Frozen Computer Screen from virus-how to get out of the fake virus screen, or LizaMoon Virus

How to get out of a virus frozen screen on your computer. Click image to see a large version of the screen. So you have a frozen computer screen or a screen you cannot get past? Here is my story. I started to write this post yesterday, and saved it as a draft. In the meantime my daughter was working on her finals for school, and I told her about this Liza Moon virus and warned her if anything odd came up and told her she was infected, let me see it. The next day she was doing a google image search for her paper and clicked an image and got the warning. She brought the computer to me and I was honestly surprised. There it was, the lizamoon virus. Luckily, she never clicked anything, so she did not get infected. But this is a very tricky one. It looks legit, and I feel bad for all the innocent people who will get this. Especially the senior citizens. When I work on computers for Seniors it breaks my heart how messed up their computers usually are. Spyware, extra spammy toolbars, and just all kind of annoyances that make it so […]

What happened to the back button drop down menu on Firefox 4.0?

I have just upgraded Firefox to 4.0, and IE to IE9. I must say I really like both of these updates. They are sleek, lean and run fast. But of course as always some of my favorite addons stopped working , and then there are other things that always annoy until you can figure it out and get used to doing things in a “slightly” new way. But for now, where the heck did the back drop down menu go? Watch this: