Tech Table Monday, March 24, 2014
March 24, 2014
Justin: Welcome to MPA’s Tech table. I’m Justin.
Diana: And I’m Diana
Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up heaping spoonful of all things Tech.
Diana: We promise it’ll be easy to digest. Hello, Justin.
Justin: Hello, it’s Monday.
Diana: Yes, I’m trying to be really peppy today.
Justin: I can tell your trying to.
Diana: Let’s pep everyone up.
Justin: Wow, that’s impressive, did you have some coffee.
Diana: Yes.
Justin: Yes, very good. Yeah I ran into someone already this morning that said they had four or five cups. It was like four or five cups since when.
Diana: Oh my goodness.
Justin: No it was craziness. Crazy. But you probably shouldn’t drink that much coffee in a period of an hour.
Diana: Yeah, right.
Justin: Probably not good for you. So it is mail Monday, so we look into our inbox. What’s that Email address Diana.
Diana: Questions@askMpa.com
Justin: That’s right send your questions into us now Emily here emailed in a question. Her question is, hey PC performer by performer soft keeps popping up and asking us to buy it. We remember you saying that Microsoft Security Essentials was part of the Operating system now right so we shouldn’t need to buy this other pop up or should we.
Diana: Ah, great question.
Justin: That’s a good question.
Diana: Those pop ups.
Justin: Those pops ups, they try to sell you this stuff. So we informed Emily that she does not need that secondary software. Most times you know you got some very small things put on your computer that give you a pop up box of some sort. You know there kind of infamous malware, you know that’s part of that that we always worn you about, the malware so yeah, don’t trust those pop ups. Don’t click on them. Just close them.
Diana: And you can always give us a call if it’s something you’re concerned about.
Justin: Well, we really should remove that little tiny program that’s been inserted in your computer to get rid of that malware.
Diana: It’s true.
Justin: Right, so we suggested that she run MalwareBytes and Spybot. I always love spy-bot.
Diana: It’s a neat name too.
Justin: Yeah, it’s a great, great product, spy-bot. That’s S-P-Y-B-O-T and then MalwareBytes is M-A-L-W-A-R-E-B-Y-T-E-S. MalwareBytes.
Diana: Yes.
Justin: So if those came up with errors then remove them as is this trusted software suggests so basically use those and if you find errors then remove what you find.
Diana: Right, and now another thing you can check is chrome extensions. And occasionally things do inadvertently get downloaded or get added directly to your chrome which can create pop-ops
Justin: And what’s chrome for people who aren’t familiar.
Diana: Your browser.
Justin: Your browser right, So I hope you’re not using IE internet explorer still duh duh duh. You should be using chrome by Google of course.
Diana: Yeah, yeah, so how do you get in there. You can disable an remove those extensions by going to settings and you access settings. If you look in your upper right portion of your browser.
Justin: Your browser.
Diana: There’s three lines.
Justin: There’s three little tiny lines.
Diana: Three horizontal lines, click on that and then find settings there okay. Once you’re it’s like a new tab opens I think. Once that tab is open then find extensions which is in the upper left side of that. Click on that and from there disable and remove any extensions that you don’t want there.
Justin: Absolutely, so recognizing pop-ops as malware and running scans to remove it are some of the best things you can do to help protect your computer. Most times these Malware pests don’t hurt the computer but they can be extremely annoying, and I know there are things that pop, I mean right now I have some errors. I mean I work at a tech place and I have errors in my quick-book.
Diana: [Laugh]
Justin: This little error comes up all the time and I’m like argh and I call in David and he fixes it in two minutes, and I deal with it for a month before I say anything of course. That’s the way it goes.
Diana: [Laugh]
Justin: You know, take care of things like that because if you leave it untreated it can develop into a worse problem.
Diana: Don’t need that.
Justin: Great, so people can send questions to
Diana: questions@AskMPA.com
Justin: Until next time.
Diana: Take care
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Diana: If you have questions or comments please send them to questions@AskMPA.com thats questions@AskMPA.com
Justin: And thanks for listening!
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