice for my family”s PCs, it is also my Number 1 Firewall Recommendation. Read my review.

Buy it now, the special $14.95 price ends on March 31st — Friday!

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Yet Another Serious Microsoft ActiveScript Flaw

Posted March 27, 2006 Comments(0)

George Ou at ZDNet.com has a new entry about the latest Internet Explorer flaw.

As usual for recent problems, it”s a problem with Microsoft”s interpreter for JavaScript. This interpreter is called “ActiveScript” — and again we see the recommendation “Disable ActiveScript” in Internet Explorer. How to Disable ActiveScript in Internet Explorer.

In his initial paragraph, he says:

Ok it”s late Friday night but it”s been a rough day for us security folks especially Microsoft. As I warned in my last blog “zero-day exploit for IE6 flaw released”, this is VERY serious and it has all the markings of another WMF nightmare for Internet Explorer 6. There are probably more than 100 sites using the latest IE6 flaw on the loose and it”s growing!

He goes further with recommendations. One of his other recommendations is to use an alternate browser like Firefox or Opera. I”m a big fan of Firefox and I also occasionally use Opera.

Read his article here

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