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“What is that infernal racket?”
“My laptop didn’t used to make this much noise.”
“How come my laptop gets so hot nowadays?”

If you’ve ever thought or said one of the above, perhaps your laptop has been overheating.

Enter Notebook Hardware Control – a free program from Manfred Jaider, of pbus-167.com.

NHC helps you keep tabs on your computer’s temperature, and will even warn you when the system is getting too hot (perhaps it’s time to rid your laptop of those dust bunnies to increase air flow). As an added bonus, NHC also lets you view your hard drive’s SMART status (a simple way to see if your hard drive is on the fritz and needs replacing). There are several other useful features, so check out their website for more details.There’s even a professional version of NHC available with extra options.

Still not sure NHC is a good program? Consider this, I use it on my laptop to make sure the internal temperature doesn’t get out of hand.

Microsoft will halt mainstream support of Windows XP on April 14, 2009. Rest assured RobyPC will still be here to help.

Due to recent hurricane activity, support options may be limited for the foreseeable future. Please contact RobyPC using the button below for online PC-to-PC support.

A few days ago Sophos posted on their blog about a malware campaign targeting those subscribed to the CNN breaking news service. The nefarious email looks like it’s from CNN, but clicking the news links in the email lead to web pages that convince the reader to download an “updated flash player” (in this case it is actually a trojan called Mal/EncPK-DA.

As reported by Sophos,

The new worm is supposedly spreading through messages sent through Facebook encouraging recipients to click on a URL to view video/image content.

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When run, this downloader downloads another Trojan from a remote server, which has been added as Troj/Agent-HJX. It also downloads and displays an innocent image from a popular download site, and saves it to the Windows folder as joke.gif.

The usual rules apply here. Be careful what you click on and what you download. Make sure it is actually coming from the source is appears to be (and keep your antivirus software up to date).

You’ve just bought a fancy new laptop with Microsoft’s newest operating system offering, Windows Vista. You turn it on and it looks great! But… where are my printer settings? How come the software I used on my previous system no longer works? If you’ve encountered this contact us, we can help. Vista is vastly different than previous Windows versions, and we can help ease the confusion these differences can cause.